Remember when the entire selling point of Gmail was lots of storage and “no obtrusive ads like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail”? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Yeah. My phone keyboard did an oops.

Yeah I worked for a company that sold DSL in ATT and CenturyLink areas in the United States. We could also sell stuff with telephony from ATT, but we had some ancient agreement that let us sell DSL using their lines without telephone service. They were ordered in ATT’s system as “alarm circuits”. We also could run service 3x further out because of some old tech called ReachDSL. It was only 256k to 1.5M, depending on distance, but most of the people on it could only get dial up at the time, so this was the best they had available.

Those were indeed dark days.

While I get what you’re saying, you don’t actually need POTS service on a copper line to have DSL work. I used to sell DSL circuits without telephony services in one of my first technology jobs. We’d order “dry circuits” and pipe data only through Copper Mountain or Paradyne branded gear (pretty sure both companies are dead now). Most telephone companies wouldn’t let you do this because they wanted to prop up POTS line sales, not because it was technically necessary.

There is already a bug report. It’s been open for two years.

Valve doesn’t support SteamVR for Linux in Flatpak or Snap

Probably. It tries to run a .sh script on first launch as sudo, but fails. Even if you run it manually, it still didn’t seem to fix it. There is a bug report for it somewhere that’s been open for 2 years. Valve officially only supports the package version of Steam for SteamVR, not Flatpak, so it’s unlikely to get fixed.

Yeah that fixes some things, but there is a sudo command it tries to run that has some sort of pathing issue in the Flatpak version.

It’s deeper than that. It tries to run a function with sudi that fails every time, but the prompt for a password never appears.

Unfortunately, SteamVR with Flatpak is busted unless you use something like WiVRn. If you try to use something like the Steam Link app on an Android-based VR headset to do direct SteamVR streaming, it won’t work on the Flatpak because of permissions.

Source: Been wishing I could use SteamVR on my gaming PC for a while without a third party solution.

Technically Proton supports Wayland. It’s just not the default. You can override it with a launch flag to use Wayland.

I’m a Chevy Bolt EUV driver. This 100%. I’m in the market for a mini van and want something electric. Nothing except the VW Buzz exists.

Any chance we could move that timeline up a bit? I’m free next Tuesday to be instantly immolated by a Nuke.

As someone who drives a Chevy Bolt, an amazing vehicle that GM has killed off TWICE now:

You fucking sure about that bud?