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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Usually people who explain “woke” in such a manner seem to be the types who are actively hostile to LGBTQ+. There are a few LGBTQ+ people who do make it their entire identity instead of one facet of themselves and I understand how annoying that can be, but at this point I’m a lot less likely to believe “this is someone who turns ‘How is the weather today?’ with a stranger into a trans rights discussion” and more likely to believe “this person just hates trans people and is trying to frame the trans person poorly so I resent the trans person and not them.”






  • Getting certain programs to work on my Linux machine does take extra time as opposed to if it were Windows, but it’s counterbalanced by all those times I’d have to look up how to get the WiFi option back and try every single thing on the list because it was never just one simple solution that worked each time… also I don’t get hit by unwanted forced updates, and now I update voluntarily without fear of even more unwanted telemetry being stuffed in there.

    But if I just wanted to browse the web, check my email, shop, and do my banking, Linux would work out of the box better than Windows 11.












  • Is Wine an emulator? There seems to be disagreement

    There is a lot of confusion about this, particularly caused by people getting Wine’s name wrong and calling it WINdows Emulator.

    When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like game console emulators or virtualization software. However, Wine is a compatibility layer - it runs Windows applications in much the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to “emulation” when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.

    That said, Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way. Setting Wine to mimic Windows XP is not much different from setting Vista to launch an application in XP compatibility mode.

    A few things make Wine more than just an emulator:

    Sections of Wine can be used on Windows. Some virtual machines use Wine’s OpenGL-based implementation of Direct3D on Windows rather than truly emulate 3D hardware. Winelib can be used for porting Windows application source code to other operating systems that Wine supports to run on any processor, even processors that Windows itself does not support. “Wine is not just an emulator” is more accurate. Thinking of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other things it is. Wine’s “emulator” is really just a binary loader that allows Windows applications to interface with the Wine API replacement.

    https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