Yeah, those were CDs. I don’t think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I’ll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.

Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.

I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.

While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.

Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.

Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.

Is that last bit a dig at German humour?

Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!

One time I rented a uhaul van and it had a backup camera that would show up in the rear view mirror. Not the whole thing mirror, but it had a little screen embedded in it.

And if they stopped, some shitty writer will write an article whining about gen evil killing the hot served coffee industry.

It follows the pattern of every accusation being a confession. I was concerned about this in 2020, seeing all the arguments about voter fraud and such, and my thoughts were that they either committed a lot of fraud in the states they won and are trying to keep the attention on the states they didn’t do fraud in, or because they wanted their opponents to ridicule them about the thing so that their supporters would just think it’s the usual political back and forth where both sides just accuse the other of whatever would help them win.

I don’t think the truth will ever be known for sure unless there’s confessions at some point.

Wait are you referencing something else or did Cheers have a crossover with Batman?

When I used to have a cat, at the time I usually slept on my side but I’d switch sides occasionally. She’d be sleeping right on my hip/butt. If I wanted to roll over, I’d just shift a bit first to warn her, then just roll over a bit more slowly than normal and she’d either just jump off while I moved or sometimes just stay on me like a slow rolling log walk. Then, once I’d settled, she would do the same, unless she felt like she was needed at the window or something.

We kinda trained each other… Sorry, cat, but I need to switch sides from my side, claws if I moved too quickly from hers (not because she was pissed at me but to help keep her footing), but it didn’t take long to sync up with each other.

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Yeah, to clarify I didn’t mean Blender as an alternative but that there are decent options for another kind of 3d work in addition to CAD stuff. FreeCAD for design stuff, Blender for making pretty things (or ugly things if that’s what you’re into), Vulkan/gcc for real time 3d stuff if you like working close to the metal, Godot for real time 3d stuff if you want to do it from a higher level.

Makes me wonder if anyone actually likes the windows experience. The main resistances I see to moving away from it are about familiarity and compatibility, plus some people tired of linux’s popularity here.

I’m thinking that the company is only surviving based on large org buyin, including the main PC system makers who make windows the default option.

I’m not too into 3d modelling stuff myself, but I understand Blender is pretty good, too.

Just note that (unless they’ve changed the default), you need to enable a setting in Steam to make it always use proton, or it will look like reality matches up with your previous expectations. I believe the setting is under compatability in the steam global settings.

Also be aware that the steam deck compatability icon cares about two things that might not apply to a linux desktop: it loses points for keyboard/mouse centric games (which work fine if you actually use a kb/m instead of controller), and it also cares about how that game will perform on steam deck hardware, though if your gaming PC isn’t very strong, that one might be useful for you.

Protondb has the more accurate compatability info, though it’s crowd sourced, so might not have up to date info on more obscure titles (though it does seem kinda like every single game has at least a small community obsessed with it that consider it the greatest game).

I mean, switching to Linux was nice even from win 10 that doesn’t even have a bunch of the BS from win 11. Using windows already sucks and has for a while.

And why are you posting about what 95% of people care about? The people posting here about it care. Do you walk up to random people on the street to tell them most people don’t care about what they are talking about?

Plus this commenter was even specifically asking for advice about how to get away from windows, so you’re whining about a common circle jerk in a thread that isn’t even that circle jerk.

I don’t always downvote posts that use /s, but I do always downvote posts that complain about someone not using it.

Sarcasm is ok but deadpan is where it’s at.

For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.

And I don’t think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They’ve got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon’s store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.

Maybe it’s from people suddenly realizing how many clients they have but not realizing that was already priced in and reflected in earnings because those clients didn’t all show up by surprise this quarter.

Or maybe the downage revealed some new clients that hadn’t been priced in.

Though when a tiny portion of the population owns such a large share of the wealth, stock prices are going to do pretty much whatever they want them to do.

Fyi, it wouldn’t necessarily be better with a binary if you are missing dependencies, since it might have dynamically linked libraries (I’d say it probably does but tbh I’m not sure whether dynamic or static linked libraries are more common with Linux programs shared on the internet as my experience there is more with building them for work stuff rather than downloading and installing).