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by tombert 17d ago
I use it as my desktop environment. I was using XWayland at first to get this working since that was historically the norm with Wine stuff, but that ended up being really glitchy. The latest versions of Wine/Proton actually have nati
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by tombert 17d ago
The latest version of Office 365. Well, latest as of about four or five days ago. It required me to buy a month of it for $15. I have been trying to get one of those gray-market keys from Groupon working, but that has proven to be very dif
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by tombert 17d ago
Yeah, completely agree. I absolutely love Nix Flakes; they feel, to me, like what Docker was supposed to be. A little self-contained packaged environment that gives you a place to do any kind of custom hacks deterministically.
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by tombert 17d ago
I know. I'm not "upset" over it, just that it makes the service less useful for me.
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by tombert 17d ago
I have a proxy set up with the Oracle Always Free VMs they provide. It works well enough.
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by tombert 17d ago
I like Cloudflare Tunnels a lot, but something that annoys me is that officially you're not allowed to use them for streaming video, meaning I can't put it in front of my Jellyfin without breaking TOS. I think that rule is more of
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by tombert 17d ago
I agree with you in principle, and I honestly genuinely kind of hate Microsoft Office and I haven't used it or LibreOffice since I learned how to do LaTeX and Pandoc and Typst. That said, whether or not it should be the case, a lot
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by tombert 18d ago
Not the OP, but I'm thinking about like closures? Say you wanted to make a Node.js framework with callbacks that react to an event. The callback might be a closure that captured some of its surrounding variables. At that point, any o
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by tombert 18d ago
I would be exceedingly surprised if Microsoft is not using private Github repos for training.
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by tombert 18d ago
I lived in Dallas for three years, and yet somehow I had never heard of this place until I saw the LGR video about it closing, at which point I had run away to NYC Kind of sad, I think I would have very much enjoyed the place if I had known
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by tombert 18d ago
At the risk of getting in trouble for frequent self promotion, I sicked Claude for a few hours, and Office 365 works with Wine on Linux: https://github.com/Tombert/office365_flake It seems to work fine for me, with a l
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by tombert 18d ago
It's a soft line in the sand for me as well. If a job pays really really well, then sure I will run Windows, but short of that I'm going to opt for Mac, or I'm going to try and figure out a way to replace the Windows with a L
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by tombert 18d ago
I've said this before, but Microsoft has a bizarre reality distortion field where people will simply forget the bullshit they put up with with their software. People will (correctly) complain about jankiness and bullshit associated wit
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by tombert 18d ago
Actually not that much breaks now! The hardest part was the activation, but some patience with Claude seemed to get that working. At least with Sway, I had trouble getting anything with X11 working, particularly anything involve "pop u
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by tombert 18d ago
I went to LinuxFest Northwest a few months ago, and there was a booth giving away Chromebooks that had been wiped and had a version of NixOS installed on there for free. I very seriously considered grabbing one, but I was only traveling wi
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Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization(github.com)
6 points by tombert 18d ago|4 comments
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by tombert 18d ago
Hah, I bought that URL a long time ago, mostly as an in-joke between me and some friends since Bruce Willis was my favorite actor. Then later I needed a dev URL for some work I was doing, and the only one I had free was brucewillis.sexy. T
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by tombert 18d ago
Interesting, I actually very recently built a similar project [1]. I was unaware of this...If I were I probably wouldn't have bothered! [1] https://git.brucewillis.sexy/~tombert/fs_index I promise, safe for work,
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by tombert 18d ago
I always associated the term “cargo culting” with that but I think that term has largely fallen out of fashion (probably for the best).
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by tombert 19d ago
I am arguing that they would ask that anyway. I guess I never understood censorship when it’s plainly obvious what you’re censoring. Anyone who can read will clearly know that it said “crap”, so I don’t see how it’s fundamentally different
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by tombert 19d ago
I certainly dislike how everyone on YouTube is saying “SA” and “unalive” and “corn”. It’s one thing if it’s some funny commentary channel avoiding those words, but what bothers me is the true crime YouTubers. In the subject of true crime, r
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by tombert 19d ago
I have written many words far worse than "crap" on this site. I haven't gotten in trouble over it yet. I do find it a little amusing, because commenters stopped criticizing my cursing the moment I started getting a good chun
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by tombert 19d ago
> I strongly dislike CUDA. Once you have allowed that proprietary cr*p Genuine question...why not just type "crap"? It's not even that much of a curse, but I've never really understood the point of self-censorship. If
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by tombert 20d ago
I should do that. I have almost 900 Steam games, the vast majority of which I have never touched. Over the years with sales and Humble Bundles, I've just hoarded the games because I might someday want to play it. Instead all I seem
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by tombert 20d ago
> It starts with much worse quality (not Linux' fault), like worse displays, borderline unusable fingerprint scanners, etc. Interesting; one of the primary reasons I bought my current machine (Thinkpad Gen 2 AMD P16s, rolls right of
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by tombert 20d ago
> People who complain about Linux usually either insist on customizing it (as you noted) or run it on hardware that it doesn't work well on. Even as someone who has customized the hell out of my desktop, it does kind of annoy me tha
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by tombert 20d ago
I am a pretty die-hard NixOS cultist, but I will admit that I actually like macOS. I used macOS almost exclusively from 2020-2024, until I bought my Thinkpad that I have now, and I never really disliked the operating system (though I did h
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by tombert 20d ago
I remember a million years ago, when I was writing apps with Cordova/Phonegap, I would use Web SQL to do all my storage [1]. This kind of reminds me of that. I always thought that there should be an easy way to export it, but I don&#x
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by tombert 20d ago
I ended up just getting Claude to hack together a compatible-enough S3 thing for my self-hosted Sourcehut releases. It took like 45 minutes and it seems to work well enough (though I haven't done exhaustive tests because "good eno
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by tombert 20d ago
I agree. I think desktop Linux has improved significantly, and I do think that most people would be fine with one of the more normy-friendly distros like Mint, but I think macOS is a lot more approachable for most people. I set up my mother

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