The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[DavidS877]

Back to what I wanted to whinge about, I've been seeing this kitsune neko loli DDOS mitigation attack thing on all things remotely Linux-related from the official Fedora bookmarks on Firefox to the WineHQ's AppDB. I don't like this at all, I hate weebshit when I don't consent to it, and may Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon whoever conceived this and proliferated it throughout vaguely Linux-related websites.

Isn' t that the one you can just change your user agent to bypass?

Hahahah, yes it is, I hit it with wget and got the front page. Going via a browser got the anime.

They really are retarded, aren't they.

 

[Akerman]

God, I fucking hate this tranny infestation bullshit proliferating throughout muh open source software. Seriously, not even 10 years ago we would've rightly mocked all this anime avatar bullshit out of existence. But noooooo, the troon menace exists at the intersection of long-term, unsupervised internet access, poor social skills (especially with women), extreme porn addiction, exposure to anime at a young age, impotent rage, and the ability to play up the histrionics when no one's able to take a good look at your ugly mug.

If anything would lead me back to Windows or at least send me to FreeBSD it's the insane infestation of these creeps in Linux. Honestly if we just had something to mitigate the negative effects of autism most of these troons would probably not exist. It's that feeling of detachment that leads them to troon out, they didn't in the past because troonery wasn't mainstream or accepted. Instead of thinking they could become anime girls they used to just dress unconventionally. I always found their fashion to be fucking garbage personally, but it's not something you want to wretch at. At worst it was just cringe.

Take Jamie who I talked about that made xscreensaver. In the 90s Netscape documentary I linked earlier (he's the guy on the computer from this timestamp) you can tell he would have been a troon had he been young today, but back then he was just a twink tech geek in an ill fitting trenchcoat & boots with long blue hair. You also have Tara (the lady behind Jamie in that clip) in the same documentary. She has short hair, dresses in a very butch style, and is somewhat heavyset, i.e. your classic friendly female dev at the office. She would have trooned out today as well but in the other direction. - So in other words the people who talk about the death of the twink and the butch woman are very correct, it's a social contagion that is fueled by autism. To finally kill it we need to target the negative effects of autism, but there is currently a massive activist industry into opposing ANY research into that. So for now all you can do is deliberately not help any tranny who asks online for support on anything Linux related that you know the answer to and instead RP as the most Loonix cunt as possible to get them to leave completely. - I am doing my part!

Hahahah, yes it is, I hit it with wget and got the front page. Going via a browser got the anime.

Yeah I just checked with ChatGPT as well and it scrapes the Arch Wiki just fine. Troonware is often on the same level as Jeetware, see: GNOME.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

had to install nvidia drivers to use second monitor (easy enough just 3 command lines MAX)
the environnement is so nice and customizable decide to install bottles, lutris and heroic launcher to test games on linux
game a little, go to sleep, after reboot kubuntu decided to ACK it's nvidia drivers (no problem just re-install it)

Nvidia drivers are a pain in the ass in Linux. Not only do you need to go through the effort of installing them when you don't have to for almost anything else, but Nvidia doesn't care about Linux and they don't always want to work properly. Sonic Frontiers was broken with Nvidia cards on Linux for like the first year of being out because some type of process for lighting wasn't programmed right on the Linux drivers. And I still have some issue that I'm pretty sure is related to Nvidia drivers where the graphics won't come back on when I boot my computer back on from sleep and I have to go into terminal to either reboot the computer or reboot the DE to get it back on.

try to install boltgun and Risk of rain 2, bolt gun "works" but i can't save, risk of rain just shits itself at start.
Search for awnsers, "yeah firgirl releases suck on linux", try dodi repacks "yeah dodi suck on linux try fitgirl"

Well, I don't have much to do right now, so I found the fitgirl repack of Risk of Rain 2 and decided to see if I could get it working for funsies. Made a quick test prefix. Setup.exe immediately crashed in it. The crash window wasn't helpful, but I saw a message that stood out in terminal saying that there was an unimplemented call for ole32.dll. Set the wine prefix to not use the native dll for it. Setup worked this time, but it hung on the first step of actual install for 10 minutes so I decided to just force close it. Next I did what I probably would have done from the start if this was a game I actually wanted to play and ran the setup in Proton-GE. It ran just fine and installed into a proton prefix, but upon starting the game it almost immediately crashed.

