blind3rdeye

I also have dual-boot with Mint, because I expected to be using Windows for gaming. It turns out I have never needed to. Every game I've wanted to play has worked on Linux; and so my Windows partition has just sat idle.

Thanks a lot for the reply. I've been going through each of your suggestions.

Firstly, I've tested using a few different runners, including caffe-9.7, ge-proton10-15, wine-ge-proton8-26, kron4ek-wine-10.14-amd64 and a couple of others. In every case, it fails on the original bottle but works on the new. I've got what I think are the latest versions of dxvk (2.7.1) and dxvk-nvapi (0.9.0); but not the latest vkd3d (there seems to be a problem with the download of this in bottles at the moment. I have 2.10.).

By default, the game uses dx12. But if I launch it with -dx11 then it uses 11 instead. So I tried disabling vkd3d and launching with that command option as you suggested; again, it fails on the original bottle but works on the new one. When using dx12, there are heaps of messages in the terminal (mostly identical, but with that failure near the end only for the broken version). Whereas with dx11 there are very few messages in the terminal. The broken version gives me 00b4:err:hid:udev_bus_init UDEV monitor creation failed. (every runner gives me 002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126). - but I seem to get that all the time on every app even when it works fine. So I assume that is irrelevant.)

I'm not sure what you mean about 'can't download the newest Mono'; because I'm not sure when / what might be trying to download Mono. Do you mean bottles itself, or the game, or something else - I'm not really sure how this stuff works exactly. In this case, I installed mono within the bottle manually by downloading and msi and running it in the bottle. I wasn't able to find it in the dependencies list inside Bottles, so that's why I did it manually. But I got the link to the msi download from the bottle dependency list on github. In both of the bottles, the windows uninstaller list tells me that I have 10.1.0 of the Wine Mono runtime.

All the mono stuff looks right to me, but given that I don't know what I'm doing, I reckon its quite likely that the root of the problem is related to that stuff. Maybe I didn't install it correctly or something.

I tried deleting the cache, and that didn't work. I also tried copying the cache from the working version to the broken version; that didn't work either.

Anyone, thanks again for your thoughts and info on this. I feel like the underlying message in what your saying is that I should just accept that it works in the new one and not the old one - and take that to be the standard practice for how I should do it anyway! Which isn't exactly what I want, but perhaps it's the best answer I'm going to get.

Well we are building more - but I'm sure we could build more. But if Australia is to have higher density living (such that is it common for families to live in apartments) then we have to reduce car dependency. Increasing the number of cars when the traffic is already maxed out can only lead to problems. So we have to add more people without more cars. i.e. more people who don't drive cars.

I wonder... which kind of 'think tanks' are we talking about. Is it a enclosed isolated place where people can focus on their thinking undisturbed, or is it an armoured vehicle of information warfare?

Its true that many of the words used are unregulated. Generally speaking the more specific the better. For example, 'cage free' is very vague - essentially meaningless. But "500 per hectare" is more specific.

Without making yourself an expert in this, it's pretty hard to know what is 'good'. So in the end, it's probably easier to find a reliable trustworthy supplier whose eggs are high quality, and stick with them. (And it probably isn't going to be from one of the duopoly supermarkets.)

Cage eggs are a bit of scam anyway. They are super low quality. They're the kind of thing that you buy become someone else told you to buy eggs and you just went for the cheapest to save money, but the quality is so bad that you'd never actually want those eggs. Like buying 'maple flavoured syrup' rather than actual maple syrup. It's cheaper, but its so much worse that you've wasted your money anyway.

The penalties here seem harsh but submitting something to a court that is false and misleading is a big deal, even if it was inadvertent.

I think the penalties are too harsh at all. This person is suppose to be a trained professional. Their right to practice law is based on their skills and their knowledge. It's a high barrier that prevents most people from taking that job. And in this case, the person outsourced a key part of their job to a LLM, and did not verify the result. Effectively they got someone (something) unqualified to do the job for them, and passed it off as their own work. So the high barrier which was meant to ensure high-quality work was breached. It makes sense to strip the person of their right to do that kind of work. (The suspension is temporary, which is fair too. But these kinds of breaches trust and reliability are not something people should just accept.)

Holy smokes. That guy must have been under high pressure for a long time if he is thinking about butt-fucking every time he sees a rainbow. I hope he gets some relief soon, for everyone's sake!

<insert "GNU + Linux" copypasta here>

I reckon there are better free ways to waste your time, and many don't require moral corruption.

Company says that everyone should give them money and stop using competing products.

Obvious thing to say in the land of self-interest.

It's a short hand way of communicating. Like saying that a good search engine tries to find the most relevant sites. Or a streaming algorithm tries to recommend videos that you'll watch. It's not that we are saying these things are conscious or whatever. We're just describing what they do.