Sounds like my dad trying to use an app on the phone that recently had a minor UI layout change.

Todd finally looked up and saw the guillotine. Now he’s panicking and promising the world to the Xbox Deathsquad.

…it released?

Not that I really cared in the first place. Of all the wannabe Disco Elysium successors, I had the least faith in ZA/UM. They fucked over the creatives, but still believe that they’re the shit.

Correction: It’s SteamDeck=0 %command%. Environment variables can’t have spaces in their name.

If issue #1 is about MangoHUD, you should read its manual to find out how to set the overlay size. If it’s not MangoHUD… you should switch to MangoHUD, it’s a fantastic application.

Issue #2: Gamescope has built-in support for FSR1 and NIS upscaling. Use this as the launch options: gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -w 3840 -h 2160 -F fsr -r 120 -- %command%. This will run the game in a 1080p 120 FPS graphical session, but upscale it to a 4K output resolution using FSR. Unfortunately Gamescope is not perfect and sometimes introduces compatibility and stability issues.

Alternatively, you can use Lossless Scaling for either upscaling or frame generation. It works on Linux and is well-liked, but I’ve never personally used it.

Issue #3:

The default Proton version is the latest one available. You can set it globally in Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility.

By default, games use the global Proton version. If you want a game to use a different version, you can set it in the game’s Properties -> Compatibility by checking the “Force the use […]” checkbox, then selecting one from the menu.

Regressions can and have happened. Steam offers the latest release of every major version, so if a game needs an older version, you can use it. Older 32-bit games in particular might have issues with Proton 10 or above, but it is possible to downgrade.

You can also use third-party compatibility tools that offer different game-specific fixes. The most popular ones are GE-Proton, Proton-EM, and Dawn Winery (the last one specifically for Chinese gacha games with horrid anti-cheat). You can install them by extracting the archives into the ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d directory.

I strongly recommend consulting ProtonDB if you’re having issues with a game.

For a chronic contrarian, I’m sure it looks like that.

Some of those loonies absolutely believe what they preach. Even if it means disregarding objective reality and engaging in fallacies like they’re a safety blanket. They’re the flat Earthers of the Unix-like world, and some of them much worse.

I didn’t do that exactly… but when my boss told me to do overtime during end-of-quarter crunch on a Saturday night shift (Sat 22:00 to Sun 10:00, factory jobs are fun), the next person I spoke to was my family doctor. She put me on a two-week compulsory medical leave with full pay and straight up told me to get a new job. Unfortunately I couldn’t help the company meet their quarterly growth targets. The next time I saw my boss, I handed him my resignation papers.

Sure feels nice to live in a country with real labour laws.

I enjoyed the work itself. It was very autism-friendly. Unfortunately some absolute boneheaded decisions by the middle management wankers during the pandemic resulted in a huge backlog of orders, a shortage of parts, and a constant state of short-staffing.

It’s a resolution they’ve arrived after considering the benefits and downsides of that tool. Nukes can be used for efficient large-scale excavation, but people were sane enough to realize why nuking themselves was a horrible idea.

Considering only the benefits and not the risks and drawbacks of anything is not just reckless. It’s zealotry.

Clap when the light turns green.

The ESA won’t thank you for spreading their rhetoric, you know.

Steam has promised they will never do that

Can you give us a credible source? I want it to be true, but I don’t want my only source to be hearsay.

All of the alternatives eventually run into the same “Will my banking app work on it?” problem. The absence of a healthy app economy is the one thing that can’t be fixed by throwing software engineers at it, and it is what caused the death of Windows Phone.

Also don’t Bethesda handle Doom, now?

No, id Software is the developer company, which is owned by the publisher and published by Bethesda Softworks, both of which are owned by ZeniMax. The “Bethesda” that does actual game development is called Bethesda Game Studios; they handle franchises like Fallout and TES.

Pray tell, how do you think “they” should optimize game assets? People who have zero experience in game development love to talk about “optimization” like it’s a slider in the options or some challenge that can be solved by throwing resources at it. Modern compression algorithms like Oodle are about as performant and artifact-free as mathematically possible. Everything beyond that is a trade-off between quality, size, and performance.

But are you thinking about it in abstract? Would you prefer a game to have occasional pop-in, stutter issues, and CPU spikes in exchange for a smaller size?

(edit) Before you say it, I know there are relatively low-fidelity games that run like ass. Those are usually caused by poorly written game logic or shader codes, which can be refactored, but won’t have an effect on file sizes.

As others have said, Tailscale is the most pragmatic solution. It’s a mesh VPN based on Wireguard. It’s implemented in such a way that you don’t need a static IP and don’t need to open any ports on your firewall. The caveat is that you either need to register an account on tailscale.com (it’s free for small-scale use) or set up a self-hosted alternative like Headscale on a VPS. Then you have to install the Tailscale client on each of the hosts you want to access and log into your account.

Tailscale nodes will be accessible using an internal, private address in the 100.64.0.0/10 address space. You can also set up a split DNS that allows you to access your hosts using a DNS name like hostname.your-tailnet-name.ts.net.

You misunderstand. You have more credibility than the other person in the area of radiology. But you’re also 20 replies deep into an argument where it’s obvious that neither of you will give any ground, fighting over mostly semantics at this point. That’s redditor behaviour.

You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can’t take reddit out of the redditor.

Oh man, that reminds me of this meme I saw the other day:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. For protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent. For depriving us in many cases of the benefit of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

Whoever wrote it must fucking hate America.

Do they accept photographs of my money, or will I have to phone them and jingle some coins at the handset?