If you can’t get it to work with just the provided installer, you can look into this : https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox

It works perfectly fine. The “missing codec” issues usually boils down to some commonly used codecs not being supported in the free version.

I’m sure all the two people that were using it are devastated.

We’re close to the Microsoft ecosystem here; newer version being better is not a given.

DaVinci works perfectly fine with the native version.

Affinity works fine with wine as long as you can follow basic instruction, or can use the one-click launcher people made and maintain. (and I do mean one click, it’s an AppImage, download and run it).

One way or another, major company-backed OSes are moving towards that. Checking all your pictures, messages, videos, audio, for your own good. For now it’s creeping on mobile, but don’t worry, it’ll come to a windows near you soon enough.

Easy. Remember a few years ago when google advertised that they’d have negative latency allowing you to play your games everywhere, on every device, in better conditions than on your own device? Just like that. You just have to hire enough salespeople to convince reality to bend backward.

Interesting. Their website would make me run away fearing it’s from a cheap fake download button scam from ten years ago, but the software itself looks pretty legit.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It’s just a rhetoric that was jokingly pushed on back when communication wasn’t worldwide, immediate, and lacking context. It has now been repeated ad-nauseam by people that have no idea of why it was said in the first place.

Some GUI tools are efficient. Some CLI tools are efficient. Sometimes, both are efficient. It depends on the tool AND the task at hand. Unless you’re taking internet memes at heart, then use whatever.

Well, to be honest, I do sometimes mock (in a friendly manner) some coworker that are using GUI almost exclusively. The only reason I do that is because the exact same task could be accomplished in a fraction of the time with minimal CLI knowledge. But even then, it gets the job done.

If you actively edit/delete some system files non-essential for boot, but that would break some integrated features, sure. But random corruption of protected system files? If that happens, you’re not fixing anything without changing your storage and/or the rest of the hardware anyway.

Simple things can work well in GUI.

Now, working on a GUI that tries to expose every little features? No thank you. I would not want to develop it, and I would not want to have to use it.

It’s ok to go install a software through discover instead of using the CLI.

CPU cooler, as in, cheap-ass fans and a slab of metal with fins? Is that hard to come by too? Or is it professional grifters at work…

This is why we can’t have nice things.

(I know radiators are more than metal slabs, fans can be quite elaborate, and there can be liquid in the mix, but seriously)

On one hand, the technology exists, sure.

On the other hand, arguing that everyone should have easy, free access to child porn is not the “good look” he think it is. I wonder why people regularly shit on him.

Ah, that would explain why they started to allow uninstalling the separate app.

When it gets to the point where it does work to produce usable documentation, without extraneous content, with no mistakes, can be checked quickly, and it is faster to generate + check than to write it, maybe. Assuming a stellar history of being correct from the tool.

As it is right now, once you reach the point where you actually need proper documentation to be written to keep things maintainable, these tools have low accuracy, lots of issues, and using them takes longer than it takes a competent person to just write/update whatever needs to be.

musk asked people to be nice. That should cover the service, legally speaking, no?

It’s not like he could pull the plug, or alter the behavior of the bot, that’s impossible (as long as you ignore the many time he did).

People posting photos online of their kid in the bath, at the beach, etc. with reckless abandon maybe.

For as far as I remember (and that’s quite far these days), we’ve kept telling people to not post pictures of their kids online as much as possible. Way before the facebooks and way before the LLM craze, so people can’t mess with them. Guess 20 years of heads up wasn’t enough.

I haven’t seen these pictures, so I can’t say how good/bad it works, but if that was only that, the results would be more or less wrong. Kids are quite different from adults.

On the other hand, plenty of pictures of naked/semi naked kids in a non sexual context can probably be found online already, so it’s not inconceivable that their model had plenty of references to use anyway.

“suspension pledge” as in, their papier-maché leader asked people to “be nice, or face the consequence” on the service that don’t give a shit about consequences? I’m sure they were very scared for a second.

Hahaha… good joke, but people already did it.

…it’s a joke, right?

Technically, all the boot options were on the same drive (same EFI partition, on the disk that was initially used for years by windows), but for some reason, the motherboard decided “nope, there’s no bootloader there”.

I ended up repartitioning the “first” drive seen by the bios to make a 100MB partition at the beginning, named it “EFI system partition”, copied all the content of the old one from the other drive, and nuked the actual windows install in the process (not the boot entry though). Now all is good… I hope :D