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Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

You right. I shouldn't have been commenting shit yesterday. I'm honestly not like that, I just let this news vortex get in my head and I boil over sometimes.

They're such an easy target to get righteous anger over. Part of be realized it even as I typed it, but I should've just deleted it like you would trash a handwritten note just to get it out of your system.

Right Wing did deluded me for years (almost at 10 years since I started leaving that culture behind. Nazis kinda combine the hatred I have for them specifically and lately it's combined with my triggers for how right wing garbage poisoned me for so long that it doesn't just boil over, it goes from soup cooking temperature to a nuclear reactor when they're in lockstep.

And of course the blind rage reverts back to it's familiar roots, and I fucking destroy what I'm trying to be with what I say.

Good on you for calling it out.

Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Someone that bought his place at the white house did it and didn't get shot by a flamethrower, so all the Nazis hiding literally just below the surface feel ok to talk a little louder now.

Honestly, with sufficient evidence it should be legal to kill them in public and receive any inheritance from their wills. I don't typically enjoy personally hunting people down typically, but these aren't people.

One comment blatantly in favor of it Goodies any human rights in my opinion. It's the only way. They may say it too (vermin, poisoning the blood, etc) but they've only ever been right about themselves.

I would give a pedo human rights before them. And that's saying something.

They're just rabid animals, and I defy anyone to give a reason they deserve a single second of life at all, for any reason, in any context. Maybe with the one exception of using them to find gatherings of others. But that's it.

iJustInventedSomethingEveryDevNeeds in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Don't forget to stand up and say MCDONALD'S.

What have you done for the glory of The Empire? in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"Trump"et

Sorry band kids, we can't talk about you no more.

Johnny Enlow's usage of it is what did it for me. Now it's all I can hear with words that contain his name. That clip is all I hear.

I don't have the clip linkable at the moment. Maybe it's just a "me" problem, but I fucking lose it when I hear it now.

Somebody here has to know what I'm talking about.

Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wow. I probably have played 4 or 5 on that entire list. And none of them in the past 5 or so years.

It's still a shitty thing to do for sure. Maybe there will be a new "thing" that starts getting used instead? Ray tracing has gotten way more coverage than PhysX ever did, and imo is like 3% as good or interesting.

Physics actually have gameplay interactions that matter. Ray tracing looks nice, but is so absolutely expensive computationally that (imo) is not even CLOSE to being worth the effort if turning on, even with compatible hardware.

Give us better physics, games! My main time sink rn is Rocket League, and that game is literally nothing but physics. Mostly simple physics, but stuff behaving in a logical way makes my brain a lot happier than better lighting ever did.

I like when y'all grass became an actual object that could be moved around by players, or when tossing an item on the ground actually does it tossed down and colliding with other objects while texting to them appropriately (as in fire starting, or weight holding something down a certain amount). That stuff is potentially game creating, definitely feature drinking.

Has anything AT ALL been affected by "pretty lights" beyond making them pretty? If it has, I've never heard of it.

Keep games about a gameplay experience, not just a visual feast. Save that tech for movies or playable stories (ie Telltale type). Focus only on the gameplay experience otherwise. Toss in some ray tracing when you can, but NEVER at the expense of physics. It just doesn't make any sense.

What have you done for the glory of The Empire? in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

While hilarious, this word should really stop being used now.

Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Kinda. But this "comment" system is more set up to encourage replying to others rather than the original subject.

That would be an easy fix though.

I feel like we can't use services anymore at all. We need protocols and clients to connect to each other using those protocols and stop using centralized anything at all.

99% of what I've done in discord is a private server with like 5 or 6 regulars just to use voice coms in game.

But we already had that with TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, and Mumble. The UIs were fucking ugly as dog shit, but they worked.

Discord just came along and and combined a global (to a set of members) chat room and a voice service, where before those were separate.

Now if something is "just" a website then no one under like 25 will be able to hear of it, much less figure out how to use it. They need apps to be able to communicate.

The problem is that bigger services obviously have a problem of scale with that setup, so they start simple and get a bigger audience, then start the spying with some tiny change no one will check patch notes for.

These days we're all guilty of that.

Capitalism is again the bad guy here. Monetizing everyone's actions and identities is the particular issue. No one would feel a need to do this if it didn't lead to more profits. I'll bet there are a bunch of companies that started off good and fell to the dark side when they couldn't control their monetary appetite. (Or when younger employees took on promoted positions and saw opportunity- all they had to do was (cough cough) stop not being evil (cough cough)).

Musk and Hannity talk right over Trump in awkward Fox News interview in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I haven't even heard his name since the election besides Colbert making couch jokes.

Spermageddon - Official Trailer (yes, this is a real movie!) in c/movies@lemm.ee

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

You remember sexy meatballs? xD

Pope Francis to stay in hospital because of ‘complex clinical picture’ in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 days ago

I dunno, a magic genie. This is just wishes man.

Spermageddon - Official Trailer (yes, this is a real movie!) in c/movies@lemm.ee

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

See I knew someone would know. I didn't have the spare moment to look it up at the time.

‘Such Liars’: Elon Musk joins MAGA crusade against ‘60 Minutes’ in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

What damage can he possibly think isn't deserved? Like bruh if you're breathing and not currently digging a sword out of your chest, you're above where you should be. Didn't complain of not getting extra special treatment.

Actually, we should start making a bunch of recurring holidays during the year on these fuckers' death days. Call it something like world brightening days.

It would get pretty out of control, though, to celebrate properly. 😂

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Confused about my drives and partition names (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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So first off, what I'm TRYING to accomplish here is to have 3 drives show in Dolphin with their correct names. They are 3 physical drives (no crazy partition shenigans), but I'm having several issues trying to get them to be usable. All 3 are nvme drives connected directly to the board. (I'm new to Linux, not building machines.) The main drive is encrypted and is showing as type LVM2, the others are just ext4.

