marcmagus | On the bleeding edge

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1hand - 3 uses
allergies - 4 uses
cabinet - 7 uses
calendar - 3 uses
chromium - 4 uses
computer - 3 uses
convention - 8 uses
cvd - 6 uses
dance - 24 uses
devnull - 3 uses
drugs - 3 uses
dw - 24 uses
encoding - 8 uses
food - 9 uses
games - 5 uses
gentoo - 3 uses
hair - 12 uses
hands - 10 uses
hardware - 2 uses
health - 4 uses
house - 3 uses
humor - 4 uses
internet - 3 uses
jlj - 4 uses
lenses - 3 uses
linux - 8 uses
lj - 12 uses
meme - 4 uses
music - 3 uses
navel-gazing - 6 uses
nethack - 4 uses
newport - 4 uses
noncon - 8 uses
pain - 3 uses
politics - 6 uses
poly - 2 uses
polyphasic sleep - 8 uses
programming - 3 uses
quest prizes - 4 uses
rant - 8 uses
regency - 8 uses
science! - 6 uses
test - 9 uses
tools - 36 uses
tv - 4 uses
twitter - 3 uses
ui - 5 uses
vim - 5 uses
wtf - 3 uses
zelda - 7 uses

The moral of the story: just because there is a new version of VLC does not mean "upgrading" to it is desirable. It used to be that to get a version of VLC which did anything useful, you had to use unstable, as nothing sufficiently cutting-edge was marked stable.

Now, a perfectly working version is stable, and unstable is so bleeding edge that it's broken; upgraded to 0.9.0_alpha20080110 as part of my usual automatic upgrading last week. They seem to have tweaked the UI in ways I'm not sure I like, but, worse, it doesn't seem to be able to play matroska files anymore. Gah. Hopefully downgrading will help, as I can't think of much else to try. I'm pretty sure it's that, and not some black magic involving having improved my video drivers.

On the Good News front, Arisia tomorrow!

Magus's Grimoire [Abridged]

Notes to self for public consumption

April 2017

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