dellish
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- Comment on YSK - All song birds on the planet are descended from ancestors in Australia. 2 days ago:
Australia has song birds about the size of a crow, they’re called Magpies. They are at times aggressively territorial, extremely intelligent, family orientated and very pleasant to wake up to in the morning.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Thanks, I see Bottles lets you use Proton as a runner so I’ll give that a try.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
It Not an Emulator all the way down.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
The closest I’ve come to getting it to work was SketchUp Make 2017 (the last of the free versions). I could get it to install using WINE but as soon as I ran it it would crash out saying I was not supporting graphics acceleration. Right now I’m trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021 using Bottles and just keep getting Invalid Handle errors all through the installation, mostly when it seems to be looking for certain KBs for Windows 7 and 8 I think. I have to dig through the Logs to hopefully find I’m missing a dependency somewhere.
To answer your question I’m running Linux Mint and have an AMD Radeon 7970XTX that is more than capable.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
This is great, but does it handle GPU acceleration yet? The main thing I still need Windoze for is SketchUp and I have never managed to get it to work because I get a GPU acceleration error. Any hints would be welcome.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 2 weeks ago:
How’s FIFA’s “peace prize” going? He’s going to directly attack another host nation,and continues sword-rattling about Canada. This is so fucking pathetic.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Rename to Unisoft and start making good games.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
I trust this rule is from 1998 and hasn’t budged since.
- Comment on Who care about book 2 weeks ago:
Cretins.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 weeks ago:
[WhiteDate had] A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia
Lol. I like this Martha Root, I wish her many more happy hacking years.
- Comment on Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? 1 month ago:
Veritasium did a great video on this. The Teflon coating itself isn’t harmful, it’s the process of putting the Teflon on the pan that creates a large amount of PFAS. These celebrity chefs are being disingenuous at best, but these days I can’t even muster the energy to pretend to be surprised when people vote in favour of a puppy burning machine.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 1 month ago:
Yes but does it have to be dead at the time?
I’m really not sure why they felt the need to point this out in the article.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Afraid not. The bell is named Big Ben, not the clock.
- Comment on It's true! 2 months ago:
Breaks down rock Prevents erosion
So… both?
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 months ago:
Handing online servers over to consumers…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Stop Killing Games specifically against this? This sounds like some Pirate Software bullshit. My understanding is we want the tools to host our own servers if the parent company decides to take theirs offline.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 months ago:
Challenge her exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 2 months ago:
Never! You take that back!!
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Oh cool. Thanks, I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Agreed. I should have said letting the anticheat THINK it has kernel access, the same way WINE makes Windows programs think they’re on a Windows machine. I know this is an oversimplification and frankly I don’t even know what kernel-level looks like, but there has got to be a workaround that doesn’t drain resources too much.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Why? I have written a lot of custom macros and created forms to assist filling data fields in large spreadsheets. I have written written macros that can open a CSV, comb through the contents and pick out the data I need to fill workbooks.
I’m not saying I’m especially tied to VB itself, I actually find it to be a pretty stupid language, but I do miss being able to write my on functions and effectly use Excel as a pre built GUI for whatever I’m trying to do. If there’s an alternative in Libre Office that I’m missing please point it out.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
That’s great and all but the two things that hold me back from going 100% Linux are kernel-level anticheat, and lack of graphics card acceleration in virtual environments. Once we have those I’ll be happy.
Visual Basic added to Libre Office would be really nice too, but I get that it’s not particularly feasible.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 months ago:
Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can’t burn CDs if you’re not stylish.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 months ago:
Mate you could have just provided the link the first time. There’s no need to be a dick about it. Someone didn’t see the li K elsewhere in the thread, is a little copy-paste really going to ruin your day? If you’re not going to be polite or helpful, try just not saying anything at all. We don’t need this sort of reddit-toxicity over here; no one appreciates it and no one will think better of you because of it.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 months ago:
In Capitalist America, milestones bypass you!
- Comment on necessary read 2 months ago:
Well OK, you’re good then.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 2 months ago:
And everybody claps.
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 3 months ago:
How is this clearly defective product still on the market?? If any other car manufacturer had “features” that were so consistently causing this much mayhem they would have recalled all vehicles and been held liable.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
Have you perhaps looked at Don’t Starve Together?
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 3 months ago:
If they’re single-player can’t you just disconnect from the internet? I haven’t turned on my xbox in 4 years. I remember the day clearly: I wanted to replay Call of Duty 4 and the xbox told me I had to buy the new Remastered version in order to play. Bitch I already paid for the game, why would I buy it again?? Turned off, never to be seen again.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness 3 months ago:
Musk trying to frame himself as a human-rights activist is so cringe. Equating access to Xitter as a human right for minors while also trying to make out that his hate machine platform is somehow well moderated is pure insanity to anyone with a brain.