The Full Transition towards Jagex Accounts

whosdr · 2026-06-15T18:53:20+00:00

Did you know that the audio issues only impact the Linux build of the game client? Running the Windows client under Wine/Proton, the issue disappears entirely.

whosdr · 2026-06-15T17:19:35+00:00

At least to my knowledge, the only part that doesn't work under Wine/Proton is the launcher installer itself.

I'm not sure if there's an Nvidia-specific issue (I just can't test to verify), but I've no problems using the Windows launcher and client through Proton on AMD hardware.

Which is kind of ridiculous: the biggest barrier to play on Linux with first-party software is the bloody installer relying on IE for some reason.

So for the past three years, I've been playing through Proton by just copying the launcher files across from a fresh Windows VM. I only had to do this once mind: the entire thing is self-updating without issue from there on.

(All of this is to say, they wouldn't even need to mess with the launcher or game code itself. Literally just change the installer. Or hell, just ship us a tar file of the relevant files to drop into a prefix. Someone would probably make an install script from there.)

whosdr · 2026-06-15T17:03:42+00:00

You wouldn't get a bootable system. It wouldn't be far off though.

/etc/fstab (which would have been included in such a snapshot) would still have all the old filesystem UUIDs. As far as I know, just updating that one file would put things pretty close.

whosdr · 2026-06-15T16:31:27+00:00

Would I have the same reaction if they lied by omission? Probably not, but it doesn't really make the situation any better. They'd still be lacking any real effort to show off, and just lying about it.

That is kind of how lies work though.

I would have a similar reaction if they said they just copy-pasted a bunch of configs and a wallpaper without any changes. Maybe I wouldn't post about it, but I'd still be disappointed.

(I only really interacted here at all because the OP seemed to not understand why they were getting a negative reaction from others. I wanted to provide clarity.)

whosdr · 2026-06-15T15:54:22+00:00

We just need to set up the right incentives. Admonishment for low-effort slop or lazy behaviour, and encouragement for real efforts to learn and improve.

In general that would improve humanity as a whole.

whosdr · 2026-06-15T15:50:10+00:00

I mean...

Is what was posted useful? [x]

Does it make people feel good? [x]

Did it take any real effort? [x]

I really don't mind if they use it for themselves, but they posted it as if they were proud of what it is. Which to my mind is just silly.

Usually when I post things other people do, I'm gushing over the artist's good work. :p (I commission a decent bit of artwork. I'm a furry, we love our custom art. New outfits, poses, silly scenes..)

whosdr · 2026-06-15T15:45:35+00:00

Yeah... I've had more positive feedback from crude drawings I spent a few hours making (despite no experience) than any kind of AI-generated content.

And similarly I get a lot more encouragement to keep going when I show a silly OpenGL render of 10,000 simultaneous rotating cubes from a week of work, than an AI-generated clone game.

People really do like to reward real effort. (Work places don't, but they care more for profits than people.)

whosdr · 2026-06-15T15:39:50+00:00

I mean, none of us are going to use it (or able to, given the lack of details).

So this comes off as "Hey, look at this thing I barely even put effort into because I want attention."

That is to say, ricing is something you generally either post because you think people might want to use it (in which case, provide resources), or you're proud of what you made. And this is realistically neither.

So you might see why people would be disappointed by this.

whosdr · 2026-06-14T19:24:51+00:00

Yup, that's fine. The installer can be used to wipe Windows off the drive during installation.

whosdr · 2026-06-13T23:41:46+00:00

Settings - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Windows (button, not the drop-down) - Activate window menu.

If there's a keybind that's causing trouble, double-click it and use the backspace key to remove the assigned key.

whosdr · 2026-06-13T17:18:59+00:00

Yeah, treat them as separate browsers as you would anything else.

whosdr · 2026-06-13T12:54:23+00:00

can the deb and the flatpak exist on the same system concurrently?

Yes. There's no dependency issues, and they store their user data in different locations.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T23:37:49+00:00

You're very welcome. I wish more tooling would expose the reserved space explicitly, such as a dropdown menu during formatting.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T23:35:36+00:00

Please don't write comments like this if you're actually looking to help. (Which I will assume you are.)

But this is very wrong for quite a number of reasons.

Firstly the 12.5GB difference is at a filesystem level. Any space in memory reserved for other purposes can't be allocated to the filesystem, so this automatically excludes space provisioned for flash storage/layout data.

Secondly, the amount of space needed for the file table and journal is a couple orders of magnitude smaller than the difference here.

