Instead, I asked my friend Karthikeyan Singaravel, who is a Python core developer, and he recommended using the deadsnakes PPA for Ubuntu to install any version of Python that I chose.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but deadsnakes is noob bait. It has some utility and convenience for sure, but it’s not portable and will probably hold you back long-term.

Unless you’re running bleeding-edge releases and need managed updates, just pull a tarball from python.org, and follow the README using make altinstall. You can do it; I promise.

If you are in the bleeding-edge camp, conda or uv are more flexible options that fill the same niche and more.

1000% agreed; it’s not terribly risky in the general case.

But I don’t want to mislead anyone into getting their bank account stolen if they like to hang out on russian warez sites.

I know I’m about to get rotten fruit thrown at me… but if you’re finding this rig almost good enough and don’t use it for anything security-sensitive, disabling CPU exploit mitigations will get you a substantial boost (~20-30% additional IPC throughput).

Only go this route if you understand the repercussions; see Arch Wiki for details: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance

Samples of every form of biological matter we encountered were ingested, and the results were recorded in a logbook. Most of the leaves and twigs were unpalatable, chewy and inert, while the animals universally avoided analysis because they were too fast to catch.

This is a banger. RIP to our boy George.

Mostly using it as a punchline, but a lot of people dislike the complexity and footguns: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

And I mostly work in python, so the config.py approach is close at hand and generally superior.

The “OP” is an LLM-based spambot with 26 similarly-prompted posts in the past 4 hours since it was created.

No sane developer thinks YAML is a good idea; obvious tell.

You’ll have to install Java and download Runelite as a JAR (IIRC it’s labeled as the “All Platforms” download option on Runelite.net.

You can definitely set up /games/ as a directory but you’ll want to set it up with the right permissions for your Steam Deck user to access it using the chmod and chown commands.

Details will depend on how you mount your drive though. Unfortunately the power and flexibility of Linux means there’s no single “right” way to do these things.

Try removing the echo call, and if that fails, try running Runelite as a JAR.

You might also want to move your JAR or AppImage to somewhere like /home/zidane/.local/bin for good measure, so it doesn’t get wiped as easily.

Stephen Dubner did an excellent deep dive on the topic if you’re interested in a long-form intro: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-you-trust-private-equity-to-take-care-of-your-dog/

But to TLDR, consolidation like what VCA has been doing generally means less autonomy for workers, higher prices for customers, and worse clinical outcomes.

Been happy on ZFS since before btrfs stabilized and worked out its kinks, so I can’t personally vouch for it — but nothing against it in theory :).

Since no one else has said it yet, ZFS is underrated for gaming. Compression saves considerable disk space if you have a big library, you can stripe HDDs for better performance, and snapshotting makes backups a breeze.

Meanwhile on the mycology, houseplant, and gardening comms:

This isn’t storing the game in RAM; it’s caching it — which isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want fast load times and do any sort of substantial disk IO between system boot and game launch.

Not tryna get too analytical on a meme post, but tmpfs is the correct way to do this for anyone wanting to pull this sorta thing off seriously.

On most distros, Flatpak has a separate auto-update process that runs independent of system upgrades. Disabling that “feature” should solve the problems you’re seeing.