Started watching FX’s Shōgun (UK: Disney+) - a breathtaking attention to detail in retelling James Clavell’s story. There’s also an official podcast and viewer’s guide relating the background to each episode, and situating it historically. Highly recommended! #Television
And then I tried pairing my Bluetooth devices. I’ve been used to macOS where this isn’t even as much as trivial, and solid. It Just Works (and why wouldn’t it?) Windows 10 generally works, has a user interface that looks like arse, sometimes flakes out requiring a re-pair.
@M0CUV I have the same experience on all three OS... Although I find that my BT mouse of choice has a tendency to want suddenly to be re-paired with my Macs a couple of times a year. But I'm reasonably certain that it's the fault of the maker of cheap BT mice.
@croyle I’ve had that on macOS in the past, not so much recently. I’m using Logitech devices, and a USB BT adapter that came top in some review & works fine on Windows). Guess there’s some research ahead of me..
On the new GPT SSD, create a 1MB partition with flag bios_boot, then use the rest of the disk as / ext4. Install the boot loader at the device level ie /dev/sdb. Choose this device in the PC boot menu - it won’t show in the Windows Boot Menu.
Has anyone got a solution to getting dual-boot Windows 10/Linux Mint working consistently on an EFI system? Two SSDs, 1 with Win10; 2 is blank. Both GPT partition tables. Install Mint alongside Windows Boot Manager, and all on sdb (the blank). Installs OK, reboot to GRUB menu, can boot Mint. Reboot, choose Windows Boot Manager, it boots. Reboot and GRUB is gone. Looks like modern Win10 forcibly “repairs” its boot to remove Linux.
@thelastpsion yes. Trying to install it in legacy mode now, it’s really frustrating. Shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to get this working - first system I’ve had that has difficulty. Oddly, I managed it on here with a pair of hard disks, now I’m rebuilding it with SSDs. hate computers
So if you have #Recall installed, always make sure you have a media player window open, playing some DRMed content, I dunno, Disney’s Frozen or some such. Paused, perhaps, or you’ll start losing it. Then it won’t record you. #LetItGo#Microsoft#Enshittification
Think I need to start planning for a total free software future. Been using Windows 10 for work and because it’s tolerable. Changed to VS Code because it’s a very good lightweight IDE. This #Recall spyware has forced me to conclude that #Microsoft have turned evil. I was optimistically naïve to think they might not be, in hindsight. So, must look to changing to Linux Mint everywhere, and getting my #NeoVim setup perfected. (May revisit #Helix, if it has a tree view now). As for Apple.. hmm.
@tony@serichards My Windows hardware isn’t compatible with Win 11 (no TPM), about which I’m going to do precisely nothing. I do like Apple systems, and as there’s no open source / open hardware iPhone replacement, I’m stuck with it.
Windows 11 Recall a.k.a. Panopticon Edition is going to be taking screenshots of everything I do and feeding it to an AI that’s going to be local (yeah, right, sure). So glad my PC hardware is insufficient to meet its hardware requirements (runs Linux Mint just fabulously). What are these techbros smoking that makes them think people want this dreck?
@NI6V I’m a Mac user mostly; it’s only a matter of time before we see something similar - adding AI seems like something nobody should miss out on (I think this is how the CxOs of companies seem to think). I would not be surprised if the “guardians of privacy” image they portray is actually a lie. I’m not running the latest OS; perhaps I’ll be immune?
@NI6V … and I heard they’re adding more local neural engines to their new phones to offload the computation from the cloud… so yes, inevitable. Asahi Linux is looking more attractive daily!
But there’s a stack of books to go through in order to understand the maths of the FFT. I know what the RealFFT crate is doing: I can see the graph of amplitude/frequency output from the input time/amplitude data… but I have to know how it works. There’s a very good explanation in “Digital Signal Processing A Practical Approach” by Ifeachor & Jervis (with a C implementation) & the autodidact-friendly approach in “Linear Signals & Systems 2e” by B.P. Lathi is much appreciated. #Tsundoku
I’m also unblocked on #digimorse, now I’ve got the receiver’s Fast Fourier Transform working. Need to revisit the transmit side, to prepend the outgoing encoded data with a suitable Costas array. Then it’ll be on to the receiver’s detector and demodulator - which will be something of a “three pipe problem”.
@vk6flab I hadn’t realised it was that bad. Most times when I try running some Python applications it ends up in failure. Whatever happened to the idea of reproducible builds? (Docker promised to take that issue away, so people stopped trying to solve the actual problem?)
@M0CUV I've been using Docker precisely for that reason with a side helping of isolation.
Python doesn't get any easier, since the current flavour of the month is to use requirements.txt and expect to use pip to install it, which breaks a Debian install, so you use pipx which doesn't support libraries, so then you create a venv, so you can run pip anyway, but it won't update the $PATH, so you need to create a login shell.
Whilst the library is being updated in incompatible ways online.
Made a start on the C compiler for my #Transputer system (with Psion EPOC16 an additional target); little more than a “Hello World” for the compiler driver and compiler. But it runs the (currently non-existent) tests, and builds in CircleCI. Planning to use #TDD thoroughly, which isn’t as straightforward in Rust as I’d like (far easier in Scala or Java). Following Nora Sandler’s “Writing A C Compiler” book. Way in the future, Jens Gustedt’s “Modern C, 3e” will be needed.