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New comment by BlaDeKke in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:30:14 +0000

And a - switch

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

BlaDeKke — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:41:03 +0000

The keyboard can be changed in iOS.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

BlaDeKke — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:16:01 +0000

No scaling required? Great!

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

BlaDeKke — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:52:49 +0000

Encoding my 40TB library to AV1 with software encoding without losing quality would take more then a year of not multiple years, consume lots of power while doing this, to save a little bit of storage. Granted, after a year of non stop encoding I would save a few TB of space. But it think it is cheaper to buy a new 20TB hard drive than the electricity used for the encoding.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle"

BlaDeKke — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:19:26 +0000

I can’t wait for MEMS flip-dot displays.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:14:01 +0000

I’m working on that. Nextcloud + MS Office 2024.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:29:15 +0000

Lag was certainly a factor, but there were also weird behaviors like visual glitches and UI rendering issues. There were a number of intermittent problems that are hard to list specifically, as it’s been a few months since we tried it.

She is not a power user. Working inside a container running Windows just to display MS Word introduces complexity. separate file systems, etc. Sometimes the abstraction breaks, and you "fall out" of the app and end up staring at a Windows environment. It is very confusing for a layperson. On top of that, the RAM overhead was significant for her older laptop.

She is a kindergarten teacher. The last thing she can use is friction on her laptop.

We didn't try LibreOffice. I'm familiar with it, but the learning curve/transition is just too much friction. They also share a lot of documents with colleagues. I don't know the current state of compatibility between MS Office and LibreOffice, but I recall layouts breaking regularly. She also has a library of templates originally created in MS Office.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:04:43 +0000

We have a 365 subscription. I guess that reduces the noise quite a lot.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:03:24 +0000

The FPP license does allow local vm access. But if u access it remotely then u need a SA or VDA license. If this thread is legit: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/whats-wrong-or-not-legal-...

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:13:52 +0000

She only uses that laptop for MS Office. She did actually use the browser version for a few months, but even that is a significant downgrade compared to native apps.

MS Office and most popular multiplayer games are the 2 biggest hurdles for Linux adoption at the moment.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:16:54 +0000

I tried this method for my wife. So she could use ms office in Linux. This isn’t an elegant solution. She’s back to windows 11. We tried…

New comment by BlaDeKke in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 08:14:56 +0000

Last time i checked a Windows 10 and 11 license does not permit running Windows in a virtualized environment.

That could have changed by now.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

BlaDeKke — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:23:25 +0000

Since the war, we have a lot of Ukrainians at our Flemish school. We just make it work, no time for gatekeeping.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers"

BlaDeKke — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:05:08 +0000

This is my favorite: https://youtu.be/eGQQWIbD-nM?si=CtQ-MPIxx8h3vYxH

New comment by BlaDeKke in "EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers"

BlaDeKke — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:59:54 +0000

This is a fantastic yt channel!

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

BlaDeKke — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:55:58 +0000

I don’t have a problem with the camera as much as with the system behind it.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "The Faroes"

BlaDeKke — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:40:31 +0000

And Belgium.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

BlaDeKke — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:34:56 +0000

Yeah, this one. hussh is a clear winner.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

BlaDeKke — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:23:05 +0000

Something tells me that you’re not looking for a keyboard hobby.

New comment by BlaDeKke in "Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden?"

BlaDeKke — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:17:55 +0000

Was it ever anything else then a dream?