I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like “what do you think, scam or not”. I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the “play” button with...
Within the GNU/Linux ecosystem there are all kinds of tools to diagnose the system, or rather, to check the state of the hardware, but there are few distributions specifically designed to perform this task, or at least that I know of, because the only distribution I know that is intended to diagnose the computer, (Or at...
Where do you download? Excluding particular cases, what are the common steps you take to make most games playable? Where do you keep and launch your collection?...
FG or Dodi because of file size. Mainly use Lutris, and setup up my games in a GameName with game and prefix as the subdirectories. This way I have separate prefixes for every game so I don’t have to worry about one games dependencies messing up another game or a wine update breaking it.
I’ll try a few prefixes and add dll’s (usually dx and vcrun dll’s fix any issues) with winetricks but if they don’t work, I’ll add it to Steam and if that works then copy the proton prefix and replace the steam dll with Goldberg’s
If that doesn’t work, jc141 or LinuxRulez usually works, but their compresion ratios just aren’t as good as FG and Dodi unfortunately.
ROMs are usually from myrient or archive but I always check Gnarly first for PS3 because they have great compression ratios. I convert PS1 and PS2 to chd for smaller file size I always use portable versions or appimages of emulators and setup auto backups of the emulators save folders that default to the system drive, like RPCS3, to make them more portable.
I archive the compressed files with the prefix and any notes on changes I made for that setup to make it easier for future me to get games up and running for others or if I want to play again. I converted nsp to nsz before archiving too. I also don’t keep games on the system drive.
When I started using linux a few years ago, I would constantly either switch distros or completely break the system with no idea how to fix it so I would just reinstall it. I’ve also become a bit of a data hoarder so my goal is always to make each game small, portable and separated from the others so they can be used on pretty much whatever PC without much effort.
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
My dads friend used to burn random movies to DVD and give them to us. Eventually, he showed my dad where to get them and my dad showed me. I think it was the uploader axxo on isohunt that my dad would always download from. I nearly completely forgot about that, thanks for making me think about it! We really had no idea what we were doing, we used to use utorrent and everything. That family computer was riddled with viruses. It took us about an hour to remove some random extensions that changed our default search engine one time
Hello folks! First, I’d like to clarify that, even as a bloodmouth, I fully understand why some people have moral objections to eating meat. I am simply here to ask about it, as someone who is not a vegan....
I think an animals life is more important than my taste buds. Animal agricultural is immoral, unsustainable and unnecessary. I don’t want to be a part of that and I want to have the least amount of impact on the world as I can while I’m here. Leave it the way you found it etc.
That depends, if they have the option not to then yeah. Killing when its not necessary is cruel. Hens eat their own eggs for nourishment, so there’s no need to rob them for no reason. Female mammals have to be impregnated before they’ll start lactating. Pregnancy can be very painful, uncomfortable and life threatening, ask any mother. You can’t treat another being ethically if their purpose is to allow you to either murder, rob or forcefully impregnate them.
Climate change impact. Taxes to subsidise private companies in the industry instead of going to healthcare, housing education etc. The mental health and working conditions of people working in slaughterhouses. Increased prevalence and risk of zoonotic diseases. Inflated land value and underdeveloped areas, probably more specific to my country. Biodiversity loss. Endangered species ending up as bycatch.
6 years ago, I was reading a paper on climate change, where it talked about the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, then I watched some videos on animal agriculture and couldn’t make it through 20 minutes of Dominion, I switched over night
Constantly being asked do I miss meat etc. Basically no restaurants near me have vegan options, but tbh its such a good excuse to get out of going for dinner since I hate eating out lol
Eating meat is engrained into a lot of people and they have just never questioned it because “that’s just the way it is” so when they’re faced with a moral dilemma that goes against something that has become so normal to them, they get confused and feel guilty which causes a negative reaction. The realities of animal agriculture are an uncomfortable truth that people don’t want to think about and vegans are their reminder.