So that was the big roadblock: In both proton and wine, the game would either crash or hang at 2% loaded. I couldn't find anything in terminal or proton logs that would suggest what the problem was, so I looked through random google results for anything that seemed like a lead. Something that stood out to me was someone on Reddit suggesting OP try the Goldberg cracked steam_api64.dll to get their pirated copy running. That didn't work for that OP, but it was a simple enough thing for me to try. I replaced the cracked dll the fitgirl repack came with with the Goldberg crack I already had lying around.

It actually worked. The game quickly went past the point it was crashing or stalling on before and fully loaded. The next roadblock was that when it fully loaded it was coming up with a message about Steamworks integration failing and forced me to quit out of the game. I couldn't find anything immediately helpful for this online, but after looking it over I think the issue is that I would need to set up Goldberg crack for the game to properly think it's connecting to the fake Steam account.

At that point I got bored and stopped, but I get the feeling that if you were to set up your own crack instead of relying on what the repack came with, you'd be able to get the fitgirl repack of the game running in Wine.

 

[Sake Ojone]

Search for awnsers, "yeah firgirl releases suck on linux", try dodi repacks "yeah dodi suck on linux try fitgirl"

May I suggest using pre-installed games like on steamrip? It's not really a fix but at least the games will run
Also i remember there was a setting in wine which you needed to change to make fitgirl repacks work properly, but i can't seem to find it

 

[Baraka Obama]

Nvidia doesn't care about Linux and they don't always want to work properly

They don't care about gaming on linux. They care about AI slop running on linux.

 

[Miller]

I wonder what fraction of gnome discussions are on things that are related to improving it as opposed to poliniggering

It depends on what "improving" means to the Gnome soydevs. They seem to remove every option that would allow you to customize the experience. The Gnome Terminal for example has no settings menu anymore.
Remember that it took them ages to implement the accent colors because they refused to agree with KDE and the other DEs on what each color meant.

 

[Plastic Bag]

God, I fucking hate this tranny infestation bullshit proliferating throughout muh open source software. Seriously, not even 10 years ago we would've rightly mocked all this anime avatar bullshit out of existence. But noooooo, the troon menace exists at the intersection of long-term, unsupervised internet access, poor social skills (especially with women), extreme porn addiction, exposure to anime at a young age, impotent rage, and the ability to play up the histrionics when no one's able to take a good look at your ugly mug.

If I'm setting up a WINEPREFIX and I need to check the WineHQ AppDB, the last thing I wanna see is some fucking loli anime avatar kitsune/neko thingamabob giving me a mild panic attack thinking I got MITM'd. Cloudflare's own DDOS mitigation where I need to click on the checkbox is vastly preferable because I know Cloudflare, I distrust them because Matthew Prince is a spineless cuckold who caves into deplatforming despite Cloudflare's stated mission of neutrality, but hey: Cloudflare still exists and they're still DDOS mitigating for other websites I visit half the time. Totally kosher, though distasteful in my book.

This Anubis bullshit is so blatantly attention-grabbing. "Look at me! I'm a tranny anime avatar! I managed to make a ton of Linux/FOSS pages ditch Cloudflare for my own POW DDOS mitigation software! Notice me! NOTICE ME GOD DAMN IT!!!!" It's not enough to have a simple, kawaii, actual fox or cat like Pusheen or one of the many fan arts of Juniper Fox from Instagram, no, it has to be a fucking anime avatar. May Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon you, Anubis.

