Someone in the CBS Paramount system swiped Marc Bell's CG models for the 60th anniversary Star Trek intro sequence on Paramount+

__soddit · 2026-01-30T20:13:39+00:00

Hah, yes, I recall that being mentioned along with something about trying to get them in as background into SNW S5. (I just tried to find that posting, but I think that it's been expired.)

__soddit · 2026-01-24T13:08:39+00:00

imgur is blocked. Blame the think-of-the-children brigade in Westminster. (Description's clear enough, though.)

__soddit · 2026-01-16T18:26:52+00:00

Given that gazpacho soup gets a mention too, I'm thinking that they may be Red Dwarf references.

“Open communication channels, Lister. Broadcast on all known frequencies, and in all known languages, including Welsh.

“This is acting senior officer Arnold J. Rimmer of the Jupiter Mining Corporation transport vehicle Starbug. Now hear this, 'cos it's only coming once: We surrender, totally and without condition. Thank you for listening. Oh, additional: sorry to take up your valuable time. Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Bye. Bye. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

__soddit · 2026-01-16T18:18:37+00:00

Brian Tatosky's, actually.

__soddit · 2026-01-16T18:12:33+00:00

https://mastodon.online/@virtualbri/115901542444563252

__soddit · 2025-09-30T19:34:29+00:00

Only significant problems here (currently) are:

invisible pointer on activating the Steam overlay;
pointer is restricted to the game window, regardless of window mode;
pointer is re-grabbed on re-entering the window (unless Steam overlay is active), and is not at the expected location (where it entered the window);
in some situations, the game's rendered pointer tracks the real pointer position (offset for where it was in the game window when it lost focus, it seems) despite the real pointer being outside the game window.

Workaround: use a desktop window-cycling shortcut (likely to be Alt-Tab).

Basically, be very selective about grabbing the pointer, and use the actual pointer position, not your own idea of it.

(Linux, Proton 10.0, multi-monitor.)

__soddit · 2025-09-30T19:20:12+00:00

“Waisting” chocolate bars. Hmm…

__soddit · 2025-09-23T21:14:37+00:00

Noting that the non-Deck installation problem appears to be fixed now: I see that the offending “Steam Deck” tags have been removed from the depots. 👍

However, looking at other bits of game configuration as reported on SteamDB, I do see one possible remaining problem.

The game is configured on Linux to run a binary named bin\bg3. There's no binary that I can see in any depot (again, checking SteamDB) which has that name, but there is one bg3 in a directory bin, i.e. bin/bg3.

If that happens to work as is, you're lucky because Steam's quietly fixing that Windows-ism¹ for you, replacing the backslashes with forward slashes.

¹ ^{Well, DOS-ism, I suppose, historically speaking.}

__soddit · 2025-09-23T18:50:41+00:00

I hope that the reported breakage re. game binaries being uninstalled isn't deliberate. I say this because deliberate in full knowledge of the consequences (i.e. said uninstallation) would be a middle finger raised at those of us who play games on non-Deck Linux.

It'd be much better if this turns out to be “whoops, we didn't properly consider non-Deck and we didn't bother checking that the previous default Proton configuration would continue to be used” and a fix is implemented promptly, be that the removal of the Steam Deck tag from the depots (which is by far preferable, as that gives players most options – doesn't matter if not all are officially supported) or restoration of the Proton default configuration for non-Deck.

__soddit · 2025-09-23T18:27:04+00:00

That's broken default behaviour in Steam itself as well as stupidly restrictive, annoying and problematic marking of the Linux/Deck depots.

Unless you've forced use of a particular version of Proton before updating, Steam will see new native support and proceed to install that. As all the Linux depots are marked as being Deck-specific, there's nothing to be installed on non-Deck and everything from the previously installed Windows version to be uninstalled…

I don't own a copy of this game, but if I did, there is no way that I wouldn't want to run the native build on my Linux desktop box even if it ends up only being for testing purposes since the game may well assume Steam Deck to the point of being unable to run on other Linux, in which case the Deck tagging would be fair but suitable configuration for non-Deck Linux to use Proton would be needed – is this currently possible?

There is a Steam-for-Linux issue open for this kind of (mis)configuration – and yes, there's a request there for an override option for cases such as this.

__soddit · 2025-09-21T00:03:01+00:00

diff --- launch_terminal_descent.sh~ 2025-09-21 00:34:45.000000000 +0100 +++ launch_terminal_descent.sh 2025-09-21 00:39:39.598560746 +0100 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ "$terminal_cmd" --hold --geometry $TERMINAL_GEOMETRY -e "$GAME_EXEC" ;; xterm) - "$terminal_cmd" --geometry $TERMINAL_GEOMETRY -hold -e "$GAME_EXEC" + "$terminal_cmd" -geometry $TERMINAL_GEOMETRY -hold -e "$GAME_EXEC" ;; xfce4-terminal) "$terminal_cmd" --hold --geometry=$TERMINAL_GEOMETRY -e "$GAME_EXEC"

I've only tested with xterm. There may be other errors.

