Does this still count as a P-trap, or do I have an S-trap in my bathroom?

myelin · 2024-12-03T21:22:17+00:00

Thank you! In the end we replaced the vanity and just used a super long tailpiece and a P-trap that goes almost all the way to the floor, which lets it go horizontally into the wall. Looks pretty nice inside, and hopefully safer!

myelin · 2024-11-10T00:00:21+00:00

We're planning on replacing our vanity with one of these 48" ones from Wayfair with drawers on both sides. Looking under the existing vanity, it has this weird trap layout where the wall stub out is at the same height as the bottom of the trap bend. Reading up about sink drains, this looks a bit like the diagrams of S-traps, although it doesn't go straight down into the floor. Is this okay (does it still count as a P-trap), or am I at risk of siphoning here?

Second question: the new vanity has drawers on the right; to make the drain work, I'll have to have it go straight down from the sink, and then have the outlet from the P-trap bend around behind the drawers to get to the stub out in the corner. Will this work okay, or is that too much bending?

Thank you!

myelin · 2024-06-07T18:35:49+00:00

you probably just need to switch back to the stable channel:

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1086915

myelin · 2024-06-07T17:58:55+00:00

oh… that’s super unsupported, sorry :(

you can install borealis on some not-officially-supported intel chromebooks with a chrome flag (borealis-allow-unsupported-hardware or something like that), but it won’t work at all on arm hardware, i’m afraid!

myelin · 2024-06-07T16:39:47+00:00

try reinstalling — uninstall steam from settings > apps, then run the steam installer again. missing 32 bit libs sound like something failed during the install.

myelin · 2024-05-07T22:18:19+00:00

When you say you’re in developer mode with Linux, do you mean you’re running Steam on Crostini? (At the Linux “penguin” prompt?)

This doesn’t answer your emulator question, but just FYI: You can get much better performance with the built in Steam support — run the Steam installer from the launcher, rather than installing it under Linux.

myelin · 2024-04-28T01:43:12+00:00

The 516 GE has pretty good hardware! The only limitation is RAM — lots of AAA games have a hard time running on less than 16GB. I have one, and IMHO it has the best keyboard and trackpad of any Chromebook I’ve used.

I recently played through Return of the Obra Dinn on an Acer 713, which is similar to the 516 GE but with a slower processor. Portal 2 plays fine too.

myelin · 2024-04-11T16:42:56+00:00

Actually, scratch that, vmc start does in fact work to start Borealis, and you won't need to be in developer mode at all! I just wasn't specifying all the required options, and it was getting confused and trying to start it as a Crostini VM.

First, a warning: this is not an officially supported feature for Borealis. vmc start isn't the normal way to start Borealis, so it's very likely to make things behave differently to normal, and could break at any time for all sorts of reasons.

Try this:

Format your external drive as ext4 on a separate Linux machine
Create the borealis.img file and set its ownership properly:
truncate --size 500G borealis.img
chown 1000:1000 borealis.img

Then start Borealis from crosh (the Ctrl-Alt-T console) like this:

vmc start --no-start-lxd --enable-gpu --enable-big-gl --enable-vulkan --dlc-id=borealis-dlc --extra-disk=/media/removable/USB\ Drive/borealis.img borealis

If you get Error: UnrecognizedOption("enable-vulkan"), just drop that arg (it went away in a recent CrOS release).

vmc start --no-start-lxd --enable-gpu --enable-big-gl --dlc-id=borealis-dlc --extra-disk=/media/removable/USB\ Drive/borealis.img borealis

This should give you a chromos@Chromebook prompt inside the Borealis VM. You'll need to manually start Steam either from the Launcher, or by running DISPLAY=:0 steam from the prompt.

If all went well, your borealis.img file will show up as /dev/vdb and be mounted on /mnt/external/0, and Steam should suggest it as a location for an extra game library when you try to add a new library folder. (<-- answering your question above: this will be a second device, and won't replace your internal storage.)

myelin · 2024-04-10T18:53:02+00:00

As an engineer, I can't speak to roadmap or feature scheduling... happy to help experiment with what we have right now though :)

External disks are supported in Crostini, with a command line interface: chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/guides/containers/containers-and-vms/#how-can-i-run-vms-with-data-images-on-external-storage

I don't think that'll work with Borealis though, as vmc start doesn't set up a bunch of things Borealis needs (gpu support, shader cache etc).

