Hey, #chainmail friends: Got a reliable source for high-quality scale #maille?

I've been prototyping with scales from Fire Mountain Gems, but 30-60% are unusable for jewelry – due to scratches/scuffs and the occasional discoloration. :/

Preferably:
- 35.8mm x 22.2mm size option
- USA
- Multicolored aluminum (OR extra points for reasonably-priced titanium/niobium anodized scales!)

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Is there a site that lists ALL proper nouns in a #book? Like a more comprehensive dramatis personae: people, places, institutions... maybe even foods?

As a voracious consumer of #audiobooks, I often end up looking for an ebook as well – then I can scan by % read, or search via a rare word nearby, while trying to avoid spoilers. It ain't optimal

// #books #audiobook #Bookstodon #SolicitedAdvice

Anyone know of a cool *OCR tool [not "scraper", as I originally wrote] for grabbing specific numbers out of a screenshot like this? I have LOTS of THOUGHTS to explore 😸

There are obligations that would benefit from me spending less time on the technical side of this – but I'm also trying to jump on every interesting problem that makes me better at coding.
As a n00b who mostly codes hardware, I find Python / JS / C pretty friendly.

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#SolicitedAdvice: What alternatives do people know for Google Drive / OneDrive / Dropbox / iCloud? Got some friends looking to move off the Goog in particular. Cloud editing would be nice.

Personally, I'm going mostly local, with Standard Notes (&/or Obsidian) for most things I need to sync/backup securely. Proton Drive seems like a decent option, too.
(Alas, Proton & S.Notes are tainted by Andy Yen's rancid POTUS opinions – but the tools themselves seem fairly immune to corruption, IMO.)

Tl/dr: davinci, Linux, solicited advice

I have been using Linux and Windows in different computers, sp. because of davinci, the film editor, needing less (half of the) memory on Windows.

I want to give it a try again, try davinci on Linux, and will do again a Linux Partition.

So what Linux would people advice, or where I are resources for me to read on this?

(I have a tech background, but no spoons, I don't want to spend eons debugging stuff, so straightforward is better, incl installation).

Searching for this yields a lot of non related stuff, thanks Internet enshitification.

Bonus question, I have Linux mint in a small pc from 2007 with 1G mem. I never managed to get lamp properly installed (just need to update my php based website). Library incompatibility reported.

If anybody has a clue, or if I should just reinstall evtg, including a diff. version of Linux.. Let me know.

Something non political, for a breather..

Thanks in advance!

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