Im trying to install a game through Lutris using the game’s installer and I keep coming across the same error that I can’t really find much information on. It seems to be an issue with dotnet itself or the actual game installer and not WINE though, so I am unsure how to proceed....
Well for one thing, that's a really strange directory structure. The Z drive is referring to a WINE prefix, so I'd go into the prefix directory and determine the correct path that it should be pointing to, and then find out what its calling that incorrect path and fix it.
I just looked at the script you posted, can you try running echo $GAMEDIR in a terminal and see what it's defined as in your environment variables? If that's the cause of that odd path, then you can update it by running export GAMEDIR=/home/$USER/new/path/to/game
That isn’t a feature, it is a bug. With the exception of during recent slowdowns, it almost never happens on Lemmy. If you want to post a warning, at least give the ability to dismiss it - I don’t need to have an oddly colored banner at the top of every community.
That is a red flag for certain and asking about music is a important factor in dating. If you don’t like the same type of music odds are not in favor of making a connection.
Personally, I always used to carry a paperback with me and would read in the odd moments that this writer seems to recall as being so dull and soul destroying. I still do carry e-books on my phone of course and use them in exactly the same way - but also with the option of doomscrolling, of course.
As for TV, I was never one for TV - or radio - as background noise. With fiends, I had a bit of reputation of going round and turning such things off when I entered the room, so that we could talk without distraction. I would ask them first, of course.
I have got my privacy report in CSV form and have about 40k comments each with the id parent Id and permalink. Is there a way to parse this to delete script. I know shreddit does.it for $15 premium but looking for free options
Admittedly, the last time I tried it was maybe 5 years ago. I used ubuntu (can’t remember which distro) but I recall having to fiddle a lot with drivers and WINE. Is the scenario still the same today?...
The only downside that I've found to Pop!_OS is the default use of Flatpaks. While Flatpaks are generally pretty great, they can sometimes cause odd issues with interactivity with other apps because of their isolated nature. A pretty famous issue is with KeePassXC's Firefox add-on not being able to detect the Flatpak version of KeePassXC, but there are quite a few other notable examples. I also personally like theming my system icons which is a bit of a pain with Flatpaks.
I have used several distros on RPi4 8GB. This is what I learned: If you want some type of desktop, then RaspiOS is the most responsive out of the box and can be made even better. If your doing pure server stuff, I found Vanilla Debian, or even Ubuntu server are well done for RPi4 and just work. However their desktops are not optimised and way slower than RaspiOS.
Oddly, I have not tried Arch on RPi4, but since mainline 6(.1) kernel, I believe everything is supported including UEFI.
I have several RPi 3’s and 4’s (automated sprinkler systems and mini desktops like I’m using now in my lounge) all running UEFI, booting direct off USB disks (no sd card needed), no fsckery needed. (I do keep UEFI updated from github, but its honestly not necessary now - just how those devices originally were installed.)
Drive we are so privacy focused here. What is to prevent myself or anybody out there, from starting to report individual instances of GDPR and CCPA....
Yes, I know Yet, can you be more specific as to which parts of those laws (or better groups of laws, GDPR is not one single law as every EU member state does things slightly differently) Lemmy instances are at odds with?
Yeah the ‘happened to have a bunch of unencrypted data laying around’ bit seems odd. Would make sense if they got picked up for something else and that was the bargain. Fucked if I know though
Scrolled to the bottom to find Wisconsin and it wasn’t there. Odd choice to alphabetize by city and state names mixed together. I don’t usually look in the M’s for Milwaukee to find Wisconsin.
With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...
I did. I got hired as a Unix admin around 2008 and inheriteted the care and feeding of an old Jabber server the ~3000 employee company was using for internal instant messaging. I near-immediately migrated it over to an OpenFire server. A few months later I learned the pitfalls of using the built-in database (it blows up on you when it gets big enough cuz back then it was all in-memory, not sure about how it works out of the box now). I remember figuring out how to manually migrate that over to mysql… and I skipped the ITSM change control process and just had it execute overnight via some at commands and scripts. Went smoothly and I didn’t get fired :P
I learned a bunch from that and set up an OpenFire server at home so I could chat from my dynamic dns hostname to some people on gchat.
And that’s about the extent of it. My internal company chat eventually got replaced with skype for business and then teams. My personal stuff eventually switched over to text messages and Signal (and discord and slack and mattermost and whatever else for all the odds and ends communities I keep in touch with).
