bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on What if you tried to run Windows malware on Linux? 16 hours ago:
Proton is Wine.
Plus some other stuff like DXVK (which is available in vanilla Wine as well). But the heavy lifting is done by Wine.
- Comment on What if you tried to run Windows malware on Linux? 16 hours ago:
That’s not true. By default the host filesystem is available in Wine. And even if this feature is disabled there are no active safeguards in Wine to prevent access.
Only Linux file permissions prevent access to Linux system files. But everything your user has access to can be tampered with.
Ransomware is incredibly common and designed to encrypt everything it can touch.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 day ago:
Honestly, I’ve met so many people at either age or older who were at either stage in their life. A 22 yo can be done with their training and fully working, even having their own business while a 30 yo is still trying to find themselves.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 1 day ago:
Reminds me of playing Doom 2 co-op with my brother. I wanted to just play the game but he’d end up shooting me instead until I cried.
Good times.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 days ago:
22-46 is acceptable.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 2 days ago:
Definitely also a thing in Germany. Alongside magazines printing source codes of games for you to type off.
- Comment on Have you know???. 3 days ago:
BI (biological intelligence) has luckily devised ways to get photographic replications of real fat perky tits through transformations of electromagnetic waves right to your retinas and thus into your brain. And it still takes less energy than AI.
- Comment on Youtube beef 3 days ago:
Thank you for censoring, but I’d rather not cheer on Nazis.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 3 days ago:
You better start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, Miss Turner. You’re in one!
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 3 days ago:
- Comment on Warning: C-word 4 days ago:
- Comment on don't get too streptococci 4 days ago:
Punk rock immun system, fighting the power!
- Comment on don't get too streptococci 4 days ago:
My system thinks those mitochondria have too much power and should be destroyed. At least that’s the latest science on myalgic encephalomyelitis.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 4 days ago:
It’s a problem here. Studied apothecaries are peddling that bullshit as medicine. Most health insurances even pay for that shit.
- Comment on Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits? 5 days ago:
If you want comments on such posts pick one and crosspost it to the relevant real community.
Nobody wants to comment on pure bot posts because you cannot get any replies from OP.
- Comment on Ideal car 6 days ago:
Like the guy with the NULL plate who got all the tickets for which no number could be found.
- Comment on ScummVM: Announcing support for World Builder-based games 6 days ago:
They can’t stop winning!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Nobody is the asshole. You all seem to handle the situation calmly like rational adults.
I’d say ask the kids. So far everyone seems to be in favour. Maybe you can do a trial period before your gf moves in with all her stuff and gives up her current home.
- Comment on Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus 1 week ago:
I mean, depending on you definition of heavenly body there are thousands of asteroids we don’t know of and probably hundreds of dwarf planets. And I don’t even know if we’ve ever seen anything in the Oort Cloud or if we just suspect it’s there.
The Vera Rubin telescope will surely reveal thousands of objects we didn’t know of before.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is currently 30 % off. Haven’t played much so far.
- Comment on Ants crack the secret to perfect teamwork 1 week ago:
I hope people in a communist state won’t dump you onto the garbage pile just because you smell bad.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Hmm, I should look up how that works.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Cloudflare would need https keys so they could read all the content you worked so hard to encrypt. If I wanted to do bad shit I would apply at Cloudflare.
- Comment on "It's The Game We Wish Had Existed 40 Years Ago" - Ulysses 31 Is Finally Getting A Video Game | Time Extension 1 week ago:
Was the series ever finished? I remember being frustrated as a kid. Then I started watching Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Boo! I’ve added “help nocturne play wow on Linux” to my todo list when my time machine is done.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Proton is mostly Wine, not DXVK. Wine does the translation of Windows and some DirectX APIs. DXVK translates Direct3D to Vulkan. Proton pulls it all together with some game specific patches, integration with gamescope and other Steam specific integrations.
All of this being open source means it can also be compiled for ARM and BSD. Though to get x64 games to run on ARM you need an additional emulation layer like Box64.
Though rumor has it that Valve is already experimenting with x64 emulation for their Deckard project, which is likely to be their next VR headset.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Strange, WOW should have been able to run. Maybe needed a command line switch to enable OpenGL for optimal performance. But back then Blizzard games had a great track record of Wine compatibility. I never had any problems with their games.
There was one instance of Linux WOW players being banned for cheating. But that was rectified in a matter of days.
- Comment on Side effect 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’m already full from Professor Hawking’s party.
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- Comment on White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice' 1 week ago:
I prefer zombo.com.