My problem isn't necessarily just the attention thing or that it's anime, whatever; it's the distastefulness and getting me involved in your hobby that is so played out and has nothing to do with the thing that I want to use. The greatest pieces of software are built by people with no or default profile pictures with just their name or nothing at all, who built things for the love of it, not to get dopamine through attention. Artists and Engineers used to only have their signature or a plaque on their lifework and didn't expect a shit ton of recognition during their life or to propogate their fantasies while looking at their landscapes or walking on their bridge, they did everything to serve future generations and to have a tasteful legacy.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Back to what I wanted to whinge about, I've been seeing this kitsune neko loli DDOS mitigation attack thing on all things remotely Linux-related from the official Fedora bookmarks on Firefox to the WineHQ's AppDB. I don't like this at all, I hate weebshit when I don't consent to it, and may Allah bring dark hours and disaster upon whoever conceived this and proliferated it throughout vaguely Linux-related websites.

My problem isn't necessarily just the attention thing or that it's anime, whatever; it's the distastefulness and getting me involved in your hobby that is so played out and has nothing to do with the thing that I want to use.

I just want to remind you this is a competition of who is more retarded. At least the depiction of Anubis' skincolor wise is accurate to the historical god and the program is named after him (ofc the anime is genderswapped...).
What do I get when I get Dtrace? A fucking MLP pony.

I wake up in the morning and gentoo devs once again prove that autism and degeneracy are positively correlated.

dev challenge to not be a degenerate, impossible:
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Spoiler: degenerate source

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https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-07-08/choosing-a-linux-tracer.html

Even ftrace themselves aren't that retarded to use this as their official mascot...

On less retarded news, OSU's OSL was going to be kill and begging for donos (archive):

Future of OSL in Jeopardy​

by Lance Albertson on Wed, Apr 30 2025

I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab (OSL). Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in university funding makes our current funding model no longer sustainable. As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable.

Unless we secure $250,000 in committed funds, the OSL will shut down later this year. I have reached out to our largest corporate sponsor and they are working to increase their support as we update our contract, but that still may not be enough.

For transparency, the $250,000 is broken down into the following roughly:

• Staff pay $150k (60%) (1 staff)
• Student pay $65k (26%) (8 students)
• Other expenses $35k (14%)

Other expenses include items such as hardware, travel, subscription services and other miscellaneous expenses needed to run the OSL day to day.

If any of you can assist or connect me with potential supporters, please reach out as soon as possible. I need to provide leadership with an update on any funding changes by Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Please reach out directly via donations@osuosl.org if you’re able to help us make it through this difficult time.

The OSU Foundation is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, which provides many donors a tax advantage. Please contact the OSU Foundation directly if you have questions about your eligibility. You can donate directly to us by visiting our donation page.

OSL provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world. Over the course of its 22-year existence, the OSL has mentored over 130 students, many of whom have gone on to create their own companies and work throughout the larger tech ecosystem.

Some notable milestones over the years include:

• Provided hosting for Mozilla Firefox when they needed help in the early days and hosted the release of 1.0
• Was the home of the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, Kernel.org, Mozilla for many years
• Offers fast and reliable software mirroring for projects
• Currently provides infrastructure hosting for projects such as Drupal, Gentoo Linux, Debian, Fedora, phpBB, OpenID, Buildroot/Busybox, Inkscape, Cinc and many more!
• Virtual machines for x86, aarch64 and ppc64le are used by many projects for CI and other hosted services

Your commitment is crucial for us to move forward. I am available to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you for your continued support!

Lance Albertson, Director

Yes, you read that right. They want 250k to keep going. Over half is to the 1 permanent employee tht runs this project and the eight student slave labors. I'm not against the work they do, but have they ever considered downsizing?

Well they got the money, and now they beg for more (archive)...

Forging Our Future: OSL's Path to Sustainability – A Call for Smart Solutions and Enduring Support​

by Lance Albertson on Fri, May 09 2025

Following our OSL Future post, the community response has been incredible! Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year. This is a huge relief and lets us focus on building a truly self-sustaining OSL.

To get there, we’re tackling two big interconnected goals:

1. Finding a new, cost-effective physical home for our core infrastructure, ideally with more modern hardware.
2. Securing multi-year funding commitments to cover all our operations, including potential new infrastructure costs and hardware refreshes.

