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  • That’s the exact issue I was talking about, and the last comment I read when I last checked was the one right a one what you linked lol.

    I tried 4get before and the catches were extremely 4chan cringe, kind of turned me off it, but I’ll have to try it again if they have a fix.

    It’s nice to see the searxng atleast has a possible temp work around that looks like it will be merged soon.

    Thanks for the helpful info!


  • Is the a public instance you recommend? Because since Google broke their Api, the main one I used is always rate limited and only returns completely unrelated Bing results (no matter what settings you use or other engines you enable). I started trying other instances on the list, and gave up after about 5 when they all had the same problem, and last I checked they haven’t been able to work around the changes Google made, at least as of a week or 2 ago according the updates on the github issue.



  • Just to clarify, when mentioning problems with battle.net (in general), the issue you’re talking about is that when you click play for a game, afterwards the button shows “running” then switched back to “play” without anything popping up, correct?

    If so, your issues probably aren’t related to anything on your machine except wine (as mentioned by other comments, don’t worry about drivers or vulkan or anything).

    There is a known issue that when switching between wine versions, if that exact scenario occurs, you have to blow away the wine prefix.

    For some games this is harmless, some save config files or saves for players in the prefix.

    Instead of trying to lock drivers or mesa or vulkan to specific versions, instead lock whatever version of wine you have set for battle.net in lutrus to a static version. That includes not using proton-experiemental or proton-ge latest, but instead a set version like proton-ge10.26 (or whatever).


  • Disclaimer, without doing a bunch of digging, my advice will be limited.

    Some questions, are you using X11 or wayland?

    Are you launching battle.net through a different method than the games that do work, i.e. are all your steam games running fine but you launch battle.net through lutris or bottles or something?

    How long has your install been up and running?

    It looks like the vulkan that works is a slightly higher version than the amd and rad ones (the first lines from the files you posted). Vulkan should be getting pulled in by Mesa, i would check to see if you have multiple versions of Mesa installed as well.

    Depending on the cutoff year (when amdgpu as a default driver got replaced with RADV) , whether your cpu has a igpu (again, didn’t look up what gen those where), you could have 2 separate AMD drivers being installed, one for your igpu, and one for your dgpu.

    Also the ones that are labeled (that don’t work but do output when you run those commands) could be used and pulled in because of X11, where the “unidentifed” is being used by wayland) i could be misreading, but i belive that command around pathing is more for X11 than wayland.

    TLDR: the versions should be the first line in the texts you shared. Id figure out what is pulling and installing all 3 of those as deps for you to end up with them on your machine (unlabeled probably mesa, amd and rad probably drivers), and to research id look for some tools to debug and log what happens when you run a program so you can see the paths and LIBS hit.

    Looks like you probably already hit this link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan

    Id check out this one too: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU



  • The best way for me when i was learning the basics was to have a separate device to experiment and test things on, and not worry about having to wipe and lose anything, and any time I got something working right I would make the changes to my “main”. But that’s was a while ago and things improved since then, and also everyone learns different.

    So I would recommend trying to follow any linux communities on lemmy or reddit to absorb new info (a lot might be wrong or outdated), maybe follow some youtubers ( a few popular tech ones are making the shift to linux and learning from scratch too), and honestly even just memes will help. Just keep in mind that a lot of people state outdated opinions as facts, or repeat wrong info they heard from someone else.

    For more accurate but less hand-holding info, start trying to find good actual forums for Linux, like a disto’s (spin or flavor of linux) forum or “discourse”. As long as you read or search for things before posting, people will generally be nice and willing to help out. Just try to provide any info you can when you post, and don’t have any attitude.

    Advanced and more technical info can be found on an apps or distros website or github.

    If you have specific questions about the Bluetooth keyboard, let me know in the reply and I’ll try to help!

    P.S ignore all distro recommendations till you get more experience, in the beginning the biggest hurdles will be switching from windows to Linux, difference between distros do matter but are much smaller than people sometimes make them out to be. You should stick with one, preferably whatever a buddy or favorite YouTube is using, and save distro hopping till later.


  • Feeling bad about how you’ve acted in the past is a good thing, it means you’ve grown since then. So even if you don’t recognize it, it means you’ve changed and improved as a person since then. This idea might be what your friend intended to expressive when they said to not focus on the past as much.

    People can only change if they want to, and it sounds like you want to, so you shouldn’t give up hope on becoming the kind of person you feel you’d have to be to get marriage and have a family. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today. You seem to be taking those steps to improve yourself, and in a few years you’ll reflect back on how you are now and see how much you changed. Growth is hard to measure on a day to day basis. Keep up the good work you’ve obviously (to an outsider) been doing to improve.


  • You’re not clear on why you’re posting this, or what you want out of people’s responses.

    You’re not clear on why you think you’re a bad friend, or why you’d be a burden to others just by interacting with them.

    You’re not clear on what you know you have to do, but just aren’t doing.

    Just saying/writing/admitting to something is helpful, because it forces you to confront it (and will be brought up in therapy anyway, so might as well do the prep work now). Just saying outloud the answers might make you realized how silly they are, or how they’re all connected, or what your priorities really are.

    I apologize if this goes against your request, but as I mentioned, you were clear with your expectations.

    I can related to your gas station metaphor, I feel that constantly due to gestures broadly at the world.

    You’re too young to give up on marriage and parenthood, raw data shows that’s not true, you’re not even running behind yet.

    And making one last assumption, but being distant or isolating yourself doesn’t make you a bad friend, and asking for help doesn’t either, only always asking for help and never asking about them does.







  • You have no idea how grateful I am to you right now.

    This has been on my personal project backlog for awhile now. I have run into so many issues and headaches with possible rdp or vnc solutions for my desired use case, especially with wayland being a must have.

    I have recently fell in love with ssh and was planning on looking more into waypipe as a possible route to take as I kept seeing it recommended, but the examples and documentation i found was always “generic” or surface level and didn’t have enough of the pieces I needed to scrape together.

    I’ve been putting it off due to only having surface level knowledge about all the pieces, and you merged like 10 of them in one go.

    My biggest question to you is what is performance like? Like picture quality, audio delay, and latency/responsiveness around mouse and keyboard inputs? How does it compare to using something like an ipkvm, rdp, rust desktop, etc?


  • It’s funny because when I was in school I use to get lectured for not showing my work the way it was taught, but I didn’t like the way it was taught so I came up with my own method. Turns out my method is now what they teach in school (basically, and obviously completely a coincidence).

    If you’d like more research and context, the term to search for is “common core math”.

    Based on your other comments though, you’ve mostly got it down already though, but for the exact steps you’ll be able to find pretty easily.

    Rough example (don’t quote me on it though, not a teacher): 12 x 7 isn’t as “intuitive” as 10 x 7 or 12 x 5. So you do (10 x 7) + (2 x 7) = 70 + 14 = 84. You find the “common” “core” to make it easier, kind of like how we handled multipling fractions. The over all objective is to make it easier to do math quickly in your head, but since they are teaching it to kids, you have to prove you understand the thought process, which makes it seem like it’s just over complicating things.

    Either way though, kudos to you for trying to learn the new way and helping your kid with their homework in general. No matter what your kid will turn out great with a parent who shows they care like you do.