Here’s an infamous one:

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/20/how-a-steam-bug-once-deleted-all-of-someones-user-data/

Guy looks like Run DMC or something.

Run and DMC are two different people.

This is a thinly veiled advertisement.

tl;dr: The length of a slice is not a valid index into that slice.

Of course. Because Go uses zero-based indexing, just like many other languages.

This so-called article contains absolutely no information to support the headline. It’s worthless garbage.

Thanks. Having to go through lemmy.world also means having to go through cloudflare, which is blocked at my site.

All in all you ended up at the whole point I was making, but somehow you first had to claim that it’s all nonsense.

No, I pointed out that the problem you described is completely avoidable, which wasn’t apparent in your original comment. This is an important distinction to other readers who are considering a move to Linux, since they otherwise might be put off by your suggestion that doing so is necessarily a hardware lottery.

It was a different perspective, not a personal attack.

Your combative, snarky response is unpleasant, unwarranted, and unnecessary. Goodbye.

Trying whatever hardware one already has on hand is perfectly reasonable, but it’s not a lottery.

Bear in mind that an OS image captured from a bare metal installation might fail to boot in a VM, depending on whether the original installation included the drivers needed in the VM environment. In that case, I would suggest learning about whatever recovery tools Windows offers these days, and trying to add the needed drivers.

taking care that they only select components that work fine under Windows is a big part of why there isn’t a hardware lottery under Windows.

There isn’t a hardware lottery under Linux, either, unless you buy random hardware instead of choosing known-good components or turning to one of the system vendors who do this for you.

I find it kind of weird that people who would never take mystery medication without it being prescribed to them, and would never buy a paycheck worth of food without considering its contents against their allergies and tastes, would buy a computer without checking whether it will run the software they intend to use.

Perhaps the perceived problem would fade if we taught people that computers and operating systems are not all equal, and that just as MacOS is more likely to run on a machine made for it, Linux is more likely to run on a machine made for it. (Edit: The same is true for Windows, for what it’s worth.)

it does streamline some things that Debian makes annoying (graphics drivers, for example).

Do you by any chance mean Nvidia drivers?

“Saying that you don’t care about privacy because you don’t have anything to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”

Edward Snowden, May 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKLpArDrC8&t=4309s

This is extremely dangerous command! If anything goes wrong for whatever reason and the variable $tempdir is empty at the time of this command, then it would delete everything.

And this danger is not merely theoretical. Steam for Linux did it in 2015.

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

The go env -w command can make most go environment variable settings persistent for the current user. Alternatively, you could set the environment variable in your shell’s login script.

Be sure to read go’s docs for individual environment variables, because go doesn’t respect all methods of setting them in every case. (For example, it ignores certain approaches to disabling its telemetry. How convenient for Google.)

Are you implying that Spice Hoarder is a camel?

Related:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-x86-64-v3-v4

This is my first guess, and a facet of my single biggest criticism of Go: the module system they added has an enabled-by-default policy of phoning home to Google servers, which turned an otherwise decent toolchain into spyware.

The GOPRIVATE environment variable may be what you need to avoid that error.

https://go.dev/ref/mod#private-module-privacy

https://go.dev/ref/mod#environment-variables

Time for the usual troubleshooting steps:

• Have you Checked for errors in the log output of…
  • Steam?
  • Proton?
  • The game?
• What changed on your system between the last time WoW worked properly and the first time it didn’t?
  • OS update?
    • Kernel?
    • Drivers?
  • Proton update?
  • Steam update?
  • Game update?
  • Battle.net update?
• Are you watching for other people discussing the same problem?

Blizzard has a recurring history of making changes to Games and Battle.net that break in Wine. When this happens, workarounds can sometimes be found (such as reverting to a prior Battle.net version), but a real fix often requires waiting a few weeks or months for Proton to adapt. It happened roughly once per year when I was last playing their games.

Good luck.

Another thought: Are you running Wine in a container of any kind? If so, have you given it access to your /dev/hidraw* devices? I have seen behavior like you describe when a game was unable to access them (but was able to access /dev/input/*).

If the game ignores the disabled state that you applied in Wine’s controller config, I wonder if it’s using SDL for input. In that case, you might try exporting an environment variable telling SDL to ignore the controller.

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES

Please let us know what you learn.

at-best coersive sex scene

I can see how someone might feel that way depending on their background, but it’s not necessarily so.

Of course, understanding that likely requires experience with certain kinds of consensual power dynamic, which not everyone has. I suppose that makes the scene’s direction a bit of a risk in how the audience will interpret it.