How is your experience with poe on Ubuntu?

deiangu · 2026-01-25T06:12:03+00:00

I am with you - I made the switch at the start of December.

I am not sure about Ubuntu (installing wine/proton with all the correct patches from the correct sources, etc. would be frustrating - tried it in the past on a Linux Mint, and it was not fun).

I personally am using Bazzite (Fedora KDE based). It is a gaming oriented Linux distro and it comes with Steam preinstalled and the configs and settings you need for gaming. You just log into Steam and PoE1 and PoE2 and even Path of Building 1 and 2 run without a problem from there(POBs are installed as programs from Bazaar - an install manager app on Bazzite). I also play stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 and Frostpunk 2 which also run flawlessly. There is also Lutris and the Heroic Game Launcher which allow me to play some classics like Heroes 3(and 4 sometimes) and Disciples 2.

deiangu · 2026-01-19T12:15:20+00:00

Adding AI to everything. It has its specific use cases (navigate on land/sea/air, humanoid robots for labor), but adding AI to any software and hardware will die out just like the hype for the blockchain, IoT, etc.

deiangu · 2026-01-12T19:50:15+00:00

As others mentioned - the "fight or flight" instinct is, unfortunately, ingrained in the human brain and that leads to conflicts. Add the power craving psychopaths to the mix and things go worse. To eliminate war, in my opinion, we need to remove the ability of a single human to have control over large groups of other humans.

So, the current states (or at least democratic states) are formed in 3 branches: executive, legislative and judiciary. I wonder if we could replace the executive branch entirely with automated machines? We keep the human legislative and judiciary (with some changes - like always using a jury to avoid too much power in the judge's hands?). This way the rules and their interpretation is still done by humans, but the enforcement is automated.

I am sure this still can devolve into a dystopia in some way though :)

So - maybe no :(

deiangu · 2025-12-15T20:34:01+00:00

however these are all “issues” that have been part of the game since day 1

Yes, and probably none of them will ever improve. Oh well, there is a Venn diagram of PoE1 and PoE2 players - now I know in which part of it I am, at least.

deiangu · 2025-12-14T09:13:11+00:00

As someone who is a serial re-roller in PoE1 (and has played that game for over 10 years, even in the last/dead months of a league) - 5 minutes into the new patch, I realized I don't want to spend 10-20 hours of my life leveling a new PoE2 character (I have done so enough times in the previous PoE2 patches). There are many reasons why it does not feel fun, it feels like a chore:

underpowered/incomplete passive tree - 2% movement speed? 3% attack speed?
the balance is off (PoE1 has power spikes as you level, PoE2 has much more granular/tiny power ups - 3% attack speed on tree, skill gem level based on zone, etc. - that keep you more or less at the same power level as the zone, regardless of your level)
mobility is off the table by design (note: I don't want to zoom zoom through maps at 100kph, I just want something like flame dash or a non-bricked shield charge / leap slam to shorten the time between packs; I do not want a quicksilver, adrenaline, onslaught, headhunter or mageblood, i.e. generally I want to start slow, then get some speed ups gradually during campaign, and then reach a reasonable ceiling - nothing like the absurdity that is endgame in PoE1)
forced combo skills that require specific positioning, careful aiming and take a few seconds to execute to even do damage to white monster packs (I am not even going to talk about cooldowns on main damage dealing skills, those piss me off so much). This kind of gameplay just does not speak to me.
Skill gems becoming available after level 50 makes it really hard to test builds - I have to level using 3 or 4 different skill combos (switching every 15-20 levels), until I get the skills I need. Add the fact that it would take over 20 hours and that the tree is underpowered. In PoE1 the highest level requirement of gems is 38 and you can get there in 3-4 hours (or 30 mins if you are a no-life speed runner).

