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Hello again. A few days ago I made the post in the link above which is about getting Silent Hunter 3 working with the LSH3 megamod, and I got a great answer in there to use steamtinkerlaunch to run separate executables just once (e.g. to install JSGME mod manager and to install the actual megamod LSH3).

After playing for a bit I decided I want a little more control over what mods are installed, and decided to switch to the GWX megamod, so I completely uninstalled SH3 and its folder in the steamapps/common folder, and reinstalled it cleanly. Then using wine I ran the 4GB patch so that the game would use 4GB instead of 2GB memory which is required for running many mods. The memory usage can get quite high. After that I loaded all my desired mods with JSGME.

The game starts fine, and I can do all the training missions and the single missions, but I cant start a campaign. After the loading bar for entering a campaign patrol fills up, there is a delay of a couple minutes (normal for GWX as during that stage it is loading all its mods and any other mods you have enabled), and then crashes to desktop. This clearly means that it is running out of memory while loading mods. However after running the patcher to increase the memory limit of the executable I get a new sh3.exe file and my original gets renamed to sh3.exe.Backup, which seems to show that the patch has been applied correctly.

Could anyone help me diagnose this issue please?

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1 (SOLUTION): So what ended up working for me was simply making the game run using proton 6.3-8. I did try version 4.3 as well, but that didnt seem to be working that well with the widegui mod I have. Thanks to all who gave suggestions!

Edit 2: Editing to add 2 more things to the solution. Because of frequent crashes while in the career patrol, I ended up lowering the Particle Density to 90 and also do not create any saves while out on patrol. Not sure which of the two actually stopped the crashing, but so far I've played for about 20 hours with no crash.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/20502769

here is the talk description, from its page on the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024 (which Linux Foundation somehow neglected to put in their youtube upload's description):

In Febuary the Linux kernel community took charge of issuing CVEs for any found vulnerability in their codebase. By doing this, they took away the ability for any random company to assign CVEs in order to make their engineering processes run smoother, and instead have set up a structure for everyone to participate equally.

This talk will go into how the Linux CVE team works, how CVEs are assigned, and how you can properly handle the huge number of new CVEs happening in a simple and secure way.

今年二月，Linux内核社区开始负责为其代码库中发现的任何漏洞发布CVE编号。通过这样做，他们剥夺了任何随机公司分配 CVE 的能力，以便使他们的工程流程更顺畅，取而代之的是建立了一个人人平等参与的结构。

本次演讲将介绍 Linux CVE 团队的工作方式，CVE 的分配过程，以及如何以简单且安全的方式妥善处理大量新出现的 CVE。

Here is a PDF of the slides from Greg's git repo for this talk.

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/19622913

A friend of someone related doesn't have a laptop nowadays, but needs one. Now we have 2 old laptops at home, and we want to give her one so she can do some things on it. Since she isn't used to laptops and the old laptops wouldn't run a Windows 11 (I don't want to install a Win10 because of end of support and lacking security features), I guess installing a simple Linux is fine. Now comes the big question: Which Linux distro should I install? (see requirements below)

Laptops:
- Acer Aspire ES 15, AMD dual-core E1-7010 @1.5 GHz, 4GB RAM, 1000 GB HDD
- HP Pavilion 17-e030ez, Intel Pentium @2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, 10000 GB HDD (I'd choose this)

Tasks:
- Office Stuff (I thought about OnlyOffice)
- Internet surfing
- Banking via Web

Requirements:
- needs to have full German support
- needs an easy software installation center
- should be easy to learn
- optionally, her friends (which probably use Windows/ Mac) should be able to help her (since she never had a laptop before)
- eventually German forum/ German Guides

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I'm using Linux/ Manjaro for myself but don't have any experience with beginner-friendly distros. I used a KDE neon for some time and also have used Ubuntu, and to be honest, they seem beginner-friendly too.

Please let me know your opinions, thanks!

(not really pipewire itself but an interaction with wireplumber/libcamera/the kernel, but pipewire is what triggers the problem)

As seen in gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir… and gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

The camera's /dev/video file is kept open (without streaming), sadly causing the camera to be powered on what looks to be most devices. For some reason, this completely nullifies the soc power management on modern laptops and can result in increases from 3W to 8W at idle!

On Intel laptops it's a bit easier to debug because you can see the Cstates in powertop not going low but it also wrecks AMD ones. Some laptops can reach lower cstates, but the camera module wastes a few W anyway.

I can't believe this shipped in Ubuntu, Fedora etc without anyone noticing, and for so long. This bug is quite literally wasting GWh of power and destroys the user experience of distros in laptops.

If you have a laptop with a switch that detaches the camera from the usb bus you are probably out of the water, just plug it when you use it and the problem is sidestepped. Removing uvcvideo and modprobing it on demand can also work. Disabling the camera in Lenovo's UEFI is what I did for a year until I finally found the issue on the tracker. Some laptops also seem to not be affected, but for me it happens to every machine I've tested.

Thanks to this comment for another workaround that tells wireplumber to ignore cameras. ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/10-disable-camera.conf

wireplumber.profiles = { main = { monitor.libcamera = disabled } }

Software that only captures cameras using pipewire is rare and this hasn't given me any problem. This should probably be shipped by distros while the problem is sorted out.

Note that most laptops will have other problems stopping them from reaching deep cstates, borked pcie sd card readers, ancient ethernet nics that don't support pcie sleep properly, outdated nvme firwmare... those are separate issues that most of the time can also be tackled with some dose of tlp, but it's all for nothing if the usb camera is keeping the soc awake!