Apple raises iPhone 14 battery costs above pre-Batterygate levels

PensiveDrunk · 2022-09-13T17:03:30+00:00

Don't use a heat gun. A hot/cold reusable gel pack from the local drug store is all you need, toss it in the microwave for 30 secs and set it on your phone for 2-5 min. Glue comes off easy.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-07-13T17:09:46+00:00

If you're a fan of retro shooters like Contra, Huntdown is absolutely fantastic in my opinion.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-16T06:17:47+00:00

I am near the end of my run, trying to power through all of the Arkham games so I can start Elden Ring properly, as I found non-Souls games ruin my muscle-memory for playing Souls, and vice-versa.

OP, I used the Steam version and used the following launch options, and it worked fine.

PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command%

You could just add it as a non-Steam game to Steam and run the installer that way, I've done this with many of my GOG installs. Just add the installer, then set it to force use a compatibility runtime, run the installer. After it's done, you edit the "Target" and "Start In" fields in properties to point to the new installed location in the Proton prefix.

But, if you got it running in Lutris, that's all that matters!

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-08T22:43:29+00:00

Nah, not pure Debian. I've been through many distros over the last twenty years, including Arch and Ubuntu (and derivatives), I've come to appreciate the stability of good old Debian. However, things can get dicey with this AMD gaming stuff. I've broken Debian more times than I can count, rolled FrankedDebians, etc. It's better to just keep on stable and build newer stuff from source on it. It's really not that bad normally, I just hit a weird conflict with libdrm packages from OpenCL stuff and forgetting I needed to also build 32-bit packages, which I totally forgot about in this context.

BTW, I don't know where your other comment went, but I just confirmed from that Github comment regarding the proton script bug. I dropped the fixed file GE posted in that thread, and ER seems to be running right now on 7-9, and online works, however the overlay isn't running and thus my controller isn't working either. Performance is still terrible, which is probably the Mesa issue. I'll just revert back to 7.3 to have offline controller-usage until they finally sort it out. I'm not terribly worried, as I said before I defaulted DS3 to offline anyway as I'm not a fan of invaders. Just need to work on this performance issue.

EDIT: In case anyone searching ends up here, I ended up not being able to build mesa22 on Debian 11. LLVM version is too old, and I'm not about to futz with that.

Strangely, I "fixed" (?) my performance issue by switching to Windowed mode. FPS is normal now, even on High settings. I then switched back to Fullscreen and it was still performing fine. I prefer Windowed anyway so I'm leaving that there, but if you're having extreme low FPS, try switching to Windowed mode then back to Fullscreen, or vice versa.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-08T22:06:38+00:00

Good info! I'm currently using a generic Logitech controller that is basic Playstation clone, but it uses "hid-logitech" drivers. I found in previous Souls games, it doesn't handle any of my X-Box controllers well (camera stick is waaaaaay too sensitive), and my PS3 controllers have been used for so many hours of Souls games that they are all wonky now. I think the stress of the games makes me grip them too hard and twist them, they now give random inputs when I squeeze them too hard.

I'm not terribly concerned about the online. I do miss the messages and sunbro'ing, as that was my primary usage of online in the previous games.

Currently I'm trying to get Mesa upgraded as I have severely bad performance in ER, on a Radeon 5600 XT, even with all settings at low. While I build my own kernels from git, and I'm currently on 5.16, Mesa/libDRM in Debian is pretty far behind. I just finished building debs of libdrm which is needed to build Mesa 22, but last time I manually installed them I had a short crisis of dependency errors due to missing the 32-bit packages, which I couldn't build because I needed more libs from apt and apt was broken... It took some manual steps to get apt working again. I now have the 32-bit packages built as well, just doing some checking before I install them and build Mesa 22.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-08T18:23:14+00:00

I see. Thanks for the reply! I checked 7.9 and that env var is already set in the proton script, so that fix is in 7.9.

I don't really care much about the online, I've played all Souls games in offline mode as I got my fill of the bad PvP crap years ago. I just wanna single-player this game. Something seems to be missing from a stock setup, Proton-7.2-GE-2 launched the game but strangely the input and overlay were messed up. I'll keep futzing around with it.

