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- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 days ago:
Companies should be forced to refund every single customer in these cases
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Microsoft to deprecate and remove the Location History feature in Windows. 3 days ago:
We are deprecating and removing the Location History feature, an API that allowed Cortana to access 24 hours of device history when location was enabled. With the removal of the Location History feature, location data will no longer be saved locally and the corresponding settings will also be removed from the Privacy & Security > Location page in Settings.
Huh. Very much did not expect them to do this
- Comment on How to Install Waydroid on Steam Deck: Full Guide 3 days ago:
Does this really work? On popular games? I was fully expecting them all to have integrated the bastard Play Integrity API, they even specifically detect virtual devices with the “
MEETS_VIRTUAL_INTEGRITY” verdict - Comment on Amazon’s app will start listing items Amazon doesn’t sell 1 week ago:
As if the search results weren’t muddy enough already
- Comment on Microsoft is killing its “free” VPN with Microsoft 365 subscriptions, just days after increasing prices 2 weeks ago:
Much like Google One’s VPN offering, I wonder if anyone ever used this
- Comment on “Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews 2 weeks ago:
Brb, yelling obscenities at my work computer to see if Copilot will uninstall itself
- Comment on Nested Desktop: What it is, and how to set it up 2 weeks ago:
Very cool that Valve has officially acknowledged and shipped a shortcut for this, I hope they keep tweaking it together with the KDE devs to make it even better.
- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 2 weeks ago:
This is so bad it really has me wondering if Google has a Note 7 situation here
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, are you telling me the two histories cane straight from AI, no tweaks from you???
They really do read exactly like the slop I see whenever i catch a glimpse of the frontpage.Ugh I can’t stand to see my once favorite social media going out like this
- Comment on How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content 3 weeks ago:
If you’re wondering, this is about F4mi’s new video:
Poisoning AI with “.аss” subtitles - Comment on small upgrade to my steam deck 1 month ago:
I do wish they had a Steam Deck SKU with 32GBs for heavy MC modpacks, as it stands the only way to get it is by replacing the soldered RAM, quite the risky upgrade…
- Comment on small upgrade to my steam deck 1 month ago:
See, this guy gets it
- Comment on INTERPOL urges end to 'Pig Butchering' term, cites harm to online victims 2 months ago:
I always did find the term ‘Pig Butchering’ confusing
- Comment on WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza 2 months ago:
Damn, not the onion!
How childish. - Comment on BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline 2 months ago:
How can Apple even fix this?
Genuine question, what can they even do other than adding a new prompt saying “don’t mislead the user when summarizing the news pretty please 🥺” - Comment on Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto 2 months ago:
Come to .zip!
- Comment on YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense 2 months ago:
For example, last week Basinger posted a short video about a Duke Nukem-branded G Fuel energy drink […] In the video, Basinger makes himself a serving of the drink but can’t find the scoop he’s supposed to use to measure out the formula.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the scoop was buried in the powder,” one YouTube user commented […]
YouTube’s AI suggested that Basinger reply to that comment by saying: “It’s not lost, they just haven’t released the scoop yet. It’s coming soon.” Another suggested reply to that same comment said: “I’ll have to check if they’re using a proprietary blend that requires a special scoop.”
Lmao. It’s always funny to see how these tools behave in the marketing materials vs. IRL, feels like the gap is widening instead of closing.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 2 months ago:
It’s like those a extortion scam emails that say “we took pictures of you masturbating” except this they’ll know know some guy’s porn habit from their Recall database lmao
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
Truth be told, me and my parents have been doing this for a bit now to combat the kidnapping scam calls
- Comment on Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI 2 months ago:
Moving goalposts as a Service™
- Comment on I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit 2 months ago:
Contender for the worst headline I’ve read in weeks.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 2 months ago:
Consider yourself lucky you can even find the damn things, where I live there simply don’t exist on the used market.
I’m getting ready to eat the fucking bullshit import taxes and buy this thing soon as it drops, I’m so pissed I missed out on v1…
- Comment on DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist 2 months ago:
Jake Marshall is that you???
- Comment on Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome 2 months ago:
The judge deciding is called Mehta
Ah man, the writers are being too on the nose this season
- Comment on A study found that X’s algorithm now loves two things: Republicans and Elon Musk 2 months ago:
What do you mean ‘now’???
