You may be interested in reading this post about the process of packaging Steam.

tl;dr: It’s mostly an annoyance reserved for packagers to deal with. Dynamically linked executables can be patched in a fairly universal fashion to work without FHS, so that’s the go-to approach. If the executable is statically linked, the package may have to ship a source patch instead. If the executable is statically linked & close-source, the packagers are forced to resort to simulating an FHS environment via chroot.

WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator

API call translation is often very inexpensive and, particularly in the case of DXVK for graphics calls, sometimes actually results in faster code if the underlying API implementation is more performant than the original Win32 equivalent – see Elden Ring launch day performance on Linux vs. Windows for an example of this.

You’re confusing Proton with community efforts like Lutris. Proton is a package of technologies (Wine, DXVK, Vessel), not a configuration manager. Each individual game gets an identical, isolated runtime environment without any bespoke modifications except for downloading precompiled shaders (if available).

It’s certainly true that Proton has hardcoded quirk flags for specific applications, but these are exceptions which prove the rule – there are <200 of these compared with thousands of Verified status games. Almost always, Valve prefers to fix the upstream Wine/DXVK bug rather than hacking around it. Any hacks which Valve does ship are in the Proton source code, not per-game environment scripts.

You’ve killed another one, doctor. Congratulations

I was not ready for this held shot after the flashback/dream scene. I hate that I know exactly how it feels

Honestly at that point it might be worth mortgaging the home all over again just to get rid of that debt. Even at that admirable pace and taking today’s higher mortgage interest rates you’d probably end up saving $2000

Well, the second problem would be figuring out who curates the system. If you’ve ever voted on a referendum you’ll probably know what I’m talking about. You can make any proposal sound awesome/horrible if you leave out the right details.

If you’ve ever organized to resist a referendum you’ve probably also experienced the “we’ll just rephrase this and try again later” effect, wherein special interests just need to stubbornly keep pushing until the opposition voters get sick of participating in the polls.

I don’t think these are unsolvable problems, but they do inherently require setting up a representative beaurocracy of unelected technocrats – an apparent oxymoron. It’s gotta be someone’s job to run the machine and ideally you want them to be looking out for the people above all else.

So, how to play kingmaker? Well, if we take literal kings & elected representatives off the table, what remains is a model akin to academia, wherein credentials & seniority are prioritized above most else. It’s not a bulletproof system (none are), but if you squint hard enough the EU sort of exemplifies what this model could look like – just replace the delegates with smartphones, essentially.

And now for two interesting themes I’m picking up on:

• Clear blue skies seem to come up frequently during moments of danger, both in this episode and the last
• Blue hair guy likes acting like he’s above the drama and makes that quite literal by perching above everyone else in almost every single one of his shots

I got caught up with this series the other day and holy cow these are some incredibly directed episodes!

Just look at how expressively framed these shots are! I haven’t seen such consistently appealing layouts since 86 – I know it seems like I just screenshotted every scene, but believe me when I say that I’m exercising restraint in this list:

I’m also really digging the SHAFT/monogatari influence in the storyboard. Not a big surprise after looking at the stafflist, but these are nevertheless some very reminiscent shots:

Don’t even get me started on the juxtapositions and eye leading… watching this show so far has been such a joy and I’m really looking forward to episode 3 tomorrow!

I don’t know what platform you’re on, but from the web frontend my link works as-is. Here’s what the escaped version you sent looks like:

If you’re using a mobile app, I would suggest that you report the link rendering issue as a bug

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out obscure undocumented data formats and cyberchef is absolutely incredible for that. Here’s a fun little preview of what that looks like

Some suggestions with similar co-op vibes to D4: Spelunky 2, Don’t Starve Together, Dark Souls Remastered

I’ll do my best to explain:

Firstly, not all code executed on an open source OS needs to be open source. For example: Epic Anti-Cheat, which comes with a Linux-compatible mode, is fully closed source. So right off the bat we’re going to put to bed the notion that somehow the platform of choice makes it easier for bad actors to pull apart and examine anticheat software.

Secondly, yes, there is a problem with cheaters being able to hide from anticheats on Linux. This is because on Windows it’s relatively easy to run kernel-level code via drivers – this is why most anticheats require admin permission to install a monitoring driver before the game will run. The anticheat is effectively rootkitting your system in order to circumvent other rootkits that may be concealing epic cheatz.

On GNU/Linux, almost all device drivers come prepackaged in the Linux kernel, so there’s no direct equivalent to the Windows approach of allowing users to install third-party code into the most protected rings of the OS. It’s still possible through the use of kernel modules (see NVIDIA drivers), but as evidenced by how annoying it is to use NVIDIA devices on Linux, this is a huge PITA for both the developer & the user to deal with.

So that’s the rub. On Linux, anticheats just have to trust that the kernel isn’t lying. This has been a perpetual thorn in the side of developers like Google, who’d really really like it if they could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a given Android device is not rooted (see SafetyNet). Google’s solution to this has been to introduce hardware-backed attestation – basically a special hardware chip on the device that can prove that the kernel software has not been tainted in any way.

Another reason is that “CP” got jokingly coopted by abusers in the form of various dogwhistles (e.g.: “cheese pizza”). It made more sense to adopt a new acronym rather than try to uphold any sense of decorum while sharing ownership of the term w/ edgelords & predators.

I’ll refrain from talking specifics until the poll closes since the ideal solution is going to vary a fair amount depending upon the exact curation methodology, but I basically agree with what you’re saying here.

There will definitely be some feature for this, though – depending on the goal order established in the survey – it is possible that the feature won’t be ready at day one. For what it’s worth, I will be sharing a proposed roadmap with the community long before anything gets written in stone. Goal #1 is ensuring that the entire pipeline is as fully aligned as possible with what the community finds valuable.

Hey RealM, as @wjs018@lemmy.ml has already suggested, this is a kbin quirk. It’s documented on the kbin Codeberg bug tracker as #350. The kbin maintainers have not yet commented on whether this is intended behavior or a bug, but it does not appear as if anything will be done about the problem in the near future.

The only course of action that I could possibly take to work around the issue is to remove the bot flag from @shinobu@ani.social. Unfortunately, doing this would violate the right of Lemmy users to opt out of seeing bot activity – not to mention also violate the ToS of numerous instances (including ani.social)

Who would win?

• A massive entertainment industry filled to the brim with passionate creatives
• One greedy boy

I have such a softspot for this series. I love that it puts careful consideration into the lore of the world without explaining away the underpinning fantasy. I love that it’s willing to skip over perfunctory action setpieces in favor of interesting dialogue. I love that characters take each other seriously and naturalistically pursue their own individual interests without getting coded as evil.

Most of all, I love that the characters can engage in a sappy non-deathflag conversation like this and have it feel completely earned:

Don’t sleep on Faraway Paladin, you guys.

“It’s like knuckle sammich day at the buffet and we’re all out of bread!”

Alright, fine… You got me! It’s actually Microsoft’s problem.