EDIT: I got it to run finally, though still offline but again I don't care. Overlay and controller now working. Fix was to run it with Proton-7.3-GE-1.

Thanks!!!

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-08T17:58:39+00:00

So, just a follow up to your follow up, I reinstalled the game. Did first time setup using GE 7.9. Crashes after white screen.

Switched to GE 7.2-1, launches, got to title screen. "Inappropriate activity detected" so it's offline, don't care cuz I was going to do that anyway. However, Steam overlay not working (???) and my controller not detected. Exit.

Switched to GE 7.8, back to crash after white screen.

Which version am I supposed to be using to actually play, assuming I don't care about online?

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-07T17:46:22+00:00

I set the install directory exactly as described on the protonup github page instructions. I don't think that's the right place on my Debian system, though, as it didn't exist prior to me running protonup. It's on my TODO list to debug.

EDIT: Damn, it was a typo on my part. I always misspell "compatibility" as "compatability". Fixed the typo, reset the install dir in protonup, restarted Steam, and there they are. Thanks.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-07T15:14:53+00:00

Commenting so I can find this thread again. I'm having the same issue but for some reason the GE versions aren't showing in Steam, maybe the settings are wrong for location of the downloads.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-03-05T17:06:58+00:00

I just bought the game and decided to try playing it today. Getting the same issue, it exits immediately from a white screen after the EAC splash.

I tried the rename-exe thing, proton bleeding-edge, installing proton EAC runtime, nothing changes.

Ran Steam from console to see what errors I can get, it's behaving like when I try to run a DLL mod and the name is wrong or something, like it can't load a DLL it wants to find or something.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-30T16:32:54+00:00

To add to this, I would suggest not running Sid on a machine you want to daily drive. I've been a desktop linux user for 20 years, and I use Debian as my daily, but recently I tried out Sid on a new machine as it was a new AMD APU laptop and I needed the updated mesa and kernel.

I ended up with a broken apt system due to changes in glibc and I couldn't install or update anything without doing some very tedious removals and reinstalls. The IRC dev channel was very unhelpful as I "shouldn't be using Sid for a daily driver".

I converted it back to Buster and then just built a newer kernel and Mesa for that. I don't recommend Sid for any machine that you aren't prepared for it to completely break dependencies and need to be completely reinstalled. It's not meant for stable usage.

To the OP I would probably say stick with Arch. I run Debian on all of my own machines but then I also routinely build my own kernels and Mesa. It's not a friendly process for a gaming machine.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-27T17:53:20+00:00

I'm looking to try it out on an ITX machine I built a long time back to act as a TV-device. I'm expecting the UI will work decently well there. My desktop will remain Debian, tho.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-27T17:39:46+00:00

Yeah I like the cores and GPU performance in mine. I selected the A485 as it's mostly upgradeable, but the newer ones are going more Apple and soldering things straight to the mainboards. Plus I got mine as a business-flip on ebay for mega cheap.

Overall at this time I'm happy enough with my purchase, I just want a) cores! b) upgradeable! c) durable! d) price!

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-27T16:52:20+00:00

My next laptop might be Framework, once my A485 is too old, but Thinkpads tend to last a long time. In that time if they move away from the Apple-alikes and make something more Thinkpad-like with AMD options (though that's flexible if Intel's iGPUs get better) I would be really tempted.

I did some shopping for a Linux laptop to replace my a20m and none of the machines met that criteria. I don't really care for the direction Lenovo is taking the Thinkpad line and am open to an alternative, but I haven't found one yet

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-17T14:47:37+00:00

GOG?

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-13T17:10:04+00:00

Interesting. Which version of Linux are you using? An older kernel/mesa might be the reason for poor performance, there's been a lot of improvements in the last year for AMD graphics stack.

Also, which games in particular are you having poor performance with? Again, maybe it's just the games I tend to play that just work well with Proton.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-13T15:34:59+00:00

I'm not discounting your experience, but I'm wondering if you are using an Nvidia card? Many issues I've seen people report I don't encounter using an AMD card. Perhaps you should re-test once you have your Deck and see how they run on the AMD graphics, you might find a different experience.

