mindlight

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[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

But then again, you never know when the service you rely on will be canned by Google.

How many Instant Messengers have we(yes, I'm an Android user) been through now?

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Even if this was the case, it's still not good:

"The one who controls the AI now controls you."

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Funny thing, he's not only spending his own money. He's burning the taxpayer's money too.

All these useless lawsuits takes up important resources but lucky us that Elon has a taxable income....

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No degree at all but been working IT since the 90's.

It's fun that when I started in IT everything went from centralized (mainframe and terminals) to decentralized (PC). Then came Citrix and everything went towards centralized. Smartphones and apps came so we went decentralized again. Then cloud came and we essentially went centralized again.

It's all about trends, the pendulum swings back and forth....

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, it was ages ago I started up wine so I'm the wrong person to ask.

I'm a dual booter, best of two worlds, full support from vendors and no compatibility problems is my preferred way

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Normally it's not lack of Windows compatibility breaking the use of an application with wine, it's the frameworks and libraries the application was built with/need to have access to.

So check what additional libraries and stuff your application have as a prerequisite. Visual C 2005? 2010? DotNet framework? Which version? And so on.

When you know what the application needs, then you can Google for "wine DotNet 4.5" (just an example) to get a feeling what problems people had and how they solved it.

Essentially wine needs to know where to find them when you start your application with/in wine.

Also, if your application uses MSSQL Express or similar, you might be out of luck. So if that's the case you should start googling on how to get that running (if even possible) before installing.

Good luck, be stubborn and make sure to have fun. There's a lot you'll learn in this adventure of yours that will come in handy again and again in the future.

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

If you're not tech savvy enough to get the software running under for example Wine, you might be better off with Windows. Trying to get support from the vendor for anything not Windows will not be easy if even possible.

Anyways, If you're still going for Linux, I guess that Wine is what you're looking for.

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

The statistics seem to be based on User Agent. A lot of people"fake" their user agent to avoid fingerprinting and other things.

I myself used to do it when I wanted to download Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft. If your UA said anything Windows you were forced to use download Microsoft USB Tool. If it said Linux you got a direct link to the ISO.

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Now, the powder scandal wasn't just about the execs 😁

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait what... Who can login to the internet bank with just a user/password?

We've had MFA requirement here in Sweden since the early 00's...

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Well...AI's don't snort cocaine so that's an improvement for Klarna....

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

As someone who’s been writing for close to ten years now, I would tend to think I would get paid at this point. Or, at least write for a site that would. I can’t begin to describe in words how frustrating and unfair it’s been to see websites that are “younger” than me become so successful that they’re able to write for their site as a full-time job in just one year.

This is a truth I've seen again and again throughout my career (started my career in IT in the 90's). Just because you're awesome at something doesn't guarantee you a fat bank account. The people who most often succeed are the ones that have at least some knowledge of a subject and some understanding of how business work.

It doesn't mean anything that you're the best at what you do if you don't know how to get the customer to sign the agreement.

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