I wished I had mod points right now.

Carbon =/= Carbondioxide

Carbondioxide = GOOD plants like it. More CO2=More O2

Carbon = GOOD we are made from it. It's what's left when the camp fire is finished.

How can the entire fucking world be under the dillusion this stuff is bad. One side loses ice but the other gains? Could that not be a wobble? Picture it in your heads people! Also the Nort Pole and South Pole have done some opposite things lately, also could be explained by a tilt shift.

I do believe in climate change. I just believe it's always happened.

I am a bit of an environmentalist - a reasonable one. I don't think we should pollute, especially when preventable. I try to drive fuel efficient vehicles, I have lots of ideas to use less power and stay renewable. The kill all humans, sabotage your own economy, send more money to another country to save the planet, and ignore reality environmentalism pisses me off.

Sounds like you have a particular bottle-neck in your system somewhere. The slideshow has me questioning if it's your GPU not being up to snuff (or possibly being in a single lane slot when it's a 4-lane card). Crashing as soon as the game begins and the Steam Interface becoming unresponsive causes me to question if maybe you've got a questionable stick or RAM.

My serious system is a Ryzen 7700x with an Nvidia GeForce 3060 and it runs most Windows games smooth as glass using either Lutris and whatever version of WINE I feed that game or running it from Steam. In most cases I may as well be running Windows though i do occasionally see something the reminds me I've got what amounts to a nasty hack turned elegant running.

My 11 year old Lenovo W540 on the other hand has an Nvidia Quadro (from the 11 years ago era) and an Intel video chip in it. Even at that age it runs MOST of the games I try to play on it rather well. Some games just won't load, the Nvidia chip doesn't have enough vRAM for some games to be happy and sometimes I'm just better off using the built in Intel chip for various reasons, but even THAT thing runs most of what I throw at it fine. I play modern 2D games - like the Shantea series just fine, even the graphically intense Cuphead and Giana Sisters games run great on it. I've done 3D as well, but granted it does best with previous gen 3D games.

Go to ProtonDB.com and do a system info dump - create an account and dig around, it will tell you how to do that. Copy/Paste the dump here. Turns out I deleted my laptop so I can't paste it, and my desktop dump is out of date, but who cares, I'll paste it here. Do the same, I'll look it over, maybe some of the other nerds too, and we'll see if we can't figure out why it sucks for you.

Desktop Dump

Computer Information:
        Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
        Model: PRIME X670-P WIFI
        Form Factor: Desktop
        No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
        CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
        CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor
        CPU Family: 0x19
        CPU Model: 0x61
        CPU Stepping: 0x2
        CPU Type: 0x0
        Speed: 5573 Mhz
        16 logical processors
        8 physical processors
        HyperThreading: Supported
        FCMOV: Supported
        SSE2: Supported
        SSE3: Supported
        SSSE3: Supported
        SSE4a: Supported
        SSE41: Supported
        SSE42: Supported
        AES: Supported
        AVX: Supported
        AVX2: Supported
        AVX512F: Supported
        AVX512PF: Unsupported
        AVX512ER: Unsupported
        AVX512CD: Supported
        AVX512VNNI: Supported
        SHA: Supported
        CMPXCHG16B: Supported
        LAHF/SAHF: Supported
        PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
        KDE neon 5.26 (64 bit)
        Kernel Name: Linux
        Kernel Version: 5.15.0-1015-nvidia
        X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
        X Server Release: 12101003
        X Window Manager: KWin
        Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20221019.0

Video Card:
        Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
        Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.78.01
        OpenGL Version: 4.6
        Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
        Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
        VendorID: 0x10de
        DeviceID: 0x2487
        Revision Not Detected
        Number of Monitors: 1
        Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
        Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160
        Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 2160
        Primary Display Size: 23.90" x 13.58" (27.48" diag)
                                                                                        60.7cm x 34.5cm (69.8cm diag)
        Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
        Primary VRAM: 12288 MB
        Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
        Audio device: Nvidia GPU 9e HDMI/DP

Memory:
        RAM: 31829 MB

VR Hardware:
        VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
        UI Language: English
        LANG: en_US.UTF-8
        Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1876611 MB
        Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1076894 MB

Storage:
        Number of SSDs: 8
        SSD sizes: 16T,4000G,2000G,1000G,1000G,1000G,1000G,42G
        Number of HDDs: 0

Used to I would say "If WINE is the answer, the question was stupid."

Some articles here on SlashDot also influenced my views on WINE. Some of those pointed out that OS/2 failed because it ran Windows software and if you can run the Windows version why bother making an OS/2 version?

What has really affected my view on WINE, especially when it comes to Windows gaming, is Linux games themselves.

I have long been a Linux gamer. I bought half of Loki's offerings back when they were around, I actually got in on the Ubuntu store when that was around and bought their games (that was a nightmare when you typed apt-get update). I am now in the GoG and Steam action for Linux games.

The very nature of Linux and the very nature of video games has let me down.

They're opposites. I have long told people you never learn Linux. As soon as you learn something they change the underlying software so what you know is now useless. Games on the other hand, they're release it and forget it sometimes, and that's not really a bad thing. Most of my old Linux games are incredibly difficult to play now. Too much has changed under them.

Take for instance Victor Vran. It's not that old of a game. I can (and have) download the version available on GoG right now and put it on my system. Errors galore. Turns out encryption and security stuff in Linux you wouldn't think a video game should need has improved, not the out of date game doesn't know how to run. I looked up fixes. These fixes largely center around getting out of date security components and putting them on your system, probably not the best of ideas. How did I get the game to run? I finally said "Fuck It' got the Windows version and I'm running it with Lutris using Steams Proton version of WINE but it's the GoG Windows version of the game.

