djdarren

This is art. Glorious, beautiful art.

It’s pretty cool, albeit fairly resource-heavy. You are, after all, running a whole-ass Windows inside Linux.

However, you can shut it down when you’re not using it and you don’t run the risk of Windows fucking your boot drive.

People are dying

There is literally nothing I can do about this.

rights are being lost

There is literally nothing I can do about this.

the planet’s fucked

All I can do about this is be mindful of my own carbon footprint, and recycle as much as possible.

genocide is going on

There is literally nothing I can do about this.

Couldn’t you just run a Windows VM instead? Something like WinBoat might be perfect for your needs. I use it to run Apple Music, but it occurs to me that I could probably run iTunes through it to sync my iPod.

As a fat lad with ADHD, little galls me more than knowing that exercise really is good for my mental health. If I walk or scoot to work, I’m generally more alert and attentive than if I drive.

Dunno how true that is of depression, mind.

M8. That’s the spiciest take I’ve seen since someone on here yesterday admitted that they preferred Judge Dredd (1995) to Dredd (2012).

Well fuck me. That’s kinda neat.

Shame it doesn’t subsequently work with ctrl+v, because that would be even cooler.

Former Mac user here: Middle click should expose all windows, as the good lord intended.

topgrade -y

This is the way.

My Calibre library is in a SyncThing folder, so all three of my computers have access to the same library. My phone’s photo folder syncs to it, as well as the working folder for my radio show, so I can work on it wherever I am. It costs me nothing, and requires basically no maintenance.

a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995)

Now that is a SPICY take, and I applaud your bravery.

You are the first person I’ve ever seen refer to Dredd as anything less than an action masterpiece.

I know it was based on the movie that predated Léon, but I always took La Femme Nikita (the TV show) as a sequel of sorts to Léon. I mean, both movies were Luc Besson, and both covered similar ground, so it’s easy enough to conceive of Mathilda taking a new name and identity and carrying on Léon’s line of work.

That said, I’ve not seen La Femme Nikita since it originally broadcast, so I could be remembering it wildly wrong.

Jokes on them: I’m stockpiling old PCs and putting a Linux on them. Do I have a use for them? No. Are they valuable? Also no.

But I have them, and they are mine.

No, people outside the US sadly lack the honkers. There are only Yankee Honkers.

I think I’ve gotten too old for a large. The spud, coupled with a beers leaves me feeling uncomfortably bloated.

Similarly, any chip shop in the UK outside of greater London. I’ve taken to ordering a medium chips for my wife and I, because a large is just Too Many Chips.

In London, however, they serve a tragically small amount of chips in many chippies. Fuck London.

Ultimately, I don’t really use my Mac for gaming these days because it’s a bit of a headache compared to just firing up my wife’s old PC that I’ve put Linux on. But I recognise I’m lucky enough to have that option.

As you already have a Mac, have you looked into Crossover?

So far as I understand, the work that CodeWeavers do with it is the basis for what Valve have done with Proton, so it’s the closest you’ll get to Proton on macOS. I’ve seen people running RDR2 on Macs with it. It’s a reasonable outlay, but it could be a useful tool for running a whole bunch of Windows-only titles via Steam.

There is also Whisky, which is to all intents and purposes, a free version of Crossover, albeit (intentionally) a couple of Wine versions behind so as to not detract from what Crossover does. I’ve used Whisky a bunch to play Windows games on my M2 Macbook, and while it’s not been perfect, and will likely struggle with brand new, AAA games, older titles should work nicely.

Fairly certain that Asahi doesn’t yet work with M4 chips, such as in the new mini. Or if it does, it’s not officially supported, so will be a generally poor experience. I mean, my M2 Macbook supports Asahi, and while it’s generally incredible what theyve been able to achieve, it’s still kinda stunted given how much software simply won’t run on that architecture.