Oh dear god I had not seen that graph updated in some years.

The captured picture is incredible.

Verdict: Extremely obviously guilty.

Sentence: One whole week of only dry food.

bad kitty!

You really, really can accurately judge a lot about people by whether or not they return the shopping cart, how they treat “the help”.

I am a dude and this photo reminds me of just generally keeping my eye on dudes like this in bars, back in my 20s, and either getting staff to remove people like them when I see them slip the roofie, or cause some kind of scene and functionally do it myself.

These would be the kind of guys who would think their furtive, shifty, jumpy checks of their surroundings aren’t easily noticeable, not confident or bold or smooth enough to do it with the finesse of essentially a magic trick.

They’d be the ones too cowardly to actually, meaningfully throw hands, instead just act indignant and screech, all bark, no bite.

You’re talking to a person who was homeless for 2 years, is currently seruously crippled, doing my own physical therapy because the US healthcare system is completely broken and unaffordable, and is writing this message to you from a piece of shit gas station cell phone that I have somehow managed to keep working through 2 blizzards over two years, that I experienced fully outdoors, while travelling about 2000 miles, with nothing but the clothes on my back.

I’ve been building pcs out of spare parts, salvage and scrap since the 90s.

You can fuck right off with your first world privilege bullshit and learn how to speak English if you want to converse in it.

No its not no loss, because if Steam figures out you have a real account and a ‘cracked’ account, they can ban both.

I’ve personally known hackers this has happened to.

See your hardware has a unique identifier. They know your’re running the same machine with dual accounts, if you do it often enough, doesn’t matter if you use a vpn or whatever.

Anyway, sure, ok, this apparently allows you to spoof your way into Steam’s multiplayer system.

I don’t see where that is stated, but maybe I missed it.

So… this would only make sense with games that are entirely reliant on steam for networking, where you can’t host a local server or use something like hamachi…

So, what, you’re 12 and want to play a cracked, probably also hacked, version of CS2 or ARK? Maybe DOTA2?

… You know Valve has a track record of criminally prosecuting people who hack their shit, right?

Were you around when the HL2 Beta leak happened, because some guy penetrated Valve’s internal systems, basically did a smash and grab?

Yeah they pretended they were impressed, wanted to hire this guy, told him to fly on over from Europe for a job interview.

The guy did that, and then… he was arrested when he got off the plane.

The instructions on the exact page that were linked are not followable.

The readme.md or whatever the hell its called needs to be updated.

You have the main page saying ‘at this step, you can do one of two things’.

The other page says ‘you must only do one of those things.’

These are poorly written instructions.

Further… you have to use a gbe_fork.

Either the one from otavepo, or the one from detanup1.

Both of those are gbe_forks.

… Is this your thing?

You are here displaying literacy levels on par with the author of the poorly worded github page in questiom.

Yeah, you’re correct the otavepo repo is gone, almost certainly because it is literally illegal software.

Generally speaking, you can’t host hacking tools that specifically compromise proprietary software on github.

(EDIT: For clarity, SteamOS may be open source, Proton may be open source… but Steam itself? Hahahahah, no.)

Anyway, yeah, the given instructions simply are impossible to follow, you’re not crazy.

You would have to somehow find this otavepo software elsewhere, if it exists elsewhere.

However, the main page of this also says it works with gbe_fork by DetanUp01, and that seems to be right here:

https://github.com/Detanup01/gbe_fork

… This main page of the Goldberg repo also says that the author is not responsible for anything bad that happens to your Steam account while using all this software.

… because this is indeed the kind of thing that could get your Steam Account totally banned, and could also potentially get you hardware banned.

You almost certainly do not want to use this.

Is… some Steam Achievements for a game you torrented… really worth potentially getting permabanned from Steam?

Wait what, wtf is this thing?

It emulates/fakes you owning a game, but not in the sense of actually owning a game, it just… allows you to collect Steam Achievements… as if you do own the game?

This seems like the kinda thing where if you get caught, instant total Steam account ban.

EDIT:

Entirely seriously, it would make more sense to just use the Steam Family share system, just find a Steam oriented lemmy comm and propose making some kind of small game sharing group.

All you’d have to figurr out is who gets to be ‘Mom’ and set the rules… but other than that, if you have access to a game via a family share?

And you get achievements?

Those are real, they stick, and you i think even get cards or gems or what not for playing the legitimately shared game.

You just have to be able handling sharing, lol.

Meanwhile:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/entertainment/nicki-minaj-speech-nigeria

Yep, the famously devout Christian and most definitely not famous for being psycopathically narcissistic and materialistic and petty Nicki Minaj recently represented the US, in the UN, on behalf of the Trump Admin, to talk about the plight of Nigerian Christians…

Meanwhile, thousands, tens of thousands? of Nigerians are facing HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, because Trump’s USAID cut off removed $600m, 1/5th of the country’s entire healthcare budget.

… So basically, Nicki Minaj is the most perfect envoy of American Christianity one could concieve of, pretty much a perfect hypocrite.

… Her entire net worth is approximately the same as the recent stop gap funding measure Nigeria passed to shore up their health system (~$200m).

She, on her own, could just donate half her wealth, still have ~$100m dollars, and that’d get Nigeria from covering 1/3 of its healthcare budget hole, to 1/2.

Now… I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger, but…

Oh, wait, right, Kanye fucking lost his mind too, uh, uh, nevermind…

I am genuienly sorry you had to learn the hard way, but hey, so did I (repeatedly, because I am apparently a moron)… once bitten, twice shy, eh?

