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Cowabunga it is.
Cowabunga it is.
A spell checker is pretty useless. It’s not a word processor. I just want to very quickly open a text file and perhaps make a small edit. I would usually use it for config files.
Syntax highlighting for xml, JSON, yaml and CSV would be a much more useful feature. gEdit on gnome really nails the lightweight but useable text editor.
Also, would it kill them to use a rolling buffer instead of loading and rendering an entire 500MB file before rendering the first 30 lines on screen?
People say “just use [editor]”, but it’s no good when you’re configuring someone else’s prod environment 7 proxies deep, and all you can use is notepad.
CF is still used in high-end DSLRs. Like, it’s still the “premium” storage option.
CD burning is still kinda useful for hifi. I wouldn’t use it for data these days.
Iomega ZIP disks. Those things just clicked all day.
I kinda started tinkering with a setup like this on an HTPC. Basically an Ubuntu box, firefox and some plugins. The plugins are ad blockers, and one to make YouTube use the “TV” interface.
All it really needed was a launcher to switch between the different web apps.
Thanks! I’m going through a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter because it was the only way to get 4K video. Pipewire is a bit flaky and applies filters that I don’t want. It’s a 3.1 channel setup. The goal is for the AV receiver to do all the decoding.
I’m on the new HTPC version installed as a snap. I can see that it’s meant to work with passthrough, but I find that it… doesn’t.
I haven’t tried in a few versions. Maybe I should give it another crack.
I used MythTV for decades. I really loved the “raw” digital output of the music player. It would casually hop from 44/16/2.0 to 96/24/5.1 between songs and my amp would decode it. I even contributed a small patch to make the visualizer work with 24bit audio.
The live TV hardware accelerated deinterlacing was really good too. TV recording was super reliable.
The TVDb lookup was a tad glitchy. It turns out that it didn’t include the year in the lookup. I wrote a patch that did it (and improved my metadata lookups heaps) but never made a PR.
I jumped to Plex around 2020. Mostly for things like streaming to my phone so I can have my music on the train. I believe Myth was better for HTPC, but Plex isn’t too far off.
I’m not a fan of Plex audio. Every time I try to make it do AC3 passthrough or skip the OS mixers, the whole thing breaks.
Because it’s from 8 years ago and it never happened.
They want to play video games. They are typically not productive people.
Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.
Even if they do get the VBR encoding perfect, you’ll still get people on bad connections that will only have a buffer underrun when a dude shows up in a sparkly suit.
This group’s activism is so tone-deaf that I’m starting to think this is actually the oil companies pretending to be terrible activists.
Yep. It’s your car to do with it what you want. The ADRs (Australian Design Rules) only apply at point of sale. Once it’s yours, it merely needs meet roadworthy requirements. As long as you keep a functioning speedo, wipers and lights, you can rip out every bit of electronics in the car.
Mine was pretty good. Strangely I had FTTC for about 2 weeks and they came back to upgrade to FTTP.
I did a lot of the prep work myself to make sure it was as quick and easy for them as possible. I dug trenches, pulled drawstring through the walls etc.
The weird part was that they got 90% through the FTTP install and the job got cancelled because I already had NBN. I had to convince them it was worth finishing.
Vortex is written in .Net, so, yeah.
You’ve just said your 5 biggest problems with Linux are things that Microsoft did.
What’s the lesson here? Clean your bongs?
Imagine facing 30 years for not emptying out an old coffee cup.
That’s like, a million people’s wages. Absurd.
The longest outage I’ve had in a decade is when my primary SSD died a 2 months ago and I had to reinstall using config backups. It was down for around a day.
I’ve thrown a UPS on it and flown overseas for a week or two. It’s basically just email for me and the kids.
I’ve had longer outages on hosted services, TBH.
I updated a surface pro this morning and it was a huge effort just to log back in. Like, it took several minutes to get through all the prompts, login errors and finally land on the desktop.
Now I need to check if OneDrive installed itself again.