Thanks for taking the time to ask about this stuff, its not easy to come into a space where you’re the odd one out and start a difficult discussion. Hopefully you see some stuff here that interests you so you can go read about it and who knows, maybe this might be your catalyst!
I caved into my urges and started playing Baldurs Gate 3 again, this time as a dark urge
I finished it for the first time a few weeks ago and have wanted to do nothing but play it again but I never replay games like ever. I held out for as long as I could but no other game was calling to me like BG3
I never understood how people could keep replaying games, I always thought the new game+ concept was pointless but now I get it, now I understand why people have put thousands of hours into Skyrim
I nearly never even bothered to try BG3 because I’ve never played anything with turn based mechanics and I know nothing about D&D but now its all I want to play, I’m worried I’ll never want to play anything else again lol
Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for but I found this a few weeks ago github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx and I haven’t really seen anyone talk about it
I’ve been using the tts on android for navigation and its way better than rhvoice and espeak.
I did try stt on android and it worked great but I’ve never used stt before so I don’t know how good it is compared to other stt
My gluetun VPN keeps failing the health check after running for a few hours. I found that some had fixed this by changing the update period to a shorter interval, and this worked for a while for me as well. But for the last 24h or so, it keeps failing after a few hours....
Something similar kept happening to me last year, constantly disconnecting no matter what I tried. I thought it was a gluetun issue so I stopped using docker and tried the official ProtonVPN app, openvpn, wireguard and community version of protonvpn, I tried switching from arch to ubuntu on my NAS and the same thing kept happening.
I was convinced it was a hardware issue so I tried different hardware, same issues.
The only thing that fixed it was reducing the number of torrents I had seeding. At the time I had ~500 and once I lowered it, I stopped disconnecting.
Now I run 3 gluetun containers with 1 qbittorrent container connected to each and they each have ~400 torrents seeding and I haven’t had any issues since.
The size of the file and speed shouldn’t be an issue, unless its crazy high speeds, I’m seeding a bunch of 80+ GB files, I think for me it was the number of connections being made that was causing the disconnects for me.
I’d try a few different countries and see if its that specific one, I like to have 3 different countries listed in my compose files so if there are issues with one countries servers it just connects to the next country instead
TunnelVision appears to work on any operating system that has a DHCP client that implements support for DHCP option 121. Most modern operating systems support this such as Linux, Windows, iOS and MacOS. Notably, Android does not appear to have support for option 121 and remains unaffected.
A fix is available on Linux when configuring the VPN users host to utilize network namespaces.
I read the Arstechnica article too where they say Linux isn’t affected then link to the researchers video where they show Linux being affected…
Tbh I’m just so tired of it, my whole life I’ve been warned about this constantly, non stop, and nobody with any power does anything effective ever.
I do all my little environmentally friendly things and they’re all just routine now. I rarely even bother to read about it anymore because its so depressing and I’ve been told lie after lie after lie that this policy will help and that regulation will be great and and these new laws will counteract it and then… Nothing, just right back to destroying this pale blue dot
So…Yeah. Fitgirl’s repack seems to install correctly without crashes. But…I get exit code 768 almost instantly after starting it. I get to see for less than a fraction of a second the Dying Light launcher banner, which disappears immediately, and the runner stops with exit code 768 and no visible errors. What can I do? AMD...
Never played it so here’s generic things I do to get random games working
Update system: Ensure system, graphic drivers and wine are up to date
Install dependencies: Usually during installation FG give the option to install/update VCrun etc. You can use wine tricks to easily install those dependencies to your prefix.
Use wine staging or WineGE: Try different versions of GE
Add it as a non Steam game to Steam and enable proton with it
Add the crack: If the game requires a specific crack ensure you copy the contents of whichever crack is provided to the root game directory and overwrite whatever it asks you to since FG provides all game files as is without the cracks enabled by default, I’m pretty sure
I have installed lutris & gamescope as flatpaks, however when I try to launch games (namely gta sa & mod organizer 2) with the gamescope setting enabled, they simply fail to launch. Is there something I am missing?...
