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Write to: 2001 I think? Maybe 2002. I remember using floppy disks at 6th form college but also Zip disks & even CD+R, but switching to email and USB by university.

Reading: 2020 when I last played around with an Amiga 1200 to see if it still worked. It did.

No the judge is being reasonable while you are being OTT. As others have said, there were talks to make a reboot/sequel to ER which fell through and ER was directly adapted from a Michael Crichton script. The key is the same producers went on anyway to make a show that even used a same principle actor because they allegedly didn’t want to pay for the rights.

The judge has only ruled that there is a case to hear on face value. It may well be that once the facts are heard, the producers and Warner Brothers win. It may well be that the producers lose and are felt to have effectively made the same show anyway, and owe the estate money.

It’s important to remember that ER is directly based on a script written by Michael Crichton who was a medical student in an emergency room prior to being a writer. Steven Spielberg took the script and developed it with John Wells and the pilot for ER is pretty much that script, barely changed. It’s not some tenuous connection - it is effectively Michael Crichton’s show as much as the other original producers, no matter how much it changed over 15 seasons.

This is not about making shows based in Emergency Rooms. This purely about whether this show is actually a sequel to ER that has been changed a little to get away from paying one of the original producers estates. If it had not been the exact same producers who were discussing making a sequel to ER, then there likely wouldn’t have been a case.

The Pitt’s executive producers include: John Wells, an executive producer on ER, R Scott Gemmil a writer & producer on ER and Noah Wyle an actor on ER. At face value that is quite the coincidence, especially when they also pitched a reboot of ER.

This is presumably a result of the demonetisation of sites thanks to Google stealing their news, and now Google stealing all the site traffic with it’s shitty AI overviews? AI continues to ruin the internet and peoples livelihoods. And AI won’t be producing this journalism.

Lutris & Heroic already install all windows GOG games into Wine +/- Proton prefixes using some simple automation. The bar for an official GOG launcher to achieve the same isn’t that high if they want to go down that route. Proton is freely available and open source, so GOG can use it too if they want (and would be sensible to do so).

Get Google, Microsoft and Apple and all the rest OUT of schools.

It was a 17 year old kid from India; naive and foolish but I don’t think it was malicious. His post says the audio books were an idea to try and pay for the high bandwidth usage - 120k users in 24 hours, serving over a terabyte of data.

I think he probably had good intentions, but clearly this was a bad idea and of course to many people it looked like someone was trying to commercially exploit the work of many thousands of fanfic authors, plus feeding in to the AI slop fest.

It doesn’t sound exactly like Wine? It’s a different approach if I understand it correctly. Instead of mimicking API calls and acting as a translator, it seems to be more like building a cloned windows environment including it’s own kernel, APIs and elements from ReactOS, Vulkan etc.

So it may solve some of Wines issues, but may also have quite a bit of overhead and redundancy that Wine doesn’t do? I don’t think it will replace Wine but it may be a complementary approach that suits some applications better than wine?

But it’s a mammoth task, and I’m sceptical it will get the traction it needs to succeed.

I’m not sure. I think the concept is interesting and it may solve some of the issues Wine has. But I’m sceptical a new project will get much traction. The Dev is the guy behind Bottles, so has some predigree, and it also seem sensible that they’re using ReactOS’s work to implement core parts of it.

My understanding is that Wine recreates specific Window’s APIs so programmes can run within Linux (and other OS’s), while Raven is creating more of a fuller contained cloned windows environment to run inside the host OS, so programs effectively run as if the whole of native windows is there?

They claim that the programs themselves will launch faster and run faster, but I do wonder how much of the overhead of the clone windows container environment launching and even just being ready adds to a system? It’s definitely one to watch.

Also - and this is purely my speculation / question - is this going to be an example of how AI coding can be used to power a new project along? They haven’t mentioned that at all in fairness, and I can’t see that it’s an AI coded project, but I wonder if things like the rapidly progressing ArtCraft project (“cloning” Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word) is a route that this will go down? Otherwise I find it hard to believe something like this will progress fast enough to be useful in the next few years?

I think it’s harder than it needs to be because of your internet habits, but otherwise a decent set up in my opinion.

I can understand not using Steam (I find it hard to believe you don’t know what it is) but you’re presumably using Proton via Bottles. Protondb.com is also a very useful resource with other users experiences getting games working. And tools like Heroic and Lutris are more than just frontends for storefronts - they can be a good way to organise your own library of games.

