Lifelong Labour member, always fighting against the Tories and all those who’d prefer we lose.
Enterprise architect, Linux nerd, politico, street photographer, stationery dork. Opposed to the corporate web, deeply pessimistic about the future as democracy, diplomacy, and the rule of law decline, and perpetually cynical.
Sceptic with little tolerance for anti-scientific and anti-intellectual bullshit.
@cinaed666 @twotone I also have the Forerunner 55.
Something to note is that Garmin watches are Linux-friendly and can be used without signing up to their cloud services. You can access the watch as a USB storage device and manually grab the .FIT files on it, which you can then import into tools of your choice (or convert to .GPX for wider compatibility).
@rainpoint @RealAccountNameHere Their venture investment has dried up after they used their last round of ~$250m to more than double their workforce in less than two years in a drive to capitalise on crypto shit. Now they’ve had their valuation roughly halved and are left in a really tricky position, desperately needing to monetise to survive.
Spez was chasing an IPO in all the ways you’d expect of a modern techbro, completely misreading the NFT craze and the impact of enshittification.
@TheColonel @TimTheEnchanter 17 years ago is pretty much exactly when reddit became accessible. You were there from the very beginning.
I’ve been there for 14 years, and this kerfuffle has killed all enthusiasm I had for staying. I’ve switched to using reddit’s RSS feeds for the few subs I can’t give up yet (mainly those related to the Ukraine war) but I expect I’ll stop using it altogether in short order.
On the plus side, it’s furthered my deep distrust of big tech companies.
@Lojcs Microsoft does exactly that. They licence a number of proprietary codecs for inclusion in Windows for the convenience of users.
Running under Wine, some alternative decoders can be used, but many proprietary codecs don’t have freely-available decoders available. Under Proton, many free decoders can be used like Wine, but some prohibit commercial use or otherwise can’t be implemented in Proton via Valve. GE-Proton manages the best of both worlds.
@HoukaiAmplifier99 I don’t remember my source, and I can’t find anything searching around. I either made it up or it was an unsubstantiated reddit comment that stuck in my brain :)
For real instances of this problem though, look at Glorious Eggroll if you haven’t already. Contains a number of additional video codecs Valve can’t yet support directly.
@HoukaiAmplifier99 I might have made this up, but I think I recall reading that Valve routinely licences old and weird codecs so that they can build support in Proton for some of these fringe cases.
The only time I can remember seeing it recently was in an old game off GOG called Conquest: Frontier Wars. Like others, it just showed a coloured pattern, but with that game it couldn’t recover from not being able to play and would crash after.
@HoukaiAmplifier99 I see it rarely nowadays, but yes, proprietary or old/rare codecs are the heart of it.
@adespoton @misk I’m surprised at how many otherwise intelligent people I know have installed the NOT_A_NAZI.EXE program.
I mean, it was pretty painfully obvious for multiple decades in-between our repeated attempts to market them where their singular focus lay.