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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • At first: In most cases you don’t need and don’t want one.

    I wanted to get one as I have several old (over two decades and more) Windows game CDs that I’ve bought long before switching to Linux. Back in the days it was actually a thing that sometimes malware slipped into professionally pressed CDs (especially on discs that came with PC game magazines or cheap game collection boxes).

    For this case (Windows software check before attempting to run with wine) I can recommend ClamAV. It is open source and available on probably every distribution. But there is no need to attempt having it running all the time. I just run scans from the terminal whenever needed.





  • Python. Works for nearly everything I need. I mostly write small helper tools (most of them shared under a FOSS license) and for my job, I developed a backend API server which sits behind a web application. I also use Python for scientific math stuff as nearly every Matlab also exists for Python.

    I did use Perl a lot before but in my opinion Python took over the role of Perl. I loved Perl for having a module for just about everything but nowadays most Perl modules are unmaintained and you find the “good stuff” for Python.










  • In my experience the whole DVB driver situation on Linux is really messed up. Seems to be partly because of difficult communication with the linux kernel maintainers and partly because of lazyness of hardware manufacturers (they don’t care). Another problem is that DVB really runs out of favor. It is not “cool anymore” as everyone uses streaming services nowadays and so less and less “spare time developers” still care about “TV”. This even seems to be visible in less and less DVB hardware still developed.

    I would just give up on the idea to still run a tuner directly on a PC. Get yourself a “SAT>IP” tuner, add it to your network and stream your TV programs over your home network.

    Edit: It is even possible to set up your own Sat>IP server with “minisatip”. So you could get a mini PC, plug the tuner(s) you already have, only care about getting them working there and bury this dedicated TV streaming server somewhere in the house.