Mozilla decided at some point to kill extensions - whether following Google Chrome or of its own volition. It took an axe to its ecosystem by disablign the loading of anything external other than WebExtensions - and note that it's just an artificial disabling, as internally, Firefox is still basically some bundled "extensions" over a C++ core.
And now there's the "manifest v3" change, and making people jump through hoops to be on AMO.
This is very sad, almost as much as the internal governance over there.
After scanning a document, how is it different than any other document I have as a file (other than it being not-very-editable)? i.e. is this a general-purpose document management system, or - what?
> The easiest way to deploy paperless is docker compose
Not a general purpose one really, but it is a document management system. It's aimed at incoming mail. You get automatic OCR and learned classification / tagging / date finding.
And "docker compose up" is the easiest way to deploy things these days in general. That's got nothing to do with this software specifically.
> After scanning a document, how is it different than any other document I have as a file (other than it being not-very-editable)?
You don't want to use paperless-ngx for editable stuff really. You want to use it for stuff like bills, invoices, and business records.
Once it's in paperless, it's searchable and you don't have to worry about where it is. As long as the scan is good it will grab the OCR and then you can search for things like account number. My uncle basically scans everything bill related into his instance and then shreds the paper.
You can also tag documents and search by tag. Also since it's a web app if you can do the self-hosted thing it works well on the phone.
I have my printer set to scan and save the files to a NFS. Paperless-NGX picks it from there, does OCR and saves it. I guess I could just leave it on the NFS, but I do like the UI of P-NGX.
I have dedicated scanners at my 2 business locations with shortcuts to SFTP scans onto the server. paperless-ngx monitors the folder and automatically ingests the document. literally just two button presses and any document is digitized, tagged, OCRd, and archived within about a minute. I have the scanners set the file name based on their location so I can tell at a glance where something came from in the paperless inbox view.
Take a look at full-duplex multifunctional printers, many times they are cheaper than standalone scanners. Just as an example, a black and white laser like the Brother MFC-L2820DW should last you a long time.
Well, at least it'd be "good enough" to get your feet wet, so to speak - and also give you the ability to test if you're going to stick to it.
I got a Brother ADS-4300N to use with p-ngx, works very well and also is way faster than the usual document scanners on MF printers (duplex is done in one pass, for example)...
1. America contains many countries other than the USA.
2. Regardless, one might rather say that the "America is going woke!" fashion among media pundits is being replaced by "America is rejecting wokeness!" fashion.
The Economist originates and has primary readership, in the USA. In that country, the term "America" is used to refer to "United States of America." When referring to the American continents, the common terms are "Americas" (note the plural form) or the explicit forms North, Central, and South America. Most people in the United States are aware that the United States does not span the entirety of any or all of the American continents. As a simple example, most Americans are aware of the country north of the USA border called Canada, which is also in North America.
Someone will probably downvote you for making the irrelevant mistake saying US vs UK, but your point is absolutely correct that “America” is colloquially the name of the USA, not a continent or set of continents, in both US and UK English.
I suspect OP knows this, and is fighting a battle to try to change how Americans speak their own language — it’s not rare, in my experience, for people in other countries of the Americas to be annoyed by this usage.
> America contains many countries other than the USA.
"The Americas" contain multiple countries. "America" is just another name for United States of America. North/South/Central is used when talking about the continent. But you knew that.
And I get it, it used to bother me when I was a kid too. I resented Americans for taking the continental name for themselves. But then real life arrived and that's just how it works in English and trying to fight is pointless.
Being deliberately obtuse or combative about this usage of the word America is just bad faith and detracts from the point you're trying to make.
> automation meant that workers could move into non-automated jobs, if they were skilled enough.
That wasn't even true in the past; or at least, may true in theory but not in practice. A subsistence farmer in a rural area in Asia or Africa finds the martket flooded with cheap agri-products from mechanized farms in industrialized countries. Is anybody offering to finance his family and send him off to trade school? And build a commercial and industrial infrastructure for him to have a job? Very often the answer is no. And that's just one example (Though rather common over the past century).
> The author mentioned dependency, but its important to point out that if a bike breaks, 99 times out of 100 times it's still possible to walk.
Not really. You can always start walking of course, but like with the car, that won't help you much. If you were using your bike to get to the other side of the city (which in many non-US cities is quite possible and common) - walking there will take you the whole day instead of a half-hour.
Why is it a good idea for a GUI library to behave like a framework-of-all-things, from basic data structures, OpenGL library, XML library, Javascript engine etc.? CopperSpice does this, and it seems so does Qt and probably this new LS-CS fork of CopperSpice.
This is a great question. We do not consider or want CopperSpice to be a framework and one of our goals has been to transition our code base to a clean set of C++ libraries.
Our understanding is that Qt wants to remain a framework. No clue what Roland might be considering, but he did give us an "ear full" of bike shedding.
"A 2022 decision by the high court requires explicit Congressional permission before agencies can decide on issues that have “vast political and economic significance.”
A combination of a rather-dysfunctional congress, for many years already, and this limitation, means very little ability to regulate on the federal level in the US.
Upvoted in recognition of your activity, while "downvoting" the reality you report.
I should also mention that - while not directly accessible to homeless people - today it is quite easy to obtain new Smartphones, probably in bulk, which are quite usable with new version of Android and new apps, albeit not the most snappy, for something like 50 USD apiece (I just searched on AliBaba for example). I know such things can be quite legit technically, since I bought a a 75 USD smartphone individually, 10 years ago; and though it sometimes struggled a bit, it worked just fined. Only stopped using it because I was mugged, which was funny because the guy who took my phone was probably not happy he lifted something this cheap :-)
Anyway, that's an optional for buttressing your collection of used smartphones, to distribute.
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