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Bruno Finger
Bruno Finger @ brunofin @lemm.ee
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  • COVID. Lost 10kg.

  • Yeah quickemu is great. I am using it to run a Windows 11 machine to run a .NET 4 backend with all routing and proxying setup perfectly so it all seamlessly points to localhost from Fedora. I also have a Mac OS VM to test all the Safari bs, but as mentioned the lack of GPU acceleration on osx is annoying.

  • I had COVID the day after Christmas and still feeling crappy. Idk don't know if this is nornal. Doctors can't find anything wrong with me.

    At this very moment I need to take a break from work to lie down and take a nap, I am completely out of energy. I had strong headaches yesterday the whole day.

    I just need this to end, I want to have my life back.

  • +1 for longboarding, it's such a nice feeling to just go and see the world passing by.

    I'm waiting for summer to try stand up paddling this year.

  • Unfortunately yes. From my 3rd grade daughter's class she the only one with parental controls turned on on her phone. The amount of time and the things those kids see and do on the internet with unrestricted access at this age is mentally unhealthy and they are just not ready for that. Unfortunately because of that it also means I can't fully prevent her from being exposed to that in the classroom.

  • I've been having the best experience with a laptop with an Nvidia GPU on my fedora 39.

  • I used to use the Brazilian ABNT-2 layout, it's pretty much just a US layout with accent keys that activate like a second layer for some specific keys to display specific Portuguese language characters such as ç á à â ã é è etc. It's surprisingly ok for programming as it doesn't get in the way because you have special keys to activate the 2nd layer and most of them you need to spread shift + something in order to activate them. I'd say it's a good layout.

  • oh, sorry about that, I didn't realize this could be bad for mobile users. All I needed was a command that could display all system info like distro name and version, kernel version, DE version, etc, I didn't necessarily need the distro logo and some other useless info in there.

  • Seems to have fixed the issue, it didn't reboot overnight. Thanks!

  • I just thought it was the easiest way to show relevant system information :p

  • Thanks, I had screen sleep set to 10 minutes. Hibernation has been off since a long time. I will let you know by tomorrow if this fixed it.

  • not rude. yeah it's a login screen as when I input my password all apps that I was using are closed, blank new session.

  • I wish you a well recovery.

    I was feeling pretty bad a few days before Christmas. Couldn't breathe, anxiety level off the roof. I did a COVID test from the pharmacy which was negative, which in turn made me feel even more anxious about my health. A day after Christmas I was so bad I went to the hospital. They tested me there and in less than a minute it was a positive.

    It was a pretty bad COVID, I got vaccinated about 2 years ago but this was the first time I actually got it. It went pretty pretty bad.

    I am still suffering from long COVID symptoms, mostly issues with short breath etc. Currently lying down on the couch trying to get better. I really hope this ends soon, I need my life back.

    I hope you don't have to go through the same thing. I really wish you a swift recovery.

  • Started with Ubuntu back in 2016 when it still had the reddish brown mud theme. I still have some.of the installation discs you could order back then.

    I started using because I started Computer Science university and I thought I should finally learn Linux. Fell in love with it and have been using ever since. I now use Fedora.

  • This one is going to be an unconventional one but I do love the Ubuntu font and I try to sneak it into some documents I write.

  • Right, I guess if you already the wow client, you could skip it all and just add wow.exe as a non-steam game to your library and try that, it should work.

    Otherwise if you're dealing with the old school wow installer wizards, I guess you can follow the steps in a similar way except use the wow installer where it mentions the battle.net installer.

  • Yeah you can Google how to install wow on Steam deck and follow the guide, with a caveat that on the steps between installing battle.net and creating a launcher for it on Steam after it's installed, I suggest moving the contents of the proton bottle to a shared space so you keep you credentials. Let me get on my pc in a few minutes and I'll get you some instructions.

    EDIT:

    this is what I did:

    • Download Battle.net installer from https://downloader.battle.net/download/getInstaller?os=win&installer=Battle.net-Setup.exe
    • Add it to Steam from the Games > Add a non-steam game to my library...
    • Right click on it from Steam library, Properties..., Compatibility, check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" and select Proton Experimental. Close the window.
    • Run the installer by double-clicking it in your library. Go through it as usual, make sure you uncheck to start it with Windows, and to mark Keep me logged in.
    • Install WoW (don't need 100% installation, just start it), and click on the cog icon and Create a desktop shortcut (no shortcut will be created in your desktop)
    • Open Battle.net settings and in App, On Game Launch, set to Exit Battle.net completely.
    • You can also mark When clicking X, Exit Battle.net completely.
    • When done, close it fully (from tray and etc).
    • Navigate to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata and find the folder with the Battle.net installation (it's going to be the one with a longer name, and most recently modified).
    • (Optional, see footnote) Move the contents of the pfx folder somewhere else like ~/.local/games/proton_prefix/pfx and create a symlink from ~/.local/games/proton_prefix/pfx to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx:
     
        
    ln -s ~/.local/games/proton_prefix/pfx ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx
    
      
    • In your steam library, find the Battle.net installer, right click > Properties...
    • Change the shortcut target to
     
        
    "~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx/drive_c/users/Public/Desktop/World of Warcraft.lnk"
    
      

    And Start in to:

     
        
    ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx/drive_c/users/Public/Desktop
    
      

    You can also find an icon in

     
        
    ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/XXXXXXXX/pfx/drive_c/proton_shortcuts/icons/256x256/apps
    
      
    • In WoW, make sure to disable vertical sync.

    Footnote: The reason for moving the proton prefix folder away is that this way you can have a shared proton prefix for all your non-steam proton games with the advantage of keeping a shared login state and etc between the apps since the registry is stored inside the pfx folder, but have a separate shortcut for each in your steam library by always creating this symlink back to the shared folder, and the ability to tune proton settings to each different application separately as those settings they are kept in the parent folder.

  • I installed it just yesterday through Proton on Steam, worked absolutely perfectly out of the box, Fedora 39, better performance than on Windows 11.

  • In my case it was due to need. I didn't get any PS1 emulators to run well on my laptop at the time (a Windows 10 Microsoft Surface Book 2) and if I recall was due to old OpenGL libraries used in all emulators, but DuckStation implements DX11 and Vulkan, and performance was simply brilliant, so by modern that's what I meant.