science and music. and beer. and dogs.

  • 28 Posts
  • 518 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2023

help-circle










  • I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

    For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

    Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

    (note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)







  • The United State has behaved like the bad guys in some country or other for most of its existence.

    And in its own territory too. This is just “manifest destiny” all over again.

    You could paraphrase Trump this morning thus: “The oil is ours because we’re stronger and besides, we saw it first.”