Really cool to see more WINE Wayland support, I ought to try it out and see games running natively on my system!
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mat@linux.communityto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?English2·4 days agoThanks. I’ve successfully “upstreamed” some of my patches to some courses, but sadly still most of the education is Visual Studio-based. It’s good to see more people in the new years contacting me after asking teachers about Linux and being given my name for help, but of course I want this to be a base part of the curriculum!
mat@linux.communityto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?English451·6 days agoI did a bachelor of videogame programming in Belgium 99% on Linux (minus exams), but it was definitely a huge struggle. All the courses and assignments were Windows-only, and 90%-ish required Visual Studio (non-Code) and Windows-only libraries like DirectX or Win32. I got by writing my own tooling to auto-convert these to CMake projects and convincing each teacher to allow me to hand in CMake projects. I wrote SDL backends for most of the win32 assignments, falling back on clang’s excellent cross-compiling for stuff that requires e.g Windows.h. I wrote a blog post about this: https://blog.allpurposem.at/adventures-cross-compiling-a-windows-game-engine And using e.g DirectX natively on Linux, easier than expected: https://blog.allpurposem.at/directx
I also wrote a small wiki on my general experience + a summary of courses and main problems encountered… Windows was non-negotiable during exams: https://dae-linux.allpurposem.at/ I maintain tools, converted assignments, and information on this for future students who want to attempt something like me, but it’s hard to recommend the Linux challenge if you are totally new to programming!
Hope some of this is helpful!
mat@linux.communityto Linux@programming.dev•Input text from speech in any Linux window, the lean, fast and accurate way, using whisper.cpp offlineEnglish32·6 days agoThis is very cool! I’ll definitely use it if it gets a Nix package.
mat@linux.communityto Europe@feddit.org•Stop Killing Games needs EU citizen signatures!English3·10 days agoLink to the website: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The VergeEnglish1·23 days agoThank you for sharing! I will check it out.
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP AddressEnglish13·25 days agoI started getting spam in German to an email address I gave to the town hall of my town. They use multiple domains to send it, but they all have the same link format that redirects to a fake AI-generated dating site. I’ve tried reporting some to the police, as well as the hosting providers, but haven’t heard back at all. I’d like to delete the address, but it’s the one town hall uses to reach me…
Found out just now he made a video about it and explained his actual experience using it, it’s really cool! Glad to see more folks sharing this stuff.
Awesome! I hope he will help share this with more folks, the friends who I’ve talked into finally giving modern non-Ubuntu Linux a shot love it, but there’s a lot of work to get over the damaged image created by the countless “linux user installing a browser” memes. I’m sure someone with his reach can help though :)
Fair enough! I was discussing this with a friend who lives in Hungary and she was aware of the newish specific ban on “pride”, but yeah as you said it is not a surprising or new rethoric for the country. Facial recognition is worrying though I fear regulating its use will be very difficult, and this is an important case for that which may impact all of the EU.
Hey, thanks for pointing me directly to it. I wonder why there is so much noise about AI face detection when the core issue seems to be that pride is banned in the first place (and this is one way they want to enforce it).
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunchEnglish561·28 days agoThe amount of folks I see use Opera GX “gaming browser” because some influencer said so…
Is banning Pride events as a whole legal under EU law?
I dual booted Ubuntu originally, but I never used it. Had to really make the jump when I installed Arch on my desktop in ~2020 because I heard it would run games better. I’ve stayed 100% on Linux since! After trying quite a few distros (Fedora, Debian, EndeavourOS, Garuda, Archcraft, more I’m forgetting) I have finally settled on NixOS… it’s been over a year and I still haven’t switched, that’s gotta be worth something :)
mat@linux.communityto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays: A growing number of free grocery stores offer shoppers not just free food, but choice, ambiance, and space for dignity, too.English6·1 month agoHave you had a bad experience with canned peaches? I volunteered at a food bank a while back and we each had our station and gave out what people asked from that category (types of bread, fruits, etc). I don’t recall seeing canned peaches or folks’ reaction to them, but I’ll be on the lookout next time!
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happenedEnglish1·1 month agoDarn. I recall reading good articles from some of these publications in the past. Shame…
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happenedEnglish43·1 month agoThis article reads like satire… it’s sentence after sentence of “and I did it using one of the [best office chairs]” which is a link to some review by themselves. Every bit mentioned had an affiliate link and there wasn’t an actual review of what the experience (software, setup, visual fidelity) is like??
mat@linux.communityto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft accountEnglish2·2 months agoOuch, that sucks yeah. Guess I got lucky with the games my friends like to play. Only one is I guess Valorant, but I don’t engage with that one anyways. Guess you’re stuck on the dual boot until devs of these games start ticking the Proton support box :P
mat@linux.communityto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•New Birth Control Shot Transforms Into a Long-Lasting Implant—No Clinic RequiredEnglish8·2 months agoI’d like to read about this, but I don’t see a URL? Is it just this image?
I don’t have any advice to give but I want to thank you for considering this angle while building the website.