Pillar 1: The Data Center & Hardware Challenge​

Our current data center is over 20 years old and needs to be replaced soon. With Oregon State University evaluating the future of this facility, it’s very likely we’ll need to relocate in the near future. While migrating to the State of Oregon’s data center is one option, it comes with significant new costs. This makes finding free or very low-cost hosting (ideally between Eugene and Portland for ~13-20 racks) a huge opportunity for our long-term sustainability. More power-efficient hardware would also help us shrink our footprint.

Speaking of hardware, refreshing some of our older gear during a move would be a game-changer. We don’t need brand new, but even a few-generations-old refurbished systems would boost performance and efficiency. (Huge thanks to the Yocto Project and Intel for a recent hardware donation that showed just how impactful this is!) The dream? A data center partner donating space and cycled-out hardware.

Our overall infrastructure strategy is flexible. We’re enhancing our OpenStack/Ceph platforms and exploring public cloud credits and other donated compute capacity. But whatever the resource, it needs to fit our goals and come with multi-year commitments for stability. And, a physical space still offers unique value, especially the invaluable hands-on data center experience for our students.

Pillar 2: Building Lasting Financial Resilience​

The recent support was amazing for our immediate team needs. But for the OSL to thrive long-term, we need a sustainable financial foundation. This is crucial, as the university expects units like ours to become self-sufficient beyond this current year.

So, our big focus this next year is locking in ongoing support – think annualized pledges, different kinds of regular income, and other recurring help. This is vital, especially with potential new data center costs and hardware needs. Getting this right means we can stop worrying about short-term funding and plan for the future: investing in our tech and people, growing our awesome student programs, and serving the FOSS community. We’re looking for partners, big and small, who get why foundational open source infrastructure matters and want to help us build this sustainable future together.

An Evolving OSL: Still Critical, Still Growing​

The OSL is actively evolving to meet new FOSS needs:

• POWER and ARM (aarch64) OpenStack clusters with IBM and Ampere Computing.
• Expanded x86 OpenStack and a robust Ceph cluster (now with S3 storage used by projects like OpenVox).
• GitLab CI runners across all architectures, with plans for GitHub Actions and more.
• Managed hosting for projects like PostmarketOS, including their recent GitLab migration.

Yes, the OSL is absolutely still needed! A cost-effective new data center, refreshed hardware, and stable funding are key to our mission.

How You Can Help Build Our Self-Sustaining Future​

We need your help with these two pillars:

1. Finding Our New, Cost-Effective Data Center Home & Hardware:
   • Leads on Free/Low-Cost Space: Know of data center capacity (~13-20 racks) between Eugene and Portland?
   • Hardware Donations/Leads: Can your org donate retired servers? Know data centers or refurbishers who might help?
   • Connections & Spreading the Word: Introduce us to decision-makers and share our need!
2. Securing Multi-Year Funding:
   • Corporate Partnerships: Consider a multi-year sponsorship, especially if your company benefits from open source.
   • Introductions & Advocacy: Connect us with CSR/OSPO contacts and champion sustainable funding for foundational infra.

Reach out to donations@osuosl.org for any discussions on these fronts.

Our Vision: Unlocked by Smart Solutions​

With a secure, cost-effective data center (and updated hardware!) plus predictable multi-year funding, we can:

• Expand our student program.
• Broaden managed services for projects (GitLab, Discourse, Matrix, etc.).
• Introduce modern tooling like Terraform and Kubernetes for learning and efficiency.
• Engage more community volunteers.

Finding economical solutions is key to making this vision a reality.

Join Us in Building OSL’s Next Chapter​

The recent encouragement has been fantastic. Now, help us build a truly sustainable foundation. Securing a cost-effective data center and robust multi-year financial partnerships are the critical next steps for the OSL’s future.

Thank you for your continued belief in the OSL!

