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- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 10 hours ago:
Damn, sweet ride dude! Congrats!
- Comment on Interesting media, podcasts, shows, blogs on topic of self-hosting you like? 5 days ago:
UnRAID which is by far the worst fucking option
Can you elaborate? I know they’re paid and not FOSS, is there something else bad about them?
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 6 days ago:
Check your GPU power usage, I remember seeing people complaining about theirs not clocking down if they had a second monitor plugged in, and other similar issues
- Comment on The Last of Eggs 1 week ago:
🇨🇦 CANADIA
- Comment on Microsoft is killing its “free” VPN with Microsoft 365 subscriptions, just days after increasing prices 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Brb, yelling obscenities at my work computer to see if Copilot will uninstall itself
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job 1 week ago:
Never have I ever wanted “Portal 3” to be a thing more than after I played this.
- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
If you’re wondering, this is about F4mi’s new video:
Poisoning AI with “.аss” subtitles - Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 5 weeks ago:
Talos Principle 2! Man, what a banger.
Tap for spoiler
The mind transfer puzzles are kicking my ass though
- 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 ugh i wish 2 months ago:
I’m not ready for Moovid…
- Comment on ugh i wish 2 months ago:
Man, a shot of Vodka at 40% has me questioning my life choices, I cannot imagine taking a shot of this goddamn paint thinner holy shit
- 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes 2 months ago:
Is the bubble popping?
- Comment on Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable 2 months ago:
According to Besset, one of their colleagues claimed setenv as “the worst Linux API”
Woof. - Comment on Jewel Beetles 2 months ago:
I cannot stand that “Unalive” bullshit.
Thanks for nothing Tiktok. - Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 2 months ago:
damn, side-eyeing the D-Link router I got in the closet now
- Comment on The .io domain might be in trouble 3 months ago:
Ugh, associating these things with physical land is such a waste of everybody’s time, they should just turn it into a generic top-level domain and be done with it
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 3 months ago:
Correct. Fuck Microsoft/Bethesda/Zenimax/whoever the fuck it was.
I just wanted more Dishonored/Prey 😒 - Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 3 months ago:
Oh, so just like that Large Action Model thingy Rabbit Inc. promised and did not deliver?
- Comment on ShipOS 1994, a shipping company management game with a stylized 90s Windows UI, released on Steam 3 months ago:
Basically Kingsway for ship management. Interesting!