What kind of filename do they have? How big are they?
My guess would be that they’re Android thumbnail files or some sort of hidden metadata file. Possibly some raw jpeg because all the parameters are expected to be fixed size so they didn’t bother with the header. Or it’s a custom header.
But even then, that’s a lot of zeros for an image format.
Does it seem to have a JPEG header later in the file? It could be a header followed by a normal JPEG file too.
He pointed out a bunch of JavaScript plugins don’t work in WINE but I’m not following what it does that Picard + ffmpeg + many other audio players can’t do. It seems worth losing a feature or two or having to adopt a small composition of tools …or building it yourself / paying a bounty for a feature.
Been using /e/OS on a OnePlus 6T for the last ~2 years and love it. The built-in ad tracker blocker works well. GoS works for the best part and if it doesnt, heading over to the website usually works.
Does ReactOS already support the newest office and Photoshop out of the box!?
MS Office 2021 is garbage but at least 2016 and O365 Home (32-bit) are both silver. The linked Photoshop CC 2023 is also silver. That already seems like an impressive feat by the wine team.
Yeah, it seems impressive until you actually try to use it and find out that their “silver” is not even close to something you can work with.
Adobe products even when they say Silver you’ll get artifacts when moving objects, resizing the window sometimes ends up on a full screen black square and whatnot.
Office 2016 kind of works, poor rendering but works, the thing is that if I only needed Office 2016 features I would survive mostly fine with LibreOffice. I indeed need features from 2019 that wont run properly.
You know that ReactOS development has been speeding up lately don’t you? Either way it’s kinda of stuck in NT5 because they threw out the most competent people of the project.
However… it still runs a ton of stuff better than Wine :)
I think they are way under confident and burnt out. The projects been going for decades and all the developers see is more work to do. It is a toxic place. On the one side you have people demanding things and one the other side you have the original people who started it who are older now and lack drive.
Last time I used it it was pretty stable and worked well. However I was repeatedly told it is in Alpha and that I would run into serious issues eventually. I never did run into anything serious and it never corrupted it self like it used to. I was very impressed but also saddened by how the developers are not confident in there own work.
My personal belief is that React OS could be somehow combined with Wine and Samba to create a Windows in a box that could run under other operating systems. You could run Windows specific software in this environment but then have shared resources with the guest and guest side windowing. There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine. You could have a small KVM machine with PCIe passthough or a kernel module that acts as a wrapper for complex Windows drivers.
They threw Alex Ionescu out: the guy that actually wrote the majority of they only kernel that actually worked;
Martin Fuchs fired: the guy that made the explorer and a ton of GUI components. His code was later on bastardized by everyone else causing the issues you were told about;
… and many others.
They had competent people making the thing happen, then they decided to push them away and eventually replace their code with Wine backports and whatnot.
There are still a few pieces of software that require Windows and it would nice to have the kernel portion combined with Wine.
To be fair, if Microsoft was able to create WSLv1 without a kernel and it run just fine, why would Wine not be able to do the same? :) No drivers yes, but the software (including GUI stuff) run just fine and that’s not the case with Wine + the mainstream Windows’ software.
I used OSMC for years going back to when it was still raspbmc, got the first Vero and then the 4k model.
They were never perfect and hassle free, a lot of which I put down to Kodi itself. I love the idea of Kodi, but the base interface is lacking (especially when you have a big collection) and most of the fancy front-ends / skins I tried would run too slow and once again bring back the shoddy TV experience I was trying to avoid. It also does not support streaming services like Netflix or Disney+ in any usable capacity. Kodi has a rich add-on ecosystem, which usually means you can plug some gaps but the add-ons have a habit of just breaking out of the blue or during major upgrades. I’ve had to have Kodi index my library so many times that I got sick of it ruining film night.
Eventually I bought an Nvidia shield, still using Kodi at first but switching between Plex, jellyfin and emby until I settled on emby for my local content. Being able to use other streaming services was a bonus and the hardware was good enough that it doesn’t feel sluggish.
You can also install 3rd party apps like smart tube for an excellent YouTube experience (and now my preferred way to watch YouTube).
The shield is starting to show it’s age big time (it doesn’t support HDR on YouTube, for example) but sadly outside of the USA there isn’t really any devices that match or beat it - you keep hearing about that Wal-Mart device being brilliant but that’s US only.
So in short, get a good android TV box for the best experience and the most options.
I am very happy with my moto g42 and Calix OS. The phone is reasonably priced (around 120.- euros).
Only downside is you have to register online to get full root access and I also had to wait like three days till everything unlocked. Otherwise I found the process very easy even for a caveman like me.
If you still have the card those came off of you can put it back in a galaxy (or any android device?) and export them. Pretty sure the phone uses some kind of error correction scheme to deal with failing sd cards.
Good list if I were looking for just any tablet, but I’m specifically looking one with artist capabilities, such as a pressure sensitive surface and a battery free pen. This list doesn’t mention much about such capabilities.
I don’t think you’re going to find much cheaper for a full fledged tablet format machine with a high res capacitive touchscreen @165hz that will render what you’re asking for. This is the exact package you’re looking for though. Maybe wait for a sale.
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