Feeling any software-related FOMO leave my body as Adobe threatens to sue users for using old versions of their programs, more triple-A games add kernel-level spyware for their games, and Windows continues to bog down the entire system with ads and anti-consumer lock-in.
There's nothing on Windows that I want on Linux anymore :meowdab: FOSS all the way, baby.
(Except I still wish Steam VR wasn't trash in Linux :meowpout: )
I see a lot of posts on here chiding people for suggesting #linux as a solution to the surveillance capital tool know as #Microsoft#Windows.
I understand their point to a point, however, the solution to windows spying is, ultimately, to not use windows.
If you would like to not use windows but don't know where to start, I'd be more than happy to have a chat with you to help get you started on your journey.
It's really not that bad, folks. If you're ready to stop paying hundreds of dollars for the pleasure of having all your data stolen, hit me up, and let's figure something out for you, today!
Ok, this is an extremely niche question, but I'm trying to work with a list of files in a Windows batch script, and one of the files contains two single quotes in the name, so the batch script is interpreting that as a command. Does anyone know of any way I can escape those single quotes programmatically? I can't simply add slashes to them because I don't have access to the filename. Should I pipe them to a text file and then munge the text file? I'm happy to give more information if necessary; this isn't a secret or anything. #Windows#BatchFile#programming#FediHelp#BoostsWelcome
P.S. If your suggestion is not to use a batch script to do this, believe me, I've considered it, but at the moment batch is what I've got. I'm not going to install an entirely new shell to do this fairly simple task and I don't like PowerShell enough to go to the trouble of scripting in that. If I were to write a non-shell program, I would probably write it in Python as that seems like the most reasonable option, but I remain convinced that there's a way to do this in a batch script.
Where the #ICQ „Uh-Oh“ sound really came from: Not Worms or Lemmings, as some are telling you. Instead Windows 3.0 MultiMedia Edition from 1991 contains the exact same sample as „ohoh.wav“. #retrocomputing#windows#1990s
Per oggi avrei dovuto cacciare la soluzione di emulazione finalizzata per i giochi Windows [esenti da requisiti hardware irrealistici] con v86… ma a quanto pare è un po’ impegnativo, devo implementare almeno un’altra hack per soddisfare i requisti essenziali. Però, nel frattempo Boxedwine è rimasto un pensiero fisso, soprattutto dopo avaver constatato che la versione nativa su Windows e Linux funziona e basta: è praticamente plug-and-play con tutti i giochi che sono risaputi funzionare, al contrario del Wine “essenziale” proveniente da upstream o da una distro qualsiasi. 📦
Touhou 6 su Boxedwine per Windows mi è partito, e con una versione (la 5.0 almeno) gira pure bene, ci ho potuto giocare (anche se le ventole del portatile sono volate nel processo). Non credo che adesso magicamente riuscirò a farlo andare sulla versione web, perché c’è un inghippo: il giochino partiva con l’impostazione della grafica nativa, ma non se impostata su quella emulata (che credo sia l’unica utilizzabile nel browser), ma già è qualcosa: il vino inscatolato potrebbe tornarci utile quantomeno per creare repack di giochi che, con un singolo file che parte sia su Windows che su Linux, si giocano e basta senza alcun imprevisto dei soliti del gaming PC… 🦜
Però allora ho pensato: se quello che cambia tra build nativa e web di Boxedwine è solo il codice macchina dell’emulatore (e le sue chiamate all’API host), che però esegue sempre le stesse robe precise al suo interno, com’è che escono fuori quegli strani problemi di compatibilità, tipo il fatto che Wine 5.0 non parte sul browser? La risposta è: il 5.0 che ho provato io non è lo stesso che scarica la versione desktop. Questo è saltato fuori dopo che ho provato a far partire quello da web, e in effetti non crasha come l’altro giorno! E, addirittura, ci gira il 6.0, che nemmeno credevo fosse supportato! Detto in modo diverso: questo progetto è mantenuto un po’ a culo da quello che vedo, ci sono diversi download nominalmente equivalenti sulle diverse pagine ufficiali, sia di questi filesystem Wine che dell’emulatore in sé (ma per quello non c’è dubbio che la versione migliore sia quella dal Jenkins). 🧬
https://octospacc.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot_20240527-160241_Firefox-Beta.pngPer fare tutte le prove possibili voglio ora avere sotto mano tutte le versioni dei rootfs che trovo, varie impostazioni di emulazione, e il caricamento immediato di applicazioni diverse, quindi ho iniziato a tirare su questo wrapper per la versione HTML; modificare file di configurazione o parametri URL ogni minuto era diventato doloroso, e la UX del launcher PC è scomodissima. Per ora è sul server casalingo, perché così posso applicare al volo modifiche ai file, ma se dovessi mettere troppe app e finire lo spazio allora creerò una repo Git. Boxedwine desktop offriva per il download anche queste tante altre versioni, quindi le ho messe… ma alcune sembrano ugualmente rognose (tra cui le 1.x, ironicamente), quindi indagherò meglio. Per il lago d’uria: https://hlb0.octt.eu.org/Misc/BoxedWine/ 💦https://octospacc.altervista.org/2024/05/27/lo-scatolvino-di-distrazione/
Please don't be furious at Microsoft for bundling Recall with Windows. Just ditch the OS now and for good. If you still continue to accept such attitude, problem is really not the evil corporation, but YOU 🤓
Summon the courage and set up Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch or any decent Linux-based OS. Ask folks to help you out with first steps. But you'll be surprised how smooth it is 👍
i have been asked to explain #Linux: it's a fork of #Google#Android intended for virtualized use on #Apple#macOS and #Microsoft#Windows desktops, although lately it's seen some uptake in datacenter applications
Hi all, I saved this drum kit from the skip but while the USB is detected by both Ubuntu and windows 11 I am a a loss as to how to get sound out of it. It seems that I need to match it to a DAW but i can't seem to get #audacity or #ardour to detect it as an audio import source.
