All it does is replace what is preinstalled in Bazzite with what is preinstalled in Bazzite-DX after you boot into that new image. Which in this case the difference is just the addition of Docker and VSCode, essentially. So for you, it’ll just add these programs. It’d be different if someone was coming from Aurora, for example, since that also doesn’t bundle things like Steam and Lutris, which would be new additions to that system also.

I did this a few weeks ago because Winboat needed Docker (it now supports Podman anyway) and have had no issues.

For some reason, Bazzite-DX image updates are set to need manual approval by one of the devs pressing a button in Github, whereas the Bazzite ones push automatically. So there may be a slight delay on updates, but I do mean slight, like a day at most.

Edit: you can also just rebase back later, losing those programs, or boot your old Bazzite image if something goes wrong immediately. I rebased to Zirconium, a completely different image, then just rebooted back into my Bazzite image after trying it out.

This stuff is why atomic/bootc images are awesome. Your files are never touched (except when switching desktop environments, potentially) and you can do this kind of thing all day. Theres images based on Arch and Debian out there now too.

It sounds like youre trying to use the app but log in through the browser? I’ve never had problems on Bazzite just joining meetings through the browser (Firefox) itself without signing in, if thats possible.

Its basically impossible to know without calling every company and getting the information of their suppliers, keeping up to date on that, hoping they dont use multiple depending on the region, etc. Unless the product explicitly says “no processed sugar” or caters to vegans.

I think it’s reasonable to ask homemade stuff not contain processed sugar, but I wouldnt fault someone for not checking everything they buy at the store that probably isnt advertising it one way or another. Literally everything has sugar in it.

Good call out though.

Not if you play games and want things to work 99% of the time. Things are a lot better than they were, but this exact problem came up in the Bazzite discord server recently where some of the devs are testing them and there’s been videos by lots of creators comparing their results to previous years. If you don’t game or don’t mind inconsistent results for the cost, then yes. Linus Torvalds does not meaningfully ‘game’ to the extent that this is a problem for him. All he cares about is that it lets him do his work and use his displays.

As another Kobo user, I do want to say you have to do it this way for things like PDFs if you plan to try and read any of those. They’re always a pain with ereaders but I wasnt aware you can’t sync or send them at all so its just a little annoyance when I have everything else automatically syncing with Calibre Web.

A few hours later, I am close to having the 50~ cities I need to officially win. But I’m not gonna stop there. Cao Cao has vassalized the entirety of the East and declared himself emperor. Including Liu Bei. I am left with my vast jungles, my few vassals locking down the south, and my ally in Gong Du, the bandit king.

Zhurong bypassed several northern settlements, slaying Ma Teng and his son, to capture the child emperor for our tribes.

Idk if the game bugged out or if this doesnt apply to non-Han factions, I was holding off on destroying the Han Empire because it said they would be automatic vassals of whoever has the emperor and I wanted to use them as a buffer to have the entire middle of the map covered. That didnt happen though so I gotta change up my plans.

I haven’t played those since release, but liked them a lot. Hong Kong was my fav. I wish they didn’t stop making them because they had a really good foundation to work from to keep making new games and adding/adjusting features along the way, or just releasing new campaigns. I know there’s mods too, but I haven’t tried them.

I upgraded from an RTX 3070 and I don’t regret it one bit. It’s significantly faster, the VRAM helps a lot, and I’ve been a Linux gamer for like 2 years now, so it runs significantly better in UE5 titles. Using an Nvidia card in a UE5 game on Linux right now has something like a 20% performance deficit because of how unoptimized it is. I haven’t tried to play Clair Obscur yet, which is the game that gave me so many microstuters that I couldn’t play at all.

The card also undervolts/underclocks very well to save a significant amount of power and heat with like a 3% performance decrease, which helps because I have a small form factor case. I got a good holiday deal on mine and it sounds like prices are expected to go higher again with the RAM situation, so hopefully they don’t go back into scalper territory again by the time you’re looking at 'em.

Been no-lifing Total War Three Kingdoms. Like I posted last week, I got a RX 9070 XT so I can run whatever I want now at 1440p. I haven’t played this one much since launch, but I’ve been doing non-stop Nanman campaigns. My first one with Zhurong ended quickly while I was just messing around and figuring out mechanics again.

