Adult mods and showcases are allowed so I marked the community NSFW. idk if that’s overkill or not. There’s no real instance rule regarding this one way or the other. Haven’t had the time to really start posting shit but I thought some people may have NSFW hidden and wouldn’t want to see whatever the commuity becomes in a year or whatever when they scroll All.

Copyright violation from American AI hoovering up all the data is okie dokie unless it’s used by peasants to threaten technology corporations.

I’m not defending them it’s just comical hypocrisy, and ans I doubt China AI will have the same kneecapped coding capabilities.

My shitty eyes appreciate the larger title font on mobile, thanks!

I consider these overgrown chat bots to be the sequel to religion in order to control the masses. Outsourcing thinking to a “higher power” and wow would you look at that, it’s the same people pushing and inventing both of these systems! Same as it ever was.

Besides some compatbility misses, it’s less confusing than Windows is with AutoHDR too now I think. Combined with KDE adding more HDR spec stuff in 6.8, pretty solid experience on Linux at this point. mpv HDR is working with version 0.41.

I just want Firefox HDR now.

Blizzard’s voice chat is broken under Proton/WINE, it doesn’t matter what front end or method you use. It’s not specific to Faugus. Be nice if Blizzard cared but they don’t.

Edit: Check this out, not merged yet but fresh fixes for BNet via Bottles soon ™. Couldn’t tell you if this will be superior to Faugus method or not since I don’t use Battle.net.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/pull/504

but my gaming time is increasingly taken up by futzing with the gaming in the hopes of playing instead of playing,

You can’t skip the learning curve, sorry. It was hard to wrap my head around compatibility layer quirks and prefixes at first but now I’m proficient a year later using CachyOS as a daily driver and I’m even modding games again, usually via Amethyst Mod Manager and CurseForge. Once you understand Linux folder structures it gets easier.

I tried Nobara early on but the perf differences between it and most popular distros is negligible despite the hype and then a bad update bricked my install, so I don’t have a positive impression of Glorious Eggroll’s side project. Solo dev distro isn’t viable IMO.

Some people online say adding sapi.dll to your BNet prefix via winetricks works but it’s mixed results. May or may not work. Ehhh find a guide for using winetricks. It’s a clunky piece of shit, not gonna lie. It’s “GUI” barely masks that it’s a command line utility. Like usually I need to click CANCEL on the first menu it pops up which is usually fucking useless in order for the menu I actually want to appear next, but it’s unintuitive because a beginner is going to obviously think that closes Winetricks. Nope! Very dumb. It’s easy to access via Faugus since it’s an option in the settings menu when you right click any game you’ve added to it. You’ll need to learn how eventually if you ever pirate stuff because dependencies like .net or visual c++ will be missing without manually installing them via winetricks. Winetricks downloads/installs that shit for you btw you don’t need to hunt down the Windows executables yourself or sapi.dll in this case. Although you can run other executables under the game’s prefix, again, in the same settings menu where you’ll find winetricks button in Faugus.

If you’re wondering wtf a prefix is, it’s basically a Windows folder structure in a folder specific to that game. Your AppData/My Documents whatever. Your save files and config files go there like they would on Windows, but also dll files and other Windows specific crap. Which annoys me actually so I use the same prefix for every non-Steam game so I don’t need to piss about with multiple prefixes and installing storage space wasting duplicate dependencies and fresh prefixes per game. It’s pretty stupid default behaviour IMO but it probably helps devs troubleshoot compatibility layer bug reports when users don’t have 40 games all using the same prefix folder idk…I just point Faugus to the same prefix folder I made every time instead of letting it make a new one per game.

Steam doesn’t give you any option regarding that so it just makes a user unfriendly folder per game using the Steam ID jumble of numbers (which you can find via SteamDB, although I just sort by recently modified after installing a game if I need to snoop in there for some reason) as the folder name for game prefix folders in Steam’s compatdata folder. Really pisses me off they don’t just use the fucking name of the game same as it is in steamapps/common where all the games are installed by default or let me use the same prefix as an option within Steam /rant.

The actual game files aren’t inside the prefix folder.

