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Happy new year to everyone! May it be filled with happiness and good health for you and your loved ones :)

Hello everyone. I just tried to create an account with linode and got the automated cancellation email due to fraud, which left a bad taste in my mouth about the company before I even had the chance to get started.

So I am looking for alternatives that won't break the bank, have linux options, and are fairly easy to use once you get up and running. I dont need to do anything complex, just host my small hobby projects that I'm hacking away at. I don't have anything ready now, but I thought that with new years and all that it might be a good time to snag some deals.

Do you guys know of anything that fits? Thanks!

Edit: Decided to go with Oracle's Always Free option, as at this time being a student (i.e. poor) and just wanting to mess around and learn I can't justify going with a non-free option when a free on is available. I am however stuck on the part where I need to create my instance. I'm getting the out of capacity error, which after reading up on means there aren't available resources for my selected region. I can either try again daily to see if at some point they will be available or select a different region (which as far as I can tell means closing and reopening the account which I want to avoid).

Whenever I click a server invite link in my browser for example, I get the xdg-open popup window which in turn opens my browser with a link in the following format:

discord:///invite-proxy/some numbers

I'm relatively familiar with xdg-mime commands, but I'm not sure what the "filetype" I should be associating with my discord.desktop file should be. Anyone that can help?

Thanks

I've been seeing a few of this type of post, so I decided to share mine. Now, you might be wondering "why the heck is this guy posting his steam playtime chart in a Linux gaming community, when most of it is windows?"

Well, that's because Linux is part of the chart. Last year it wasn't. Just like all previous years. However this year, even if late in the year, I have playtime on Linux.

About half a year ago I built my first PC with Linux in mind from before getting the parts (first time I knew I'd be using predominantly Linux from the start). I still have my windows disk because I haven't got round to moving all the files from there yet, so its still formatted as NTFS and just mounted so I have easy access. I havent booted it since building the PC. I havent needed to. Sure I cant play Destiny 2 or Apex for example, but ehh. Never really played Apex much before anyway, and I'll live without destiny 2.

Heres to 2024 being 100% penguin, or at least being far more than windows 🍻

What is our instance's status with regards to threads? Is there a simple way for a non-owner/admin to check such things for their respective instance?

Hello guys.

I am trying to play vanilla wow using private servers with lutris, and can't get anything to work properly.

I stumbled across this post which has people discussing this topic, but interestingly there is a link to github docs.

I follow the instructions in both this and this but even so, when I go through Lutris to add a game and select to search website for installers, then search for battle.net and follow the installation steps I get the error below:

lutris-wrapper: /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks
Started initial process 513661 from /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runtime/winetricks/winetricks --unattended arial
Start monitoring process.
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Using winetricks 20230212-next - sha256sum: 2d7770aa1f49f42ad9dafb092110dbf49fa6581738f6b80488cf0d7f59b2de72 with wine-8.0-2754-g48789536649 (Staging) and WINEARCH=win64
Executing w_do_call arial
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warning: You are using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Note that many verbs only install 32-bit versions of packages. If you encounter problems, please retest in a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX before reporting a bug.
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Executing load_arial 
grep: warning: stray \ before /
grep: warning: stray \ before /
Executing cabextract -q -d /home/mart/Games/battlenet/dosdevices/c:/windows/temp /home/mart/.cache/winetricks/corefonts/arial32.exe
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warning: Running /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/home/mart/Games/battlenet terminate
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Executing /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine C:\windows\syswow64\regedit.exe /S C:\windows\Temp\_register-font.reg
fsync: up and running.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
wine: failed to open "C:\\windows\\syswow64\\regedit.exe": c0000135
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warning: Note: command /home/mart/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/wine-ge-8-24-x86_64/bin/wine C:\windows\syswow64
egedit.exe /S C:\windows\Temp\_register-font.reg returned status 53. Aborting.
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Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 256)
Exit with return code 256

I'm at my wits end. The closest I got was by directly running the WoW.exe file for a client I downloaded with wine from the terminal. The game started up without audio, and then obviously I wouldn't be able to put in my private server's credentials to log in. Please help me

EDIT: I ended up installing battle.net through bottles and I'm currently installing Diablo3 and Hearthstone - will see how they play.