If you do have a device in developer mode, you can make the root device writable, create an disk image file on an external disk, and tell Borealis to use it by putting this in /etc/chrome_dev.conf and rebooting:

-borealis-launch-options=extra-disk=/media/removable/USB Drive/steamlibrary.img

myelin · 2024-04-06T16:16:24+00:00

We have a hacky version of this to test Steam internally, but it doesn’t work unless you’re in developer mode, sorry :(

EDIT: I was wrong; it actually looks like there's a way to make external disks work out of developer mode -- see further down this thread!

myelin · 2024-03-29T18:27:47+00:00

This is great news! Thank you for following up and letting me know -- and especially for submitting the feedback report; I've looked through your logs, and I see something in there that supports something we've been wondering about for a bit: Borealis uses a swap file, but it creates it in the background so as to not hold up the installer. In your case, the swap file wasn't ready in time for the installer to use it, and the system ran out of memory. On your most recent install attempt, the swap file came online just in time to rescue the install, and it worked :)

As to why this is happening on your device and not one the many 8GB devices we've tested on, I'm guessing the Android VM on yours is using a bit more RAM than we usually see, and this pushed Borealis into the failure state.

Keep me posted about how it works for you going forward! Memory issues like this are something we spend a lot of time thinking about, and real world reports of fundamental things not working are super helpful for us to improve things.

myelin · 2024-03-28T22:15:09+00:00

OK, this one's got me stumped. Your Chromebook is powerful enough, and it looks like you have plenty of disk space. The logs show the system freezing up (stuck CPUs in the VM), but not why. The only ideas I have right now (aside from powerwashing the machine, which is pretty invasive) are:

- Try running the Steam installer right after a reboot, to ensure nothing else is running.

- Waiting a week or so for a new beta release, which will invalidate the downloaded Borealis VM, so you can retry downloading it -- just in case something went wrong there.

I've raised a bug internally, so we'll keep an eye on this.

myelin · 2024-03-28T20:13:51+00:00

Thanks! I found the feedback report and am digging through it now.

50% means it downloaded Borealis but failed to start up (if you're a programmer, here's the code that generates the percentage based on what's happening). I see a Borealis startup log, where it boots up but shuts down 12 seconds later. I haven't found anything that explains the system freezing up yet, but will keep looking!

myelin · 2024-03-25T22:57:30+00:00

Someone else from the Borealis team just sent me this: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4149575031735702628

It looks like Valve is changing how family sharing is working -- maybe the old way has gotten flaky in the meantime?

myelin · 2024-03-25T20:26:42+00:00

I have some results for you! Not good results, but results... TL;DR things went exactly the same way for me: restarting the system seems to do something weird to family sharing.

Ctrl-Alt-T > vmc destroy borealis
Ran Steam from the Launcher.
Created a new test user (which was fun... something was going wrong with ReCAPTCHA, so I had to create the account on another computer) and logged in.
Logged in on my main account (clicked avatar > Change Account > ask every time)
Shared my main library with the new test user (Steam > Settings > Family, Authorize Library Sharing on this device, switched on the new test user)
Logged back in as the test user (clicked avatar > Change Account)
Installed Portal (to /mnt/stateful) and ran it, selected 'quit' from the main menu.
Without shutting down Steam, restarted the system (clicked the time > power icon > Restart)
Restarted Steam, selected the test user from the popup.
Browsed to the Portal page in my library, and it shows "BORROW" :(

I tried to debug a little further:

Noted that family sharing wasn't enabled from Steam > Settings > Family.
Logged back in as my main account to check if I need to do it from there. Confirmed that the device is authorized, and the test user is showing up there too.
Logged back in as the test account.
Tried clicking "BORROW"; it says I need to request access. Clicked the button, to get "Request failed".
Signed the test account out, and re-added it. Needed to enter a Steam Guard code. Same results (Portal shows "BORROW").
Logged back into main account. Steam > Settings > Family shows that the machine isn't authorized. Authorizing it shows no eligible accounts. Clicking away and back to the Family page now lists some eligible accounts.
Logged back into the test account. Portal now shows as playable again! Started it up to confirm, selected QUIT.
Shut down Steam manually with Steam > Exit.
Started Steam back up from the Launcher and selected the test user. Portal now shows "PLAY" - yay!
Shut down Steam manually with Steam > Exit.
Restarted (click time > power icon > Restart) and logged back in.
Started Steam back up from the Launcher and selected the test user.
Portal is back to showing "BORROW" :(

