Quoting: Guesti heard someone saying about some kernel level permissions for this?

There's been speculation but as far as I know there is no actual information suggesting that.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: pete910

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Quoting: HamishGreat time for my GPU to have suddenly quit on me isn't it?

Jokes on them though, with the drought eating into my bottom line I could not afford to replace it regardless of the market conditions. Yay me! :grin:

Why does drought eat into your bottom line?

Farmer maybe ????

That's the obvious possibility, but when I started thinking about it there were a surprising number of others. Might sell supplies farmers use, might just be in a community where farmers set the economy, or it might be something quite different. I read about a once major lake in the US that has shrunk down to tiny in the last number of years, all the boat docks are standing over cracked dried mud, fishing is done for, and the tourist trade has gone to nothing.
Or he could have a small privately owned hydroelectric dam. No water, no electricity, no moolah. :grin:

Sorry to disappoint Purple Library Guy but pete910 was closer to the truth. In my case it was my having to feed my sheep through the summer and fall due to the grass not growing and then having to pay a premium for my usual winter feed for both the sheep and the cows. Even chicken food prices are through the roof right now.

So you're saying what you have to pay for chicken feed isn't just chicken feed.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: HamishGreat time for my GPU to have suddenly quit on me isn't it?

Jokes on them though, with the drought eating into my bottom line I could not afford to replace it regardless of the market conditions. Yay me! :grin:

Why does drought eat into your bottom line?

Farmer maybe ????

That's the obvious possibility, but when I started thinking about it there were a surprising number of others. Might sell supplies farmers use, might just be in a community where farmers set the economy, or it might be something quite different. I read about a once major lake in the US that has shrunk down to tiny in the last number of years, all the boat docks are standing over cracked dried mud, fishing is done for, and the tourist trade has gone to nothing.
Or he could have a small privately owned hydroelectric dam. No water, no electricity, no moolah. :grin:

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Quoting: BeamboomValve brought back gaming to me. No less. I had a PS3 way back, but grew tired of console gaming. Without their Linux client - and Steam Play - I actually doubt I'd be doing much gaming at all.

Same. I'd never been much of a gamer. Not zero--I even played some games on my Trash-80 in, would that be late 70s? Good lord. Civilization II on my laptop back in the day, I still have a few old CDs showing me that I had more games than I remember. Dual booting with Windows 98 because the rest of the family used it and because there were a couple of games I played. But then, hardly anything--Alpha Centauri and one other from Loki, a couple of open source Linux games . . .
Now with Steam and Valve's push, I've got dozens and dozens of games--still not in the league of plenty of people here, but by my old standards it's ridiculous.

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Quoting: EhvisThe tweet makes it sound like the BattlEye support is tied to the Steam client. If that's the case, I'm sure we'll have a couple of unhappy people.

Well, I mean . . . not technically, but for average people's practical purposes, so is Proton in the first place.
I expect that if someone went and got bleeding-edge Proton playing nicely in some outside-of-steam way, the BattlEye support would still work? But I suppose you, or someone, would have to do it on Steam at least once, so that Steam could ask BattlEye to send the "Proton BattlEye runtime".

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Quoting: HamishGreat time for my GPU to have suddenly quit on me isn't it?

Jokes on them though, with the drought eating into my bottom line I could not afford to replace it regardless of the market conditions. Yay me! :grin:

Why does drought eat into your bottom line?

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I know it's bad and all, but I can't make my reaction be anything but "That's hilarious!"

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Quoting: drlambAge of Empires IV

I've always thought there should be a baseball game, Age of Umpires.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnOK. Got it working. It turns out Proton Experimental can't update while being used by a game.

Hang on, what? That's potentially very useful information. I tried Proton with the one Windows game I own on Steam (Galactic Civilizations III) some time back and it didn't work, tried Experimental and it didn't work either (the launcher started . . . bloody launchers). Now that quite a bit of time has passed, I tried again, assuming Experimental would have seen a bunch of updating so things might be different. It was just the same . . . but does this mean I was actually just trying the same old version of Proton Experimental from back then? Argh.

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the perfect digital signage solution for digital media content in advertising and information systems

The perfect what now?

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