It’s not that Wine runs things as an administrator

yes, it is that

Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

I was always installing fitgirl games to my other drive, where I owned the entire thing. I know because I remember I set the ownership.

However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by… I have no idea, actually, but it’s a system account, not yours.

The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less

I have never installed fitgirl games there.

but I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it’s not admin in the linux world)

why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)

the whois info for the IP might have an abuse email address, try that

should I find one or many friends, they would inevitably need me more than I them and that would be unfair to them and me.

I feel the other way with the few friends I have. I need them more than they need me, and it shows, it’s always me reaching out. this makes me have the unfair feeling too, that I am taking their time

but all Matrix asked me for was hardware verification.

what do you mean? I don’t think it uses anything like that

we should say it openly: this administration is a terror organization

not as effective at that as some others, but they are doing what they can.

backing up movies? oh they will absolutely care. if old movies, then for the scatches. if new movies, then for libredrive support.

In any case, those kinds of features aren’t exclusive to a brand, they’re model specifications. My point stands, brand is effectively irrelevant as long as you avoid the obvious scammers.

I don’t think unknown brands are supported by libredrive

why unflashed?

there’s still a difference. whether they can run libredrive firmware, max speed, how well do they handle scratched disks

thats what the economics textbook says, but it also says that all parties in the economy are perfectly rational. however this is not the reality. they have tested it, people are already used to the high prices and they have no problem with it, enough of them will buy it anyway. the price drops from completely unaffordable 7x price to barely affordable 4x price, and people are already buying it again. if they aim for 4x price, they only need the quarter of the former sales to make the same profit. and if at 4x price the sales are the quarter of former sales, they could theoretically shut down most factories or production lines to reduce costs and in turn raise profits even more.

why would it be cheap, if people would buy it at 4x the normal price?

oh! lol

I’m the former, but most of that I’m not doing by hand. jellyfin transcodes when it wants, I’m not dealing with that. resources are monitored, a simple setup, so that if something happens I can look back why it happened. I also want alerts if something is predictably going to break down soon. with the latter school of thought, you wouldn’t know if a disk was throwing smart errors for half a year before completely breaking down. but I don’t have failover, I don’t have the hardware and don’t want the power bill for that. but I have reverse proxy because then every web thing is configured the same predictable way, plus I trust it more to handle the standards well. so most things I do, I do it because I think it to be valuable to me, not just for the sake of doing it.

homelabbing is the means to an end to me.

do the files get modified after uploading? some filesystems can deduplicate based on contents, maybe it wouldn’t take double space that way.

but since that comm doesn’t allow piracy they replaced the link with a youtube link.

So here’s an alternative for people who don’t like Youtube

what? are they also replacing invidious links with youtube links, inserting their own “si=” parameter to be even more “nonpirate”?

was there at least any legal procedure through Italian courts? or did they just decide to single handedly censor a whole organization?

https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette/117172989300228024

@bohwaz @cavallette for once it isn’t Gandi. The .org registry is operated by a US business, who as a result of the sanctions can’t do business with them (autistici)

this is insane and absolutely unacceptable. I guess this is the end of .org and such being a good choice for a domin name. if the operator is not willing to fall in line with the openly fascist USA, they can and will just take you down too

both domains seem to be registered with gandi.net, so it’s interesting only one of them got taken down

autistici.org is down in the EU, their domain name does not exist anymore. how did they do that? surely they didn’t use a USA based registrar.

inventati.org seems to be up for now