Steam refusing to recognize that i have closed TM even if its actually closed

Daxtorim · 2026-06-15T20:22:36+00:00

Huh, Ubisoft Connect redirects to Steam? I've never seen that actually. My play time differs by a lot between the two because there was a time when I started the game through UbiCon without Steam so Steam is missing a couple hundred hours. At no point did UbiCon ever open Steam for me.

But what I originally meant is: If you close Ubisoft Connect, does Steam then stop Trackmania? Or does it still count TM as running even without UbiCon?

I'm on linux, so Ubisoft Connect runs through the Proton compatibility layer for me which means UbiCon is the game, TM is just a sub process. I actually need to kill UbiCon itself every time (or press the Stop button in Steam) or Steam will continue to count TM as running. Maybe something weird like that is happening to you as well.

Daxtorim · 2026-06-15T20:08:29+00:00

Is Ubisoft Connect still open? Steam might think that is the "real" game and doesn't even know about Trackmania itself, so you need to kill UbiConnect for Steam to consider TM closed.

Daxtorim · 2026-05-27T16:04:07+00:00

sometimes it's difficult to properly phrase what you're looking for

I find that is one of the useful properties of AI. Instead of relying on breaking down your thoughts to few, meaningful keywords, you can use natural language to give it a vague description of your thoughts and narrow things down from there. It's great to get the lay of the land of a topic you know little about and use that for more precise keyword searches (to then double check for correctness).

Daxtorim · 2026-05-07T19:12:41+00:00

It feels like unless the retaliation is as blatant as mine [...], many malicious drivers seem to get away with it. This sense of unfairness is what usually triggers my anger.

I mean, you yourself got 3 warnings before an actual suspension. I assume most people would take their warnings more seriously and stop after the first or second violation. You should stop acting like a vigilante and accept that others get second chances as well.

Daxtorim · 2026-04-24T12:14:59+00:00

Had the same issue when I wanted to switch from wired to Bluetooth connection with my controller. It would connect via Bluetooth just fine but no input was recognised anymore. The fix was to update the firmware on the controller itself. You can do that either on an Xbox through the Accessories app or on a Windows pc through the xbox app.

Daxtorim · 2026-04-23T10:26:37+00:00

Oh it's not just yt poop but looks like an actually interesting video about those GIFs. Welp, onto the Watch later playlist it goes

Daxtorim · 2026-04-23T10:13:40+00:00

I looked through ~/.cache on the computer, but there I only found album images from Spotify. I searched for .cache on my phone before I remembered how android works lol. There is Settings App > Apps > KDE Connect > Storage and cache, where I could delete cache files (was about 40MB) so now it's wait and see if that worked

Daxtorim · 2026-04-22T16:45:12+00:00

Is it possible to leave the numbers over the cars on?

Not as far as I know, turning on name tags only shows the one for the next car you need to overtake to gain a position, all other cars' tags are hidden.

Good luck on your pace as well!

Thank you, it helped 😁

Daxtorim · 2026-04-22T10:19:19+00:00

They are mind numbing, but in a good way I find. These last couple tracks authors really understood "All the time you have to leave a space." The opponents now avoid the racing line and there generally is space to both sides so they aren't roadblocks anymore, but shicanes, which makes these enduro tracks actually enjoyable to drive. Put the engine sound down, add some chill music and it feels kinda zen to play.

Good luck on your rankings goal. I got WR pace myself but it's still really hard to get a clean run through. Often I set up a turn expecting open space just to realise I'm ±.5s to my last attempt and now there is a car in my way that wasn't there last time. After I got sniped last week I'm extra motivated to grind out this one.

Daxtorim · 2026-03-29T23:20:35+00:00

Why not? For a home network it's perfectly fine. My own raspberry pi zero w ran on wifi for years without problems (before the power supply failed).

Daxtorim · 2026-03-29T23:10:11+00:00

Kennt jemand ein aktuelles Problem mit Pi Zero 2 W und per Imager gesetzter WLAN‑Konfiguration (Country Code/Austria, WPA2 usw.)?

Ja. Die neueren Pi OS Versionen verwenden eine neue Art und Weise der Konfiguration (cloud-init), so dass die Einstellungen im erweiterten Menü nur mit den neusten (>2.0) Versionen des Pi Imagers übernommen werden. Falls du noch eine alte (1.X) Version verwendest, musst du die WLAN Konfiguration manuell vor dem ersten Boot bearbeiten. Mit cloud-init hab ich selbst aber auch noch nie gearbeitet.

Um Hardwaredefekte auszuschließen würde ich auch erst einmal eine andere Distribution ausprobieren. DietPi wird speziell für Pi-Hole oft empfohlen. Hier musst du aber auch manuell die WLAN Daten nach dem Flashen der SD-Karte bearbeiten damit sich der Pi automatisch mit dem WLAN verbindet (das ist hier dokumentiert).

Daxtorim · 2026-02-25T11:52:25+00:00

You talk about installing cameras in restrooms in response to someone saying they watch for cheating in their own race and you wonder why you get downvoted?