Also when you run Windows stuff via Proton/WINE and need to browse to a location outside of the prefix, your Linux home folder is labeled as Drive X. Like say I run something that patches the game executable for a mod or whatever, but my game folder isn’t inside the prefix obviously so your actual Linux storage drive is given the drive letter “X” by Proton/WINE while the Windows program thinks the prefix folder is your C: drive / Local Disk. If that makes sense.

Idk hopefully that helps or I confused you more lol?

You don’t need a VPN (yet, c-22, different reasons) in Canada. Look up our copyright law. Fines are capped so low that it’s malicious compliance on behalf of our government. It’s so low that it’s not worth taking you to court and they cannot sue per item like they can in USA, only for everything at once. Nobody gets sued in reality for piracy in Canada unless they are profiting off of their piracy by selling pirated material. Or web hosts. Basically, don’t be the owner of Demonoid or sell hard drives full of game ROMs on eBay and you’ll be okay.

What you need to actually consider is your ISP. Don’t use any of the major telecom mafia corps directly like Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Bell, etc. They’ll have strike systems and refuse service potentially. They have conflict of interest running streaming sites, making their own TV shows and such. Use pro end user/net neutrality supporting reseller ISP like Oxio and Teksavvy for example. They exist, just look. Park Power is another local to me. Research your local options.

You’ll still get sp00ky copyright infringement letters from 'muricans forwarded to you. Don’t respond, reseller ISP don’t care either. Print them out on toilet paper and wipe your ass with them.

I keep them like trophies. I have 36 infringement emails from Comedy Central from torrenting South Park episodes alone over the years, lmao. Those are all old since I use Debrid for TV/Movies for a long time now. DDL FTW.

I stopped redeeming freebies too, I can’t even be bothered anymore. 700 games on there and I’ve played 3 of them.

Faugus Launcher has built in one-click BNet installer support. Then you run BNet via Faugus. Voice chat is janky/outright broken last I checked, sorry.

Never tried Retail however, I play on private servers for where I also use Faugus Launcher…which is a nice GUI for UMU-Launcher which is a thing used to run non-Steam games with Proton properly, very basically. From what I hear, playing legit Retail/Forever/Classic all work fine?

Long explanation is UMU is taking advantage of Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime containerisation for non-Steam in the same way Steam does and also gets you access to protonfixes: a shared online database of per-game patches (DXVK options, DLL overrides, env vars, etc.) applied automatically via unified game IDs that Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles also use.

Added automatic HDR detection

Hell yeah.

Is Voices38 using AI on Denuvo? I hope so for their own sanity but also hoping more than 1 guy starts doing it so Irdeto’s legal department gets swamped chasing ghosts.

That thread was removed and OP admitted it’s ChatGPT generated slop in the comments.

Could use this source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d

Like Yandex only is: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d

But again that’s all traffic not just potential political disinfo bots so this still doesn’t really tell me anything other than Yandex data centers got blown up.

When laypeople read a diplomatic statement and take it at face value it’s a good sign they’re media illiterate or just want what was said to be true desperately, reality be damned. I know Zelensky is fighting a war and puffing his chest saying shit to look strong. That’s fine it’s his job as wartime leader.

I’m Albertan so I’m feeling rather paranoid about letting my guard down is all.

That’s the claim but where’s the evidence. I’m not going around pretending the enemy is diminished when it’s actually not.

Looks at religion

Not much different, really.

I looked up the game on cs.rin.ru/forum/

The game thread has updates for pirated copies and online fixes. I’m not allowed to link directly but I think this is fine.

Edit: you probably will have to manually patch the game each version up until current though. A real pain in the ass. I usually just redownload the whole thing, honestly.

I’m Canadian, I just like Pylova more than local instances :)

Good point actually, made me curious. 1.6% of Canadians identify as Latina vs 0.5% of Australia. Pretty exotic if you can find one who is also goth.

I don’t think the cached file other people cached on premiumize.me or other debrid services can be tracked but I’d love to know how I’m wrong. Out of curiosity to be clear, I’m not watching Harry Potter.

Hmmm we might need to poll goth latinas. I use CachyOS btw, so I’d like to know.

Only if you use Arch, make sure to mention you do.