I then tried to play King Mulu, but I made the mistake of attacking non-Nanman factions early on to consolidate a commandery. This pissed off the Han Empire, Liu Bei (who had taken over most of the Eastern part of the map), and just about everyone else. That’s expected eventually, but the problem is that Nanman get bonuses for every other Nanman faction they conquer or annex and can’t unlock parts of their tech tree until that’s done. So I was left with little tech, underdeveloped regions, and not enough money to fight 5 factions at once. It would have taken 3 times as long to continue this campaign than to just start over.

This time, I went with the classic Meng Huo, very aggressively expanded (battles every other turn) into the other Nanman regions with my OP starting elephants, made use of multiple smaller armies instead of a doom stack, and used ambush bait (one small army sitting in the open, a bigger one in ambush stance waiting for the enemy to attack them). All the Nanman factions are mine, I have 6 armies roaming around, and I have so much surplus food from my building trees that I bribe whoever I want to leave me alone for a bit by giving them 20 extra food per turn. I have 34 surplus when most other factions have 7.

My eldest sons are set to inherit my kingdom should I perish, but Meng Huo is still only like 36 and probably isn’t dying any time soon. They were born before he married Zhurong, so I might make my youngest son or daughter my heir when they come of age to roleplay being a father with a favorite. One of my sons married a Han vanguard character, so I’m starting to show them the ways of my people and expand the family tree.

Everything about the franchise is coming back to me, essentially. I’m on Normal battles and Very Hard campaign, since I found that to be the best balance in most other titles. I might actually try a Legendary campaign sometime soon though after I finish this one and get all the achievements possible for the Nanman. Hard battles and Very Hard campaign might be the best actual balance. It’s very easy to beat the AI by stacking spear/javelin infantry exclusively, along with whatever ranged unit, because the Han factions favor cavalry a lot more and they also counter other Nanman elephants. A single poison dart unit also destroys infantry morale if you can circle them behind. I won an almost impossible siege defense with just my garrison by circling them out the back and firing darts into everyone. Saved the day.

I think I prefer the older style of battles from games like Rome 2 that emphasize stuff like fatigue a lot more, because especially as the Nanman, I usually win by just making everyone flee 3 times, meaning they don’t recover and I can mow them down. Battles are over very very fast. Like 5 - 7 minutes fast. I could play Records mode instead that is supposed to be a little less Dynasty Warriors, but it disables pretty much all general skills and makes the rest of the game less interesting diplomacy and roleplaying wise.

This is skirting around the problem, but it’s very easy to install Winboat as an AppImage through Gear Lever and use Microsoft Office apps that way if the Office 365 versions aren’t sufficient. It’s just a Windows VM, but greatly simplified in its setup and requires just a few button clicks. I use it for Word, since LibreOffice uses different margins that fuck up all my documents by making them take up more pages than they normally do.

The same Ublue family of people who make Bazzite also make Bluefin (Gnome) and Aurora (KDE), so I would actually recommend Aurora over stock Fedora Atomic since the Ublue bakes in a lot more stuff like drivers.

Edit: someone else mentioned this already, whoops. I still agree though.

Hey I made a whole post about this in /c/slop and am glad I’m not the only one annoyed by it lol. I delete artists and whatever at the drop of a hat though because I have an ever expanding list of them to go through so it’s kind of just a “enjoy this thing until they disappointment me, then move on” deal. Nothing is sacred.

Of course I would criticize any incident of horse racing in general. I’ve protested horse races, rodeos, etc in my area.

The reason I criticize the streamer in this case is because for better or worse, they’re considered a highly influential ‘socialist’ who has sway over thousands of people. I cant do anything from here to meaningfully stop horse races in another country.

Those people contribute directly to their income and the activities the streamer chooses to participate in. If he lost tons of subscribers after this event, he may very well start to consider why. Or as someone else said, just blame ultras. This is a form of control in the same way I analyze what politicians do and withhold or give a vote, funding, vocal support, etc. They’ve made the activities part of their public career and platform. It’s the same as criticizing a celebrity for literally anything.

