https://programming.dev/post/39695120

Some person on the fediverse has made an open source PDF editor… their other posts say its browser based. I haven’t tried it but this seems to fit your request.

Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.

Nadella, go ahead, keep trying to meet your slop metrics and slop KPIs. You’re doing a great job moving people to Linux.

This may or may not help. But I’ll give you the basic steps using wine only and no Proton magic to run a game from disk:

• Create an empty folder to be your wineprefix (emulated system folder) or use the default.
• run WINEPREFIX=[full path to new folder] winecfg command in terminal (just winecfg if you will use the default prefix).
• mount your CD so that you can see it in your file browser. (Might be simply clicking that device in the file browser when a CD is in the drive bay)
• In the winecfg set drive D: to point to the folder where you mounted the CD.
• run the CD installer with wine… e.g WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine /media/something/cdrom1/setup.exe, install the game to C:
• run the game with WINE on the same prefix and with the CD inserted and mounted (if there are resources on the CD or basic DRM) e.g. WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine '/some/path/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Cool Game/coolgame.exe
• if that works, you might be able to create an image of the disc and mount that instead of the physical CD, you’d then rerun winecfg and set D: to the correct folder where the disk image is mounted.

As soon as I read his trademark word I knew it was Doctorow, awesome! I’ll give this a full listen sometime later.

That’s where I think Bazzite really shines… I didn’t need the terminal to setup all of the normal stuff at all, and new apps I discovered right from the start menu so I didn’t need to go far at all.

Bazzite is great out of the box. My favourite part is that the menu automatically suggests flatpak apps you might want to install without getting in the way of your existing apps.

No matter the distro (since there’s plenty of good ones out there), help your friend set up Winboat and you’ll be all good.

Bye Trump, ¡Holá Presidenta!

This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn’t watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I’m signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing…)

I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn’t watch the first, then I wouldn’t have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.

If the copyright industry calls missed sales “stealing”, the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.

Metaverse and AI, lmao

For debugging there is the Google antigravity method: there can’t be bugs if it wipes the whole drive containing your project (taps head)

I did see someone write a post about Chat Oriented Programming, to me that appeared successful, but not without cost and extra care. Original Link, Discussion Thread

Successful in that it wrote code faster and its output stuck to conventions better than the author would. But they had to watch it like a hawk and with the discipline of a senior developer putting full attention over a junior, stop and swear at it every time it ignored the rules that they give at the beginning of each session, terminate the session when it starts doing a autocompactification routine that wastes your money and makes Claude forget everything. And you try to dump what it has completed each time. One of the costs seem to be the sanity of the developer, so I really question if it’s a sustainable way of doing things from both the model side and from developers. To be actually successful you need to know what you’re doing otherwise it’s easy to fall in a trap like the CTO, trusting the AI’s assertions that everything is hunky-dory.

I watched it yesterday and only a couple things I have to add.

First is that the bipartisan CHIPS act basically shovelled taxpayer money into Micron’s pockets to increase their manufacturing, but they are reducing their consumer output anyway, so Steve’s point is consumers are not getting anything out of the subsidy they made.

Second is, since any potential increase in production is to cater to their largest data centre customers only, Steve is suggesting that this could be part of a push to move people to subscription-based cloud computing by making personal computing tha you buy and own unaffordable.

Edit: I think there are better answers downthread than mine, but I hope my first comment spurned them on.

Not the most experienced bash guru at it but let me see…

• does the while condition have to be within [ ] brackets?
• Also I can’t figure out what your condition is, it seems to have an unclosed quotation mark.
• Most bash while-do-done loops I’ve made have a comparator like -ne for not equal or -le for less or equal to. So for example: while [ $variable -ne 5 ]; do

The Trump crypto value has nothing to do with any economic outlook. It’s the bribe gratuity funnel for the Trump family.

Weideljugend?

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) added in his own message, “Deny entry. Deport all non-citizens. Denaturalize all fraudsters.”

“We start with Afghanistan,” Fine added. “But we must not end there.”

Right-wing Cuban immigrants in Florida, among others, are about to get what they voted for…

Right, but more diversity of providers will reduce the exposed risk profile from both unintentional and intentional disruption.

No one’s going to bother DDoSing your dinky little server

In the age of AI we now live in there’s more money in data centres than sense, and both venture capital backed businesses and malicious actors (am I repeating myself?) can cast stupidly wide nets.

That said I want to see more alternatives to cloudflare, like a Euro option.

The community URL is still !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz (so https://sh.itjust.works/c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz for you), which won’t be easy for people to remember if they are trying to mention the steam hardware community. At the moment community and user handles can’t be changed on Lemmy (though the display name can be set to anything).