hey now. there was that three-year window, jan 2020 to jan 2023, where win8.1 was the best.

i haven’t watched a finale (that i knew going-in was the last episode) since seinfeld in 1998.

time to write the day’s journal:

ctrl-c

ctrl-v

when the orange turd says ‘make argentina great again’, does he mean when nazis fled there after ww2 to avoid prosecution?

in the live linux mint environment, gparted or disks should give you a clue. if it just shows zero space free for that partition or can’t mount it, it probably is–go into windows, disable device encryption and let it complete that process. while you’re waiting for that, find the rest of the power options (in control panel–via ‘windows tools’ in win11) and disable ‘fast startup’.

is your windows encrypted?

which tends to be the case for the release before an lts.

that was probably the issue. drm support in browsers is usually disabled by default on linux, but enabled on windows.

the odd cases where one still didn’t work on linux, a simple useragent addon in firefox to flip it to windows has usually worked.

but then, even when it is working, linux clients often still get a lesser product as the streaming sites like to reserve higher quality video to clients with os-level drm, restricting linux to 720p or even 480p.

RARs might have been originally sourced from ‘elsewhere’, that place where the first rule is to not talk about it.

it pretty much depends on what their distribution agreements have in them–there could be something in there that requires monthly or longer terms for subscribers. if there isn’t, there sure af will be from now on for streaming services carrying ‘cable’ channels

did you just drop the full index into the config, like the ‘how to use’ image shows in the repo’s ‘readme’? take that out, it’s all 10,000+ ‘channels’. go into the repo’s ‘streams’ directory and find one or a few for your country and add those instead (load the ‘raw’ url for each in the browser, then copy the resulting address from your browser address bar into the config).

the cat did, of course. but then they didn’t want to get in the middle of the argument brewing between the two staff members…

the turd-for-brains never said where he’d lower grocery prices.

always forget that there’s a big ad spot on the home page.

i helped someone set up theirs a little while back… i’m like, “oh, so that’s what’s supposed to be there…”; followed by a “i can help you get rid of those if you want…”

it’s similar. in a mainstream distribution with a desktop environment, updates can typically be configured to notify you or install automatically. it’s common for those updates to now also include third-party sources like flathub.

upgrades (to a next point release or major version) are different, some can be fairly straightforward–others, not so much. and those upgrades will be more frequent, as the “lifecycle” for most linux distributions is shorter than windows’ 10 years.

it’s not ‘ai’, it’s just a poorly trained voice recognition system that’s trying to decipher any random person’s voice. voice rec has a difficult-enough time when trained on a single person in a professional setting (lawyer, doctor, etc)–which is work we used to do here. it’s going to absolutely fail in a ‘drive thru’ environment.

that look of judgement that every cat feeder knows comes later.

one of my favourite lunches.

and by ‘lunch’, i mean it could be breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper… or anything in-between.

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

thanks for this one. i’m currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate ‘streaming’ devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.

that’s where most of my ‘issues’ come from when upgrading an old debian… upstream version changes to major software packages (python, php, even apache 1.x to 2 back in the day) that require some manual intervention