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[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I see. I would suggest looking up other environment variables the Steam Deck sets on boot, but since this doesn't look to be the case, my second suggestion would be hardware spoofing.

But even then, it just doesn't make any sense. Why support only the Steam Deck specifically when it's well known that Valve is updating SteamOS to make it work with other handheld devices like the Legion Go? Assuming they put some kind of hardware checking in the game initialization phase, why go through all this effort just to lose potential players?

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Might be unrelated, but Marvel Rivals has a similar problem. If you just download it and play straight away, it won't open; you have to set an initialization flag SteamDeck=1 to make it open (source)

Maybe it's the same situation and this flag solves the problem, or maybe it's something similar

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tested this today with a friend, and apparently it doesn't need to be a video call, just a regular voice call is enough to do screen share.

I didn't test with a group call though, so I can't tell if it only works with two people.

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but there's also the term "freeware", which means closed source but free to use.

I'll edit my comment for clarity, thanks for the heads up.

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Projects leaching on the work of companies like that, "freeing the code".

You mean it the other way, right? Because these companies you defend use the free labor of voluntary developers from the community, which spend hours and hours developing features, fixing bugs and what not, directly or indirectly. That's how open source works.

When these companies change the project license to a closed source one, they're basically saying a big "f*** you" to the community. Forking the latest open source version of the repository is nothing more than an effort to keep things the way they were.

huge companies will not pay a cent for Linux in the future

Linux is FOSS, you can do whatever you want with it as long as you redistribute it without modifying the license. Android does that; every GNU/Linux distribution does that. That's how it works.

if a license says "you can use it for free, but need to share profits over x$"

What you're describing is "freeware", what this post is discussing is " open source software". There's a giant gap between the two.

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

Shit Smoke, did the C.R.A.S.H. make you sell us out?

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 34 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Well, as a Linux user myself, I used to do this kind of thing when I was getting started and was too damn hyped about FOSS and everything. Now, I simply ask people what they want from a computer and how much are they invested into tech.

Do you want things to be as simple as possible? Use Mac or Windows.

Do you want to learn more about how things work under the hood? Use Linux.

Gaming? Use Windows (and yes, although I'm a proud Proton user, some games just won't work, like Valorant and PUBG).

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Snapper also uses btrfs subvolumes to create snapshots, so if you did create them during your installation process, nothing to worry about.

I don't remember if there is a way to create them after the installation, neither if it's a tough process tho. I used to simply reinstall when I messed up with the subvolumes.

 

Hey everyone. I've been playing on Linux using proton for a while and stumbled across this scenario: you click "play" and the game won't start, it doesn't even bring up the "compiling vulkan shaders" card sometimes. This post is about a fix I've been using and wanted to share.

Use a process analyser (I use htop) to search for a process with the word "DIRECTX" or "DXSETUP". This process should run right after you install the game and click to play for the first time, as a post-install script. In my experience, this process usually hangs and stops the game starting sequence. Since I know my Proton setup already have DirectX updated, I kill this process (using signal 9 - SIGKILL) and the game starts booting normally.

I'm currently using GE-Proton8-14 and Pop!_OS 22.04

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using qBittorrent in "mixed mode" (clearnet + i2p), and honestly it's amazing, even though there's no current DHT implementation for i2p. Sure, you have to configure your client to automatically add the i2p trackers and everything, but it's a huge step forward IMO.

I've also tested how one could "transfer" clearnet torrents to i2p and it went pretty well, even though you have to modify the original .torrent file to be accepted in some i2p trackers (I used postman tracker to test it, and they only accept torrents which all announce URLs are within i2p).

In general, I've found qBittorrent's implementation pretty stable and suitable for day-to-day use, even though it lacks some features.

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not enabled in the 4.6 beta version, I think they'll keep it that way

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No problem bro, most people here don't know that because it lasted for about 4 days or so. Our first president liked our flag and national anthem from the imperial era, so he said it was bullshit to change them. That's why this "Republic of the United States of Brazil" didn't catch on (thankfully), and got forgotten.

[–] valveman@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yes, we used to be.

Source: I'm Brazilian

 

Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically "american" too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?

Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by "Americans", while it doesn't for us.

 

I've recently discovered Radicle, which is a P2P code hosting platform, and I liked its concepts a lot. Any of you guys heard of or used it?

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