Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • You google the game to see if smarter people have done the investigating.

    If not, you parse logs and errors best you can and try to determine what needs enabling. If you get it working, share it on protondb.

    Generally though, enabling “everything” doesn’t come with any direct drawbacks. This is basically what bottles will do when you tell it you want to run a game, which will then allow most games to work fine.

    The latest version of GE is generally what you want, too, as wine/GE isn’t supposed to have regressions requiring the use of an older version with some games.




  • Yes, and every single time, it was because filesystems have ways to recover when things go wrong.

    But make no mistake, things went wrong. Every time. Even if no files were damaged, the next system accessing the volume would run into a file system that wasn’t exited properly.

    And while “never do it while it’s being accessed” improves your chances, due to write caching you can’t actually know if the medium is still writing or reading. Or internally in the middle of a process organising data structures. Or being checked for damage by a background process because the filesystem was flagged for repair due to inconsistencies. Or in the case of spinning rust, in the middle of a background defrag. Or in the case of flash storage in the middle of a trim.

    If you have a forgiving boss you could tell him “fuck you” to his face every morning… But why would you? Maybe one morning he’ll be cranky, and that one time he’ll take offence and actually fire you.



  • Don’t do that.

    fstab is just a config file so the computer knows what drives and storage volumes its supposed to have when it boots.

    You can add and remove drives without ever editing fstab. Plugging something in should give you the option to mount it in your file explorer, and in the same place you should be able to “eject” it before disconnecting the actual cable.


  • I threw together a helper tool using python. Whenever possible, it automates all the various steps of creating posts, such as crediting the artist, including links to their socials, shrinking large image files, uploading the image to a host…

    It also doesn’t actually post at the same rate that I find things to post. I was having to stop myself or I would go on spammy posting sprees when doing it manually, because I usually find hundreds of pieces worth sharing at a time. The tool lets me queue up all those posts with very little of the tedium of copy pasting links and artist names, and instead of me making a hundred posts all at once, it spreads them out over time.



  • As maybe the main culprit behind such content, I can comment.

    I’d love to err on the side of caution. Unfortunately that isn’t how the NSFW toggle is used, and erring on the side of caution any more than necessary comes with drawbacks in terms of post visibility and community growth.

    Posts like the one you linked perform orders of magnitude better when not marked NSFW, which means they reach more people who want to see them when un-tagged, than didn’t want to see them.

    And tagging them, in fact achieves the opposite.

    This is because people scroll past content marked NSFW regardless of what it is. Because they can’t see what it is. Except when they are looking for porn.

    So while I didn’t stop using the NSFW tag, I pushed the needle a bit and stopped marking everything even slightly revealing as NSFW “just in case” because it was literally hiding it from the people who wanted to see it, and leaving just the porn enthusiasts to check the actual images, who’d then down-vote it because it wasn’t actually porn.

    I am myself completely uninterested in actual pornographic content on Lemmy, yet as someone who doesn’t mind it, I actually do not hide NSFW content, and even disable blurring it by default.

    Because the binary tagging of NSFW is utterly useless as a tool for curating away content I do not want to see, as a SHIT-TON of content I DO want to see would go with it.

    Instead I use the list view in Thunder with its small thumbnails, making the occasional porn very difficult to spot over my shoulder, but allowing me to much more properly vet what posts I open and view in full size.

    I am fairly certain that a lot of the people who engage with my many “moe” communities, are, like me, quite uninterested in actual explicit content. As such they do not engage with posts marked NSFW, or perhaps even disable it entirely on their accounts.

    The NSFW toggle isn’t enough, and its purpose and exact threshold varies wildly depending on your sensibilities.

    This content isn’t porn, yet if I run my communities as if it is, they don’t get traction.

    If I run my communities like they’re for porn, they’ll mostly be frequented by people who post and look for exactly that. But they won’t fit in because I don’t allow nudity, and the stuff I do allow isn’t the kind anyone settles down to actually get off to, despite some of it being arousing. So, my communities don’t belong on that side of the fediverse, but at the same time they don’t entirely belong on the SFW side of a lot of people’s feeds either.

    Yet, to reach the people like myself, but who unlike me don’t make the insane effort of checking every NSFW post to see if it’s not porn, that’s where they have to exist.









  • I’m not sure whether you’re kidding, but I wouldn’t complain either.

    Five and six are not good games, but played in co-op, slightly drunk, they are a riot of cringe, ridiculousness and camp.

    We laughed our asses off in the Ada story sections where the second player constantly pops into existence as a faceless “agent” because Ada doesn’t normally have a companion, but they had to make her sections somehow playable in co-op.

    The games are top tier material to laugh at.