Hello, guests. I want to play a game.

All your lives, you wandered through the world taking the simplest human dignities for granted, demanding cheap thrills and consuming without thought. You gorged on free salty popcorn and drank deeply from free bottomless sodas, never once considering the inevitable toll it would take on your bodies or questioning the reasoning for this unexpected gift.

Now, you stand trapped upon this isolated pillar, eighty feet above the earth, with nowhere left to run.

Take a look around you. The salt has parched your throats. The drinks have filled your bladders. The pressure mounts with every passing second, and right before you sits your only sanctuary: the restroom.

Ten dollars.

That is the price of relief. A price you considered outrageous in the life you left behind, yet now it is the only barrier between your dignity and utter degradation. You clutch your wallets, weighing pieces of paper against the agony in your gut, pacing among the trash you carelessly threw to the ground.

You have a simple choice. Part with your precious currency and survive with your pride intact, or cling to your money, refuse the toll, and let your own bodily failures drown you in shame upon this stone altar.

Relief or ruin, guests. Make your choice.

Yeah, talking about that nasty mom and her nasty daughter who decided it’d be a good idea to get on a plane and fly across the country and not even cover their mouths when they coughed on the plane. I appreciate getting sick!

If you travel by plane, or really any public transportation, and you’re sick and you don’t at the very least cover your damn mouth or wear a face mask, you’re an asshole.

It’s a confined place. The rest of us are a captive audience that can’t just get up and walk away. And you’re spreading germs and possibly diseases/viruses/etc. across regions. People like you are literally the reason we had a fucking pandemic that crossed the globe. If you motherfuckers just stayed at home or wherever the fuck you were until you were better, none of that shit would have happened.

But oh no, I got sick! What’s the first thing I should do… I know! I’ll travel and spread this with other people!

It’s not too hard to just fucking stay where you are and wait it out. Instead you got me and who knows who else sick from your inconsiderate actions. Hopefully there wasn’t anyone with a condition that made them more susceptible to sicknesses. You could literally kill someone else doing something as irresponsible as this.

Now I’ve got a fucking headache, dry throat, runny nose, and just everything else all because some inconsiderate asshole couldn’t stay put until they were better. Hope it was worth it, fuckface.

Not exaggerating, I deal with this every night. No less than 3 vehicles each night do this. Rarely do any of them ever turn them off when I flash mine back.

And a decent percentage of them also go slower than the speed limit and refuse to move over for faster traffic. They nearly always have a line of cars behind them.

These morons need their cars taken from them permanently.

I have a bird feeder in front of my house and I fill it up with this generic bird seed that has many different kinds of seeds. I’ve watched the birds come up there and eat but then they take the corn kernels and toss them out. A bunch of the corn has fallen on the ground and now I have corn growing!

This is absolutely incredible being able to experience this in my lifetime. Never got to experience Apollo and always wanted to see us make our return back to the moon someday.

Congratulations to the teams involved and good luck to the crew!

It seems like cancer is the biggest thing we all think of when it comes to medicine and what we’d most like to eradicate from our species. So my question is phrased this way out of curiosity what the second worst thing medicine is currently trying to eradicate.

When I was a kid, I went to some big family and friend get together with other kids and adults.

As was tradition, a lot of the older adult men would play dominoes and drink beer. This night had Budweiser beer cans.

I walked up to one of the guys and asked him what he was drinking. To keep my innocence intact, he replied, “it’s water”.

I’ve never forgotten that moment and so every time I see one of those cans with that classic Budweiser design, my mind immediately first thinks there’s water in there.

This is law that goes into effect January 1, 2027.

Colorado has a similar bill that has yet to become a law https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

What started off as an egg sandwich turned into a veggie sandwich with a fried egg in.

I bought a ton of veggies last night for a weekly salad and figured I’d add this and that and this is what I ended up with.

Picture of the interior

Ingredients: potato bread, mayo, sweet and spicy pickle slices, 2 eggs fried, lettuce, Roma tomato slices, red onion slice, alfalfa sprouts, and avocado slices.

And now that I write this, I realize I forgot my damn pickled beet slices!! Would’ve added some extra flavor. But they’re in my weekly salad along with olives.

Very tasty sandwich and good way to start my day!

You both legally have to stop and talk and share information, or else it’s a felony for leaving the scene of an accident.

Also works on celebrities too. Who wouldn’t think it’s cool that you got George Clooney’s number??

Never mind that you’re now on the hook for the accident’s damages and they’ll probably be mad at you. But that’s glass half empty talk.

I have at least two devices I can’t use/update since ditching Windows and moving to Linux and macOS.

I have a water cooler on my Bazzite gaming PC that has an LCD. It was pretty cool because it displayed content on this screen like temps and cool graphics. I got the program running just fine using Proton and Wine, but it won’t properly discover the device in their proprietary software. The LCD screen is connected to one of my motherboard’s USB ports (not an actual USB port, but the one you plug front IOs into).

Same is true for a keyboard I have. It has a cool LCD for displaying gifs and this comes by software the keyboard uses. It can also update the firmware of the keyboard, when updates are available. I got the software running just fine on both Linux and macOS using Proton and Wine, but, same issue as before, the software once installed doesn’t find the USB keyboard.