I registered with some smaller instances in case of server issues and defederation (beehaw) with lemmyworld. I noticed a community [email protected] that I follow from Lemmy.world is not viewable at all on lemm.ee or midwest.social for some reason. It does not come up in search and if I manually go to it’s empty. If I go to my...
So if open the community on instance b (manually, because it won’t come up in search), subscribe and refresh…it should fetch it at some point? Seems odd because this is an old community with only 6 posts. It still isn’t showing up the following day
An interesting article I saw (from 2019) describing the potential intrinsic tendency for decentralized platforms to collapse into de facto centralized ones....
There are no "thoughts" behind that, and anything other than that would be "communism" (actually the word used would be socialism, but that exactly and precisely equals communism by those who would say that, leaving no room at all for interpretation, nuance, or subtlety, most especially how the most revered USA institutions are socialist i.e. sharing like schools, the post office prior to it being crippled 40 some odd years ago, police, firefighters, etc.).
I find it ironic that the situation with Reddit is starting to parallel the decline of US democracy - it's crumbling, but nobody cares. Sorry, I didn't mean to get all political - but it's hard not to when you talk about things like this, b/c that's what governs our laws, at any scale.
I mean, if they actually subscribe to threads and discussions across instances, and isn't that kind of the point of a social network? For users to use it? Also odd that half the arguments against it are that it will kill the fediverse and half of the arguments are that it will provide too many users to the fediverse.
And theoretically, that CAN happen. But… looking at the examples, the only time it ever actually happened was instant messaging which very clearly died because the vast majority of people don’t consider a desktop client to be the primary interface to a chat system these days. But most of that is just based on Microsoft of the 90s and… a lot of that was early internet propaganda coupled with courts ruling on concepts they barely understood.
Going through their examples (and then one of my own)
Browser Incompatibilities: Ask any web developer. All browsers suck. The only reason life has gotten somewhat decent is that just about everyone is built on chromium these days… and EVERYONE hates chromium. Safari is still batshit insane.
Office Documents: As someone who has used star/open/libre office for over twenty years now (ugh…). It may have been true that not being specifically doc or xls would screw you over. And it did, but that was more because of licensed fonts that all documents were based around. But these days? Libre has no issue opening the vast majority of docx/xlsx files, google docs works great, etc. It may not have been a good path to a standard, but we actually have standards now… that those of us who like latex/beamer still get grumpy about
Java: Java is dead outside of legacy systems for very good reasons. But almost all of that boils down to companies wanting to use the new hotness and standards committees generally not having the resources or the know-how to optimize per platform. And they shouldn’t. No matter what language you are using, you eventually get to the point of “I can use an open platform agnostic library and get 75% of performance or I can use this platform specific one that will give the vast majority of my customers 100% of performance”. Which is software engineering
Instant Messaging: I am not even sure what the argument here is. MS didn’t maintain compatibility with AIM? They’re all dead in favor of imessage and whatsapp and google’s thin layer of paint over jabber. And pretty much every major gaming related IM is built on top of IRC at this point?
E-Mail: I will fully admit to hating office 365. But corporate IT tend to lock down everything regardless of what provider/software they use. And if it isn’t locked down? Odds are that is just because the IT guy uses it and their boss doesn’t know that exists.
WSL: I genuinely have no idea what the complaint is here
iMessage: This is my favorite example and probably the closest to actually succeeding at this in the software space. It sort of started as a meme but has waves of being increasingly real. Apple, for Reasons, use this to basically make Not Apple (so Android) a plague upon society because it ruins all the wonderful benefits of imessage and blah blah blah. Which largely has killed SMS for anyone I interact with for more than a few dates. But it isn’t like I am selling my android to get an iphone. We just both choose to use a third party app instead. Gotta love that third or fourth date “So… that was fun and I really liked what you did with your mouth. By the way, what are your thoughts on Signal versus Whatsapp?”
Do I think facebook et al will kill “The Fediverse”: Maybe. But that will be because we’ll finally stress test things and find all those issues and determine what is a fundamental flaw versus something updatable. But I would rather use a good product/software than get cranky that one specific protocol/implementation which is demonstrably inferior got pushed out. Because it isn’t like all open source office suites died the moment people realized how dogshit of an experience openoffice was. Iterations and forks were made and libre office is now REALLY good. And so is google drive and online MS office and so forth.
Because, again, look at Microsoft. Yes, there was a time where it looked like internet explorer was going to take over the planet. And, in some ways, it did. But it was a piece of shit and even at the time we knew netscape sort of existed (and eventually became Firefox?). And as more and more people ran into issues, more and more alternatives gained a foothold. And we are seeing this happen again as chromium’s well known performance issues coupled with google’s bias against ad blocking have led to a resurgence of Firefox and massive pushes by Opera (which is still chromium but…) to market themselves as the alternative that Michael Reeves uses.
