nope, never had problems, every game I tried worked or could be persuaded to work - switch wine version, disable/enable the runtime, etc. the setup does taking used to, but once you figure out how to keep separate pfx for every game (yay for btrfs and deduping!), how to run the setup within it and then switch to the installed .exe, it all goes swimmingly. the only thing I don’t understand is why they went with proton-ge as default, as nothing ever ran with it; the predecessor, wine-ge, worked plenty fine.

over the years tried all alternatives - heroic, bottles, fagus, steam even - but none took (or even worked, for that matter), this does everything and conveniently so. it’s possible my misgivings are due to exclusively running cracked games, but at this point I’m just happy everything works.

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#eich

first of all, you’re awesome, that’s some excellent writeup, may your pillow always be cool. second - it worked! well, I just opened a coupla torture sites but zero stutters, pitch shifts, everything is smooth.

for posterity, that stuff goes in ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-the-quantum.conf

thanks, here for these things. ran dawarich for a week and it was a disaster, willing to try again.

here’s a thread where most of these make an appearance: https://defcon.social/@yuman/117496056470116333

3, 4 and 6 - no issues on my setup, ever. it’s just with 5 that this was apparent.

mpv uses yt-dlp to fetch videos. adding this would be like coupla lines of code before launching mpv, get it, store it, play it.

but this gave me an idea, to figure out a handler to favorite or save video. usual scenario is checking out ephemeral stuff, not much value to storing everything. but, a way to mark the video as to be saved would be useful.

no, it’s -b, for “battery”.

you’re looking for capacity (or energy-full and energy-full-design, on which this is based off) which should tell you how much of the original capacity is available, anything north of 90% is awesome, 80+% is usable, anything below 70% only if it’s super-cheap, as a stop-gap.

shoulda been more verbose… ain’t no manager, when you select “latest” in lutris it downloads the latest proton-ge, that’s item one. then it downloads some steam runtimes, rt something, sniper something, can’t be bothered to repeat the ordeal, then it does the umu thing, spits out phonebooks of log spam and then… it craps out with various statuses. when you run it again, it doesn’t download it again, just runs the stuff downloaded.

anyhoo, I don’t got no steam on my disk and don’t plan on changing that, possibly that might be relevant

happy for you, it’s just plain wine for me. no variant of proton ever worked on any game I tried, so I just gave up on it. your post prompted me to try it again, switched to the default “Proton GE (Latest)” runner, it downloaded tons of stuff and… nope, craps out as usual, no sensible error messages in the logs. switched back to wine, started right up.

• a) people pretend only to be something they’re not, otherwise it defeats the purpose
• b) the story is trying to build on tropes you’re familiar with; I guess it could build on finnish stuff, but the only thing that’s globally known that comes to mind are aki kaurismaki’s films, which are all heavily US culture based
• c) observe the language and idioms we’re using ITT

relax, keep your mind open to different things and you’ll do ok.

• t480 - dual RAM slots, dual batteries
• t480s/t490s/t14s - soldered ram
• t490/t14 - one bank soldered, one slot free

this is the list, nothing else, no Yogas, no Carbons. stay away from AMD models until the 5000-series, all earlier ones are a nuisance to run. feel free to get busted units - broken screen, bad keyboard, as working on those is easy, there are detailed hardware maintenance manuals available, for free and parts are cheap, plentiful and cross-model/generation compatible.

soldered RAM used be eww; nowadays with the prices, it’s neat to get basically free RAM, provided it’s at least 16 GB on-board. whichever you get will be plenty fine for the stated use cases. make sure you get a good battery, as getting those is expensive (boot off a live USB and upower -b)

remember, the goal isn’t to get “a thinkpad”. the goal is to get extraordinary value, in this case a discarded corpo workhorse that’s still got plenty life in it, at a bargain price. if you’re in an area where the stated models are plentiful and cheap, grab one. if they’re overpriced, look for value elsewhere. e.g. Dell Latitude 74xx and HP Elitebook 840 are in the same ballpark.

samba shares are windows shares, on linux. any os, mobile and desktop, can either access them directly or got a light-weight client for doing so.

you set up one or multiple shares on your server, like one is “family” and other is “steve” and you can define what each user can do to them - just browse, or read, or write to, etc

or if you need just a read-only share, any web server (apache, nginx, etc) can allow access to a folder you shared.

what’s “family members”, are those folks on your LAN? or people on mobile devices or from elsewhere?

if it’s the former, samba shares are easy. the latter, any number of solutions listed here, provided you pay extra, extra attention to firewalls and other mitigations, it’s hell out there wrt automated bots hammering exposed endpoints.

there’s a UI? how come? used to be just a sink you send stuff to, how does it work?

edit: looks like a standalone GUI player now, confused about its role in the ecosystem

“sindy swindy shouldn’t go out with that guy he’s all yucky and gross” says CEO of the “sindy should be blowing ME” corp. in answer to a question on whether he’d ever score, he assured the news dolts that he’s gonna score, any day now

not to shit on your take, but like if even half of what this cretin says is accurate, that’s is pretty fucking far from a pro/contra AI issue.

I don’t trust proton for anything of importance and am occasionally using them to register to unimportant stuff and this latest revelation hasn’t changed my opinion one iota. if you’re depending on them for anything, start looking for alternatives (plural, always) like right now.

shows and movies watched long ago suddenly pop up in continue watching and won’t go away; used to be able to toggle watched status and they went away, now they just hang there. had to move entire shows out of the library so I don’t see them there no more. tiny annoyances that make me go get a mouse and keyboard as they can’t be fixed with just the remote in TV mode. nothing’s a showstopper but when you’re used to the thing just humming along and not noticining it, it’s a drag to constantly have to fix this and that.

DO A FULL BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO!

I didn’t do it, yolo, whatever, and now I regret upgrading to 12. the reliable it-just-works appliance became a source of daily nuisance.

• I’d strongly advise you to stay clear of elementaryOS, at least as a first step. after you figure things out with a more vanilla flavor, feel free to revisit it. there’s enough challenges with taming that hardware with vanilla flavors, you don’t need additional ones
• these aren’t important messages, if you want to look at what’s happening, press “e” on the GRUB menu and remove quiet from the switches edit: those are EFI messages, that’s not linux stuff. make sure your USB drive is GPT formatted and after you’ve flashed it verify there’s an efi folder on it. reboot, press and hold Alt until the menu shows.
• you’re booting with Nvidia graphics. those are abject horror in the best of cases, and yours (GT330M) is beyond saving. you should disable it as you’ll get nothing but grief and run it on Intel HD graphics only, here’s a primer.