This whole thread about the Recall feature on #Microsoft Copilot PCs is making me anxious about future workplaces that may supply a Recall-capable #Windows laptop, and enforcing it/the policy to be enabled.
You should never install personal stuffs on a work PC for privacy reasons, but doesn't this take it to a whole nother level where you couldn't/shouldn't even i.e. reply to personal messages on it cos it's all recorded? 😮💨
But meh, fuck employers that'd force you to use a certain OS anyway.
ICQ is closing down. It was really at its height in 2000 and that is when we integrated ICQ into Opera. We made a small (5k) client and it worked really well.
AOL had purchased ICQ and they were concerned about MSN taking users from them by connecting to their service, so they stopped supporting 3rd party clients. We contacted them, to see if they would make an exception for us, but they did not.
They said that if we removed our 5k client, we could maybe discuss bundling their client, but it was bigger than Opera, so that was not going to happen.
My current workflow includes using a #windows Virtual Machine for the sole purpose of running #Microsoft Office and #OneDrive , and this clunky solution is still leagues better than actually running Windows on nearly every measure.
The pain the limited time I spend in that wee VM window underscores how bad Windows has gotten over the years.
The hilarious thing about Microsoft going all in on AI with #CoPilot and #Recall, they threw Intel and AMD under the bus. The whole last year of "AI PCs" won't get features like Recall.
The consumer reaction to Recall has been overwhelmingly negative, but all these companies are afraid of shareholders and investors wanting more AI hype to make stock prices look good.
But #AMD and #Intel have all these chips made that are falling in price fast.
You can find some CRAZY deals on computers right now that WONT run Recall, but are over-kill powerful for home systems.
Mini PC's used to sell chips that were two or three years old. This Geekom is using AMD's current laptop chip, with 32GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage for $899!
It's a REAL good time to shop a NON Recall compatible PC.
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News! In this one, we have a terrible feature being added to #Windows, we have the # KDE #Plasma 6.1 beta, and a 5 year plan for #GNOME!
The efficiency boost is honestly mind blowing. And that is with so many keystrokes to wrap my head around. Absolutely worth the money and lets me work at least four times as fast as with the previous setups.
Would I have liked to keep on using Linux? Yes but at this point if one is doing more than just browsing the web and reading E-Mails it is very hard to recommend.
Als ich das von #Microsoft#Recall zum ersten mal gelesen habe, habe ich mich gefragt, ob das ein verspäteter Aprilscherz sein soll? Mal ehrlich, das kann doch hier bei uns nicht mit geltendem Recht vereinbar sein, oder? Oder glaubt wirklich irgendjemand, dass Mickisoft sich diese Daten nicht krallt?
Gut, rein privat ist mir das egal, da ich seit 18 Jahren nur noch #Linux einsetze. Aber leider bin ich auf dem beruflichen Laptop meines Arbeitgebers gezwungen, Microsoft #Windows zu nutzen. Und somit bin ich automatisch in dem Spinnennetz dieses Unternehmens gefangen. Wobei ich mich ja echt frage, wie ein Arbeitgeber jetzt überhaupt noch in der Lage sein kann Windows auf seinen Rechnern und Servern zu nutzen. Da bin ich wirklich gespannt, ob da der eine oder andere Arbeitgeber einen Wechsel durchführen wird. Oder ob dies auch im privaten Bereich den Linux Desktop zu einem weiteren Aufschwung führen wird.
Aber vermutlich eher nicht. Oder bin ich da zu pessimistisch? Microsofts Recall läutet das Ende des Personal Computers ein