They’re already on the fediverse. Tens of thousands of people on thousands of servers saying things that make libsoftiktok and gaysagainstgrooming look like woke hippies.
The thing is, unlike big tech which wants you to see things that piss you off because it drives engagement and will actively put you in that situation, for the most part people tend to stick together in groups. You’ll get the odd troll looking for a thrill, but overall there isn’t an algorithm doing the Jerry Springer thing so other than a cheap thrill there’s no point to it.
Algorithms end up being really sneaky in that regard.
I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?
Yeah it’s a little odd using it on android due to the iOS design, and for some reason the framerate of navigating around is very low/choppy for me. Not sure if webapps have limitations that way but otherwise it’s a great app.
I do not trust password managers. There’s a saying that goes ‘do not put all of your eggs in one basket’ and that’s what I don’t do. Mobile, Desktop, whatever, I don’t use a single password manager. It wasn’t long ago that a password management company was compromised, right? What are the odds that similar circumstances could happen on another password management company? It’d be a disaster.
Whatever happened to just simply having a notepad program/app and documenting your passwords onto there?
Ironic to the contrary, I’ve caught myself using browsers such as chrome to save my passwords for easier log in. But that’s simply out of my decaying memory due to age, not necessarily because I have a bias with Google and I trust them with everything. I still don’t trust them with everything.
YSK how to pick a ripe, sweet watermelon (i.postimg.cc)
Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.
YSK: If your instance updated to 0.18.1, there's new themes in your profile settings, including compact and pure black themes! (for the website version of lemmy, version number at bottom of page)
Why YSK: Because that’s friggin awesome?!...
[SOLVED] Lutris WINE .NET Issue During Game Installation - `Failure Processing Application Bundle`
Im trying to install a game through Lutris using the game’s installer and I keep coming across the same error that I can’t really find much information on. It seems to be an issue with dotnet itself or the actual game installer and not WINE though, so I am unsure how to proceed....
What do you think is responsible for lemmy’s growth over other alternatives like KBin and Tildes?
Is it speed? Features? Ease of development? Just curious why lemmy is seeing more activity as opposed to other networks.
Online dating (lemmy.world)
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
How do I delete all comments from Reddit data export csv for free?? (kbin.social)
I have got my privacy report in CSV form and have about 40k comments each with the id parent Id and permalink. Is there a way to parse this to delete script. I know shreddit does.it for $15 premium but looking for free options
What’s the best distro for gaming on linux? Any tips and tricks?
Admittedly, the last time I tried it was maybe 5 years ago. I used ubuntu (can’t remember which distro) but I recall having to fiddle a lot with drivers and WINE. Is the scenario still the same today?...
Raspberry Pi - Arch Linux or Raspberry Pi OS
Hi everyone,...
GDPR
Drive we are so privacy focused here. What is to prevent myself or anybody out there, from starting to report individual instances of GDPR and CCPA....
How do you mention a user on Lemmy?
Is there an equivalent to doing /u/user in The Bad Place, to notify and summon someone?
Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized (www.neowin.net)
AI generated images of the 'typical' home in all 50 states, 30 biggest US cities (www.usatoday.com)
How many people here have actually used XMPP?
With all the current discussion about the threat that Instagram Threads has on the Fediverse and that article about how Google Embrace Extend Extinguished XMPP, I was left very confused, since that was the first time I’ve heard that Gchat supported XMPP or what XMPP actually is, and I’ve had my personal Gmail since beta (no,...
Communities & posts not viewable from some instances
I registered with some smaller instances in case of server issues and defederation (beehaw) with lemmyworld. I noticed a community [email protected] that I follow from Lemmy.world is not viewable at all on lemm.ee or midwest.social for some reason. It does not come up in search and if I manually go to it’s empty. If I go to my...
The Federation Fallacy (rosenzweig.io)
An interesting article I saw (from 2019) describing the potential intrinsic tendency for decentralized platforms to collapse into de facto centralized ones....
Meta will kill small instances! Please read.
I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight....
Why I Probably Hate your Favorite Video Game's "Awesome Story" (an incomplete list)
Your favorite game’s “awesome story” merely goes through the motions when portraying conflict...
threads is already going great 💀 (lemmy.world)
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Best Lemmy client for Android?
I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?
Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others? (lemmy.ca)
Android Auto Lets You Use Google Maps on Phone, Car Display Simultaneously (www.cnet.com)