I think the use of local AI is interesting; I’ve tinkered with it on a few things but haven’t really used it for the chatbot side of things. Interesting that its working well albeit slow?

I’m not a big fan of the Fitgirl stuff - are you saying you exclusively pirate games? I would suggest at least buying some games to support the devs? gog.com is a good place to buy DRM free versions of games. But each to their own I guess.

But otherwise, this seems like a good set up. I also have a raspberry pi as a home server and it makes absolute sense not to use your desktop PC for that kind of thing. Presumably you use things like pi-hole to help reduce internet tracking / ads? I also use Syncthing across my PC, Laptop, living room PC and Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as an always on hub for my syncthing folders which works well.

KDE Linux (the distribution), not KDE just to be clear.

Disk Write Error is very much more likely to be a Windows (+/- Linux) error rather than a Steam error. If Steam can’t write to the disk for any reason, all it can say is there is a disk write error. It’s unlikely to know whether that’s due to the hard-drive failing or the hard drive going offline for some reason or even just a permissions error.

I’m not surprised there are 2000 pages, because hard drive write failures are very common, and as the OS has responsibility for that, then the information available to steam is going to be limited.

In fairness Steam and many games do provide quite detailed logs. But they can only really log things they can control. If they get a message from the OS (like “disk write error”), all they can do is log that. It just doesn’t necessarily even have the permissions or access to that level of the OS to provide the “why”, just that essentially “computer said no”.

Well this will be a test for the UK and France who are each able to veto this within the security council.

Supposedly Russia updated the World Health Organisation last week to say the young lab worker who died did not die of parapneumonic plague and that no pathogens have been identified so far. They’ve also quarantined 200 of her contacts.

It suggests both that they are taking this very seriously and that something probably DID happen. That one is looking like a near miss, but with the big caveat that who knows how much Russia is actually revealing.

First, they swabbed the whole deck not just the poop deck. The focus on the poopdeck is probably modern because it sounds interesting and sticks more in the mind.

Supposedly they swabbed the decks in part because salt water prevents wood rotting (versus fresh water from rain storms which promotes rotting), in part because it’s a wooden ship with gunpowder loose which is a fire risk (so best to sweep it away and keep areas damp), and in part because it kept the crew occupied.

Enterprise is decent; at the time it was regarded poorly because it wasn’t more TNG/DS9/Voy but it gets better with each season and by the end you are left wanting more and wish it hadn’t been cut short.

Enterprise is way above the modern stuff like Discovery. Strange New Worlds started very well but I haven’t seen the latest season of that.

This will happen even before any further technology comes along as the AI business model is fundamentally flawed. They’re gambling on earning huge fortunes, but will earn peanuts as they can’t capture the value generated by AI. AI is just another commodity, and people will use the cheapest tool that does the job. They won’t care that company X spent 100s of billions of dollars on their frontier model when a free or cheap model elsewhere is good enough for the task. No customers are paying for that investment - just colossal debt piles and investors desperate to be in at the ground floor. The big AI companies are already well into nonsense circular deals passing each others IOUs with headline figures in the many billions. It’s all a slow motion car crash.

It’s interesting that it’s seemingly easier to make the windows version of Paint.NET work on Wine, than bother compiling it for .NET on Linux? I wonder if the dev regrets starting with .NET in the first place?

It’s a label for certain food stuffs from mainland UK that allow them to enter Northern Ireland. They are goods that cannot be sent to the EU as they haven’t been through all the various accreditations needed for export. Northern Ireland is in the UK but due to the special deal made with the EU, it is also still within the EU Single Market. This was done to preserve the status quo with The Republic of Ireland on the island of Ireland. So certain goods coming from the UK to Northern Ireland need to be labelled clearly so they don’t get illegally sent on into the EU bypassing the checks in place had they been exported directly from mainland UK.

Can you enable DDC/CI in the monitors on-screen menus?

If so, and if there aren’t drivers available (I can’t find drivers when searching MF2208-A), then if you can enable DDC/CI you can use 3rd party tools to control the brightness. Display Dimmer and ClickMonitorDDC are 2 I found on a quick google.

If Linux can control the monitor, then it sounds like a lack of drivers for Windows but the display should still support DDC/CI; 3rd party tools do sometimes still work in this scenario for DDC/CI in Windows.