 

[Plastic Bag]

Yes, you read that right. They want 250k to keep going. Over half is to the 1 permanent employee

That shit pisses me off, it's like seeing a charity where the CEO earns 500k a year. The obvious solution is to keep it student-led, but pay less to each one and have more students do the work of the 150K EMPLOYEE. It's cool that they do open-source hosting, but there are thousands of Colleges that offer the same to their own students, and they can always scale back some of their services without demanding that much money or else shut down. I get hosting isn't as easy as people think but damn, a College having a permanent employee on that level of wages seems insane.
Almost every single one of them is the same phenotype, kinda interesting:

 

[Slav Power]

No one will care but my issue with not being able to have Mullvad and Wireguard enabled simultaneously was in the Mullvad client. After an update they fixed it, and after tweaking Wireguard to only route my local subnets to not cause a WAN address clash, I get both Mullvad WAN IP and access to my LAN networks. At least now I know what the "AllowedIPs" configuration part of Wireguard does and that yes, you can set it to LAN addresses only so that all of your web traffic goes unfiltered, or routed via a different VPN, so I now have a good mobile connectivity solution on my laptop. Too bad that you can't enable two VPN tunnels on Android simultaneously.

 

[innocent jogger]

God, that's funny. I got it confused because I have no idea what KDE stands for, and it could have just meant Kernal Dolphin Emulator or something. It's about as sensical as Wine Is Not an Emulator. But the thing is, I know that I'm not fluent enough in computers that I am probably not understanding something and I should look it up. If I followed what everyone else was saying I would have downloaded outdated software.

If you don't even know what KDE is then what are you doing in the Linux thread?

 

[yydszmiteg2]

If you don't even know what KDE is then what are you doing in the Linux thread?

Probably learning about Linux. Maybe he's not as big a DE sperg as you and I.

 

[jeff7989]

Anybody's cursor freezes on kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu? Some retard decided to backport broken driver to LTS kernel. Good job.
For now I will revert to 6.12.27 because it was working perfectly fine on that one.

  [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data

I saw some others experience it on Arch and Manjaro, so I will wait for someone else to report it for me, not in a mood getting my hands dirty.

Edit. Looks like that one

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How about no? I like my freesync.

 

[El Goblina]

kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu?

I like my freesync.

Expecting newish features to work with the kernel has always been a grabbag, for reasons like you're experiencing. "Just disable freesync" is the sensible solution.

 

[Slav Power]

newish features

Freesync was introduced ten years ago and it predates the GTX 10 series.

 

[El Goblina]

Freesync was introduced ten years ago

...and it made it into the Linux kernel 5.0 six years ago. They attempted to make it default for 5.8, which went so terribly it got turned off til well after 6.0. If you think this technology is stable at all on Linux, you're a delusional newbie.

 

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Too bad that you can't enable two VPN tunnels on Android simultaneously.

I believe 'Rethink' (formerly RethinkDNS) should allow this for Wireguard tunnels (i.e. home network + 1 or more Mullvad servers), splitting based on destination or app. Haven't used it myself.

 

[The Saltening]

May I suggest using pre-installed games like on steamrip? It's not really a fix but at least the games will run
Also i remember there was a setting in wine which you needed to change to make fitgirl repacks work properly, but i can't seem to find it

I Used lutris for a fitgirl repack the other day. They work but you have to like change the install path and tell it not to install prerequisites like visual studio and shit.

Edit: I also had to go into lutris after and manually tell it where the exe is at. Lutris on my machine can not I find exe files for things it installs for some reason

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

I Used lutris for a fitgirl repack the other day. They work but you have to like change the install path and tell it not to install prerequisites like visual studio and shit.

Edit: I also had to go into lutris after and manually tell it where the exe is at. Lutris on my machine can not I find exe files for things it installs for some reason

I've had to do the same thing. Is it supposed to switch the executable from the installer to the game automatically? It's never been annoying enough to prompt me to look into it.

 

[dec05eba]

Anybody's cursor freezes on kernel 6.12,29 and above or 6.14.8 with amdgpu? Some retard decided to backport broken driver to LTS kernel. Good job.
For now I will revert to 6.12.27 because it was working perfectly fine on that one.

  [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data

I saw some others experience it on Arch and Manjaro, so I will wait for someone else to report it for me, not in a mood getting my hands dirty.

Edit. Looks like that one

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How about no? I like my freesync.

My cursor has always frozen with my amd gpu. The only fix I found was to enable software cursor. Software cursor also seems to have lower latency for whatever reason, even lower than on windows.