WolfLink

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[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’m on .ml and have been considering making an account on another instance, but it seems like most major instances require an email. .ml did not require an email.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

This has been a legal requirement by the government for a while, in order to combat counterfeit money. Many tools that work with images will complain about banknotes, even printers.

Also it’s not AI based and isn’t sending your image to a server. It’s checking for certain specific anti-counterfeit details of banknotes.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

There is VM software like VirtualBox you can use the run older versions of Windows. I’ve had better experience running old games through Windows XP in VirtualBox than directly on Windows 10.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

That’s fair. App Store as the GUI equivalent of a package manager makes sense.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

You need a browser to install a packages manager on Windows or Mac.

(Unless you’ve memorized the urls you need and can use curl)

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 49 points 6 months ago

This will be useful if you are trying to let multiple people share your computer remotely. If you are trying to set up personal game streaming for one client at a time, try Moonlight and Sunshine (more mature, easier to setup, works on any hardware).

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True but Nvidia has been making performant ARM chips (for example, the ones in the Nintendo Switch)

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The idea is ARM can be more efficient, which translates as longer battery life and/or faster computers for the end user.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

This is and always will be true about software. Progress sometimes means abandoning bad ideas, even ideas that were good at the time but are bad now that something else has changed.

Old Windows games generally don’t work on modern Windows without a virtual machine.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 47 points 6 months ago

My game’s anticheat software is already using root level permissions to monitor other program’s RAM, my OS might as well have all that data too.

My gaming OS is a malware mess. I don’t use windows for anything else since that’s the only thing it’s good at. I’ll move to Linux once my friends stop playing the games that require Windows only malware anti cheat.

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What’s the significance of “Slavic”?

[–] WolfLink@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

In the US it’s more expensive and tastes better than the US brand (Hershey’s).

 

I want to try to set up a Raspberry Pi I have as a smart TV box and I was hoping I could find some advice.

My main requirements are:

  • can run Moonlight
  • can be controlled from a Bluetooth game controller (that should also work in Moonlight)

What would be nice:

  • can run VLC or Plex or something
  • can support AirPlay
  • can be used for some actual streaming services like Netflix

Any suggestions?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by WolfLink@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Update: I was wrong about a couple things:

  • I’m having issues with 2 different NTFS drives. The ext4 one is fine.
  • The issue appears to be driver related. If the drive auto-mounts by udisks2.service, it shows up as “type ntfs3” with the output of mount, but if I mount it manually it shows up as “type fuseblk”. It seems that the fuse-based driver works but the ntfs3 one is broken.

I’m at my wits end with this one.

SSDs on my computer:

  • a drive with a Windows 11 install
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 22.04 install (the OS I use the most)
  • a drive with an Ubuntu 20.04 install (for a piece of touchy software I needed that didn’t seem to like 22.04)
  • an NTFS drive to share files across OSes
  • an EXT4 drive to share files across OSes

These are all physically separate drives, not partitions of the same drive or something like that. They all SATA SSDs except the Windows one which is nvme.

Ubuntu 22.04 is acting up. It seems that it can write to the NTFS and EXT4 drives fine, but has difficulty reading from them. If I write a file e.g. echo “hello world” > test, the file appears but trying to read it, the file seems empty. I reboot and I can read the file.

When I first encountered this, I thought the NTFS drive was failing, so I did a large rsync (to back up the data) and got some read errors, and then ran a SMART test which came back clean.

Since then, with further testing, only 22.04 seems to have these issues. Both Windows and 20.04 can read and write fine. However, Windows caught some filesystem errors with the drive after the large rsync.

I’m about to reinstall Ubuntu but I’m worried about making things worse somehow. It would be nice to have an idea of what’s going on.

Any advice?

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