Have you you tried stealing the person’s identity? Seems like that’s what the bank is asking for.

What other well supported wayland tiled window managers are out there with smooth animations. I would check them out for sure, but I only know about hyprland.

Consider that it’s not intended to be helpful, but actually could be a malicious DDOS attempt. If it slows down devs from fixing real vulnerabilities, then it empowers those holding zero days for a widely used package (like curl).

Heh, I’m probably in the minority, but I like the idea of different windows “modes”. 've long wanted msft to make versions of windows for different users rather than a one-size-fits-all product. I just wanted it because I’m a power user who wanted something more stripped down and configurable, not a boomer who wants something that won’t act as a conduit between my ignorance and scammers.

But it’s cool, they can do whatever they want with windows now, they’ve made it clear they don’t want me as a user.

Ah, like a “stable” mode? Honestly it makes sense from a user support perspective. More locked down, more predictable, easier to secure. In the same way that you can’t hack a brick, and similarly useful.

Each time one of these for profit social media platforms fails or gets cancelled or whatever, some portion of the userbase switches to the Fediverse.

My hope is that eventually we will reach a critical mass where that portion makes up a majority of the transfers, at which point we will have successfully dismantled the industry of walled-garden social media.

A bridge is the first step in the “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” pattern. A Fediverse only works when no one node can dominate all the others. It’s why, even though Meta’s Threads platform was/is actually Federated (in that it uses ActivityPub), everyone defederated from them because it’s a poison pill for the whole network.

For more info on how that eventually happens, this article gives some past examples.

It also opens the door to experimentation too. If you’re comfortable with using a terminal to undo a change you made and restart your DM/windower, suddenly you’re not afraid of trying things out that might hang your windower.

Not working. Maybe if i do Ctrl+Alt+F3

Yeah, virtual ttys can be a lifesaver! Definitely something to keep in your back pocket.

I’m guessing you’re playing on a laptop? If so, it sounds like your Fn Lock is on. Usually laptops have some Fn key combo to turn it off, Fn+Esc is a common one.

You can always deny the survey…I would hope that means they don’t use the data anyway. But I understand the motivation if they do (not a truly random sample if people are more likely to deny on one platform vs another).

Yes, JIT is used for both, but we don’t call JITing of Java/.Net bytecode “emulation” because there is no hardware that natively runs bytecode that we are emulating. Unlike x86_64 asm, bytecode is designed to be JITed. But yes, JITing is the defacto strategy for efficiently emulating one piece of hardware on another.

When you implement the functionality of a piece of hardware in software, the software is said to “emulate” the hardware. The emulators you are used to are emulators, not because they are emulating a console (ex. N64), but because they’re emulating the hardware that was used to build that console (ex. a MIPS processor). That said, oftentimes console emulators need to account for specific quirks/bugs that were introduced specifically because of choices the console designers made. Ex. maybe the specific processor and memory they used for the N64 have a weird interaction that game devs at the time abused, and if your emulation doesn’t ensure that quirk works the same way, then some games won’t run.

At the risk of adding unnecessary detail, a VM might use emulation or it might not. The QEMU package is often used for virtualization, but despite its name (Quick Emulator) if the system you’re virtualizing matches the architecture of the system you’re running on, no emulation is needed.

\1a) In this case, it is risc-v hardware running software (built for risc-v) that emulates x86_64 hardware so that it can run an x86_64 binary.

\1b) A compatibility layer is less well defined, but in general refers to: whatever environment is needed to get a binary running that was originally built for a different environment. This usually includes a set of libraries that the binary is going to assume are loaded, as well as accounting for any other possible unique attributes in the structure of the executable. But if the binary, the compatibility layer, and the CPU are all x86_64, then there’s no emulation involved.

\2) to get a binary built for x86_64 windows running on risc-v Linux, you will need both emulation and a compatibility layer. In theory those two don’t need to be developed in tandem, or even know about each other at runtime, but i expect that there may be performance optimizations possible if they are aware if each other.

I mentioned QEMU because my first thought when reading this was, isn’t this a prime usecase for QEMU?

And IMO if one of those students can get Roblox working on Linux, they have solved a harder problem than any homework they would be given 😆.

I’m curious how ootb mint works out for this usecase. Any chance we could get a 6mo update later? I’m particularly curious how well it holds up against non-admin users who may constantly be trying to get root-level access. There’s almost certainly going to be one student who figures out a local privilege escalation.

You can always live boot from a USB drive and try everything out that way.

IMO bazzite is too focused on gaming for people to be daily driving it for everything, but hey whatever works. Just hope they’re not upset when something breaks and the response from bazzite is “well yeah, that’s not something we bother testing for”.

(I have bazzite on a HTPC in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly suited for that usecase)

IMO Mint, Fedora, or OpenSUSE is going to offer the more stable, user-friendly experience long term. Install Lutris through the distro’s package manager, launch it, install bnet through lutris, launch it, install wow through bnet, launch it, Thrall’s your uncle 😉.

Edit: to answer your other question, yes Lutris runs as an app similar to how battle.net or steam works on windows. It’s just that instead of having a storefront and downloading data directly from a central “lutris” server, it’s basically a bunch of community-written scripts to automate the installation and configuration of games from all sorts of places. So when you tell lutris to install bnet, it’s running a script that goes and downloads it from blizzard, then locally creates a wine environment, launches the installer in that environment, you install it like on windows, and then it creates a lutris launcher entry for the bnet executable so that when you click play on it in lutris, it will automatically launch it in a wine environment each time.

And it should all work in KDE plasma, gnome, cinnamon, or whatever window manager you’re using (the window manager on msft windows is called dwm and it’s responsible for the same job).

I played WoW through Lutris (and later Bottles) with minimal issues for all of classic TBC and WotLK. Basically use either platform to install and run the Battle.net client, and then use bnet to install any blizz apps like normal. I used WowUp to manage addons. WoW should not be a blocker for you.

That said, I’m thoroughly done with blizzard’s shit and won’t be playing wow anymore.

Package managers tend to assume they are the only ones touching files in /usr/share. You will find if you try to change any files there, the next update may delete or download a new version of the file, stomping your changes. Instead your local changes should go in /usr/local (if you want something system-wide) or ~/.local (if it only applies to a specific user).

Ex. If you made a custom .desktop file to show up in your app launcher, or a custom .xsession file to show up in a login manager.

As a technical user, I think of WSL as almost exclusively for technical users. It’s not really intended to enable normal users to run Linux programs, and more as an excuse to convince companies to keep developing on Windows. If the devs say “we need to write backend code for Linux servers, so we need our dev machines to run Linux” then management sets them up with linux, while the rest of the company uses windows. But if MSFT says “hey look, you can develop code for Linux in windows, and you can even deploy it in windows on our azure servers” then management says “great, everyone can use windows” and keeps buying those licences.

A CSV file should work.