As for WoW classic, whenever I run the 1.12 client I have in its own bottle it opens and then crashes. If I switch the runner to caffe it takes longer to crash, but my mouse seems to disappear when I take it over the launcher and I can't click on anything.

EDIT 2 SOLUTION: I skipped lutris/bottles altogether and as per a commenters suggestion I looked into adding it as a non-steam game to steam. It ended up working beautifully! Here is the video I watched that shows how to do it on a steam deck

So I got the message from instagram about either paying or using it free (at the cost personalised ads) just now.

Doesn't this go against the GDPR? Either way, is there a FOSS alternative for instagram like piped is to youtube? It seems like a good opportunity to stop using the official app, even though it would be better to not use instagram at all (sadly not an option for me right now).

Any suggestions, and if so, are there any that provide functionality for: stories, posts, dms? Those are the 3 things I use instagram for.

Many thanks!

Edit: For messaging I do use beeper, though some media like carousels and posts sent to my dms cant be shown in there, so for those cases I open the official app.

Edit 2: many people have suggested pixelfed. Ive heard of it, and want to use it, but unfortunately the only reason Im still sticking with instagram is because I have very dear friends who would never change to anything non-mainstream. Theyre important enough that im willing to not delete it just yet, but I dont want to agree to either pay or pay with my data.

What im looking for is more like a piped for youtube, thing. So a frintend that has instagram content/features, but isnt the main app and avoids the problems I listed above

Edit 3: I ended up installing the site as a PWA on my phone as thats the only device I use it on, and uninstalled the official app. Thanks to everyone for all your input!

Is anyone else experiencing this? The posts section in my profile appears empty, as well as the community I moderate showing no posts. Ive checked this from Jerboa, Eternity, and browser on desktop and mobile. If I view my profile or the community while not logged in to my account everything shows up normally.

Posts on my profile:

Community posts:

Hey everyone. I noticed theres an ootion in the settings to change what the tabs on top are showing, and I changed the last one from All to Multicommunities. However theres nothing there as I havent figured out how to create a multicommunity yet. Anyone have any advise? Thanks!

Hey everyone! I currently have an antenna which is a realtek chipset (yuck) that I had to load the drivers myself. Even though I loaded the drivers from this github repo and keep them updated, I'm still getting issues like constant common disconnects, slow speeds (even though on my mobile connected to the same network I may get 6 times the speed), etc... I think I'm ready to pay up and get an antenna that has proper support in Linux, and I found this one after a little bit of searching online: official alfa link.

My question is if this is actually well supported, or even if there is something better I could get (without making me even poorer). What do you guys think, and what are your experiences?

Thanks!

Edit: came back here after a while to edit in case someone comes upon this in the future. I ended up ordering this one: AWUS036NHA fron Alfa. It has the ath9k chipset which is included in the kernel, so it seems like a good choice. Will try to remember to come back after I get it and try it put to give my comments.

Hello everyone.

This semester at uni I'm taking a course which requires me and my group to create a complete software project. Out of the available topics we chose to make an airline ticket booking app, much like skyscanner.com. It is my responsibility to handle the majority of the coding aspect of the project, so I would like your advice.

I would like your thoughts and recommendations on what frameworks/languages/technologies you recommend we use to implement the project. I would like to avoid anything complicated that will take a long time to learn, as I only have a limited number of weeks to deliver. However we do need to be able to have a decent looking frontend, a backend that will allow users to login either as passengers or administrators (them being the ones who manage flights and handle passenger accounts etc.), and passengers should be able to at the very least input a departure city and time, and arrival city and time and get a list of available flights back (the flights don't need to be real-world flights, we can generate that data to simulate the app).

I've checked out pythons flask, but (correct me if I'm wrong) while simple it seems too much so. I would need to handle user authentication, creating and connecting any databases etc. all manually from pretty much scratch. I'm interested in finding that middle ground of simple enough to get up and running with quickly, while not so simple where I need to learn 1000 other things just to get a prototype up and running.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Edit: I asked my professor for advice and as he suggested I decided to go with bootstrap and sqlite. Im still open on suggestions to do the authentications though :)