Additional info, I checked via the web in the instance doesn't appear to have any problems showing the upvote down vote counts, it is just in the main screen on jeroba. If I click a post, I can see the current score in the upper right.

I paid for Puzzle Quest 2 on android like a decade+ ago. It is a local single-player game. It has a validation check when you open the app. That check fails because this game is ancient and the servers are offline.

I want to replay the game I paid for. I have the APK from an APK site. It's even been pulled from steam to push their crappy p2w pq3. Anyone have tricks to crank an APK and bypass a server check? I've decompiled the APK but am in a bit over my head.

Question is in the title, I am a fan of a channel and would like to automatically connect to the swarm and support the broadcast even if I am not watching live. I seem to remember a project that ran in docker and kind of acted like a cdn node for a channel, but I can't find it now. Anyone know of such a solution?

I've been struggling with getting a completely self-sustaining VNC server working on Ubuntu mate, and I'd like some advice from anyone who has been down this road before. My target platform is Ubuntu Mate, and it is a combination of VM's and old laptops that may still have local sessions. I've landed on TigerVNC due to dynamic resolution support (to eventually pair with apache Guacamole), and specifically do NOT want to use x0vncserver as I want this to be separate from the local session should one exist on the laptops.

Ideally, this would be a systemd service for a couple of users. To the best I can tell, I would need a different systemd unit file per user account, which is fine (it'd be easy enough to create a mapping for user to session across systems; when you start a session my user could always be display 10 at 5910 and my wife's could be 11 at 5911, etc). I have seen a LOT of struggle with this, particularly in recent ubuntu, because of some changes. Specifically, this cannot be a user systemd service as those do not run until the user logs in, and I want these started at boot. I've followed these guides below:

https://bytexd.com/how-to-install-configure-vnc-server-on-ubuntu/ https://superuser.com/a/1724271

At this time, my systemd unit looks like this:

/etc/systemd/system/vncserver.service

[Unit]
Description=TigerVNC Server
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=surfrock66
Group=surfrock66

WorkingDirectory=/home/surfrock66
PIDFile=/home/surfrock66/.vnc/%H%i.pid

ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -localhost no :%i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :%i

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

At this time, my xstartup file looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey 
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &
/usr/bin/mate-session 

This works when my user launches the vncserver from the terminal, but when launching from a systemd service, it fails to start. I believe this is somehow due to user environment variables not being set; I've seen some guides recommending running the execStart commands as "su -l surfrock66 " to force the user's environment, but I have nothing to support that. Here's the front of the log file for the systemd service when I try to start it:

Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com vncserver[12983]: New Xtigervnc server 'hostname.subdomain.domain.com:1 (surfrock66)' on port 5901 for display :1.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com vncserver[12983]: Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth,TLSVnc -passwd /tmp/tigervnc.WITIzx/passwd hostname.subdomain.domain.com:1 to connect to the VNC server.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.a11y.Bus' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=12995 comm="x-window-manager")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.4' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13008]: dbus-daemon[13008]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=12995 comm="x-window-manager")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13008]: dbus-daemon[13008]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com org.a11y.Bus[13024]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=12996 comm="/usr/bin/mate-session")
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com dbus-daemon[13000]: [session uid=1000 pid=12998] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/surfrock66/.config/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop: Key file does not have key “Name” in group “Desktop Entry”
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: Custom constructor for class GsmAutostartApp returned NULL (which is invalid). Please use GInitable instead.
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: could not read /home/surfrock66/.config/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'marco-compton' of required component 'windowmanager'
Oct 17 15:58:11 hostname.subdomain.domain.com mate-session[12996]: WARNING: Unable to find provider '' of required component 'dock'

My son is turning 9 and has been using his computer more and more. he has my old System76 wild dog from 2010, which is a great computer, but is way past the end of its life. He mostly plays minecraft and browser games, though he is doing more artistic stuff in gimp and even a bit of cad for our 3d printer or in blockbench.

We're looking at a System76 Meerkat for him. For most things I think it would be a huge upgrade, but it is NOT a gaming computer. That being said, his requirements are slim. He mostly plays Switch or on the tablet for "gaming" and I think if it ever came down to it, we could explore things like external GPU's. He's not even on steam yet.

The Meerkat can use Intel UHD graphics, or Iris Xe graphics depending on the CPU. I would like some subjective feedback on if those are workable for a kid's computer, the specs are here (we'd probably go 12th gen CPU): https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat#specs

I think I'm ready to elevate from bonded 1G networking to 10GB. I tend to have used/old netgear equipment at home, purchased on the cheap. I think I'm finally seeing enough latency when trying to run OS's on my proxmox server with storage on my TrueNAS that I want to move to 10G networking.

Looking to replace my existing 12-port L3 switch (6 ports are occupied) with either RJ-45 or SFP based 10G, I think I will need realistically 16 ports. Storage will specifically be moved from my 48 port L2 witch with 4-1G bonds, carrying storage and networking, to probably 2 10G bonds dedicated to storage, which currently means I need an additional 6 ports right now, so 12 total used, then planning for future expansion, 16 port minimum.

I've been crawling ebay, but the barrier to entry is way higher than my foray from unmanaged to managed networking. I keep landing on Netgear M4300, where the price ranges from about $1000-$2400. I can save up for these, but is there a better way to get into 10G? I've seen some HP Procurve switches that seem way more cost reasonable, but my networking peers have told me to completely stay away from HP networking.

Any thoughts are appreciated!