[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 89 points 1 month 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 222 points 6 months ago

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

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 45 points 7 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 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 98 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.

[-] 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

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submitted 1 year ago by I_like_cats@lemmy.one to c/rust@lemmy.ml

I want to build a small gui application in rust. What are my options for application storage? I have heard of the confi crate but I want to save a bit more than just configuration. Is there a crate that handles this for me easily?

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 83 points 1 year ago

There isn't one. I watched it yesterday. There's just a scene where the bombing is announced to the scientists

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

That's the clutch and the brake tho

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 64 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 130 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 74 points 1 year ago

Great! Automated discrimination against the poor

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[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 207 points 1 year ago

Meta plans to work with ActivityPub, a vendor that already partners with Mastodon and is currently working on a deal with Tumblr. The agreement isn’t finalized yet, but has been referenced in press releases announcing Threads.

Lol. The author of this article is braindead and has no Idea what he's writing about. ActivityPub is an open standard not a vendor. There can't be an agreement because there's no one to agree with. All they will do is implement the standard

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