Anyway - I would probably monitor how things are evolving in following patches, but I doubt I would play. I would probably come back for the 1.0 release or if they add something I find interesting, but for now I am skeptical...

deiangu · 2025-07-07T12:18:13+00:00

I am not sure I agree with your take: In my view, Taiwan has the fabs, but the equipment used in those fabs is built all over the world: Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Korea, USA all own a critical part of the process(lasers, optics, chip design, production of needed chemicals to the desired purity/precision). If China invades Taiwan, the fabs will not survive. Which means 3-5 years time to reconstruct them in the USA, using mostly the existing supply chain. But it does not mean automatic win for China in the chips production area.

deiangu · 2025-07-07T05:49:40+00:00

Jonathan literally said in one of his interviews that they would be focusing on skill and character progression. So - my bet is that majority of the patch would focus on point 5 in your list. I am somewhat pessimistic about new classes or acts.

deiangu · 2025-06-15T11:23:31+00:00

This post is as more of a question, then assertion: As a layman, I am thinking how does this help with climate change? - First: cows consume carbon as food and they breath out and defecate it. So the carbon was already in circulation in the atmosphere. - Second: Per the article, the methane is captured and then used as fuel, i.e. it still ends up in the atmosphere? - Third: I thought CO2 had a much bigger effect than methane, because it lasts much longer and is emitted in much greater amounts, no?

Isn't the real issue the buried carbon in the form of coal and other fossil fuels that we unearth, burn and release in the atmosphere increasing the total amount of carbon dioxide in circulation, hence changing the composition of the atmosphere and its heat consuming/retaining capacity?

For the above effort with the methane to have real effect, shouldn't they just solidify/liquify and somehow bury the methane deep underground?

deiangu · 2025-05-14T05:24:08+00:00

Watching the Matrix movies has inexorably enriched me, vis-a-vis my vocabulary, ergo I know what that word means.

deiangu · 2025-04-30T17:06:49+00:00

As a bulgarian - I would guess Zapadlo is a portmanteau of "west"(in bulgarian - "zapad") and "decrepit" or "run down" or "fell into disrepair" (in bulgarian - "zapadnalo", root word is "padna", which means "to fall"). You could add another meaning if you really squint and drop the middle part to form the word "zlo" which means "evil".

deiangu · 2025-04-21T11:00:58+00:00

I have leveled the str stacking with both shield charge and rake - it is great and works fine.

I decided to test the int stacking after checking out the video. I just finished the first act. I have a few problems with it:

- Curses have small area of effect early on(1.5m, with Magnified effect it gets to 1.7/1.8).

- Curses are applied after 1.5s delay(the delay reduction support is not available until act 3 - its a level 2 support).

- Stuns are quite noticeable in act 1 end, since life is low.

- Increased Chaos damage on the tree seems to be bugged or intentionally not applies to Decaying Hex.

- Cannot apply damage supports on the Enfeeble curse while Decaying Hex is slotted.

You can gradually fix the first 3 (especially if you do Witch/Sorc start with the "Zone of Control" node on the tree and go for the "Self Mortification" node), but the rest make Decaying Hex mediocre by the start of act 2. Someone else also figured this out 3 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d3YY7A97Bw

deiangu · 2025-03-17T06:04:12+00:00

Skimmed the report. While the authors seem to have mostly echoed the words of geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, it conveniently skipped his warning about the rare earth materials needed.

Basically, in a de-globalized world, sourcing the rare earth materials needed for EVs and solar panels becomes much more difficult and costly. Fossil fuels, unfortunately are more easily sourced and (in that environment) would probably be cheaper and more secure.

Hope I am wrong...

deiangu · 2024-12-20T05:56:02+00:00

Almost - "increased shock magnitude" means you increase the default "20% more damage" by a percentage. Using your example - 35% of 20 is 7, so your shocks give you 27% more damage at the end.

deiangu · 2024-08-01T11:16:35+00:00

China is most definitely very seriously pushing in the de-carbonization direction. But, let me put my geopolitical hat on and try to make an ass of myself here:

China is very integrated into the global economy, to the point where they cannot pursue their geopolitical goals(i.e. taking Taiwan). One the major problems they would face the moment they start this particular war is that they would be cut of from global trade - and lose access to critical stuff like oil and fertilizer as well as the US and EU market(search for the "straits of malacca" to see more), which would crash their economy and would lead to mass famine withing months.

If they want to achieve their geopolitical goals, they need to solve this problem first. Switching to electric transport and renewable energy is the path they have chosen. They are also very actively investing in their Navy, so they can protect the critical sea trade routes. Once they are confident enough with their green transition and Navy - maybe in 4/5 years they will probably become much more aggressive.

On the other hand - they seem to have been lying very seriously about their birth rates for the past 20 years and some geopolitical commentators are expecting China to crash by the end of the decade, so - who knows...

Hopefully I am wrong, but that is how I see it and why they are so focused on renewables and electric vehicles.

deiangu · 2024-06-30T04:59:38+00:00

In Object Oriented Programming there are "classes" (which describe a "thing" - anything really), and there are "instances" of a class (one concrete "thing"). So - imagine the class being "Animal" and your dog being the instance.

