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Would anyone advise me on my use case?

I am launching a paid service and would like to offer the option for customers to pay in crypto. I would likely want to regularly convert the crypto to GBP for day-to-day spending at the supermarket and suchlike, rather than hold it as an investment or trade in it. It will likely be fairly small amounts at a time and therefore low-risk.

What would be the easiest way for me to do this?

What is the easiest way to track how close to stable release Debian 13 is?

I'd like to get an informed idea about a release date, without relying on outdated and vague news articles.

Thanks!

I have copied a DVD of an old family video to my computer but am having trouble playing or converting all of the video content.

If I open the DVD directory in VLC or MPV to play it I can see that the video is 1h46m but it will only play the first 14m53s, which seems to correspond with a 'chapter'. If I open the directory in Handbrake it will detect the full video length of 1h46m and a total of 8 chapters but will only convert the first chapter. Ffmpeg will convert the three main .VOB files to .mkv but the output files only add up to 30m or so of video, which is an improvement over opening the DVD directory in a media player or converting it using Handbrake but still doesn't pick up the full video length.

What, if anything, can I do?

Thanks

Did your parents have sex around you as a child?

And if so, what (if any) effect has it had on you?

Is it weird/confusing/traumatic for children, or does it provide a healthier and more realistic model of sexuality than pornography and school-based sex education?

How viable is crypto as a private medium exchange in the modern world?

I see the value of using cryptocurrencies as a form of digital cash (from both a personal privacy point of view and a broader political/economic point of view) but am also put off by a) all the scamming and speculation and moreover b) the friction and privacy tradeoffs involved in getting any of it.

One of the obvious problems is that not many sellers accept it as payment. I can accept that. But AFAICT, in order to pay those that do, I must either do the legwork of conducting a peer-to-peer exchange of fiat currency for crypto (PITA) or use an exchange, which will have records of my personal identity. I'm aware that I could launder exchange-bought crypto to obfuscate my ownership of it but that is also a PITA. I suppose I could also mine coins but that has the most friction of all options and is a poor use of electricity production in my view.

Is there a solution that I'm not aware of, where I can buy (or indeed sell) crypto easily and privately?

I've just converted a PDF to epub in calibre but because the PDF has two columns of text on each page the ouput epub is essentially 'combing' all the lines ton the PDF's page together, making the epub very hard to read.

How do I make Calibre feed one column at a time from each page into the conversion?

Hope that makes sense and thanks!

I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond and it's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!

Edit/solution: I totally missed the 'Use Extensions' switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)

I've just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond. It's the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!

Edit/solution: I totally missed the ‘Use Extensions’ switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)

I recently started using Fedora with btrfs, which I think was the default on install. So far all I've noticed is that backups and restores are really fast and easy.

Are there any important things to be aware of, like speed, drive lifespan or energy efficiency?

Does anyone know what the difference is between Voxelibre and Mineclonia?

As well as talking about guerilla animal releases, this article talks about lots of amazing community rewilding action. I highly recommend it for an uplifting read!

Can anyone recommend me some super mellow relaxing jazz?

I've been listening to Space For Two by Oakwood Station and would like more of the same kind of thing before I do it to death!

Thanks :) ✌️