[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 93 points 3 weeks ago

My mother uses some software that runs in the browser for her shop. It can print out receipts and scan items. To do these things it has a small "sattelite" application that runs on the system and interacts with the printer and scanner. This software only runs on Windows and Linux doesn't have drivers for the scanner.

When I switched her over to Linux and found this out in the process I wanted to stop, give up and install windows.

But then I had a stupid idea. I could run the sattelite program in a Windows VM and pass through the USB devices for receipt printer and scanner. The webapp uses requests to localhost:9998 to communicate with the sattelite so I set up a apache server that proxies these requests into the VM. I also prevented the VM from acessing the Interner so Windows doesn't update and screw everything up.

And it works. It has been in use for a week now and I've heard no complaints. I'm just praying to god it doesn't break

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 226 points 5 months ago

The HDMI forum is run by big companies so that is not happening, sorry

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 45 points 6 months ago

Let's see how well it works before congratulating. I have a hunch it won't work well

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 43 points 8 months ago

I would like to ask that woman if she is pregnant right now. If not, call her a hypocrite

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 62 points 9 months ago

What? This meme is about a transaction between two trans people but that doesn't mean all Paypal users are trans. But I agree that PayPal is proprietary software and should be banished. I will delete my account now. I planned to do it for a while but haven't got around to it yet

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[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 50 points 9 months ago

I know. I also use VSCode. However I just hate how much ram it uses. I had a Laptop with 4Gb of ram and I could not open VsCode on that thing when I had literally anything else open because the system would freeze.

Just because VsCode uses Electron doesn't mean that Electron is not bad

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 104 points 9 months ago

There's no such thing as a efficient electron app. First electron apps have 80MB of overhead since electron needs to bundle a whole ass browser. Also in runtime this requires 120MB of ram.

If you really want to use webviews to make an app use Tauri.

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[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Little bit sus.

Go to the ublock origin extension in firefox and click open dashboard. Then unter filter lists make sure to select everything under annoyances. I haven't tested it but it should work

Edit: Also click the confirm and update icons at the top

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 50 points 1 year ago

That's the clutch and the brake tho

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 63 points 1 year ago

But that's something new to learn and configure. I just want to code why should I spend my time learning another text editor when vscodium is fine

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 116 points 1 year ago

Linux has a merged mitigation so when the new kernel comes out Linux users will be safe

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 76 points 1 year ago

Great! Automated discrimination against the poor

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:)

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