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smackeyacky commented on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux   scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2
trinsic2 · 2 days ago
which vm software do you use? I have had a hard time with vm software on linux no that Vmware got exploited by Broadcom.
smackeyacky · a day ago
QEMU is the one I prefer.

https://www.qemu.org/

I had it set up with a network bridge so that each VM looked like an actual PC on my network.

smackeyacky commented on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux   scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2
rr808 · 2 days ago
The only thing I need Windows for is citrix to connect to my work machine. I'm thinking of getting a laptop just for this one task.
smackeyacky · 2 days ago
Windows VM in QEMU will solve this problem. I had multiple clients with different VPN or remote access tech and used to keep a VM for each of them.
smackeyacky commented on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux   scottrlarson.com/publicat... · Posted by u/trinsic2
runjake · 2 days ago
An option if you don't want to deal with dual boot: buy something like a Bee-link SER8 for $499 and use that for Linux. It's tiny and performs well. Use a KVM or swap cables between computers.

(I only game on the weekends so I just cable swap, because my KVM is Mac <--> Gaming PC/SER8.)

smackeyacky · 2 days ago
Too hard. Just take your original windows license and run up a VM in QEMU. Perfect for dealing with windows only things
smackeyacky commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
nradov · 13 days ago
That's junk science and doesn't refute the specific point I made. Facebook users are far more likely to post original content than X users. It might just be some blurry backlit vacation photos but it is original content.
smackeyacky · 13 days ago
They post but it doesn’t get read, all their friends feeds are just swamped with crap like theirs is.
smackeyacky commented on 1948: Catholic Church publishes final edition of “Index Librorum Prohibitorum”   historyofinformation.com/... · Posted by u/thomassmith65
Lio · 13 days ago
“Down with this sort of thing”

Makes me think that if this list was still published it would have a sort of Father Ted effect[1] and act as a list of books you’d definitely want to read.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Saint_Tibulus

smackeyacky · 13 days ago
In a similar vein, one of my colleagues a few years ago after undergoing workplace sexual harrassment training said "oh learned a couple of new ones"

At the time I hoped he wasn't serious, sometimes it's hard to tell.

smackeyacky commented on Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles   usebottles.com/... · Posted by u/doener
hrvstr · 18 days ago
Interesting. The UI looks way better than Lutris and Heroic Launcher. Anyone tried all three of them and went with Bottles? I first tried Lutris and then switched to Heroic, but I am not too keen about Electron apps, although Heroic works quite well.
smackeyacky · 15 days ago
I won’t hear a bad word said about Heroic launcher. It’s almost literally magic. Up until I tried it I was still dual booting windows on my gaming laptop.

When they got GOG cloud saves to work with cyberpunk 2077 I sent them money.

smackeyacky commented on NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose   text.npr.org/2025/08/04/n... · Posted by u/antman
MisterMower · 20 days ago
If the information is that valuable, a private company would have put the satellite into orbit.

My guess is it’s valuable, but nowhere near the $750M price tag it cost to put it up there.

smackeyacky · 19 days ago
No. This statement doesn’t reflect the reality of how private interests have ever worked, especially in the USA. If the idea here is to defend the modern US war on reality it isn’t getting far because it has no basis in the history of any publically funded research that was exploited by private interests.
smackeyacky commented on NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose   text.npr.org/2025/08/04/n... · Posted by u/antman
avazhi · 20 days ago
One of the more disingenuous ways of framing this issue. Farmers do not ‘rely on’ this satellite. At best it provides them with ancillary information about global carbon levels that ultimately has nothing to do with farming or them directly.
smackeyacky · 20 days ago
The article states that the satellite data is also used for crop yield predictions.

This can be important for pricing things like futures contracts which farmers very much do care about.

smackeyacky commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
mathiaspoint · 21 days ago
The way most of you define "fascism" America has always been fascist with a brief perturbation where we tried Democracy and some Communism.

If you see it that way this is just a reversion to the mean.

smackeyacky · 21 days ago
True. We have collectively forgotten segregation was a thing in the US. Perhaps it has always been a right wing country that flirts with fascism.
smackeyacky commented on AI is propping up the US economy   bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
Hikikomori · 21 days ago
Gerrymandering in Texas and elsewhere they might stay in power, if they do it's unlikely to change. Basically speed running a fascist takeover.
smackeyacky · 21 days ago
It's not really a speed run.

The seeds were planted after Nixon resigned and it was decided to re-shape the media landscape and move the overton window rightwards in the 1970s, dismantling social democracy across the west and leading to a gradual reversal of the norms of governance in the US (see Newt Gingrich).

It's been gradual, slow and methodical. It has definitely accelerated but in retrospect the intent was there from the very beginning.

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