But yeah, if you’re looking for a fairly low spec GPU? Yeah I mean I’m generally more of an AMD fanboy, but the beefier of the Intel cards are doing pretty good for a low budget range.

I can’t say I have any idea how well they run Linux though, not via direct experience anyway.

Edit: I was typing more but figured out it’s the graphics card that’s bad 🥲

lol.

Welp, that probably doesn’t help solve the problem, but … it is identifying the problem.

Yeah… I’ve been burned too many times buying used GPUs, even managed to get some from Amazon, that had been burnt out on BTC mining, and then (shoddily) repackaged, sold as new.

Never doing that shit again, not unless I can like, drive over to someone’s house and actually see it working.

Ok, ok, explain this to me like I have no idea what is going on.

So, step 1:

What OS did this hardware originally run?

Windows… 10? 7? XP?

Did you ever get comparable like, total screen lockups, hard crashes from it?

???

Step 2:

What different Linux OS’s have you tried to install on this HW, what happened when you tried to install each one?

Which ones worked as a LiveBoot, but failed on bare metal, or vice versa?

Step 3:

Which of those installs did you try with which MoBo firmware versions, and what BIOS/UEFI settings?

There are a ton of variables going on here, and… yeah I have no clue what the proverbial spreadsheet from combining steps 2 and 3 would look like.

The pstate 19 error seemingly always has something to do with CPPC firmware being borked in some kind of way on various MoBo models…

But you’re saying sometimes you can actually get to a working bare metal install, on Garuda, though only in 720p via DVI?

Ok so, intel gathering:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305924

Same error for an Arch user, who says (about his HW and situation):

It’s AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics (Integrated), HP Laptop 15-ef2126wm. I have to use IOMMU, otherwise sleep doesn’t work (It get stuck after waking up from sleep, s2idle)

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/amd-pstate-failed-to-register-with-return-19/8214/8

Same amd_pstate 19 error, this time in Cachy OS

Just ran into this same situation on the same chipset but different board, an Asrock A520M-DHV, but the issue is the same. The latest BIOS from 2025 breaks AMD CPPC and results in both the errors the OP posted as well as no amd_pstate governing (higher core usage, more heat/power, etc.) Downgrading to the last BIOS from 2024 (version 3.52) fixes the issue.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/amd-pstate-driver-steps-and-discussion.118873/

This may also be relevant.

So… so far, my guess would be that your motherboard firmware and/or BIOS/UEFI config are having some kind of problem, and maybe possibly it is specific down to either or both the IOMMU and CPPC systems.

Maybe you can try checking the setting for CPPC? If it is toggled off, try turning it on?

It seems like this error has been a recurring issue amongst varying systems and varying kinds of Linux… I am not sure from what you’ve written if this is only happening to you with Bazzite…

… but uh, yeah, it looks like just a lot of MoBos have been having trouble with specifically the AMD CPPC part of their firmware, when running seemingly any kind of Linux.

I don’t know if this is very helpful or not, but maybe narrowing down to either CPPC or IOMMU could be an idea?

It at least does make sense that you’re getting hard crashes with graphical glitches, even without a gui… if the CPU itself is fundamentally locking up and being unable to execute commands, that would fit, I would think, with CPPC or IOMMU systems being the culprit.

Ok ok!

So… Caves of Qud.

That game seems very much like a MUD to me… what I think of as the general style and kind of gameplay… but it is not MultiUser, its a bit fancier than totally text based… but it does very much do a whole lot of basically ‘deep world simulation’.

I did actually play a tiny bit of Everquest, waaaay back in the day, maybe thats where I’m remembering the ‘graphical MUD’ term from?

Christ, was that before RuneScape even existed?

Oi, lol.

I’ve done that, and found the same.

But, this person asked for less unethical.

Not ‘and also, of similar competence.’

At this point I really do think we need to be forming something like Mondragon-esque, worker governed co-ops, collectives.

Unions aren’t enough, back to anarcho-syndicalism, but digital this time!

Yeah I mean, at this point, I can very easily see someone saying that either very genuienly, or very sarcastically.

Hence why I asked / phrased it as a two pronged response.

Glad to know you were indeed doing a bit, but uh yeah, I’m autistic enough that I just ask, because I have encountered a large number of people who would just ssy things like that, entirely seriously.

Ooooh ok.

So, maybe this is a bit of a stretch…

But would the modern, open source, Fallout Online, which basically takes FO1/2, rebuilds them libre from the ground up, and makes them multiplayer… would that maybr be closer to a MUD, like a ‘Graphical’ MUD, with sprites instead of ASCII?

I’ve not actually ever played DF, but I have seen that nowadays, there are… basically ways you can translate all the ASCII into sprites or tilesets.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics

I get that the MU is multi user, I’ve just also never actually played DF, did not realize it had not network able capacity, derp.

Or you could maybe even say that with like, PokeMMO, which roughly smashes all the GBA era pokemon games into a massive online framework… thats a sort of ‘graphical’ MUD?

Yeah as I said, I’m too young to have ever played an actual MUD, thank you for clarifying!

No.

We won’t.

We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization … pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through… and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.

That’s very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.

We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.

… there won’t be any money for things that cause people to maybe actually think!

You want to program compliance and shame into people, not curiosity, not disobedience.

Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier… than a psycho-social critique of basically all of society.

Fight Club is an anomaly.

You might try some kind of open source non profit.

No guarantees, but likely at least less evil.