Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn’t anyone try to tell me? 😂
Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn’t anyone try to tell me? 😂
I play HD2 under proton. Even if there is a rootkit, it’s sandboxed.
Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.
I wrote a blog about it last year with my method of deduplicating. I really need to update that bit because steam keeps writing files that don’t uphold the group permissions, and others get permission errors that need to be fixed by admin. Steam also failed to determine free space on a drive when symlinks were involved.
I even found recently that steam would write files in /tmp/ as one user, and fail when you logged in as another user and tried to write the same file. Multi-user breaks even without messing around.
My current solution doesn’t use symlinks. I just add two libraries for each user. One in their respective home directory, and another shared in /mnt/steam. It means that any user can update a game in /mnt/steam, and it cleanly updates for all users at once.
OK I just measured mine. I have 459GiB of games on the drive, consuming 368GiB of space. That’s about 25% compression. I’m using compress=zstd:9
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I should try deduplication. I have 4 steam users and I’ve created an ACL hell to prevent the same game being downloaded and installed twice.
Btrfs is amazing for a steam library. The single best feature is the compression. Games tend to have lot of unoptimized assets which compress really well. Because decompression is typically faster than your disk, it can potentially make games load faster too.
I put a second dedicated nvme drive in my PC just for steam. It’s only 512GB but it holds a surprisingly large library.
I would love it if Valve secretly checked if Windows was genuine and put it in their stats.
It’s interesting that Asia is boosting Linux numbers when the Valve hardware survey showed the opposite. The numbers were recently updated to include China and it caused every OS to lose ground to Win10.
I’ve found that you’re fine as long as you pass all the SPF/DKIM steps, have an SSL cert and use your ISP’s mail relay.
The biggest issue I face is that occasionally a legit mail server refuses to support SSL/TLS and my server drops the connection. The other 99% of unencrypted mail is spam.
I’d doubt it’s collecting or transmitting much. It’s probably just estimating age, sex, race etc. and using it to decide which promotion to put on screen. It’s possibly collecting these to determine what type of people use the machine. Similar to those billboards in shopping centres.
Storing each individual to recognize later or identify online seems like a stretch.
If it did have a user bio database, it would be centralised and not on the machine itself.
I’m hoping the K-9 Android thing still happens.
An interesting game.
The only winning move is not to play.
Hopefully the opposite is true. There’e end-to-end encryption and if the client isn’t written by meta, then meta can’t intercept after decryption.
Being able to use meta’s chat platform without any of their code being executable on your device is a big improvement. They can’t scrape your contacts and data at all.
They’ll pull an Apple out of their arse and somehow break it outside the EU.
WhatsApp, Google Messenger, Facebook Messenger and Skype all implement the same Signal protocol.
The article’s title is misleading, and did not explain how it would work at all.
Like, will the protocol also add logins for different services? I remember having a messenger app a while ago (Trillian), which would merge MSN, ICQ and other chat platforms into a single experience.
I can sorta get how DMs will work. Group chats may be much harder to implement.
Microsoft are still better than Apple in this regard. But they’re both far from acceptable.
noisy environments like plains, trains and rideshares.
I dunno. Plains are usually pretty isolated and quiet.
They got the “Win” key into the ANSI 105 key layout and the ISO/IEC 9995 layout.
I actually hate it because I end up with a Microsoft logo on hardware that is supposed to be generic.
It won’t even fix their car.
Wired xbox controller for PC games.
Wired switch controller for Nintendo emulation.
I happen to have both consoles and they work instantly over USB.