Except I’d have to pretend to be on the phone. 1. It means conversation with the person I’m helping can’t happen, and 2. It gives the illusion I have someone who wants to talk to me.

Why not rice paper? The Chinese have had it for centuries and shouldn’t be too hard to find locally.

Looking at some of the other solutions posted I’m starting to think everyone in this thread is drunk.

He probably went to another country and killed people. HOWEVER, if that’s true at least there’s a decent chance those people were armed and facing him, not pinned to the ground and shot in the back.

It sure will be interesting to see which states Trump gives aid too…

This is the bit that makes no sense to me. Wouldn’t a UK version of an FBI just be… the police?

That’s what I was thinking. Just refuse to enter the US. And if they’re forced to, when the match starts both teams should just stand there the 90 minutes and then leave. Or if they’re forced to play, put on a shit performance and have a boring 0-0 draw for every game played in the US.

So long as no one is focussing on Epstein, thats the main thing.

No, no. You START with the solar panel and work your way up.

In the wonderful words of Jimmy Carr: you look like someone drew a face on a thumb.

Summer’s a bummer.

A brightly feathered, singing T-Rex is the thought I can’t stop giggling about.

Australia has song birds about the size of a crow, they’re called Magpies. They are at times aggressively territorial, extremely intelligent, family orientated and very pleasant to wake up to in the morning.

Well, in the end I’ve given up on 2021 Pro for now and just got SketchUp Make 2017 from archive.org. Installs and runs just fine.

Maybe one day I’ll get back to trying again, but for now I’m just glad I don’t need to use the shitty web client.

OK, I’ve managed to get around the KB2999226 problem. For anyone else that needs to know it’s install vcrun2017 x64, then install ucrtbase2019. This get you to C++ redistributable 14.28.29914

My next issue is getting Invalid Handle errors on .NET Framework 4.5.2 Web (I have 4.5.2 installed so I don’t know what the problem is), C++ Redistributable 14.23.27820 (as above, I have a newer version installed, so not sure what’s going on here) and Language-cs, whatever that is.

I have tried reading the documentation on winedbg to see if there’s a way to find out what exactly the installer is looking for to end up with these Invalid Handle messages, but I don’t understand half of what they’re talking about. This, in essence, is kinda the problem with switching to Linux and the barrier a lot of people are coming up against: every problem leads you down some rabbit hole of documentation and version problems that it takes hours for even a relatively tech-savvy person to figure out what’s going on. Your general lay-person doesn’t have a hope until error messages become more useful and error checking can come up with some sort of solution, like, “Hey, this installer is looking for KB2999226. Would you like me to install ucrtbase2019.dll to try getting around this problem? Yes/No”

Anyway, I’ll keep trying since I seem to be slowly progressing, but this has taken days of time so far. It’s getting pretty ridiculous.

Regarding the racing wheel have you looked at Input Remapper? It’s not the same, but I use a Razer Tartarus game pad and Input Remapper has faultlessly remapped the keys to whatever I want.

This has been driving me nuts and if anyone can shed any light on it I will be eternally grateful.

I am trying to install SketchUp Pro 2021. According to WineHQ it has a gold rating and two testers claim to have installed it without issue, but following their instructions doesn’t help.

I am running the latest Mint with Wine 11.0. I’ve created a 64bit prefix running as Windows 8.1, installed .NET 4.8, had to manually install vcrun2017 because something has changed and the checksum fails in Winetricks. I try to install SketchUp and get Invalid Handle errors mainly to do with a KB2999286 check (Universal C Runtime update).

So I download the KB2999286 msu and tell Winetricks to run it, but it says there’s no associated program. Maybe I need the Windows Update API? So I download that, which actually appears to be WinXP SP3 and fails to install. I’m just about ready to give up on this whole experiment. Is there something I’m clearly missing? Is the C Runtime Update hidden in a component I haven’t installed?

Fat and Skinny went to bed

Fat rolled over, Skinny was dead.

Leaders = voted-for representatives. They were elected by the people to represent the people.

In general, no. But there are enough of a minority of fuckwits to ruin it for everyone else.