The Post Ninja
I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. Wht I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.
Same. Quest 2. Fedora 43. 5700X3D / 9070 XT. Steam Link can’t find AMD video decoder on the pc to run. ALVR has death wobble-like reprojection jitter. WiVrn works when Envision feels like it, which is never as it constantly errors out compiling due to some dependency I can’t find for the life of me.
I know compiling from source is preferred as “the linux way”, but I would like to spend more time actually using my pc than fixing it. There’s no reason the VR software needs to be recompiled just to change a setting. Maybe bake in the ability to change settings instead of hardcoding everything.
Wine would be super helpful if they can find way to make older (2019 and older) Quickbooks run reliably. Lots of small businesses locked into old platforms because the accountants or the people who do accounting themselves can’t learn how to use anything else, and the linux alternatives require a phd in linuxology to learn and don’t offer the easy business-in-a-box functionality.
Waydroid is neat, but poorly integrated in the desktop. It runs as a full screen app, and doesn’t task switch easily.
Please, Valve, make Steam a 64-bit native client! So few people use 32-bit systems that the few that do probably aren’t running Steam to save on memory.
Pipewire audio devices and webcam support needs to be smoother. I’ve never seen so much console shim hacks just to get a virtual webcam working.
I haven’t even begun to try my NXT Gladiator flight stick in linux… that might be a whole nother can of trouble to open.
There is a health and psycholoy merit with meeting and hanging out with people in person versus being virtual word jabbers on the internet.
Gas Town… I was thinking of Gastown.
Marketing is everything. I bet if Fedora or Mint or shoot, even Arch spent even a sliver of what Zorin is on marketing, they’d get the downloads too.
My guess is a lot of people give Zorin a try, and find out it’s both Freemium and also kinda jank, and end up with somethign else later.
About time! Waiting for this feature for literal decades
I can see some very rich investing firms pulling a monster of a short sell on the bubble pop.
GrapheneOS is always looking out for a potential phone they can migrate to, since Google has stopped publishing the device trees for the Pixels. While they currently support the Pixels anyway, it is a long term goal for them to be on an independent platform.
If one of these phones runs GrapheneOS, I would be interested.
Looks like they did a lot of work getting compatability up a lot.
The oppurtunity to get any last minute upgrades is passing. Once prices start cranking, you will have to tough it out for a couple more years.
When the unga bunga solution works better than the modern one
This is an example of an AI model that is useful for work. OCR traditionally only works well if you have the right fonts and a clean scan. An AI model trained to recognize handwriting can OCR to much better accuracy than old OCR systems, which were much more rudimentary and only trained for specific typed fonts, making bad scans and handwriting all but impossible to OCR.
The reasons one would use OCR is typically when scanning documents into pdf. OCR makes the document searchable when viewing it. You might think “well I can use my eyeballs to search it”, but that is only good if the document is less than 3 pages long. If it’s a 50 page document, you are definitely going to want to use a search feature.
Also a blind person scanning a handwritten document to read it. Not everyone that can’t see has super touch and can feel the ink on paper.
Food for thought before you start shooting the downvotes because it’s an AI model.
Because they have multiple massive industries, and the people invested in them, doing their best to protect their profits by making sure EVs don’t win.
Live on a boat in the ocean. International waters baby
Good luck watching a video on 56k
Edit: I remember the dialup days and trying to watch a 10 second video on ebaum’s world. I used to have AOL back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Word salad title, what is it trying to say?
Warframe in the background…
new band name
Good job, Microsoft. Keep digging your hole deeper.