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piracy is not that deep… the OS doesn’t really matter in this case as what you’re concerned about is the ISP, not anything in your own PC. if you don’t have a VPN, your ISP could send letters bugging you for downloading stuff. you’d probably have to get dozens of letters before the ISP would cancel your service.
just get a VPN for $5/month and you don’t have to worry about it.
I would highly recommend using a Wine manager program such as PlayOnLinux. You can have each program in its own virtual drive and can use different wine versions and tweaks for each program. It’ll manage the wine versions in the app so you don’t have to install it systemwide.
Also check out https://appdb.winehq.org and https://protondb.com for compatibility, tweaks, etc. for each program.
hmm, not sure… i’ve heard it referred to as “wined3d”? when i had a non-vulkan card it usually wouldn’t try to run vulkan so i didn’t have to mess with it. what result does disabling dxvk have?
in steam you can put PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 in the launch options, but this doesn’t help for non-steam games
Yes, directx to opengl (included in WINE) was used exclusively for a very long time before dxvk and vk-d3d came out just a few years ago. for older games you should be good to go, before i had a vulkan-capable card i ran all kinds of older games, usually without having to tweak anything. in a few games i had to change a game setting to use D3D9 instead of 11.
The version you linked on github is FOSS but it is out of date— newer versions on the play store are proprietary. Organic Maps is a continuation of the FOSS version by the original developers.
dxvk is available through the distro, if you’re on an ubuntu or debian-based distro just run sudo apt install dxvk. vulkan should come pre-installed on any modern distro.
i’d highly recommend using some kind of manager, if you don’t want lutris than use playonlinux which is more minimal. this keeps things organized and lets you use different wine versions and tweaks for each game. for example, some newer games need proton-experimental or an otherwise very recent version to run, but you may not want to replace your system wine with this.
This paper looks like it’s essentially run by the US weapons industry. It’s a subsidiary of GovExec who helps military contractors sell to the government. This means they have an interest in drumming up armed conflict and you’d have to take everything they print with this in mind.
A group called Cofacts allows users to forward dubious messages to a chatbot. Human editors check the messages, enter them into a database, and get back to the user with a verdict.
“This year, because gen AI is just so mailable [sic], they just fine-tuned a language module together that can clarify such disinformation…adding back a context and things like that. So we’re no longer outnumbered,” she said.
I’d be highly skeptical of how well this would work. A language model is not a truth machine, it’s just a program that tries to write like a human. There are countless examples of ChatGPT and similar programs saying blatantly false things and making up citations out of thin air.
Spoof your MAC address, but it will appear as a new device on the wi-fi which could arouse suspicion. Ideally you could spoof a familiar device that’s not currently or often in use (i.e., parents’ or siblings’ old phone or laptop), but of course you would need to acquire the MAC and it wouldn’t work while the actual device is connected.
native version, even on linux it runs flawlessly with great performance. GTAIV isn’t considered playable under RCPS3.
but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.
Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won’t be as dark.
I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I’m not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.
I could understand requiring an account with Jitsi itself, but needing that account to be Facebook, Google, or MS seems to be at odds with the type of person who would use an encrypted video chat in the first place.
Facebook is both spyware and evil but it seems strange to call it “corrupt”. It wasn’t corrupted, this is what the zuck wanted.
Neat! I have a J2ME-capable phone but I haven’t really tried playing games on it much. What are some of the best ones you’ve found?
I used to use AntennaPod a few years ago, not sure what it’s like now but it looks to still be updated. Nice app as it has built-in search, etc. rather than just taking RSS feeds.
I haven’t been on Android in a few years but it looks like Librera Reader is still being maintained. Works great but somewhat large file size due to being a full-featured e-book/document reader rather than just PDF.
yes, that’s a tty. why do you need a different resolution? if what you want to do is change the font size, check out this link
i had plenty of physical space in my computer case and didn’t want to spend a huge amount on drives, so i have my OS and some games on a SSD and have added a bunch of old enterprise HDDs (6TB, 3TB, and 2TB) to store media and games on. having only an SSD seems overly expensive if you want to store large amounts
I really doubt that the problem is with your actual graphic drivers, but with the wine version of directx. first, make sure you have Vulkan and DXVK installed and working on your computer as it’s required for directx 11. you could also try older wine versions, or you can see if you can force hearthstone to run under directx9 if it’s still supported:
In the Game Settings (in the Battle.net app) you need to enable the command line argument and then type this into it:
-force-d3d9
a few years ago when i didn’t have a Vulkan-capable GPU i would have to make a lot of windows games run in D3D9
fuck off. how many accounts have you made on tchncs.de to keep posting garbage like this?