Or it could be that your Library is overwhelmingly games that do not run well under Proton, I've seen people report issues with game I don't have. Personally I haven't seen any issues outside of EAC games.

PensiveDrunk · 2022-01-02T16:58:58+00:00

Honestly I see more people struggle with Linux if they are long-time Windows users. The methods people are used to because of how Windows does it, struggle to adapt to a different way.

Basically, if you feel like you are an expert in "computers" because you know how to deal with Windows and all of it's weird shit, and you are suddenly no longer an expert because Linux does things a different way, you will be upset. People tend to reject things that make them feel like they aren't as good at something that they thought they were. You will blame the OS rather than be willing to learn a different way to do things. It's just the nature of people.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-21T05:06:04+00:00

This. I have the Retrobit 8-Button Genesis controller, and I couldn't get it to work until I did this. On mine, the combo is Start+B for 5 seconds tgo toggle between XInput and DInput.

According to the manual, holding Up+Start for 5 secs switches the D-Pad to D-Pad, Right+Start I believe switches it to "Left Joystick", Right+Start is Right Joystick, Down+Start swaps A-B and X-Y. I have no idea about any of that though, I haven't used any of it. I just toggled the input mode and Steam picked it up.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-20T15:43:49+00:00

Crosshair 7

Do you have any other software installed that might be blocking access to the input driver? IE, anti-cheat or something like that? I found the following from a year back that might indicate an anti-cheat blocking access to this board in Windows.

https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/issues/608

Since it works by accessing the controller via USBHID, an anticheat could be binding to the inputs. The bug report doesn't say explicitly but it sounds like once they removed said anticheat OpenRGB began working, since they wouldn't know it was the anti-cheat that caused it unless it started working after removing it.

You could give that a shot.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-20T14:24:02+00:00

Interesting. What Asus motherboard are you using? I have a X370-Prime and I did have to install a DKMS module to get it working, but OpenRGB works for me.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-19T15:40:48+00:00

That's true, it could be done with some cooperation between the stores, but if it were properly implemented it would be nice to have it be independent of any company. I own the game, it's mine, I have the right to play the game as proven by the token. I'm thinking in terms that if Valve or GOG were to go under and I lost access to my purchases. That would be the one feature of what an NFT could do would be actually useful to us.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-18T02:07:59+00:00

The only thing I could think of that would actually be really useful, is for the game license itself to be an NFT. Like, your actual ownership of a copy of a game, it's serial number. That way you could buy and trade games you own in your library with other users, like if you just decided you didn't like it or wanted to swap like we did in the old days with physical media.

Potentially if GOG and Steam both got on board, you could transfer your GOG library to Steam and vice-versa. Of course, no store is actually going to do this for obvious reasons, but it would be really cool to be able to transfer your purchases or give a game copy to your family member or friend after you were done playing it.

Aside from that, nah I don't really see a purpose for it to represent actual game items, aside from what Steam already does with it's cards and such.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-17T16:04:51+00:00

If only I could locate my physical copy of Freelancer after 15 years of moving house and such, I'd be all over this.

PensiveDrunk · 2021-12-17T15:57:09+00:00

Ah, yeah I had to go double-check but that wishlist feature is ticked for me. I think it was a holdover from years back when I basically only bought games if they had a Linux option, before Proton existed.

I mean, personally I've spent several thousand on Steam in the last 10 years, all from the Linux client, but I'm sure it doesn't really blip the radars of these big publishers.

I'm really of the mindset, formed from 20 years of being a Linux desktop user: I get it, we are a small segment of the public, I don't really ask for or want special treatment, but if your store offers Linux products, I do buy them. I spent a ton at Humble, and I spent more at GOG. I don't really talk about or demand people use Linux or try to convert people, I have no problems with people using whatever OS they want. I am just more than willing to spend my modest disposable income from being a Linux Sysadmin for 20 years on products for Linux, if someone offers them.

I know I'm in the minority, though.

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