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Just saw on RNZ a story about a elderly gentleman up north that's lost pretty much everything in a house fire.
I don't know the guy at all, but have deep empathy for his situation. Beyond the loss of his home, beyond the loss of his taonga, it's just a deeply traumatic thing to go through.
He's got a givealittle setup, if anyone else feels the urge to donate.
I just had a read of the article.
It's unfortunate how often you read about this sort of thing. I get the feeling that as climate change becomes a bigger part of insurance claims (though in this case it wasn't CC related), we are going to need an ACC-model of national house insurance, otherwise I just don't see how people will be able to afford the insurance costs needed.
I'd support that. We're already seeing it happen with flooding earlier in the year. I guess there was coverage through EQC for that stuff, but I'm honestly not sure how that works.
Then with all the wildfires overseas... Almost makes me a little nervous about summer approaching.
Summer has me pretty apprehensive too, and not just for us. If Australia burns long and hard enough it has a big impact on the air quality here and the pretty sunsets just aren't worth it.
Just another day at work today. Counting down the days until Starfield then I might take some long service leave to just be consumed by it. Provided it isn't a buggy unplayable mess. Okay it's going to be buggy but please at least be playable and good.
Apparently Starfield is Bethesda's Least Buggiest Game to Date.
Not that it's a very hard bar to meet, mind you.
Yeah that's indeed a low bar haha. I believe the review embargo lifts this Friday(Thur USA time) so I'll see what the review ratings are like before I decide to commit long service leave to it haha.
I really want to play Starfield, but man the pricing for anything but the base version is crazy, almost $200. I might have to acquire a "test" version first
I do these daily MS Rewards tasks to get enough rewards points to get Game Pass Ultimate free each month so I'm relying solely on that, I definitely wouldn't be buying the game outright, not on release anyway so yeah totally understand your point.
Has the PC gamepass improved at all? The only time I've tried using it a few years ago I couldn't change the install location for games and after trying multiple fixes couldn't even get the game I got it for to download and install (Forza Horizon). I just gave up and cancelled it.
Nah the windows app is as shitty as ever. Sometimes it sits there at 0% downloading for about 30 mins then might suddenly say your game is installed.
Yesterday I did a fresh install of Nobara Linux. I originally used Fedora (which was the only officially supported Linux distro for the Framework laptop at the time), then switched to Ubuntu under some misguided believe that it would be more stable and easier to handle software for and get support (whenever you google Linux stuff, the answers are always for Ubuntu). In the end I didn't like it, and so after spending most of this year to date on Ubuntu I've decided I gave it a decent go, and it was time for a change.
Nobara is based on Fedora, and I know a lot more now than I did when I first used Fedora. I've opted for their Gnome variant rather than their "Official" DE, as I prefer the dock to the taskbar. There are a bunch of Gnome extensions installed by default so I've been playing with those and have got a setup I quite like.
If anyone's an expert, here's a super basic question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I created a partition to hold all my stuff so next time I don't have to clear everything again. How can I make it show with a different name, instead of "559GB Volume"?
Nice one - haven't played with Nobara before, looks interesting. I've had several different versions running a media centre, and a separate headless server back in the day. Ran our main family laptop on Manjaro Gnome for a long time as well - back to windows these days however as my wife needs Archicad (Windows only). Son is using Manjaro as his daily driver for school and loving it. Everything's web based for him, so nice and easy.
Macs (used to?) have a program (I think it might have been in the VMware suite) that let you run a windows VM behind the scenes, and display the applications as if they were applications in MacOS.
Are there applications for Linux that let you do something similar?
Parallels did that - possibly VMWare as well im not sure.
Ah maybe it was Parallels. I didn't use them myself, just knew of others that did.
Yes, absolutely - wine itself has a layer to allow that. Have used it before and it works well (albeit with a bit of tweaking).
I have searched around a little in the past and haven't managed to find a way to run MS Office on Linux (In particular, Excel. I don't care what anyone says, Calc is just not the same). I'd think if you can do a Windows VM set up like this, then you'd be able to do Excel. Can you point me to something that might help?
You can! Just use WinApps, it provides seamless windows + file type association, so it works similar to Parallels on Mac - you just double click an .xlsx in Linux, it fires up an Excel window on your Linux desktop.
Another option that works similarly, is Cassowary, but it hasn't been updated since Dec last year.
In either case, I'd highly recommend using a minimal, debloated version of Windows, such as Tiny10, so that it launches faster and doesn't consume much resources.
Amazing, thanks! I'll give this a go when I get a chance 😀
Another sign of spring on its way - my cats are shedding their winter coats like crazy. So much fluff.
My wife worked out if you take the dog brush, and instead brush the floor, you can make progress on the hair carpet that the vacuum cleaner just doesn't touch.
That's a good idea. I should probably do the same on the couches.
Ours are doing the same, been brushing them, which they really like, and ending up with a brush full of fine hair.