AMD requires Mesa 20.3+, Intel requires Mesa 21.2+. For NVIDIA’s proprietary driver, version 515.43.04+ is required (make sure the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter is set).
Do these games launch when the gamescope option is disabled?
You can also check the logs by selecting the game in lutris and pressing the arrow beside the play button on the bottom to bring up the logs and see if theres any useful info there
Hey whatcha all been playing! I finally finished Alan wake 2 after a long hiatus. Maybe a tad too long but damn what a game. Cannot wait for Control 2 and whatever else Remedy has cooking
I started Alan Wake Remaster but it has really bad visual bugs, my screen keeps going black every minute or 2 and I have to pause the game for a few seconds to fix it so I don’t know if I’ll keep it going lol
I started it because Control and Quantum Break look so fun so I might just skip to them instead. Happy to see another positive opinion of Control, I’m super excited to try it!
I’ve just started God of War Ascension today, I’ve never played any of the series so I decided to play them in chronological order, well at least the ones I can play since the mobile one doesn’t seem to be available and I don’t have FB to play that one.
Its super fun, I love that they put the button prompts on the side of the screen that the button is on since I’m using an Xbox controller. But I’m not a big fan of how often they zoom out while I’m in the middle of fighting monsters. I just kept spamming quick attack on the back of the snakes because I couldn’t tell which character I was lol
Hey, folks, I just got a new phone, and reinstalled Eternity on it. But no matter which account I try to log in with, I’m getting an error (“cannot fetch user info”) when I try to log in....
I have read quite a few posts about preventing account password takeover from various malicious ways, and many OPSEC measures are there to prevent it from happening....
All my drives are encrypted and have an encrypted backup of 2FA, a whole bunch of drives and my phone would all have to fail at the same time. This is following 3-2-1 so not all are in the same place or running at the same time
I use veracrypt to make encrypted portable files that contain 2FA and I back them up to random cloud storage using simplelogin email accounts, no 2FA on these for this exact reason. I know my password manager passphrase but I also do the same thing with it as the 2FA file just on a different account.
If any of the accounts gets hijacked then all they have is a throwaway email and password for that account and a random tiny encrypted file.
My codes aren’t labeled with the email that they are for, just the service, e.g Proton1, and the passphrase has no other information stored with it so even if they magically managed to decrypt either of the files and gain access to the codes/ passphrase they don’t have any idea what accounts any of them are for.
Log in to a cloud storage -> download the file -> decrypt it -> add it to any compatible app -> login to the password manager
This guy is a DRM developer and he experienced frequent crashes and instability after bypassing Denuvo so he’s not going to be the next Empress unfortunately
Please no, not bigger! Its been months and I’ve only reached Wyrms Crossing this week! I have so many other games to play and not enough time to play them all
The jonhcena141 launchers page says that you can add the startup script to Lutris as a native executable, but when I try, The following error appears:...
And before you say i have read the megathread atleast as much as i can because it feels too buzzwordy for me and i think it is more suitable with people with a little more experience than for litteral noobs also i want to leaen how to in android and not a pc and the megathread leans heavily into pc ....
Fennec is a Firefox fork on F-droid, use this as your browser and install ublock origin as your adblocker. Top right menu in fennc then press add-ons and find ublock origin and install it. Customise by pressing the top right menu of fennec -> add-ons -> ublock origin -> settings
Then just use the direct download sites in the megathread to download your files from. You can follow something like this video to harden ublock and make sure you block the ads that pretend to be download links.
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If you want to seed (upload the files you download from the torrent) back to other people like you, then use fennec, the same as above, but use the torrent sites linked in the mega thread instead of direct download sites and use a torrent client like libretorent on the F-droid repo to add the magnet links or torrent files you get from these sites. It will start downloading the files and also uploading the parts you have downloaded to other people that want them.
I always recommend a VPN and on android you can turn on always on VPN and and block connections without VPN in android settings but that’s up to you and what your country is like when it comes to piracy
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Others might be able to suggest a streaming setup? But I don’t stream anything so can’t help you there
I haven’t yet learned how to replicate the bug, it keeps happening at seemingly random intervals. Right now it happened after walking away from my pc for a while, and when I got back it happened....
