GTX980Ti places their hand gently on your shoulder

So good. Wonky is pretty good, if you missed Orbital’s short-lived reunion a decade ago. I drove some tripping friends around in a thunderstorm, blasting it when it was new, I think they enjoyed that.

…but where am I supposed to find another cart in this 50 million dollar hospital?

lutris -d will run it and print debug messages to the terminal.

I think the root of the problem is that updating changes what WINE and Proton versions are being used, even for games that are already installed. That pretty much negates what most people are using Lutris for. (WINE prefix management)

Someone suggested the program Warehouse to me, but I haven’t tried it. On Arch, I still had the version I wanted in my package manager’s cache so it was a single command.

sudo pacman -U file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/lutris-0.5.19-9-any.pkg.tar.zst

If you are using the flatpak (Bazzite, Steam Deck, etc.) unfortunately, it’s more complicated.

1. Exit to desktop mode.
2. Open Konsole (it’s in System in the main menu).
3. If you haven’t set a root password yet, run passwd, make it reasonably secure and don’t forget it. I believe setting a root password enables the Deck to be controlled remotely over ssh with said password. Be safe.
4. Run flatpak remote-info --log flathub net.lutris.Lutris. Lutris was installed as system for me. I think that is the default, so probably choose 1 for system if it asks.
5. You will see a commit with the subject “Update Lutris to 0.5.20”. The previous version is in the list right after that. Note that hash of 64 hexadecimals.
6. Run sudo flatpak update --commit=19ee79d455b8e50f057911a2bba279efcb960ee6d565f794e9c9d41c290dcd14 net.lutris.Lutris, supply the root password, and accept the changes. (Use the hash from step 5.)
7. Run sudo flatpak mask net.lutris.Lutris and supply root password to prevent Lutris from being updated. We will probably have problems in the future when the flatpak environment gets deprecated, sudo flatpak mask --remove net.lutris.Lutris would allow it to update again.

It’s completely a coincidence that all games are no longer working in Lutris here, on multiple machines, after upgrading from 0.5.19 to 0.5.20. Weird.

I downgraded and everything works again. I did not try 0.5.22 or the quickly removed 0.5.21.

Yeah, they don’t bring their stuff around for help anymore. They’re probably afraid I’ll wipe it and install Debian. 🤣 It’s been a long time; I’m an Arch fiend by now.

I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”

…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

I’m no expert but it’s fairly easy to mitigate.

From https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support: Uninstall the official nvidia, nvidia-lts, or nvidia-dkms packages. Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Translates to:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

In attempting this, I still had a conflict with lib32-nvidia-utils, so this should work better:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms lib32-nvidia-utils

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils

Using yay -Syy nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils means you don’t have to manually approve these replacement packages in the process, I think?

EndeavourOS, BTW

My family still runs two of this mobo, but older revisions. I remember hearing about bugs with IOMMU but I can’t recall any USB or other problems.

IOMMU can be disabled in BIOS; it seems that it would only be useful if passing devices through to a virtual machine? Is that a valid assessment?

Sober… Roblox

It works great for my family! Only annoyance is having to run flatpak update often.

Two of my family members are still rocking machines of this vintage. Get a Vishera-based (8300 series) FX CPU if you can find it cheap, so you at least have x86-64-v2 instruction set. It helps. You probably have (Realtek?) gigabit networking onboard, but an Intel gigabit card will improve networking performance.

When streaming, you’re running the game and encoding video at the same time. This will make the PC double as a space heater, which might be OK if you’re in the northern hemisphere and approaching winter! 😉

No.

See also: US Gov’t taking a stake in Intel.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/talks-are-reportedly-underway-for-the-us-gov-to-take-a-stake-in-intel-and-its-share-price-has-already-jumped-7-percent-in-response/

I’m guessing that PCs preloaded with Windows 12 will have locked bootloaders.

It turns out that there isn’t one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.

Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks

Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

Problem is that they would still need to have some kind of authentication to avoid offline backups becoming clone factories. I used to give away Mews and Celebis by trading them and then restoring my cart’s SRAM with a portable backup device.

That’s funny! If someone was trying to infect my PC via e-mail, I would expect them to be sending pdf files.