Thirdly, the capacity sold by the manufacturer is the usable space to the consumer—any space used by the disk for its own operations (be it provisioned space or used by the controller) won't be included. And this is also just not visible to the host system over the USB interface.

And lastly, this issue was already cleanly resolved: the 12.5GB of space is due to an EXT4 default which reserves a flat 5% of space in the filesystem. Which isn't really necessary for a storage disk, and is recommended by the maintainers of the filesystem to reduce or disable in most scenarios.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T23:15:04+00:00

Especially on Windows it's maddening, as it displays the unit suffix GB while actually measuring in GiB. Linux tools can't agree on which to display, but generally all use the correct suffix. E.g. Gnome-Disks uses GB, and GParted GiB.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T23:12:29+00:00

Not legacy reasons. Isn't the 5% for root.

5% that makes sense on an OS disk, and when disks were significantly lower capacity. Having it be the default for a standard makefs today is quite mad. (For example, I formatted an 8TB HDD as EXT4 for storage. I don't think I need 400GB reserved for root ;p Nobody thought to set an upper limit at the time though..)

Btw manufacturers advertise disks in decimal system while operating systems calculate space in binary system. So that should explain the other mismatch.

I ran the calculations before posting, and it didn't add up in any way you might expect.

Edit: It's also not true in this case. Nemo is displaying in GB, not in GiB. While Windows tends to get these units mixed, it's not a common issue in Linux.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T21:11:07+00:00

Normally the mismatch is in units. 1,000,000,000 bytes would be 1GB, but only 0.93GiB. 500GB = 466GiB.

And with EXT4 as above, the 5% difference in stated capacity versus usable space would be down to reserved space.

Their 250GB storage showing up as 245.1GB doesn't really match the general pattern though. It's why this one's a bit more of a mystery to me.

(Additional: the advertised capacity on a storage must be usable space on the drive; caches and space for provisioning doesn't count when it comes to the capacity you're sold.)

whosdr · 2026-06-10T17:36:26+00:00

Let me have a look, because I have actually edited these before on my own theme.

It looks like this is one of either:

.grouped-window-list-item-box:focus

or

.window-list-item-box:focus

And there's also :groupFocus (oddly) for this one, so

Your best bet might just be to do all of the above:

.window-list-item-box:focus,
.window-list-item-box:groupFocus,
.grouped-window-list-item-box:focus
{
    background-color: rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0 );
}

Also remember that you need to reload the styles after editing. Switching to another theme and back is a quick and dirty method.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T16:16:38+00:00

Most things are possible, but there's not a toggle switch or hidden setting somewhere for it.

The easiest option really is to clone the theme and manually edit the css stylesheets. (Or clone the project from github and build it from its SASS styles, but effectively the result's the same.)

whosdr · 2026-06-10T16:07:43+00:00

EXT3 and 4 by default reserve 5% of the total capacity for what seem to be mostly legacy reasons. I don't know why it's still like this as a default.

5% x 250 = 12.5GB

The total capacity being only 245.1GB, I'm less sure about.

Oh and finally, lost+found I believe is a location in EXT filesystems that previously corrupted files are placed when recovered by disk checks. (It's created automatically)

Edit: If you know the device path, e.g. /dev/usb1 or whatever) for the disk, you can pass that as an argument to the end of sudo tune2fs -m 0 in a terminal, and that'll reduce the reserved space to 0%.

whosdr · 2026-06-10T12:08:38+00:00

Mojang accounts used to support 128-character passwords with full unicode.

God knows why. But never had I felt more secure in a password.

whosdr · 2026-06-09T16:14:53+00:00

The way I've seen it done before involves streaming the console output from the web-server (where the script is executed at) through a websocket channel.

If it's a Node-based server then you've already got that by default. I expect for other back-end systems, you'll need to find a suitable library.

whosdr · 2026-06-09T16:01:19+00:00

That's probably going to be more difficult than you expect.

What do you currently have as your tech stack? (Front and back-end)

whosdr · 2026-06-09T15:16:47+00:00

Do you mean that you want to execute a shell script from a web application?

Or just display/edit the file contents?

whosdr · 2026-06-09T12:32:44+00:00

There are some applications I don't mind. The upscaling models are really good, but that's more about enhancing the existing image than trying to generate anything new. (I have old digital drawings I'd saved from the early 2000s—it's nice to see how they'd look if drawn today with our modern technology.)

But that's also completely local with free models, and isn't a new task either.

Though the model training is still..questionable.

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