Check under Display Configuration, its at the top of the list where Gamma is in your screenshot. I’m also using Wayland, so maybe its not available for X11?
Did tiktok change something?
I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like “what do you think, scam or not”. I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the “play” button with...
Distributions intended for hardware diagnosis and other related utilities
Within the GNU/Linux ecosystem there are all kinds of tools to diagnose the system, or rather, to check the state of the hardware, but there are few distributions specifically designed to perform this task, or at least that I know of, because the only distribution I know that is intended to diagnose the computer, (Or at...
What is your usual procedure?
Where do you download? Excluding particular cases, what are the common steps you take to make most games playable? Where do you keep and launch your collection?...
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Curiosity of a non-vegan
Hello folks! First, I’d like to clarify that, even as a bloodmouth, I fully understand why some people have moral objections to eating meat. I am simply here to ask about it, as someone who is not a vegan....
David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.co.uk)
David McBride is the first Australian to be jailed over the war crimes allegations his disclosure helped expose....
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th
What are you all playing! I beat thousand year door! Really amazing game. I understand why it is so beloved....
FOSS dictation and transcription software (lemmy.ml)
Hi people...
gluetun VPN health check fails after a few hours
My gluetun VPN keeps failing the health check after running for a few hours. I found that some had fixed this by changing the update period to a shorter interval, and this worked for a while for me as well. But for the last 24h or so, it keeps failing after a few hours....
sharing my simple wireguard kill-switch for Linux
In light of the recent TunnelVision vulnerability I wanted to share a simple firewall that I wrote for wireguard VPNs....
Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds (truthout.org)
Released amid record-breaking temperatures and rising seas, the survey reports an alarming decline in perceived urgency....
Lutris with Dying Light 2 - Exit code 768
So…Yeah. Fitgirl’s repack seems to install correctly without crashes. But…I get exit code 768 almost instantly after starting it. I get to see for less than a fraction of a second the Dying Light launcher banner, which disappears immediately, and the runner stops with exit code 768 and no visible errors. What can I do? AMD...
What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?
(Solved) Games not launching with gamescope enabled
I have installed lutris & gamescope as flatpaks, however when I try to launch games (namely gta sa & mod organizer 2) with the gamescope setting enabled, they simply fail to launch. Is there something I am missing?...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 28th
Hey whatcha all been playing! I finally finished Alan wake 2 after a long hiatus. Maybe a tad too long but damn what a game. Cannot wait for Control 2 and whatever else Remedy has cooking
can't use eternity on new phone
Hey, folks, I just got a new phone, and reinstalled Eternity on it. But no matter which account I try to log in with, I’m getting an error (“cannot fetch user info”) when I try to log in....
How you all prevent Password/OTP/TOTP deadlocks?
I have read quite a few posts about preventing account password takeover from various malicious ways, and many OPSEC measures are there to prevent it from happening....
Developer hacks Denuvo DRM after six months of detective work and 2,000 hooks, allows running Hogwarts Legacy on other PCs (www.tomshardware.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Is Working Toward An RPG That "Dwarfs" It (www.gamespot.com)
Adding jc414x releases to Lutris is not working.
The jonhcena141 launchers page says that you can add the startup script to Lutris as a native executable, but when I try, The following error appears:...
Hi i am a complete noob who want to get into torrenting and piracy in general can people here help??
And before you say i have read the megathread atleast as much as i can because it feels too buzzwordy for me and i think it is more suitable with people with a little more experience than for litteral noobs also i want to leaen how to in android and not a pc and the megathread leans heavily into pc ....
Recommendations for good FOSS games?
Preferably, apps that can be installed from F-Droid. APK recommendations are acceptable too.
KDE keeps bugging out.
I haven’t yet learned how to replicate the bug, it keeps happening at seemingly random intervals. Right now it happened after walking away from my pc for a while, and when I got back it happened....