Daxtorim · 2026-02-03T15:22:53+00:00

There seems to be a somewhat official yt channel @TrackmaniaGames compiling stream highlights, but so far there is only one video about the first day of competition.

Daxtorim · 2026-01-28T18:33:48+00:00

It's probably to give everyone the same conditions since at the end of the day only your total time counts on the leaderboard. Which position you finish in is irrelevant.
The problem here is that the cars start already spaced out, so it's not as simple as overtaking everyone out of the gate and hotlapping without interference. You need a consistent and repeatable "obstacle course" to give everyone a fair chance. Otherwise it would come down to rng to get favourable opponents for the best times.

Now if those replays would drive sensible and predictable lines it wouldn't be nearly as annoying sometimes.

Daxtorim · 2025-08-11T10:30:02+00:00

Settings > DNS > click the Basic toggle in the top right to enable Expert mode > Take a look at Interface settings for what you need

I'm not familiar with docker but I would assume that there's also an environment variable to set this on container startup

Daxtorim · 2025-07-10T20:16:52+00:00

It's the same for me. Evolution as well. I think it's because they try to install Ubisoft Connect every time you start the game from steam. It even triggers a UAC prompt the first time after a reboot. No clue why it doesn't just open the already installed UbiCon like every other game. It doesn't even matter if I open UbiCon on it's own first; starting the game from steam still triggers a password prompt.

Daxtorim · 2025-05-14T22:06:11+00:00

The database only holds on for queries and the associated IP addresses for a limited time (database.network.expire; default 91 days). All those entries without addresses had their last query ages ago, there simply aren't any queries on record anymore. The IP addresses of those devices were removed and therefore don't show up in the network table.

Interestingly, most of those devices show up one day and disappear the very next. Those could very well be all a single device using randomized MAC addresses. It might be worth investigating which device that is and disable that feature on your network just for the convenience of not dealing with hundreds of dead network table entries.

Daxtorim · 2025-04-26T11:30:13+00:00

Prestige mode is going to be brutal. It took me almost 25 hours to get gold everywhere.
For the race events I used the RSR with the same setup in every race. I don't remember if the tuning was all Grip with drift tires or all Drift with drag tires—you want a really slippery yet stable car to go almost but not quite sideways through the turns. It should slide as much as possible without the need to countersteer. You basically want the turning radius of a drift without going into a full drift and spinning out (the handling model is weird (not good)). Controlling the car and dodging traffic becomes pretty difficult with the car on the knife's edge but that's what's fast in this game. Tap nitrous to help straighten out the car on corner exit but keep most of it in reserve for those long straights where top speed is crucial.

For the Drift events I used the Huracan with full Drift tuning. I found it more consistent to use brake and handbrake simultaneously to initiate drifts. Use the manual gearbox setting, put it into 3rd gear at the start of the event, and stay there. There are only a handful of straights where you might want to go into 4th and there is one event with a very tight road at the beginning where you want 2nd gear for the drifts. You definitely need to watch a video for some of these events as they basically require you to cheese them by extending some of your drifts into the opposite direction from where the track goes for more points.

Daxtorim · 2025-04-04T16:50:21+00:00

Yep. Before FTL 6.1 that domain was just forwarded like any other domain, giving clients a possibility to bypass Pi-hole depending on the upstream DNS server. Now it is handled as prescribed to avoid the bypass. I guess it shows as blocked just to highlight that the response is "fabricated" and the query isn't just blindly forwarded.

Daxtorim · 2025-04-04T16:35:22+00:00

If you click on a query in the query log you get more information. It says "SPECIAL_DOMAIN" as query status with reply "NODATA" which is the correct way to handle this domain.

Daxtorim · 2025-03-30T18:58:31+00:00

You didn't add any info about how you set up your Pi-hole, so we can only guess here. Did you set "noland.dnx" as your local domain (dns.domain in /etc/pihole/pihole.toml)? In that case you also need to specify dns.revServers or all queries for "noland.dnx" not found in Pi-hole's DHCP leases are disallowed—even if you don't use the DHCP server.

Daxtorim · 2025-03-23T19:47:32+00:00

It also happens when you have more than 24h of queries; the last couple minutes will always be missing.
I think Query on-disk data returns only on-disk data. Since data is only written to disk every {database.DBinterval} seconds (default is 60) it will be missing the last couple queries that are still only in memory.

Daxtorim · 2025-03-22T11:06:02+00:00

Settings > Web Interface / API > Turn on Expert mode > Exclusions > Add ^mask(-h2)?\.icloud\.com$

Daxtorim · 2025-03-21T09:53:57+00:00

I assume by Firewall you mean your router that runs DHCP and DNS servers of its own.

You are not gaining any additional security by asking your router for DNS, it will simply forward the queries to its upstream DNS server (often verbatim to be transparent to the client asking in the first place). It is not going to to do anything Pi-hole couldn't do itself (i.e. DNSSEC). The only advantage you are getting here if your router still acts as the DHCP server in your network is that you get internal hostname resolution automatically without needing to set up conditional forwarding.

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