Neither of these have software/drivers made or available for Linux or macOS.

I’ve played around with winecfg and device configurations in here and not found a way to get the devices to show up there.

Is there any way to get USB devices to work with software like this?

As I understand it for the public web we all use, public DNS servers serve to guide browsers to IP addresses associated with domain names. But of course IPs change for anonymity’s sake on the dark web yet “domain names” stay the same.

How does my Tor browser know the correct route to get to the site that I am trying to visit each time and know that it is always accurate and won’t take me to a different site (assuming that the owner hasn’t changed on that site)? How does this work to keep site owners anonymous without exposing their information to anyone?

Freaking balling my eyes out over here after watching it. It was pretty good, but felt kind of short?

Anyone else seen it yet? Thoughts?

I finally got my Linux server set up and got Plex moved over to run in a docker container and it’s fan-fucking-tastic.

My next question is about radarr and sonarr. I worry about getting notices, throttled by my ISP, etc. I have a VPN that I use to manually download content, but would prefer the automated method instead which I understand radarr and sonarr are for.

Would I need VPN to use these for this concern? If I do run a VPN, would I encounter issues with my external Plex access? I do often use it out of the house and have others who connect to my server to stream too. If so, is there a way to configure it to work with the VPN? And if I do, do I need to run it under that all the time? I don’t always get the VPN since there are some months where nothing is worth downloading for me, so why pay for it until I need it?

Still new and not very well versed when it comes to Wayland and x11.

But I’ve had CachyOS with KDE Plasma installed on my gaming PC for almost 2 months now and not had many issues until last week.

Before I begin, here’s my specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 64GB DDR4 across 4 cards, RTX 4080 Super.

So last week, I booted up my computer and logged into CachyOS. About 10 minutes in, and suddenly the computer is restarting itself. Weird but okay, so I log in again and don’t have the same issue again. When I’m done, I always shut down so I shut down and then next day I boot up again. It was a few days later that this next occurrence happened and it happened in the same way. Another few days go by and then it happens again. Until Tuesday of this week and it got a lot worse. I boot up and log in but I am in for about 7 minutes and then it logs me out. But when I enter my password and hit enter, it freezes up and then my computer restarts after about 3 minutes.

This keeps happening and getting worse and the time is getting shorter that I can be logged in until today where I log in after a restart and am almost immediately kicked back to the login screen and then it freezes and restarts. I barely was able to run commands to get logs. I then began using TTY to do the fixes and copy logs out to read on my laptop.

In hindsight, I did have a few blips of blackness on login happening shortly before this happened where I’d log in and the screen would be black for many minutes until finally loading me up. This was before the freezing and log outs.

Today, I dug deep into the journalctl logs with an LLM and the LLM suggested that the logs were encountering an issue relating to Wayland. The LLM also saw an error involving an AMD graphics card, but that can’t be because I only use the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super so my guess is the error is not relevant to me and was just a generalized error. But it still suggested we try switching over to X11 and after following its steps, I am now in X11 and not having any of these issues anymore.

I’m not seeing any real differences or anything that makes me want to go back to Wayland, but again, I’m still not very knowledgeable on this.

I think what the most likely explanation is that I have been learning how to use pacman and around this time had learned about “sudo pacman -Syu” to update packages, so the most likely reason for this is that something got updated and began going haywire. I’ve been running this more often to ensure my machine is receiving updates. Prior to this, I hadn’t updated anything on the system and was using whatever came from the image I downloaded.

So I have a few questions I was hoping the community could help me with:

1. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before and know what could cause this? The way it kept getting worse almost felt like hardware degradation, like how physical objects naturally degrade and get worse over time if you don’t fix them. Not the normal issue where you encounter the same issue in the same timespan nearly each time which is what I’m expecting from software, not where it gets progressively worse as each day goes. The LLM had suggested hardware as a possible issue and I was leaning towards that possibility but not having issues on X11 makes me think that’s not the case here.

2. My main use on this system is gaming. Are there any differences between Wayland and X11 that would make me want to go back to Wayland? Are there any other reasons I may want to go back and figure out what caused this problem and fix it permanently? Or any reasons I may end up preferring X11?

3. Is it possible X11 will encounter the same issues eventually that Wayland did based on the behaviors described?

I’m nearly complete with this game but keep getting random crashes. I’ve tried switching Proton versions about 5 times now and it’s the same thing.

Is there somewhere I can go to check out logs to tell me what might be causing these crashes?

Running on CachyOS in Steam.

Update: so for whatever reason, it’s not happening after adding a command argument to the game to begin logging.

This was happening when I was trying to clear out the Redwood RV Park Ambush Camp. Sometimes it happened just sneaking around after a few minutes, and sometimes as long as me clearing out the camp and then would crash.

I just tried today so I could capture logs and was able to clear the camp and have been outside of the camp for a few minutes now without any crashes.

Up to this point, the game has been working with next to no issues. A crash here and there, but nothing like this one. Maybe something in this camp is causing an issue on Linux or with Proton? One difference in this playthrough was that I went an alternate route. Instead of going around the side by the dam, I went through the front and also went guns blazing instead of stealthing it.