Elementary school computer lab, probably Ask Jeeves with the assignment being learning how to use a search engine.

Memorable? Neopets.

At home? I was downloading a Monster Truck Madness demo over 56k. Took 8 hours.

It smells like cologne mixed with farts and peppermint, a scent called BEAR FISTER so you don’t feel insecure in your masculinity while swallowing.

We’ll infect their brain over time 👿 become as FOSS.

Scaled is nice on the Subscribed feed too, you’ll miss less stuff on the smaller communties you’re interested in.

2003 at the latest on the family computer. No exact memory, but I got my own personal computer in 2004.

Probably I played Lemmings, I always returned to that game as a kid.

My 12th gen Corei5 isn’t really up to the task but I can get in-game on these early experimental builds. Radeon cards crash in Hyrule Field currently so I can’t go too far on a Radeon 9070XT just yet. Not that I’d want to, the lighting is fried and it’s running half speed. Cutscene videos like the title screen and intro cutscene have audio desync, in-game audio is fine/syncs. That said, pretty minor issues for Day 1.

Honestly I’d bet a vibe slopped recompilation project gets the game playable before these slopulators do. There are already the beginnings of such if you look.

I used Lichii but there’s also Eglantine Selevet. Both are Eden emulator forks. I noticed neither needed me to install firmware or keys so DMCA in 3…2…1.

Tomorrow I expect corruption reports to begin and continue all month. This post breaks rule 6 tho.

You’ll usually find the no fap people on 4chan /fit/ and reddit where conservative Catholics who are ashamed of their own natural bodies participate in this weird puritan incel practice. You’re not accomplishing anything healthy by doing it OP.

Common (anime) convention experience I’m sure. When I was 15 years younger, they hosted an anime convention at a local college and attendees would rent the dorm rooms during the summer. After official events for the evening ended, the DJ kept going in a dorm study room. Every stereotype occurred. Rank B.O. in a room too small and not ventilated for the amount of people in it at 2AM with underage girls trying to get picked up by any guy willing to cross that line. Fucking gross 🤢.

Copyright violation from American AI hoovering up all the data is okie dokie unless it’s used by peasants to threaten technology corporations.

I’m not defending them it’s just comical hypocrisy, and ans I doubt China AI will have the same kneecapped coding capabilities.

Whenever I see a naked “?” my mind plays this sound effect from Paper Mario 64:

https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/paper-mario-85157/

Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

I consider these overgrown chat bots to be the sequel to religion in order to control the masses. Outsourcing thinking to a “higher power” and wow would you look at that, it’s the same people pushing and inventing both of these systems! Same as it ever was.

Besides some compatbility misses, it’s less confusing than Windows is with AutoHDR too now I think. Combined with KDE adding more HDR spec stuff in 6.8, pretty solid experience on Linux at this point. mpv HDR is working with version 0.41.

I just want Firefox HDR now.

Blizzard’s voice chat is broken under Proton/WINE, it doesn’t matter what front end or method you use. It’s not specific to Faugus. Be nice if Blizzard cared but they don’t.

Edit: Check this out, not merged yet but fresh fixes for BNet via Bottles soon ™. Couldn’t tell you if this will be superior to Faugus method or not since I don’t use Battle.net.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/pull/504

but my gaming time is increasingly taken up by futzing with the gaming in the hopes of playing instead of playing,

You can’t skip the learning curve, sorry. It was hard to wrap my head around compatibility layer quirks and prefixes at first but now I’m proficient a year later using CachyOS as a daily driver and I’m even modding games again, usually via Amethyst Mod Manager and CurseForge. Once you understand Linux folder structures it gets easier.

I tried Nobara early on but the perf differences between it and most popular distros is negligible despite the hype and then a bad update bricked my install, so I don’t have a positive impression of Glorious Eggroll’s side project. Solo dev distro isn’t viable IMO.

Some people online say adding sapi.dll to your BNet prefix via winetricks works but it’s mixed results. May or may not work. Ehhh find a guide for using winetricks. It’s a clunky piece of shit, not gonna lie. It’s “GUI” barely masks that it’s a command line utility. Like usually I need to click CANCEL on the first menu it pops up which is usually fucking useless in order for the menu I actually want to appear next, but it’s unintuitive because a beginner is going to obviously think that closes Winetricks. Nope! Very dumb. It’s easy to access via Faugus since it’s an option in the settings menu when you right click any game you’ve added to it. You’ll need to learn how eventually if you ever pirate stuff because dependencies like .net or visual c++ will be missing without manually installing them via winetricks. Winetricks downloads/installs that shit for you btw you don’t need to hunt down the Windows executables yourself or sapi.dll in this case. Although you can run other executables under the game’s prefix, again, in the same settings menu where you’ll find winetricks button in Faugus.

If you’re wondering wtf a prefix is, it’s basically a Windows folder structure in a folder specific to that game. Your AppData/My Documents whatever. Your save files and config files go there like they would on Windows, but also dll files and other Windows specific crap. Which annoys me actually so I use the same prefix for every non-Steam game so I don’t need to piss about with multiple prefixes and installing storage space wasting duplicate dependencies and fresh prefixes per game. It’s pretty stupid default behaviour IMO but it probably helps devs troubleshoot compatibility layer bug reports when users don’t have 40 games all using the same prefix folder idk…I just point Faugus to the same prefix folder I made every time instead of letting it make a new one per game.

Steam doesn’t give you any option regarding that so it just makes a user unfriendly folder per game using the Steam ID jumble of numbers (which you can find via SteamDB, although I just sort by recently modified after installing a game if I need to snoop in there for some reason) as the folder name for game prefix folders in Steam’s compatdata folder. Really pisses me off they don’t just use the fucking name of the game same as it is in steamapps/common where all the games are installed by default or let me use the same prefix as an option within Steam /rant.

The actual game files aren’t inside the prefix folder.

Also when you run Windows stuff via Proton/WINE and need to browse to a location outside of the prefix, your Linux home folder is labeled as Drive X. Like say I run something that patches the game executable for a mod or whatever, but my game folder isn’t inside the prefix obviously so your actual Linux storage drive is given the drive letter “X” by Proton/WINE while the Windows program thinks the prefix folder is your C: drive / Local Disk. If that makes sense.

Idk hopefully that helps or I confused you more lol?

I stopped redeeming freebies too, I can’t even be bothered anymore. 700 games on there and I’ve played 3 of them.

Faugus Launcher has built in one-click BNet installer support. Then you run BNet via Faugus. Voice chat is janky/outright broken last I checked, sorry.

Never tried Retail however, I play on private servers for where I also use Faugus Launcher…which is a nice GUI for UMU-Launcher which is a thing used to run non-Steam games with Proton properly, very basically. From what I hear, playing legit Retail/Forever/Classic all work fine?

Long explanation is UMU is taking advantage of Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime containerisation for non-Steam in the same way Steam does and also gets you access to protonfixes: a shared online database of per-game patches (DXVK options, DLL overrides, env vars, etc.) applied automatically via unified game IDs that Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles also use.

Added automatic HDR detection

Hell yeah.

Is Voices38 using AI on Denuvo? I hope so for their own sanity but also hoping more than 1 guy starts doing it so Irdeto’s legal department gets swamped chasing ghosts.

That thread was removed and OP admitted it’s ChatGPT generated slop in the comments.

Could use this source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d

Like Yandex only is: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d

But again that’s all traffic not just potential political disinfo bots so this still doesn’t really tell me anything other than Yandex data centers got blown up.