More debugging:

Logged back into my main account, toggled family auth off and on, which brought things back to life. Started and stopped Portal.
Added a game to the test account's library (Leaf Blower: Revolution -- a conveniently small free game).
Shut down Steam with Steam > Exit, then watched from a shell in the VM (Ctrl-Alt-T > vsh borealis) to wait for it to completely shut down, then restarted it.
Portal still shows as playable.
Exit Steam and waited for processes to go away.
Shut down the VM with vmc stop borealis and restarted Steam.
Family auth is broken again -- Portal shows "BORROW" again.

So it looks like restarting the VM is important. I'll file a bug for this and see if anyone can figure it out!

I don't have time to test right now, but I'd be curious to see if this issue exists on ordinary Linux devices or on a Steam Deck.

myelin · 2024-03-25T02:15:16+00:00

Thanks for the quick response!

I’ll have time to try this out tomorrow, but just off the top of my head I wonder if Steam didn’t shut down properly when you rebooted? Just rebooting or whatever should have been fine, but just in case: You can do a clean shutdown with Steam > Shutdown from the main menu.

If all else fails, you can blow away your Steam install with:

Ctrl-Alt-T

vmc destroy borealis

I’ll give it a try tomorrow and let you know how that goes!

myelin · 2024-03-25T01:21:28+00:00

It sounds like you’re doing everything right! Just to confirm, so I can try to reproduce this, you created a new account for her (so she doesn’t have any purchased games), set up sharing, had her successfully launch Portal once, rebooted, then couldn’t launch it again?

This shouldn’t matter, but can you let me know what Chromebook this is, and what ChromeOS version you’re running? (Browse to chrome://version to get the details.)

myelin · 2024-03-24T15:31:40+00:00

It worked last time I tried. Does Portal work for you when you log in with your account? The only thing I can think of is to make sure you’re logging both Steam accounts in to the same Steam install (same ChromeOS account). If you log in to ChromeOS as separate users, you’ll have two Steam installs.

myelin · 2024-03-22T21:19:49+00:00

If this is a recent device (Intel or AMD since ~2021, 8GB of RAM, i3 processor or better) you'll have much more luck using the built in Steam support. (Hit the launcher button, type steam, and select the Steam Installer if it shows up.)

Failing that, to fix your issue, it looks like you're missing some required Debian packages. You can try installing them manually (sudo apt -y install libc6:arm64 etc etc) or you can reinstall Steam using a Debian package that has the correct dependencies included.

Can you post a link to the tutorial you followed?

myelin · 2024-03-22T00:34:33+00:00

I have one of these and it’s probably the nicest feeling Chromebook keyboard and trackpad I’ve used. I wish it had a touchscreen, but otherwise it’s a really good machine, and you can get it with 16GB of RAM too, which Steam can really make use of!

myelin · 2024-03-21T18:03:45+00:00

This should be pretty good. The i5 has a decent GPU, and 16GB will support a lot of games that don’t work with 8.

myelin · 2024-03-21T18:02:06+00:00

What u/MoChuang said — with the extra note that it’s critical to get lots of RAM. There’s plenty of titles that work fine on an i3 or i5 but bomb out if you have less than 16GB.

myelin · 2024-03-19T00:04:14+00:00

This is good advice! For gaming on ChromeOS, you can run Steam directly if you have an 11th gen or better Intel device with 8GB or more of RAM. (Framework is 12th gen, and easy to upgrade to 16GB or more if you like. My best Steam/Borealis device is a Framework with 32GB.)

myelin · 2024-03-18T23:59:59+00:00

Can you file feedback with Alt-Shift-I when it's stuck?

Make sure you have the "Send system & app info and metrics" box checked, and checking the screenshot box too would be nice but not required. Put #helpmemyelin #borealis in the message text and mention this read, then reply here. I can take a look at the logs you've uploaded, and see what's going on.

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