nottheengineer

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Now there's grayjay as well, which is a universal media streaming client that respects your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it change the screen's contrast depending on what's being displayed? Because my work laptop does that. If there's a white window on screen, contrast is great. But if I minimize that and just have something dark on screen, it slowly reduces the contrast until I can barely read anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For linux clients maybe, but definitely not for windows clients. Microsoft practically killed Virtualbox, so we have to use Hyper-V at work now. And unlike virtualbox, it doesn't let me install my keyboard layout in the VM via MSKLC, which is literally made by microsoft. I had to convert my virtualbox VM where it was installed already and guess what, it works perfectly now.

I also have to disable the keyboard manager in powertoys, another microsoft product, whenever I use the VM because capslock gets stuck on inside the VM if I don't. That also happens on VMs without my keyboard layout, so it's a separate issue.

The VM also feels much slower and glitchier than the virtualbox one I used on an older computer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You literally need a third party application to install an APK. At that point you might as well get an android emulator instead of using this spyware.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (34 children)

There is nothing about windows 11 that's better than on windows 10. Why would anyone switch voluntarily?

Windows 10 at least had better automatic driver installation, touchscreen and multi-monitor support compared to 7, but came with a shitload of ads built right into it. Windows 11 has even more ads, but what does it give you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a perfect use case for AI generation. Give it a few more years and pulp trek might become a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No idea how to do this properly, but it's definitely possible. Maybe a USB to IDE adapter makes more sense than going through SATA as it can just expose the floppy drive as a USB stick.

But then again CD drives have been around for ages as well and work properly on linux, so do your research.

The steps will probably look like this:

  • Autodetect when a floppy is inserted
  • mount it (possibly combined with the first step)
  • automatically run a script after mounting
  • writing the script, which will read the contents of the drive and control your player (chatGPT should be able to do that for you with a bit of trial&error)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are people who make backups and people who will.

It's the same thing with this: Even if it goes nicely most of the time, it'll eventually screw up everything and you'll be spending at least an hour figuring out what went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like there's something wrong with your windows EFI partition in that case.

I don't know how to fix that short of a reinstall. If you do reinstall, make sure to unplug (yes, that's actually neccessary) all drives except the one you want to install windows on, otherwise the installer is almost guaranteed to fiddle around with them despite you not selecting them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Because their algorithm is pretty damn good at recommending relevant stuff. For example, titanfall 2 got revived and I found a lot of small youtubers (<20k subs) making some incredibly good content through it. The secret is to click "not interested" on all the clickbait crap often enough and at some point it'll learn.

Though I do use SmartTube on an android TV and block out crap like shorts altogether because google's youtube app is unusable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The issue is that grub, the bootloader, doesn't know about windows and can't boot it. You can go into BIOS and change the boot order to boot windows without figuring this out as a stopgap.

I had to create /etc/default/grub as well on arch, so do that and rerun grub-mkconfig.

As usual, the arch wiki has a great but short guide on that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Detecting_other_operating_systems Read the entire article to get an idea of how to work with grub, then follow the windows section exactly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Hakita is either very ok or not ok at all.

I mean look at his youtube channel: https://m.youtube.com/@Hakita/videos

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