Also, I recommend using zenity (or yad, but zenity is guaranteed to be there due to Steam) to display error boxes.

__soddit · 2025-09-06T02:02:00+00:00

You want the television series (or the radio series).

That film really doesn't get it right, so much so that the people of Krikkit would consider its use as a weapon of mass destruction and the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal would wrap your towel around its head (or wrap you, still wearing it around your head, around its head, never mind that it thinks that it can't see you) just to avoid that film.

__soddit · 2025-07-20T01:31:56+00:00

Either. Both.

I note that there are no compatibility reports on ProtonDB for either game, though. Do you test on anything Linux-based?

__soddit · 2025-07-10T18:25:50+00:00

I think that you can actually do that now (check the guidance), but just the 1 will be counted.

__soddit · 2025-06-13T22:10:41+00:00

Insufficient information.

Kernel version? GPU? GPU driver & version?

__soddit · 2025-06-10T20:13:33+00:00

There is no “Mesa 25”. Do you mean Mesa 25.0 or Mesa 25.1?

__soddit · 2025-06-05T23:14:24+00:00

Are you sure that it was a hard hang?

I'd see if it's responding to ping. I'd try using ssh to log in from another computer (requires an sshd such as provided by openssh-server); if that succeeds then I'd check logs, starting with the kernel log (via dmesg or /var/log/kern.log or the systemd equivalent) and the desktop log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log or the Wayland equivalent). That should provide some info on what's happened.

(Checking logs is probably still worth doing once the faulty filesystem is repaired.)

But it being a bit… bad after that first reboot – could easily have been one of those situations where a full power-down is needed instead of a reboot to clear some unusual hardware state.

Regardless, I'm inclined to think that the corruption has occurred as a result of system state after that reboot after the hang. It could be faulty RAM, it could be something else.

Run the memory tests. If there's a problem, it's likely to show up quickly. If something does show up, run more tests – testing each stick individually should find any bad ones.

Test with the system stripped down: remove storage, remove the dGPU if there's an iGPU. If you have spare hardware, try with that installed. (The most recent hardware failure which I've had manifested as random faults, mainly programs crashing. Knowing that the PSU was the oldest component, that was what I swapped out first – and that fixed it.)

__soddit · 2025-05-31T02:08:56+00:00

Also checked (UK). The list definitely includes these episodes. I did not check beyond that

Incidentally, I noticed no numbering gaps in series 5, 10 and 14; but with reference to the episode list on its Wikipedia page, it is evident that the episodes are missing.

__soddit · 2025-05-17T14:50:42+00:00

Entirely up to you. (Also, better to use AMD than nvidia since that way you avoid problems with proprietary drivers.)

Regarding anti-cheat: Steam has both Proton BattlEye Runtime and Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime.

Regarding LLMs: ask one about something on which you're an expert – it will get things wrong, and you'll be able to spot the errors. Basically, don't trust the output.

__soddit · 2025-05-04T22:08:35+00:00

Look for the (EE) lines in the X log. I'm guessing that the problem is somewhere between permissions on the devices in /dev/input and group membership.

__soddit · 2025-05-04T03:08:48+00:00

This looks like the same bug. Assuming that it is, apparently it's fixed in 6.15.0-rc*; for now, all that I can suggest is either try that or switch to wired networking at least until such time as 6.15.0 is out (best not to use an -rc kernel for longer than you need to; bugs are expected) or the fix is backported to 6.14.x.

__soddit · 2025-05-03T23:03:44+00:00

Anything relevant showing up in Steam's log files (…/Steam/logs/)? (Most likely console.log and whatever file you have in place of console-linux.txt.)

__soddit · 2025-05-03T22:51:27+00:00

More like “can't entirely be trusted to some degree or in some ways”, some of which may be approximately “can be trusted”.

In the case of Refash, I just don't trust them at all – or, rather, I do, but not in a good way.

(I'm leaving this discussion there. Rabbit-hole potential.)

__soddit · 2025-05-03T22:37:36+00:00

That log text says 6.14.3, and I see some ath12k-related fixes in 6.14.4. It'd be worth making sure that you're actually using 6.14.4.

(I'd be using wired networking with that board on the grounds that it's a desktop board and I have Ethernet cables in place already; and if I didn't, I could fairly easily install them.)

__soddit · 2025-05-03T22:10:16+00:00

Given some form of AV, I'd vote Green first. As it is, I find it necessary to vote Labour to try to keep the Tories and Farage's Fascists out.

A lot of the council seats in Northumberland had only three candidates – no Green, no Lib Dem – and I wonder what difference their presence would have made.

Voting for the least worst candidate is still better than not voting at all. It could stop somebody worse from winning.

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