I had quite some beef with the tethered caps in the beginning when they didn’t latch properly, but have since gotten used to them. That said:

• Cap on top -> Funny hat for nose!
• Cap on bottom -> Beard gets to take a moist nap.
• Cap on sides -> Mustache also gets to take a sip!

Obviously not much of a problem. I’d need to clean my facial hair either way if eating ice cream or other messy foods, but cap rotation might not be effective if your “face” sticks out 1-2cm from your mouth.

One could also attempt to rotate the cap in a way to achieve quantum tunneling, but I don’t feel that I’ve achieved that level of “tethered cap proficiency” yet.

Yup, that appears to have fixed the problem. Derp.

I’ve observed this in VRising too. It’s been nearly consistent since I upgraded to a better graphics card.

When it comes to gaming I’ve found them to be mid at best, but I think that’s exactly why they get recommended a lot. Stability (as in using old but not too old drivers) and a broad and easily accessible knowledge base in term of tutorials and answered newbie questions.

Everything nowadays that attempts to give back a little autonomy or freedom to the user is called piracy.

As long as an app could theoretically be used for piracy, even if it was made to circumvent toxic behavior of users’ bought and paid for products, then it must be properly labelled as piracy and taken down.

I’ll better stop before this becomes a rant.

Well, they’re experts in the field, so they’d probably be able to detect them too.

The paragraphs seem fine to me, they are separated in easily consumable chunks so you don’t get lost (at least on computer). I also like your structure, very straight forward. If I had to point something out, it appears to me that the disclaimer and intro provide the same gist but differently worded.

I assume Toes is asking for a TL:DR or summary in bullet point format. I’m not sure if I agree that this review is long enough to warrant a TL:DR, nor would profit much from from being made more concise, but those are just my two cents.

EDIT: While I don’t necessarily agree with Toes on article anatomy, most of us here should be grownups. Differences in opinions are to be expected, so let’s be civil and not downvote or throw jabs without reason. How about people make a comment instead, or just upvote the comment they agree with if it’s already there? I find that this results in a much more enriching experience.

Might not be tech illiteracy, as OP implies. Windows has just gotten “too smart” to the point where it makes even the most simple tasks unnecessarily cumbersome.

I for one have migrated to a less bloated OS which doesn’t decide how I am to use my computer.

Whoops, you are correct, I missed the closing quotation mark. I read it as “Linux sucks, SUCKS”.

The video’s title is rather unfortunate, given the recent presence of the anti-Linux bandit on Lemmy.

That said, going by the comments on yt it might be an interesting video with a misleading title.

Haven’t heard about that one, thank you for the heads-up.

First impressions:

• From top 10 artists i follow:
  • 5/10 have profile and uploaded at least one song on Bandcamp.
  • 3/10 have an account on Audius (possibility to donate).
  • 1/10 has uploaded at least one song on Audius.
• One MUST upload a profile picture to create an account.
  • About 1/3 of proposed artists during account creation have uploaded <5 songs, most seem to be remix and cover artists.
  • Didn’t figure out how to search for artists during account creation, ended up choosing 2/3 artists I’ve never heard of.
• Not immediately apparent whether I can download bought music to a lossless format.
• Not sure how to buy album or individual song at first glance.
• LOTS of remixes and covers, not so much original songs (this is both good and bad).
• Nice that you can donate arbitrary amount without buying anything, in case you already got the music from… other places…
  • I didn’t find anyplace where “$AUDIO” is explained, how much the artist receives, or what you receive if anything.

Less relevant observations:

• weird pause/play button, sometimes there’s just a loading wheel spinning where it’s supposed to be, not really functional.
• Slightly intrusive, had to disable some plugins (Javascript (obviously it’s playing music) and fingerprinting (cloudflare?)) for the site to load. Not relevant to music, but just a general observation since we’re in the piracy community.

Not much going on by now, but it probably just needs some time to grow and assimilate the likely soon-to-be-migrating Bandcamp user base. I’ll keep an eye on it, and probably revisit it once more artists have migrated to it.

But we’ll still need a proper place to support our favorite creators (where the artists actually receive some of the money). I wonder where people will migrate next.

Those actually match somehow, I mean:

“Quick, we need to hold back the invaders in sector r5!”

“Invaders in sector r5? A quick release of the airlock oughta fix that! Also, Jimmy, could you go fetch me the BIG welder?”

Sure, I can tell you what little i know. The best, but probably also toughest, place to start is likely the ArchLinux forums.

Wine handles the lifting. Proton, Glorious Eggroll (GE), etc. can be seen as content packs, packing some additional tools and dependencies commonly found in gaming. There exist a lot of other “flavours” of Wine, all with their own specialization, though pure Wine is usually fine for most non-gaming and non-Peripheral (flashing hardware) cases.

