“On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete.”

  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

    For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

    Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

    (note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)

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      1 day ago

      I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

      While maybe it could work, that’s not the kind of thing you want to mess around with, since if it misbehaves even a little bit it can brick your ECU and leave you with a multi-thousand dollar repair bill

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        22 hours ago

        That’s just FUD.

        Test it under Wine. If it’s working, you’re good to go. Wine can’t make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn’t.

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          20 hours ago

          Or it works initially and then crashes (yes that does happen), and if it crashes mid-flash that’s a problem.