Fuck 'em

That’s just FUD.

Test it under Wine. If it’s working, you’re good to go. Wine can’t make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn’t.

I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

(note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)

Billionaires are why we can’t have nice things. And also why we have LLMs.

It’s correlation, not causation.

I’ve struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.

They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.

Once you win a small claim it is up to you to collect. They will never manage to collect.

In fact, if you want me to create an account on your servers, you are first required to register your OS on my own website.

I love this sooo much!

When a post is a link to an article, I would prefer that the post title match the article. Many news communities actually require that.

anyway

Wisconsin already blocks access to all goverment websites if you use a VPN. I can’t even check the garbage collection schedule for my town. I always thought it was this misguided concept that they thought only “hackers” would want to be anonymous. It seems they are really working for the data brokers, who don’t want anyone to be anonymous.

Yep, I see that now. When I bought my first pyboard theirs was the only one. It’s great to see how it spread!

It’s time for micropython.

https://micropython.org/

The pause in Calyx updates has nothing to do with Google’s fuckery, and they are not “dying.” They lost a major lead developer and decided they needed to restructure so no one would be so essential going forward.

I could have stated it better. What I meant was that the fraction of kinetic energy that is taken from the wind is so small that the total kinetic energy in the wind is probably not the important factor that changes with wind speed. The dynamics of how the lift depends on wind speed is probably much more important.

We don’t directly harvest the kinetic energy. That increase probably has to do with how the wind provides lift to the blades. Of course, you couldn’t keep increasing like that until the harvested energy is greater than the kinetic energy. But I’m sure at any wind speed we only get a tiny fraction.

I would so love to have my phone and laptop run the same operating system. Would simplify so many things.

With Google attempting to further lockdown Android, the time is ripe for Linux Mobile. Projects like this can help make it a viable alternative.

Thank you so much to everyone working on this!

I’ve not tried to make such a table myself in Libreoffice, but when I open one that someone at work made with excel, everything works as expected.

There are alternatives for everything, and most of them are better that the windows-only options. Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.

That said, some folks do have to use the crappy MS software for work. There’s nothing to be done but to pity them.

unfortunately imigration courts aren’t real courts. They are part of the executive branch, not judicial.