It’s been like this since Elon took over - Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 3 months ago:
Ok, I think we might be speaking about different things here, so let me try to clear it up.
Click the little ‘Games’ tab just above the search bar in your library, on the pop-up check ‘Tools’ and uncheck ‘Games’, then to the right of it, click the play icon to only show currently installed Tools. It’ll look something like this:
First we have the ‘Steam Linux Runtimes’. These are used to run Native Linux games.
I don’t think these get uninstalled automatically, but Steam will make sure to download the necessary one when a game needs it, so if you’re really strapped for space, you can just uninstall the runtimes and Steam will figure it out next time.
Next, we have the Proton versions. These are used to run Windows games.
While technically you should only need one of these, some games run better with some versions, some with others, so in a few scenarios Steam might automatically download and install a specific version when you launch a game that has been vetted by Valve. You can control what version gets used by clicking the Steam logo in the top-left corner of your client > Settings > Compatibility > Enable Steam Play for all other titles > Select one in ‘Run other titles with’.
This will make it so any game that doesn’t have a Proton version defined by Valve use the version you selected.
This includes games Non-Steam games you add to Steam.Now if you want to ignore the recommended versions and force games to use a version of your choosing, you can do so by right-clicking the game > Properties > Compatibility > Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool.
However, do so at your own risk, as said before, some games might not work so well with a version other than their default, so I’d leave this alone unless you’re having issues with a specific game (or are really, really, really strapped for space)
As is the case above, I don’t think these will get uninstalled automatically, so if you want, you can uninstall all them right now and Steam will figure it out next time you launch a game.Now, for Proton Prefixes.
I think these are what you meant when you were saying “Runtimes” earlier.
If you go into your Steam folder at ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/ (path for Arch Linux, might be different on other distros/Steam Deck/Flatpak/Snap) and peek into the ‘compatdata’ folder, you see tooons of folders with random numbers inside.
These are Proton Prefixes, and these hold files and other bits and bobs the games need to run under Proton. If you’re familiar with Wine Prefixes, it’s the same principle.Steam manages these automatically, and will delete prefixes from uninstalled games.
Non-Steam games that you remove from your library will have their prefixes deleted too.
It’s important to note that these prefixes act as “Virtual Drives” for the game to interact with. They simulate the C: drive of your typical Windows install, including profile folders, AppData, Roaming, all that jazz.
What does that mean? THAT THEIR HOLD YOUR SAVE DATA.
While most (keyword: ‘most’) Steam games have cloud saves and thus can be uninstalled and reinstalled without consequence, this definitely does not apply to Non-Steam games, so make sure to backup your saves/mods/other stuff you don’t want to lose BEFORE removing a Non-Steam game from your library.To explore the files inside your prefixes more easily, check this:
Each folder is named after the game’s App ID. For Non-Steam games, a random ID is generated.
The easiest way to correlate the IDs with games (IMO) is to use a tool called ‘Protontricks’.
This tool is allows you to modify the Prefixes in various ways and is very helpful when trying to make a problematic game run under Proton. We’ll ignore most of its functionalities for this use-case, though.After installing either from your distro’s repo or from Flatpak, open Protontricks.
It might give you some info/warning dialogs. That’s normal, it’s a very noisy tool, just hit OK until you eventually see a dialog that looks like this:It’ll show you all your Proton games, both Steam and Non-Steam.
Select which one you want to explore and click OK through the barrage of weird warnings and errors Protontricks gives you until you reach this dialog:Choose ‘Select the default wineprefix’ (yes this option is nonsensical), select ‘Browse files’ on the next and your file browser will open up at the proper prefix for the game. Tada!
Or y’know… might be easier to just read the numbers from the first dialog and navigate where you want manually :p
As said before, these hold your saves. Grab them before deleting, don’t just start blasting willy-nilly.
Use the PC Gaming Wiki to help you find save data locations.Hope this wall of text helps. Cheers.
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 3 months ago:
It removes the proton prefix that was used to run the game, now the runtimes themselves stay, I believe
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 3 months ago:
On your library, if you tell it to show you Software instead of games and mark the “Only installed” option, it shows you what Runtimes and Proton versions are installed IIRC
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced 3 months ago:
Man, I couldn’t get one over the fear of it getting yellowed but it looks cleeeeeean