I'm about ready to give up. Turns out games have to be actively maintained, the classic closed-source game release just doesn't work long term with Linux.

I am NOT a fan of Flat-Packs, Snaps, etc. However when I start to think of them as a game cartridge I begin to embrace them a bit. I still don't like typing "mount" and seeing hundreds of mounted file systems - I do use my computer as a work-horse and I don't need SNAPs mounted all over the damned place.

I think it's time we develop a "virtual game cartridge" (such a thing does exist for a tinyOS) for the modern era. I'm okay with it being a SNAP type thing, but we need a front end that mounts this shit on your OS and unmounts it when you're done. Only one at a time (unless you wanna pull a Sonic and Knuckles). Linux is it's own worse enemy when it comes to gaming.

There was a Roku Channel that made it worth buying the device. It was "free" after purchase, but when you figure you can pay $25 and have the Roku channel for life, then realize even the cheap streaming services were making bank in comparison, well, you get the picture.

I'm not a fan of Roku devices, and while the Roku channel is surprisingly good for being bolted onto the hardware purchase, it's really not awesome in the grand scheme of things. I knew they had to be in trouble when I turned on my Nvidia Sheild about a month ago, a device I do think is awesome - and the Roku channel was being advertised and available. I guess they're going to have to change their approach to making money.

Gotta have something to eat my guac and salsa with!

I can usually get between four and 10 trash calls a days, ranging from a robot voice to dead silence. I've been getting few if any lately.

Is this cut cable why?

I know you can do a lot of emulators and what have you on it, but I haven't, not yet, but I do have the paid for version of LaunchBox if I ever get around to playing with it.

I did find an unexpected issue with playing Android games on it. The Secret of Mana, which was awesome on the SNES, has buttons on the title screen you have to touch to activate. It's not just controller only, which means you have to hook up a mouse to play it.

I've found a lot of Android games are buggy as hell period when you break outside of the world of touch screens. A couple of Pacman games I have that will "work" on the Shield don't work with wireless controllers, but they do with wired. (Why? It's X-Input!) I have R-Type on mine and my boys Chromebooks, works great with touch - if you call that great - and keyboard, but if you hook up a controller it technically functions until it crashes, and the crashes tend to come quickly with a controller.

Sadly, when it comes to Android TV Gaming emulators and streaming services seem to be the way to go. First party "do it the right way and pay for it!" options are buggy and hard to find.

I wasn't sure, but a lot of the time a "weird numbered" chip is a portable one or special one. As far as Nvidia goes, 50 is usually a desktop card. I just chose to not dig too much. I know they have embedded GPUs and have forever - that's what I'm saying a gaming system from them should have, good enough to dominate the Android-like games, and good for MPEG compression/decompression.

but overdone.

I've got an Nvidia Shield TV - it's great for gaming. Having an Nvidia GPU is great for MPEG compression/decompression and other redering efficiency, the idea is sound for both movies and games. Love my Shield. There's even handheld consoles like the Logitech G-Cloud with game streaming in mind.

RGB keyboards are just flash but I get it, going full GeForce RTX 4050 is just killing the whole Chromebook thing. Chromebooks are supposed to be light, efficient, affordable and overall a useful appliance. If they were to make a series of Chromebooks with the same Nvidia tech that's in the Nintendo switch and/or Shield I could see a very sucessful thing happen. Once you got RTX4050 you just have an expensive under-speced laptop. Start over - do an ARM and Nvidia setup....

Let's hope the file sharing component works better on the Windows version.

It's big enough to be a bedroom TV.

I know a guy with a Sceptre in his living room.

Not everyone wants a Smart anything. The LG I do have in my household is not connected to the Internet, I have my own TV box that does what I want it to despite the fact the TV can do some of it natively.

LG runs the risk of everyone going to Planar and Sceptre.

I'm with you on this one. More CO2 means more O2.

The earth had significantly higher CO2 levels in the past than it has now.

I say we just let the natural plants thrive and green the place up. Maybe we can even see the return of mega fauna in the geologically near future.

What you do not get through a streaming app, what no one wants to budget for, what government services truly come from:

Low power local am stations.

There are automated emergency service stations all over the damned place. If you drive into a small town in Texas you're likely to see a sign that says "local info and emergency services tune to 1620 am".

These are NOT going to be streaming, and they're only going to matter in that little local bubble.

It's not uncommon for these station to broadcast the local high school football game, city counsel meetings, info on where celebrations, that sort of thing is happening then suddenly becoming the tornado location update channel when needed.

Saying "just stream it" is intentional ignorance to dodge another issue.

Maybe.

I used Waze way back when I had my iPhone 3G. I moved to Android after that.

For the longest time my #1 complaint about Waze was the program was obviously written for iPhone then ported to Android as a nasty hack, the higher res screens on Android of the era displaying statically sized smaller graphics, long after Google bought Waze annoyed me. There were a lot of "cramped" graphics that didn't even need to be cramped.

Doing a full 180 now that they've had a chance to revist the entire code-base to screw over Apple users? Possibly.

The intentional screwing over of Ford and Toyota drivers blows my mind.

Here we go - the Cheerful early announcement:

https://www.caranddriver.com/n...

But here's what happens when you actually search their support forum:

https://support.google.com/waz...

Pretend like the email they sent me doesn't exist....