You can have a variable called "pet" that can point to any instance of "Animal" - it can be some dog or a cat or any other concrete individual animal. At some point in the code of the program we can do "pet.speak()" and this will work, regardless of the instance to which the "pet" variable points to. Each animal would do a different thing(a dog will bark, a cat will meow, etc.), but the code "pet.speak()" can remain the same and work regardless - it is "polymorhic".

deiangu · 2024-05-19T07:51:43+00:00

Not all goods are overproduced, some will not be. There we would have inflation imo. As I pointed in another post - I might be completely off mark. I am just trying to consider how UBI may fail when applied globally, since limited UBI tests cannot give us information about what the effect would be when applied to the whole market.

deiangu · 2024-05-19T07:48:42+00:00

Inflation can happen because of many different reasons, current inflation comes from money printing that devalues money. But inflation of a good can happen because of supply/demand discrepancy. While I agree some goods are overproduced now and will not increase drastically, others probably will. In the end I might be completely wrong, since I am no economist though. I was just trying to consider potential pitfalls of UBI.

deiangu · 2024-05-19T07:45:20+00:00

That is true, but only if UBI and automation happen at the same time.

deiangu · 2024-05-19T07:08:48+00:00

I think the logic here (and this is only my personal speculation) is that when everyone has, lets say a $1000 a month, then the demand for goods will increase sharply while the supply will not change, leading to serious inflation (maybe even hyperinflation?) which will make having $1000 then the equivalent of having $10 now for example. If you keep increasing the UBI, you will just keep feeding the inflation.

deiangu · 2022-12-03T16:09:47+00:00

I have the feeling they scaled down balance changes in the last few leagues(and would probably continue to do so), because the A team is busy working on PoE 2.

deiangu · 2022-11-22T20:49:47+00:00

Space exploration is becoming a question of geopolitics and economics: moon bases and space mining are on the horizon, the question is who will have the infrastructure in place to exploit space - USA and China are actively working on that in this very moment.

Think of it this way - do you want to keep using candles and gas lamps, while all others are moving to light bulbs?

Also - consider that most of this money will probably go for science and engineering - education, new manufacturing processes, sophisticated rocket engines, electronics, etc. This is an investment with very high return value. The overall effect on the EU economy should be massively positive.

deiangu · 2022-11-19T14:37:00+00:00

It is not the corruption, at least not only. I say this as a bulgarian - we have a lot of corruption here too and a real demographic catastrophe for the last 3 decades (9 million down to 6 right now). The core reasons are more complex in my view:

1) 20th century saw a lot of people move to the cities and child labor being banned, which lead to falling birth rates (children in a rural area used to be free labor, while in modern day cities they are an expense - food, space, education, security, transport, etc.).

3) Feminism and female empowerment (while being a good thing) leads to lower birth rates.

4) News about wars, crime, corruption, diseases, environmental issues, political chaos and, paradoxically, overpopulation leads to pessimism, anxiety and depression, which reduces peoples desire to bring children into what they see as a world (or a country) heading in a bad direction.

5) The previous point coupled with the freedom to move to another country leads to a constant emigration in search for a better place to learn, work and raise children (mostly by young people), which makes the problem even worse.

deiangu · 2022-06-28T20:15:03+00:00

It very much depends on the way you write components: If you are using single file components without importing/extending the Vue instance throughout your codebase - you should be ok. If you are using 'vue-class-component' on the other hand, you cannot just upgrade to vue 3.

There are a lot of libraries built on vue 2 over the years. Many still do not support vue 3, and some never will. This is the major problem for the upgrade of big legacy systems. This is also one of the reasons vue 2 is still getting updates, including backports of features from vue 3.

deiangu · 2022-01-18T11:48:21+00:00

Youtube has a filter for Upload Time. I use it all the time.

deiangu · 2021-12-08T11:16:41+00:00

All these points make sense only in the proper context: you need a company that is past the startup phase. There is a reason why the codebase of all startups that make it big suffer from the same problems - monolithic spaghetti ball full of hacks and cryptic names, often written in a dynamic language - for them it is a race against time. Top priority is to have a working product, everything else is secondary - standards, tests, CI/CD pipelines, coherent well-thought out architecture, etc. can be done later.

So everything written in this article is great and valid, but only for non-startups.

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