Just yesterday, when I told the great wizard Lorroakan

Plenty of jokes remaining in Act 3. Like Expedition 60.

wine-ge-8.26 is quite old now. Get the latest one, 10.something, and see if it solves your issues. Can’t remember how you update Wine/Proton in Lutris. Protonup-QT is a great helper to get newer Wine versions for everything.

It’s been a while since I have been messing around with Lutris. But the general way of installing WoW or any other thing is basically the same in Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Steam or Wine without any helper. Though I would advice against using Steam because it creates a new prefix for every new exe you throw at it, unless you tell it otherwise.

1. You download the Battle.net installer from Blizzard.
2. (In most cases) create a new game/bottle/prefix (the prefix is like a fake-Windows drive)
3. Run the installer.
4. If everything went well, run Battle.net and let it install WoW.

Common problems (don’t remember if they apply to Battle.net) are that you need to install the Visual C++ Runtime (vcredist), .Net Runtime and some fonts. You can do that with Winetricks or downloading the respective installers from Microsoft. You usually don’t have to install all fonts, that’d take a long time. Arial or maybe Helvetica are usually enough.

I remember getting lost in one of the missions, literally muttering “Where am I?” in English even though I’m German and opening the map to a page that said “Where am I?” written by Garrett.

Can’t get more immersive than that!

I guess there’s The Dark Mod to scratch that itch. It’s a completely community made stealth game using the Doom 3 engine. It pretty much feels the same as the first two Thief games.

Ugh, getting everybody moved will take forever!

Probably longer. But still someone had to go tell the machine how to do it. And AI has shown us how hilariously wrong that can go when taken to extremes.

Great to see work done on the accessibility front!

Stupid computers, always doing what you tell them, never what you want. Guess that’s changing.

In 20 years every game will have been remastered by Nightdive.

Edit: Including the current Nightdive remasters.

I use dropbear in initramfs on my Debian server. Works great.

At home I have a cheap networked KVM because I also sometimes have hardware problems preventing a boot. Works really well. Cost 100 € and uses open source software. It’s called GL.iNet KVM.

Could be a misconfiguration. Can happen when you have more than one partition that is encrypted. Grub would decrypt only root and fail to pass through the passphrase to decrypt the others. Can be fixed by putting a decryption key somewhere on the root partition and adding that to the other partitions.

That’s definitely not how it should be, unless you have two different passphrases.

I wouldn’t convert mp3s to opus. Apart from the quality loss of converting from one lossy format to another you also lose potential compatibility. Just about any device can play mp3. The number of devices that can play opus is much lower.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That’s what TPM is supposed to solve. As long as nothing changes on the PC you don’t have to input a decryption password and access is protected by your usual user password.

I started using borg backup the other day. It also keeps deleted files for however long you want, so it protects against accidental deletes. You can basically tell it the date you want to restore from.

It can also encrypt the backup for you.

That’s one of the reasons why I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my Deck. I used unl0kr to put in my passphrase on boot. Unfortunately OpenSUSE removed the framebuffer device and the DRM backend doesn’t work correctly at the moment.

It means they are your god and you should bow. (they’re an admin on your instance)

Android’s bullshit made me quit XMPP. We needed instant messages to be instant but Android kept making that harder and harder until it was impossible.

With Signal we’re still fighting but it works a little bit better due to integration with the messenger service or whatever it’s called. Dunno, maybe XMPP can work with that as well by now.

Sigh, I want my Linux phone where I can control battery life vs availability myself.

I love how the first ten or so features don’t even say what it does. And I’m still not quite sure after reading the whole list.