It was a 17 year old kid from India; naive and foolish but I don’t think it was malicious. His post says the audio books were an idea to try and pay for the high bandwidth usage - 120k users in 24 hours, serving over a terabyte of data.
I think he probably had good intentions, but clearly this was a bad idea and of course to many people it looked like someone was trying to commercially exploit the work of many thousands of fanfic authors, plus feeding in to the AI slop fest.
It doesn’t sound exactly like Wine? It’s a different approach if I understand it correctly. Instead of mimicking API calls and acting as a translator, it seems to be more like building a cloned windows environment including it’s own kernel, APIs and elements from ReactOS, Vulkan etc.
So it may solve some of Wines issues, but may also have quite a bit of overhead and redundancy that Wine doesn’t do? I don’t think it will replace Wine but it may be a complementary approach that suits some applications better than wine?
But it’s a mammoth task, and I’m sceptical it will get the traction it needs to succeed.
I’m not sure. I think the concept is interesting and it may solve some of the issues Wine has. But I’m sceptical a new project will get much traction. The Dev is the guy behind Bottles, so has some predigree, and it also seem sensible that they’re using ReactOS’s work to implement core parts of it.
My understanding is that Wine recreates specific Window’s APIs so programmes can run within Linux (and other OS’s), while Raven is creating more of a fuller contained cloned windows environment to run inside the host OS, so programs effectively run as if the whole of native windows is there?
They claim that the programs themselves will launch faster and run faster, but I do wonder how much of the overhead of the clone windows container environment launching and even just being ready adds to a system? It’s definitely one to watch.
Also - and this is purely my speculation / question - is this going to be an example of how AI coding can be used to power a new project along? They haven’t mentioned that at all in fairness, and I can’t see that it’s an AI coded project, but I wonder if things like the rapidly progressing ArtCraft project (“cloning” Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word) is a route that this will go down? Otherwise I find it hard to believe something like this will progress fast enough to be useful in the next few years?
I think it’s harder than it needs to be because of your internet habits, but otherwise a decent set up in my opinion.
I can understand not using Steam (I find it hard to believe you don’t know what it is) but you’re presumably using Proton via Bottles. Protondb.com is also a very useful resource with other users experiences getting games working. And tools like Heroic and Lutris are more than just frontends for storefronts - they can be a good way to organise your own library of games.
I think the use of local AI is interesting; I’ve tinkered with it on a few things but haven’t really used it for the chatbot side of things. Interesting that its working well albeit slow?
I’m not a big fan of the Fitgirl stuff - are you saying you exclusively pirate games? I would suggest at least buying some games to support the devs? gog.com is a good place to buy DRM free versions of games. But each to their own I guess.
But otherwise, this seems like a good set up. I also have a raspberry pi as a home server and it makes absolute sense not to use your desktop PC for that kind of thing. Presumably you use things like pi-hole to help reduce internet tracking / ads? I also use Syncthing across my PC, Laptop, living room PC and Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as an always on hub for my syncthing folders which works well.
KDE Linux (the distribution), not KDE just to be clear.
Supposedly Russia updated the World Health Organisation last week to say the young lab worker who died did not die of parapneumonic plague and that no pathogens have been identified so far. They’ve also quarantined 200 of her contacts.
It suggests both that they are taking this very seriously and that something probably DID happen. That one is looking like a near miss, but with the big caveat that who knows how much Russia is actually revealing.
It’s interesting that it’s seemingly easier to make the windows version of Paint.NET work on Wine, than bother compiling it for .NET on Linux? I wonder if the dev regrets starting with .NET in the first place?
Get Google, Microsoft and Apple and all the rest OUT of schools.