The specific location is only relevant because lots of people have been watching him for the China exploration recently. I don’t care that it was a Hong Kong track, that doesnt make it better or worse than doing it in the US.

My guess is most people non-regulars here don’t know who his other co-streamers are, so I didn’t feel the need yto mention them specifically. But obviously the same criticism applies to them and to the rest of the attendees.

I also wouldn’t call this a small mistake and again believe nobody would be using that kind of language here if he did attend a bull fight, cock fight, dog fight, or even a rodeo where the only difference is the obviousness of the cruelty and immediate severity of injury.

I do think you’re being disingenuous by suggesting that I don’t also care about the gambling aspect, which is of course ruining thousands of lives through its proliferation. The gambling just wasnt the point of my post. I can be friends with someone who does sports betting (on basketball or whatever) while discouraging them from it, but I’m not going to be friends with a habitual horse better.

I never subscribed or donated anything. I meant more in the way that every view boosts the analytics.

Obviously I condemn eating meat in general too, but that’s an almost universal practice that one can understandably adopt from the overwhelming support it has from average people and the propaganda pushed by that industry. Attending a horse race is frankly no different than attending a cock fight though, in that it’s a more deliberate action that is only normalized among a smaller subset of the population and has significantly less practical justification for its existence (meaning feeding oneself). It’s also a lot more upfront about its violence, because you can watch horses trip and get significantly injured in real time. I’m not necessarily fixated on the betting part, I think even attending is a pretty repugnant thing to do. Then amplify that by essentially advertising it to thousands of people as a cool and good thing to do. Convincing my grandma to stop eating meat is impossible, but convincing her not to attend a cock fight is a lot easier.

I understand all that and it means his first reaction to just about anything is to pull up the chatter and tell them to fuck off, as he did in this case. But I can’t say that I’ve ever seen him publicly self reflect after the fact and change his mind either. This is something people have been trying to get him to pay attention to for years, before the recent all-out attacks. And I don’t think people would be giving him the same leeway if this involved any other sort of ism than speciesism, which is also to be expected but disappointing.

I’m not ‘canceling’ anybody, I’m refusing to materially support them in any way beyond the minimal amount I was doing prior and letting people know in case it’s also a red line for them. I’m not going to be posting about him every day like freaks were doing with the dog thing. But his reaction to people asking him not to go was to tell them to fuck off because he’s familiar with equestrian sports and knows they’re ‘treated well’. It’s part of a pattern of behavior going back several years to when he had a vegan video editor, Ostonox, trying to convince him he was being stubborn with his refusal to acknowledge animal rights are something even worth considering or talking about.

EDIT: If he comes back and says he regrets it because he somehow genuinely didn’t know, then whatever. But he’s known for doubling down when criticized because he has a huge ego. Also, a streamer with his view count doing it and advertising it is different than a random person doing it.

Bought a 9070 XT. Plugged it in, Linux already has drivers, good to go, vroom vroom. Played a 12 year old game at 300 FPS, as is tradition after an upgrade. Back on my Total War kick (I already have like 500 hours across all the different games), this time with some minimal mods, since I’ve never really used them. Deciding between Shogun 2 or Three Kingdoms for a campaign though. Might also start Outer Worlds 2 like OP. I clowned hard on the first one because it was the most aggressively average game I’ve ever played, but I’m hearing better feedback about the 2nd one and want that Bethesda/Obsidian style game rn.

At least one of the law enforcement events was that they provided the recovery email address linked to the Proton account, which is not encrypted information and they were legally forced to give, then the authorities used that to get access to the other email account and bust them.

As far as I know, nobody has ever had their Proton emails accessed.

The CEO is a bit of a liberal/libertarian tech bro who sucks up to whoever they feel would be best for their business, including Republicans. And Proton itself does stuff like operating a VPN out of Hong Kong to promote “democracy” and whatever.

For Linux gamers who want to move away from Steam, you can use Proton outside of Steam in Lutris. Just download whatever version you want with ProtonUpQT. It’s usually recommended that you use Proton for games that have a Steam version available (so pirated copies), and Wine for those that don’t. But Proton works for a lot of other stuff too if you have problems.