Ekky @ ekky @sopuli.xyz

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Thank you for the elaboration.

I ended up mixing two definitions of "control" in my tiredness, whoops.

I intended to refer to OPs "control", which I imagine is supposed to be the ability to use low/high gears as the situation requires, such as going a gear lower when overtaking, or using a high gear when cruise on the common roads for better fuel efficiency. Automatic often (always?) allows or perhaps even forces these modi, but it doesn't always feel satisfactory when you're used to stick, at least not the older models.

I guess I ended up using "control" as "ability to handle varying power and speed (aka. torque) requirements", which gives the EV a clear advantage as it can change speed and power while maintaining a constant torque.

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.

Isn't there a large difference between automatic and electric?

The automatic still has gears, they're just... Automatic. The EV doesn't have any kind of traditional gears. Unless, perhaps, if they have a variable frequency drive or something similar.

Either way, I haven't driven much automatic nor electric, but I've heard that the control of an electric should be unparalleled.

If anyone knows more, then please feel free to correct me.

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.

What kind of discs? I usually just go with dd when digitizing my old games and music. I imagine movies are a bit harder.

I use a Verbatim DPAA to access old DVD's. Cheap and simple, works just fine with both Windows and Linux and didn't even have to install any drivers on either.

Connector is USB-B mini (disk drive) to USB-A (computer).

Sadly doesn't support blu-ray.

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?"

They didn't even use pictures of the cases, they just write about gardening with a picture of proper gardening tools.

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>

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. :(

Most foreboding quote 2024.

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

Telekinesis: train powers on people's wallets, go "Window shopping" at local museum, go scuba walking, play badminton with cops, win every coin flip (damned be computers). Sell "proven perpetual power source" to musk and make bank before flying away in your car (depends on exact wording).

Oh yea, and grab remote when too lazy to move over.

Same way alcohol is legal I imagine, we've been doing it for enough time that it has become culture, and it's not like THAT many people die of it anyway.

Luckily smoking (hopefully including e-smokes) appears to still be declining.

So it appears, though I'm unsure whether it auto-accepts required cookies, those that have no opt-out option. If it's banners, and not walls, then UBlock blocks the banner and thereby doesn't give permission to store any kind of cookies, including the required ones. Kinda as if you browse the site without ever interacting with the banner.

Sadly, both need to trust that the site actually follows the rules and respects the selected/unselected cookies.

EDIT: Scrap all that, most sites don't respect cookies settings either way, might just get either of the above and Cookie Auto Delete or something similar.

You are right, please excuse me.

Filters out as in hides it from you?

Ublock origin is very good at getting rid of cookie banners, though you have to enable it in settings, not sure about pay walls.

Right, thank you for the heads-up. :)

Sight is just the price we pay for the eldritch knowledge* staring at the sun gives us.

Should not have stared at the sun.

For those wondering how to exceed the 70 (80) recommended character limit and still follow best practices:

1. Write the title on the first line, keep below 70 characters.
2. Make two (2) newlines
3. Write one or more descriptive paragraphs.

The first line will be shown as commit message, and the full text can usually be viewed by checking out the commit. Sentences can span multiple lines, but try to keep the line length below 70 characters for best readability.

This off the top of my head, so feel free to correct me if I've misremembered the best practices.

Depending on the definition, you're not obscuring traffic if you're driving 60kmh in the fastlane either, or if only you manage to get over the green light because of your tardiness, as traffic is still flowing, just very, very slow.

Either way, you'll be slowing down traffic and get in the way of other drivers, unless you are the only person on the road.