For me, the most important thing is always simply understanding who has what role in the company. When I have a question, knowing whether I ought to ask my direct manager, other colleagues on the team, a subject matter expert, other management teams, our sysadmins, etc. is the most difficult thing to figure out. It can take months sometimes.
namingthingsiseasy
They don't think that way. "It does not generate revenue, therefore it cannot be allowed to exist." This philosophy is so deeply ingrained into the American psyche that it is inescapable.
Story time: American colleague and Canadian colleague are talking. Canadian says that university costs only 5000 CAD in tuition. American nearly falls out of his chair and yells, "BUT HOW DO THEY MAKE MONEY??"
And bear in mind that he was one of the most educated and successful people I have ever met, and yet he found it so difficult to fathom that a university could exist without making money. Now with that in mind, imagine convincing a large group of average people to fund public services.
This is why the USA is the way that it is.
It is so quintessentially American that they would base their entire healthcare system around the good will of for-profit companies and be shocked when they see how that turns out.
Does this mean we can freely distribute Tintin in Thailand now? Outstanding piece, everyone should read it!
I'm working my way through Valheim. I started last year and then stopped shortly before fighting the second boss and never got around to picking it back up. Now I'm back at it and working through the third biome. I still have a long way to go and hope that I can continue to sink at least 100 more hours into it.
I also got Metro 2033 and Last Light on the Steam winter sale. I started Metro Exodus a few years ago and also stopped pretty early, so I'm hoping that this time I can stick with it through the whole series. I also got Grim Dawn and it doesn't play great on the Deck, but hopefully I'll be able to get used to it with a bit of effort.
Outside of those, Wildermyth and Brotato are my main chillout games and I'm pretty sure they'll also get 50-100 hours each this year.
And innovative gameplay too. Large companies are too afraid to try new things, and all the games feel like the same rehashed mechanics with a fresh coat of paint... but indie developers are much more willing to try new, interesting concepts.
Today, management learns about the Streissand Effect.
"Donors" would be my guess
Fascinating to see that some people still seem to believe that Trudeau would put up a fight for anything!
Sorry to hear about the network manager issues! I could be wrong on this, but I think Gnome is not the best supported DE in void - possibly because of how heavily tied it is to systemd. I wish I could help, but I still configure my wifi using wpa_supplicant.conf
. Maybe dbus wasn't setup properly?
Regarding audio, the pipewire documentation for Void is pretty good. It's pretty thematic of the whole Void linux experience: you have to read the handbook and follow its steps closely, but it's very well written and easy to understand. It can definitely be time-consuming as well though.
Void is definitely all the things you mentioned. I installed it on a few machines, the first in early 2020 and it has never given me an issue. Extremely stable and boring. I'm impressed that it has so many packages in its repository, but that's a testament to how well xbps
is written. But there are a few things missing since it's fair from the mainstream, including packagekit. I had never heard of it before you mentioned it - I found a fork on github to support it, but it doesn't look very well maintained.
As one of the dozens of Void Linux users, I too find this very offensive!
(But hey, at least we're getting some attention, which is nice....)
That's actually very easy to do and you don't need any special equipment. Simply use a male-male 3.5mm cable and connect one end from the stereo output of the cassette player and the other end into the microphone jack of any computer you own. Play the cassette - you can test the audio quality by running
arecord -f cd - | aplay -
- you will have to tune the volume output of the cassette player and the input sensitivity of the microphone.From there, if you're paranoid, you could use
arecord
to save the output to a.wav
file and encode it once the recording is done, but I had no problem just usingoggenc
directly on the piped audio. The final command looked like this:arecord -f cd - | oggenc -q 5 -o file.ogg -
(change to-q 10
if you want lossless encoding).I'm not sure if this is the best quality per se, but I would definitely recommend it over using specialized equipment like cassette-mp3 converters. The problem with those devices is that if they use underpowered hardware, you might experience buffering issues where the encoding hardware can't keep up with the audio stream or something like that. But doing it on a computer ensures that you will have all the processing power you need to make sure that this doesn't happen.
Good luck! I found it very easy to do - it took 5-10 minutes of setup.