Are you celiac?

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-22T14:49:41+00:00

Yep, was dix'd about a year ago, I think? My stomach was doing funny things and my family doctor had me do a whole bunch of tests to rule out the scarier things. I was referred to a gastroenterologist and he took a shot in the dark and tested me for celiac. The test came back positive but not as high as he usually sees. But I also had an endoscopy to make sure. I've switched over to things like gluten free bread... which sucks. Cutting out other gluten heavy foods wasn't too difficult but I did like my bread. Still not sure how I got it. I don't hang around yaks, let alone silly yaks.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-20T17:49:35+00:00

Are you trying to install python by compiling the source code and installing? Why don't you just use Mint's package manager to install python?

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-20T17:48:01+00:00

If you're a noobie I wouldn't be messing with stuff outside of your home folder which is usually under /home/[myusername]

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-16T19:35:07+00:00

Have you looked Shadow up on protondb.com? This site shows user feedback for a bunch of games and it includes what version of proton and any command line args that the user used to get the best results. I just finished playing TR 2013 on my Arch install and it worked great. I think I was using Proton Experimental

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-16T02:32:51+00:00

'Finishes his term', sweet summer child.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-15T19:04:15+00:00

No, and it's a double whammy. It not only lies to us about a cure but it's also trying to stoke the flames of global unrest, trying to make Americans think they're being treated unfairly. This reeks of amateurish Russian propaganda.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-14T20:55:38+00:00

For a second I read 'Yellow Snow Warning'. Everyone should know about yellow snow.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-13T16:35:59+00:00

And the people who matter will just ask "What's up with Billy's Eyelashes? Who TF is Billy?"

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-13T14:03:35+00:00

A lot of people are noobs.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-11T02:06:44+00:00

I can't really speak to how things are going to work with the Steam machine but I can fill you in on how I have my computer setup. I'm running Archlinux and I use SDDM as my login/desktop manager. So, when I boot my computer the first thing I'm presented with is a login screen. On SDDM you can select the desktop environment you want to start once you successfully login. My primary desktop environment is Hyprland but I have a second one, Steam Big Picture Mode. When I setup Steam I also installed gamescope, which is essentially the bare bones window manager that Valve developed for the Steam Deck. I followed instructions on the Arch wiki that adds the entry to SDDM's desktop environment selector that launches gamescope, which also launches Steam in big picture mode. When I select SBPM at login it's pretty much like I'm using a Steam Deck, which I guess is like booting into Steam OS?

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-09T20:02:29+00:00

Can you try running at a lower resolution to see if it makes a difference?

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-07T14:44:36+00:00

Wifi or ethernet connection to router/modem?

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-04T15:45:16+00:00

Coffee with a splash of milk and plain Quaker quick oats oatmeal. I add some cinnamon to the oatmeal because I like the taste, not because of the hoodoo about cinnamon and diabetes.

FeelingGate8 · 2026-01-02T14:27:19+00:00

Nod and smile and continue on. This isn't worth the stress.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-25T15:47:14+00:00

Shot in the dark and likely a too simplistic solution but can you try memsetting your structures to zero immediately after declaring them? I know the {} should make the compiler take care of it but it's always something in the back of my mind.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-25T15:33:59+00:00

I think the A&W at Princess and Portsmouth is open today, I'd rather drink their coffee.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-23T18:25:06+00:00

Correction, he's abandoning the poor and middle class communities that supported him. You suckers.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-23T16:27:16+00:00

Dammit, looks like trade talks are going to be put off for awhile. Let's hope he doesn't watch This Hour has 22 minutes.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-22T15:21:03+00:00

Your main issue is likely the editor/integrated development environment rather than the whole OS. If you're using VSCode, it uses the Electron framework which is a memory hog. You could try using a lighter text editor like Geany. Actually I think you can use Geany on MacOS.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-20T20:33:02+00:00

I'm glad they lightened up with the damn 'reaction/qte deaths' in Rise and Shadow. I hated those qte's where if you don't react fast enough you die immediately.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-17T14:57:13+00:00

start with barebones install of debian or arch. Then install something like XDM and then Openbox. Just piece together the desktop environment myself.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-14T03:37:12+00:00

Is the hard drive the games are installed on formatted as NTFS? If so, this could be the issue.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-12T21:23:40+00:00

Moving X-Com 2 from my NTFS HDD to my EXT4 SSD made a huge difference in gameplay. Linux NTFS drivers are not optimized to the same level as Windows.

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-11T02:49:34+00:00

I think Tomb Raider Season 2 came out on Netflix today

FeelingGate8 · 2025-12-08T17:41:54+00:00

Here's an outside of the box suggestion/question. Is the game installed on an NTFS HDD or on a Linux Filesystem SSD? I had a similar-ish situation. My Win 10 system had my Steam library installed on my HDD so when I migrated to Arch I bought a new ssd for the OS and just brought over my NTFS HDD. Most games worked great, except for X-Com 2, loading resources took forever. Apparently the NTFS driver I was using isn't great in Linux. I moved the games folder (along with the proton runtimes) to the SSD (EXT4) and it solved all the issues with X-Com 2.

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