I am still fairly new with this, and didn't mess with this much when I used Windows, but when I did everything worked fine the first time. I'm pretty competent at following directions, and willing to learn vocab and lingo.

So the 3 drives are:

-main system drive

-drive to store photos (labelled 'Archive')

-Had a 3rd drive sitting around when I put this system together. No real intended use for it yet, but I'll think of something later.

So I'd like to have them listed as Main, Archive, and Drive3 for now. For a while I just had Main and Archive working. I just tried to add some photos to the Archive drive a couple minutes ago, but it's not longer showing in the Devices section in the sidebar. There is still a "Main" listed, but it says "An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: No such interface “org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem” on object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d0" whenever I click on it.

Seeing as I know my computer is currently working, that doesn't make any sense to me. There is another drive simply listed as "1.8 TiB Internal Drive dm-1" which is actually the correct drive for my system install. So the listing it was under now doesn't work, but it's still easily accessible with this default name.

There is now a recovery device listed, but I haven't created a recovery partition, and I certainly don't want to see it listed in the devices, as if I need it I will just use it as intended, I don't ever need to browse it easily.

The Archive drive is not listed at all anymore. I can still see it in GParted, and it shows up just fine, but says it isn't mounted. At the moment I still have the original copies of everything I've put on it, so worst case scenario I can reformat it and start over, but I'm just trying to understand what happened here so it isn't a recurring problem. It wasn't mounted according to GParted and the Disks utility, so I just tried mounting it and it worked, but none of the files that were on it are still there. But they're still on the Main drive, so I can just drag them back.

After mounting the drive just now, the Devices section has disappeared in Dolphin. I'm getting more and more confused the more I try to figure it out and fix it.

I'm assuming if it's showing blank (other than an empty 'lost+found' directory that means the data is gone. I'm almost afraid to reboot now and feel like it's about to implode on me. I can get screenshots of whatever might need to be seen, but honestly now with the Devices section just entirely missing, the idea of this being convenient is becoming hopeless. I just want the drives to always show up with the correct names, and not give errors trying to navigate them. This shouldn't be this complicated. At least the system itself is functioning, but this is killing me. I've never had drives just stop showing up before.

Oh so the 3rd drive I did just add recently, so it really hasn't had time to have an error with it, as I haven't touched it yet. Nothing is on it, it was just recently added

So in short, any ideas why the "Main" listing stopped working and why it showed up as a default named partition? The Archive part actually may not have been copied over yet (I can't remember stuff to save my life sometimes) but I know the drive itself was at least accessible before. Which it seems to be now, but was unmounted by default, which is kinda odd. Also when I mounted it, it showed up as a folder with a long name of random numbers and letters, but it still shows the correct partition name in GParted. The 3rd drive shows correctly as "Drive3" which is its volume/partition name, but the partition on this drive is named/labelled "Archive" but shows as a long string of numbers, letters, and dashes.

And now I'm unsure which drives are still working at any given moment since the Devices part isn't even there and I have to keep manually digging into them from the media mount point "folder". I can make a version of it by manually adding a "Place" to the Dolphin sidebar, but it's not in its own category anymore, and is much more annoying to me this way. I could use it like that if I have to, but I'd rather go back to each one showing on its own.

Any ideas or help?

edit- Using Pop with KDE

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Diablo 4 gray screen crash (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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So I'm getting the famous gray screen crash on trying to start the game.

I have finally moved to Linux for my main machine and almost everything is running smoothly except this game in particular.

I using Lutris to get to BattleNet. Overwatch 2 works great. But Diablo 4 just shows a gray screen for 2 or 3 seconds and then the window closes bringing me back to whatever was on the screen when it tried launching.

I've seen a bunch of mentions of this issue, most are for the Steam Deck or are Windows-related, and I've seen a lot of posts about switching Proton versions and VKD3D versions, but I cannot seem to get a working combination to just get into the game.

I don't have a clue what is wrong or how to even diagnose what else to do here. All of the links I can find that mention anything.

I had to stop after launch because my last machine only had 4GB of RAM and would choke after a few minutes, but this machine should not be having problems.

Edit- Game is still having problems even when launched from Steam.

I cannot get Battle.net to launch with any regular Proton version or Experimental. I also can only get it running with GE after version 8-26. (only 3 versions, 8-26, 9-1, and 9-5)

But every version up to 9-5 has the gray screen for a couple seconds, then the game closes with no error message.

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Fresh newbie with a boot problem (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Hello,

Finally built a new rig, and wanted to ditch Windows.

Got KDE neon up and running, booted into it, got my browser mostly back to how I like it, ran an update for my video card. I didn't notice the screen blackout and come back like it normally would for a video update, but I don't think that has anything to do with my current issue. I tried to restart to make sure it was running, and the update part of discover showed up and said I had a couple hundred updates to get, no big surprise there, since it is a fresh install.

Then it hung on fetching updates, and while I could browse my list of programs, I couldn't do anything else. So I did a hard shut down and powered back up.

It sticks on some kennel warnings and won't go any further.

Obviously I can't really do anything from there that I know of.

I also can't even get it to boot with the install media. That just sticks on a black screen. I can tell the monitor is actually showing black, as it doesn't give the "NO SIGNAL" warning. I have no idea what to do from here since I can't get it to react to anything, much less know how to fix anything if I could get in.

As for what the warnings say, there are 6 or so lines saying the same thing: problem blacklisting hash (-13), and one more that says nvme2: failed to set APST feature (2)

I haven't put anything on nvme2 yet, I haven't even formatted it yet, just the primary drive (nvme0). So I'm not sure what could possibly be wrong with it yet.