The most usefull terms I’ve come across when tinkering are:

• Runner: Location of the specific wine installation. Isn’t actually named “runner”.
• Prefix: Location of the Wine-OS-layer in which the magic will happen. Don’t use the default when tinkering, and clear it when wanting to make a clean attempt.
• wine: Usually found in <runner>/bin/wine. It’s the default way to start executables using wine.
• wineconsole: Found next to wine, opens the executable in a cmd-like console usefull for running .bat files.
• winecfg: Also found next to wine, default configurator for wine, handles dlls, registry, and general settings.
• winetricks: A configuration tool which provides an easy way to install the most well-known dependencies and just functions as a nice “more powerful winecfg”.
• Once Wine is running, C:\\ will be the prefix, and Z:\\ is your Linux computer. You can usually install/run things outside the prefix C:\\, but sometimes it just won’t work, so better try moving it inside if it just don’t wanna.

Running an exe, be it the program you want to get running or a dependency, in the terminal looks something like:

WINEPREFIX="/path/to/my/prefix" "/path/to/runner/bin/wine" "/path/to/executable.exe"

And the neat part is, that to run wine using, say, Proton-GE, you’d just go:

WINEPREFIX="/path/to/my/prefix" "/home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-25/files/bin/wine" "/path/to/executable.exe"

If you want to just use your default WINE installation, you’d leave out the runner part, and just go:

WINEPREFIX="/path/to/my/prefix" "/path/to/executable.exe"

Now, that’s all good and dandy, but who in their right mind uses the terminal anymore?

Bottles, Playonlinux, Lutris, Heroic, and now Steam too (kinda) are launchers which pack some quality of life tools to make creating, running, and tinkering with Wine easier. What launcher you prefer is totally up to you, as they all come with their own ups and downs. Like I stated before, I like Lutris’ Wine runtime packs, but their interface confused me the first time I tried it, so probably not great for starters.

Heroic is nice to look at and simplistic, It doesn’t have a whole bunch of customization options, but it has easy-to-access shortcuts to winetricks and winecfg.

I’ve tried Bottles, and while they provide some appreciated commonly-used dependencies and their user interface is pleasant to look at, they make it unnecessarily difficult to properly tinker with Wine, and for some reason they have to hide and rename everything? Bottles is probably fine for most people, especially for beginners who don’t plan on diving far, but I just couldn’t get comfortable with it.

If you’re tinkering with WINE (or even Proton) using Steam, you’ll probably have a bad time, but they do provide a good collection of games which work out-of-the-box. Not useful for much else wine-related, besides providing Proton and a massive boost to Wine.

At last: Wine logs are weird. I’ll need to learn to read them at some point, but they are so filled with errors and warnings that just naturally exist but don’t attribute to your specific problem that they are borderline useless if you’re not 100% familiar with them. And don’t expect two computers to run an executable the same way just because they use the same Wine runner and Prefix. Wine’s no virtual box.

If anyone knows more, or if I said something factually wrong, then please feel free to correct me.

== Regarding SketchUp ==

I’m not sure how far you got and I’m not sure about your skill level, so please excuse me if you already got this far, but according to WineHQ you’ll need to run a rather lengthy command to get it working. By szilveszter:

Thanks for the comments and help. The program can be installed and used as follows: (1) Installation All selectable languages must be enabled. Even so, an ‘invalid handle’ message is generated, but the installation is completed. (2) Starting the program with NVIDIA graphics processor: __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia WINEPREFIX="/DATA/prg/sketchup_2023" WINEESYNC=1 WINEARCH="win64" /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine64 "/DATA/prg/sketchup_2023/drive_c/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2023/SketchUp.exe" /DisableRubyAPI

So in other words:

1. Download Wine-staging (this can be its own can of worms).
2. Install by first creating the prefix directory, and the running:

$ WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/<mysketchupwineprefix>" "</path/to/wine-staging-runner/bin/wine>" "</path/to/sketchup_setup.exe>"

Please change the <example> text, and respect the instructions of szilveszter, errors are to be expected.

3. Run the executable using their command, but change /opt/wine-staging/bin/wine64 to where your wine-staging runner is located, and "/DATA/prg/sketchup_2023/drive_c/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2023/SketchUp.exe" to where you decided to install sketchup. Wine-staging might already be included in regular wine, so with some luck you might be able to use your computers default runner.

As per szilveszter’s instructions, I think it’s wise to install Sketchup inside the prefix.

Also, it appears to be only mostly working, so expect errors and limitations. :(

Yeah, I use wine, proton, and Lutris’ take on Proton-GE (for winecfg and wineconsole) . I usually get it to work with one of those three, but some programs are just so damn stubborn.

Especially unity games can be a PIA with their weird font and dll requirements, causing artifacts or bugged screens at seemingly random times.

Either that, or im just terrible at using wine. :D

Haven’t tried to use the printer for curing. I built my own curing box using a decommissioned microwave, some spare wood and mirrors, and a rather powerful UV source.

I guess you could build yourself a mirror box to hold the object and place it on the printer instead of using a separate UV source.

The printer should be able to handle the generated heat, so I don’t think you’ll see increased wear.

Would you be surprised if I told you I use Android too?

Sadly my Samsung TV doesn’t use Linux, and the Steam Link app just got discontinued. :(

I might have been very lucky. I’ve barely seen anything negative than when people post factually incorrect or potentially dangerous/bricking stuff.

Though, I do keep a healthy distance from the Ubuntu and Arch forums.