

Oh, we definitely were. If you don’t want something connected to the cloud, your options are:
- buy from a very small company
- build yourself something, kitcar style
- buy something from 20 years ago
Everything else is a rolling data vacuum
Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.


Oh, we definitely were. If you don’t want something connected to the cloud, your options are:
Everything else is a rolling data vacuum


Something from 20 years ago
No worries. It’s way less resource hungry than WinBoat, so should have a much smoother experience.
FL Studio was the reason it took me so long to ditch windows. Try bottles. Don’t bother with the automatic configuration, just install it in a default gaming setup. Very minor tweaks got it working better than in win11 on my laptop.
WinBoat is essentially a VM, but it runs in the background and you can add installed programs to your hotbar/start bar/desktop. So that’s neat.
If it’s the software thing
There’s a fair few projects working towards getting windows software to work in Linux beyond wine. WinBoat and bottles to name the two I use frequently. I set-up WinBoat for my wife because office360. Took a little bit of fiddling with settings for WinBoat to run nicely on her 2017 MacBook air with a Ubuntu derivative OS…but it works as it would on windows…so poorly.


Well…I am now…


I can tell you for a fact that doesn’t work. Or at least it didn’t for me…😭
I don’t know how they can possibly miss that the Federation is functionally a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
Because there’s been a decades long effort to make American education really bad. There’s very little ability for critical thinking in that group of people.


Surely this model will take over the world!


overwhelmed with code that careless people generate and don’t
botherhave the knowledge or skills to review.
You mean how you might hold a sign with writing at the bottom you don’t want to block with your fingers?
This. At the very least use the repost function so my app automatically marks it as read and filters it out.
✊🏾 the struggle is real
Ooooooof…way to make me feel age…
When I set up Linux on my wife’s MacBook it took two hours to find all the instructions on how to do it AND the files needed to do it. Had to use 4 different instruction sets because all 4 left out some steps.
So yeah, MacBook webcam functionality is on the installer/user, but it’s not always easy to figure out how to do it if you’ve never done it before.


What a heartwarming tale of adventure!
Sounds awfully similar to my first attempt at installing Linux 🤣


So, as per the video, it installs an .img file. the fact that in 2001 that wouldn’t be possible explains the whole “can’t get back to windows without a system reboot” thing.
Thanks for teaching me something new today :D
I’m rocking a 2006 VW Polo. Thing’s a beast. Almost no power, endless tiny things wrong, but I got pushed off the road by a cement pump truck…and I mean…yeah it was “written off” but only because popping the dents and repainting it would be more than it’s value. Most of what’s gone wrong I’ve been able to fix myself for less than £100, and going to my friend’s place to use his garage and big jack.