I’m too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we’d save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads

Moore’s “law” died back in 2016. It’s not held for a while now. The only way they can scale the way they want without a major breakthrough is more power and larger machines

Alright, I’m on Linux Mint. Steps I took:

1. Downloaded version 0.8.2 c
2. Right clicked and chose “Extract Here”
3. In steam added non steam game (chose VotV.exe)
4. Right clicked game in library
5. Properties
6. Compatibility
7. Checked Force the Use of specific compatibility
8. Chose Proton 9.0-4
9. Closed window
10. Clicked play
11. When the popup saying “following component(s) are required” I clicked install c++ runtime <- This will install it only for this game, my understanding is steam using a prefix for every game and this will install it for this game’s prefix
12. Let it install (just yes through the checkboxes, I changed none of the settings)

Ran perfectly fine after that (well, I spent five seconds in the tutorial after “rendering icons” took like five minutes). I believe ProtonTricks has a branch somewhere that can be used to somewhat more manually install things to non-steam games in your library, but I’ve not gone looking for it.

I will say I thought you were talking about a steam game since you mentioned proton and this is an article about proton. For non steam games a lot of people prefer to use Lutris, I’ve never used it so I can’t speak to anything about it. You could also use winetricks to install vcrun2022 (the c++ runtime that it’s asking for) and then just use wine to run the game but that feels weird in this day and age.

Sorry, that’s all I got

I know exactly what you’re talking about and it’s why I don’t eat popcorn.

Can you link the game? I caught the flu and so have a bit of spare time to debug. Just want to make sure I’m not looking at the wrong game

Set launch options WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command%

If that doesn’t work let me know and I’ll dig further for ya.

In case you don’t know, for any of those games that don’t work, check ProtonDB. Often some easy additions to run arguments get it going and people post them here

It opens my programs menu (or start menu to use the Windows vernacular). It’s still incredibly useful for me to have it that way

stares at the nopal in my fridge hmmmmm.

And 36 angry emoji.

Oh good lord no. Who knows what bacteria they’ll start ingesting because the water is “raw”

My wife just reminded me I haven’t made pozole rojo in a while. Guess this is my sign to get cooking.

I don’t know why people keep saying this. I wonder if it’s an old thing? I’ve got three people with dedicated Nvidia gpus on mint and they’re just fine. The driver manager just works.

Yeah AI is not the right choice for this. Plenty of procedural algorithms for this already. It’s just very cost expensive hardware wise.

It’s cool. I’ll just give them paracetamol. They won’t know

I would recommend moving off of Duolingo if you can. What you move to depends on the language you’re learning. They fired a bunch of their language developers and went hard on AI.

I help run a community for Welsh learners and we’re finding more and more people coming in with questions about a Duolingo lesson where things are wrong and weird. Plus their business practices aren’t great. They realized that they make money from you staying on the app, not learning a language, so your progress is artificial stunted. Plus the complete lack of grammar explanation at all we’re finding hurts people more than helps

As a general recommendation, textbooks are so much better.

I also see Gmail. I don’t have a recommendation for a replacement as I’m doing my research on it now, but getting away from Google is a good idea

Pelennor, when the walls fell

Cloning is very different though. In cloning you aren’t exactly copying the neurons and their connections. That means the cloned cat will learn different things, be different, just from that very fact. All it takes is one or two small daily differences in routine as the kitten grows and bam, different personality.

It’s the classic struggle of how much is nature (genetics) and how much is nurture.

With teleportation the neutral pathways are copied. It becomes more of a question of what makes you “you”. Is there some spirit that gets left behind? Is it the memories that do get copied? Is it merely enough that you believe you’re you?

That reminds me. Need to go clone some grape cultivars and do some more guerilla gardening at my buddy’s house