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Installing a random .deb comes with enormous security implications. I am not sure that making the process more beginner friendly is a really good idea.

“Beginner friendly” should be limited to things from the main repositories, and for that there is the Software Center.

I’m facing just one major issue. I’m blind myself, coding the app as my personal tool.

I am sorry, but this is just absolutely incredible. Do you have a channel somewhere where you talk about how you do it? I’d love to know more.

Completed task successfully! For future readers, the process seems to have slightly changed. Now you go to Okular preferences, Annotations, Add annotation, call it Signature, etc. You can even resize the signature, which is really useful when the resolution of the PDF varies.

OMG you are an absolute legend of a life saver! Thank you so much, I am going to try it out as soon as I get to a computer!

Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it’s perfect.

Does anyone know if it has that feature and I’m just too dumb to find it?

That’s the thought I always had: When I develop in Node, I stand on the shoulders of ten thousand microbes.

Did you look at Pelican? I share the frustration with much of Hugo’s infrastructure: the template language is buggy and inscrutable, and the plugin architecture wanting.

I ended up with Hugo, but I considered Pelican. It uses standard Jinja templates, which I find much more rational (but it might just be me) and I recall there were plugins for a lot of things, including different source formats. The code is written in Python, so that even if there isn’t a plugin for a format you need, there probably is a Python library for it and it should be relatively easy to make it a plugin.

Crap, now I want to switch to Pelican…

Hugo watch mode (both server and build) does not produce accurate sites on change and is really meant for development. I find after a developing for a while, I have to kill the process and restart it and then things are “fresh”

From reading the documentation, I strongly have the impression that hugo focuses on being fast on re-render and that the idea is to build and deploy to public site each time there is a change. The big difference is probably whether to render locally and push the generated content, or to push the source markdown and render remotely (which I chose).

SSH hasn’t had the signing functionality for long, and git support for SSH signatures is even younger. I’d say if you are starting from scratch, SSH signing is simpler and potentially more secure. PGP works, though, and if you have an existing setup, there is no compelling reason to change right now.

I ended up with Hugo, a git repository, and a cron job for the build. I write an article, check it in, the server picks up the git change and rebuilds the site. What I like about the setup is that the server only has the binaries hugo and git, and a shell script for the rebuild. Also, I write in Markdown, add media to the git repository, and articles are published soon after I check in without any remoting on my part.

I did look at WriteFreely after the setup, though. I find the minimalist design very beautiful. Didn’t switch to it, but may look at it again for another project. https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely

The field separator is declared to be the colon, with -F:, so the fields end and start at colons.

I completely agree. Unless Google is forced to install more than one app store by default, or forced to have multiple app stores downloadable on Play Store, three is no realistic way to install a third party app store on a phone. In both cases, Google’s cooperation is required.

It’s so weird that we have to go through hoops and loops to get rid of this stuff! I was sick of my Android responding to a long press of the power button, meant to shut it down, with a Gemini prompt. Took me an hour to figure out I can’t get rid of the function, but I can switch back (for now) to old style Google Assistant.

If you have to force functionality down your users’ throat despite them not wanting it, you already lost. Gemini is Google’s Clippy, just less iconic and more also-ran.

I went the same direction, from WordPress to static site generation. I did the same evaluation as you are trying to do and ended up with Hugo, mostly because there is a lot of support available for it. My runner up was Pelican, because I was fluent in Jinja2, but I didn’t want to mess around with the templates and Hugo’s were prettier. Sue me, I am shallow.

The one regret I have about Hugo is that the templating language is challenging. I am trying to be as neutral as possible, but it seemed like even simple things were complicated to achieve. If someone would come up with a Hugo that speaks Jinja2, I’d be really delighted.

Other than that, conversion from WordPress to Hugo was relatively straightforward, despite needing to find a gallery component and converting menus. Hugo is indeed very fast in processing, which become important when your blog has thousands of articles.

I set up the blog as a private git repository. The server pulls from it, then runs Hugo and a full text search engine, and the content is visible and searchable within five minutes on update.

I used to have a Canon Pixma, and the SANE drivers recognized it and scanned from it with no issues, down to the ADF feeder. It was really surprisingly simple, zero setup configuration.

I basically just used the preinstalled software, Skanlite, and it showed with the scanner pre-selected and ready to go.

Of course, YMMV.

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I think that’s what the Cybertruck is for, to appeal to Conservatives. I live on the edge between blue and red counties, and down in red territory the Cybertrucks are everywhere. (Meaning I saw at least four different ones.)