ShaunaTheDead

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

First of all, make sure that Steamworks Common Redistributables is installed because according to the steamdb page for GTA 5 it requires vcrun2022 and d3dx9 installed from winetricks (or protontricks) which it normally gets from the Steamworks Common Redistributables automatically.

From my admittedly very brief research, it doesn't look like you can play GTA 5 online if you skip the launcher but if you want to just play offline you can set your Steam Launch Options by right clicking the game and going to properties. If you set it to %command% -scOfflineOnly that will skip the launcher but disable multiplayer.

You can also try setting the Steam Launch Options to PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% which forces Proton to use the OpenGL driver rather than the Vulkan driver for D3D.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

Unless of course you want them to look at something specific that the query string automatically selects for them. It'd be pretty confusing in that case if you removed the query string and they're just looking at thousands of entries in a table or something.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

The problem here is that the riddle tricks you into thinking the total at the end should be 30, but because the herders originally give 30, but then get 3 back, the new total of sheep that changed hands is actually 27. In the end, the troll has 25 sheep and his sons have 2 sheep, 25 + 2 = 27 so all sheep are accounted for.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I was also kind of surprised when looking under the hood of proton that a lot of the fixes for games are pretty simple and often the same fix over and over again. Also, it's just basically running winetricks on the prefix to install things like vcrun2022 (Visual C++ runtime) and dotnet48 (.NET runtime). It's pretty simple stuff, really, but priceless when considering that no manual tinkering is required by the average user who would give up as soon as a game doesn't launch once.

Oh, also I should point out that if you want proton to run non-steam games but for it to run protontricks to fix any compatibility issues, just make sure that there's a text file called steam_appid.txt in the same directory as the game executable. The file should contain only the game's app id which you can find on https://steamdb.info/

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I doubt that there's any real benefit to walking barefoot. There seems to be very little science to support it that I can find, but I'd be interested to see if anyone can find some.

I question the benefits mostly because it's well known by historians that before the invention of modern shoes, most people walked very differently than we do now. Heel-to-toe walking basically didn't exist until modern thick-soled shoes became commonplace, and instead toe-to-heel or rather ball-of-the-foot-to-heel was the norm.

If you're going to walk barefoot, make sure you learn how to walk barefoot safely. Here's a pretty good video about how to do it correctly: https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=3iLJ0frWE9E

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

Yes, but as @Chee_Koala already pointed out it's flat terrain and for the most part it's relatively soft. If you were to extended walking in your home it would probably be wise to wear shoes or change your gait. Walking on hard cement or stone for extended periods of time while landing primarily on your heel would definitely be bad for you.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I think you look nice, although perhaps a bit sad in this picture mostly because your eyes give me sad (or bored) vibes. It's not your appearance, although a genuine smile that reaches the eyes would do a lot to make you more approachable - I can't tell if that's the issue from this picture since you're not smiling. It might be something to do with your posture, or some way that you act like maybe the way you walk. It's really not obvious, but yeah, you look a nice person to me.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I also wonder if there's a sexual element to some of these ragebait food videos. They always have an attractive young woman doing the cooking. At least, I suspect that the mukbang videos from awhile ago were made to be sexual for some.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

My partner likes to listen to lofi music. Lately she's been obsessed with Baldur's Gate 3 so she plays a youtube video that's 10 hours of the "down by the river" song and a campfire sound from BG3. We've also done a 10 hour Star Trek TNG bridge noises video before for awhile lol

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I've watched Sabine for awhile, she's a really great science reporter who keeps things simple and pretty brief. Just a note though, I feel like she sometimes takes very skeptical and conservative views on some subjects where she doesn't really have any expertise. It also makes me kind of uncomfortable how she seems to be obsessed with Elon Musk, she mentions him in basically every video.

Despite all that, she's pretty great, check her out, just keep in mind she talks about a lot of things she isn't an expert in.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I've tried both pretty extensively and moonlight is so, so much better. I was really surprised, but it's far and away better than steam link. You can stream your PC by using Sunlight - https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I think it's that neuro-diverse people tend to gravitate towards each other, so this is probably survivor's bias. I definitely find that other people with ADHD are able to grab and hold my attention better than neuro-typical people and also they're more understanding and forgiving when I'm flaky, or too hyperactive, or whatever.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I just started using Proton, but I don't think any of their apps are available for Linux natively, which is disappointing. I mostly use Proton apps inside Ferdium which I find useful for combining all of my productivity apps and Ferdium basically just keeps a website loaded, and websites are always cross platform compatible. I would love to know if there's a timeline for Linux apps in mind.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

Some of the strongest and easy to remember passwords are just a few words strung together with a few numbers.

For example: Simpsons7-Purple4-Monkey1-Dishwasher8

Just remember "Simpsons Purple Monkey Dishwasher" and "7418". You're probably never going to forget that and I just tossed it into a password strength tester and it said it would take about 46 billion years to randomly guess it.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

For maximum security your password manager should have a password and you have no choice but to remember that password.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

If the person in question has ADHD, maybe cut them some slack. I have ADHD and I'm terrible at messaging people even though I enjoy talking to them and hanging out with them. I hope that my friends understand that.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

It's definitely an edge case by say you're in ~/ and you run a script like ./code/script.sh then it thinks the current working direct is ~/ rather than what is probably intended which is ~/code/. If your bash script uses full paths like /home/$USER/code/ then it will still run correctly regardless of the current working directory that the scrip was run from.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

YouTube throttles some of the more popular instances. Find a less popular one. I was also finding that thumbnails and subtitles weren't loading on some instances. After switching to a fairly obscure one, everything works. You could also try piped which I find generally works better and I like the interface better.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

I didn't see a paywall, but I'm using uBlock Origin on Firefox so maybe it blocked out the paywall.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

It really depends whether he got the devs of "Lutris, Heroic, Legendary, Bottles, etc." to agree to use the unified runtime before starting this project. As long as he gets most of the big players to join then it will actually become the only standard worth using.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

It's important that they say structure because the scientific discovery is about how these galaxies are gravitationally bound in a cluster. That means that despite the expansion of space, these galaxies will never separate from one another, hence they are a single structure. It's a breakthrough discovery because every model of the universe we currently use says a structure this large is impossible.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

That's true of any galaxies which aren't gravitationally bound. At closer distances (tens/hundreds of millions of light years) gravity wins out over the expansion of space and keeps things together. At larger distances, the expansion of space wins out and clusters of galaxies will drift apart faster and faster until the combined speed of them moving away and us moving away from them will exceed the speed of light and we'll never see those galaxies again.

Our neck of the woods is called the Local Group because scientists are bad at naming things and includes the Milky Way galaxy, and the Andromeda galaxy, as well as between 50 to 80 more galaxies.

As for the black holes, yes, eventually all that will be left are black holes for trillions of years until even those evaporate which is often called the "Heat Death" of the universe. That is just a theory, but if it's true, it won't happen for 1.07x10^106 years. Considering the universe is only 13.8 billion years old right now, that's a very, very, very long time.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

As others have said here context is important. Are you reading just for fun? If yes, is it important to understanding what you're reading? If yes, look it up, otherwise either try to assume the meaning of the word through the context of the text or ignore it for now and look it up later.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

Margaret Atwood continues to predict the near future with near perfect accuracy. I, for one, welcome our new pigoon overlords.

ShaunaTheDead, 4 months ago

context from the show Silicon Valley