I don’t think we can be blamed for Andy Yang. He’s Taiwanese and studied in the US. It seems he just worked at CERN and that’s why he was in Switzerland when he started Proton.

Crunch time? That sounds bad. Are they having issues with project management?

compatible with macOS via game porting tools and wine

How is moltenVK going by the way, assuming you follow that? I originally thought macOS gaming was dead when they ditched OpenGL and declined to support Vulkan, but maybe with layers of shims peoples still make it work.

He specifically didn’t say that. Instead of criticizing that they aren’t nuanced enough you should read the nuance they actually wrote:

Let me be clear: The odds of a massive, immediate shift away from Windows PCs aren’t great. This isn’t a “year of the Linux desktop” rallying cry. But if there is a Linux desktop that exists today, it’s the Steam Deck. And that makes SteamOS a bellwether for greater proliferation of non-Windows devices (if not necessarily “Linux” specifically) in a huge range of form factors.

Wow very cool. Thanks for that link, I had no idea coreboot was so flexible!

lol, one of our suppliers just changed to them 1.5 years ago.

Someone managed to fuck the portal software up so much that all the ö you type in a support case get replaced by o, both in the webview and the emails. The ä and ü work fine. It’s extra fucked.

And our support team sits in Germany, we write in German sometimes. When we use English it is only for the benefit of their Tier 3 guys.

Plus the implementation of two factor sign in is now delayed by half a year already. It seems to me more developers could be helpful

If anything, passing the Turing test would be a necessary condition, but never a sufficient one.

Regarding your Peter Griffin meme: Us Swiss and our Austrian neighbors are pretty white on average, but even beyond that, the Czech, the Polish, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are very white on average.

Oh I’ve never heard of such a setup. But that does muddy the lines a bit, I can see the argument for calling it part of firmware then.

Firmware is one step before.

BIOS, UEFI, coreboot, or whatever weird code runs on a Raspberry Pi’s GPU to load your system, those are firmwares.

The firmware is what starts your bootloader; grub, BOOTMGR, u-boot, etc

Also the kernel makes those variable immutable by default now

More specifically it has done that for the last 8 years :-D

In A UEFI World, “rm -rf /” Can Brick Your System

efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst

Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879

Bunch of assholes. Hope it hits the responsible managers house and the office building.

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a bit on the nose huh

I thought that was still not officially available, only forks or rebuilds of sorts?

That’s interesting thank you.

I only did it once for a school project involving translation of a film scene (also over a decade ago) but we just manually wrote an SRT file, that was miserable 😄

and yeah…the timestamps are the hardest part.

So, if you can tell us, how did the process work?

Do you run the video and type the subtitles in some program at the same time, and it keeps score of the time at which you typed, which you manually adjust for best timing of the subtitle appearance afterwards? Or did you manually note down timestamps from the start?

I never had an optical drive that had this connector, but it seems plausible that the relatively smaller pins could still carry enough power for it.

The most power hungy bit would probably be the spinning motor, and the mass being spun is much lower in an optical drive than for a magnetic drive platter.

Ah that rings a bell, some of my (older) PSU cables have one of those at the end after a daisy chain of SATA or Molex

Something like the rightmost in these pictures?

I think they are called Floppy connectors

also a non sata connector

Like the older Molex, or something really custom made to fuck users over?