Random Dent

My desktop won’t run Windows 11 according to Windows 11. But if I make a VM with fake TPM on it, it will run perfectly well inside a VM on a machine that won’t run it lol

Reminds me of this old story:

No worries! If you do decide to go that way, these are the guides that got it working for me:

Wine: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-scapple-for-windows-activation-under-wine/47254/5

Bottles: https://joe8bit.com/blog/running-scrivener-on-linux

That reminds me a bit of the Undercover mode in Kali Linux. It doesn’t wipe anything, but it changes the desktop to look like Windows lol.

I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.

Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.

My somewhat convoluted solution is using Scrivener 3 in Wine. Takes a bit of setting up but works really well for me now. Also it’s not a dedicated screenwriting software (it’s designed for novels I think) but it has a screenwriting mode which does everything I need it to.

Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.

You can also just make a file called .hidden and paste the names in there and it’ll hide them, that way it doesn’t mess up any paths/symlinks etc. Or at least in KDE/Dolphin you can do that, I dunno about other setups.

I feel like you could still do very well in life if you controlled literally all the gold in the world, but also he is Warren Buffet and my current wallet is one that I found on the ground, so I am willing to defer to the experts here.

(NB, the wallet was empty, I’m no savage)

Yeah that’s fair. And mine were pretty small scripts so easy enough to check, and I keep proper backups and whatnot so no big deal. But like I say I wouldn’t use it for anything big or important.

It’s like that old meme about how Luke is a desert farmer who is given weapons and radicalized by a bearded man in a cave, then goes off to a militia training camp and eventually blows up a government installation.

My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like “I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive.”

Like no shit, that’s the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?

One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don’t support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn’t happen? People, man

Yeah pretty much! TBH for the first one there are already things online that can do that, I just wanted to test how the AI would do so I gave it a simple thing, it worked well and so I kept using it. The second one I wasn’t sure about because it’s a bit copyright-y, but yeah like you say it was just quicker. I wouldn’t use the AI for anything super important, but I figured it’d do for a quick little script that only needs to do one specific thing just for me.

As an FYI in case you didn’t know you can also stack them when they go on sale. I have like 3 of them on the same account lol

Not OP but I made a little menu thing for launching VMs and a script for grabbing trailers for downloaded movies that reads the name of the folder, finds the trailer and uses yt-dlp to grab it, puts it in the folder and renames it.

TBH the last few years have taught me not to underestimate the amount of idiocy or sycophancy the current government is capable of, so Trump tripping balls on LSD and being allowed to nuke Greenland isn’t entirely off my bingo card.

Nixon being a paranoid alcoholic by that point probably wouldn’t have helped either.

I heard someone describe LLMs as “a magic 8-ball with an algorithm to nudge it in the right direction.” I dunno how accurate that is, but it definitely feels like that sometimes.

I have an ancient Brother laser printer that is magical. It runs on Linux, the toner cartridges last for about a decade and if you leave it unplugged for like a year and then turn it back on to print one document it doesn’t mind at all. I’m never getting rid of that thing.

I do that with my SO too even though they’re not a tech person at all lol. I’m just like “can you come over for a second and watch this error because it’ll work if I show someone else.” And that genuinely does the trick maybe 30% of the time. One of the mysteries of the universe