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Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release


cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/17704266

UMU comes from GloriousEggroll who is well known for making protonGE that's required to run several games on linux/deck.

It's not a launcher by itself, but rather something that can be built into other game launchers like Heroic, Lutris, and Junk Store. Right now most all steam games that don't have anticheat run great on deck without any tweaks. However many of those same games don't run by default if you install them from Epic/GOG/etc using one of the previously mentioned launchers. The games often require additional windows components to be manually installed with winetricks/protontricks, and many have lesser performance than their steam counterparts.

UMU is supposed to help other launchers have comparable compatibility and performance to what we see in steam native games. This project will hopefully improve the 3rd party launcher experience a lot.

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Minutes from 3 October 2024 WG Meeting


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in reply to Evan Prodromou

How does the “thread” property differ from the “context” property which basically every implementer is already using and has been doing so for 6+ years?
in reply to Evan Prodromou

That doesn’t really cover the why other than “context is vaguely defined” (maybe, but its’ been used in this exact way for… 7 years now? And is being used in this way by multiple interoperating implementations)
in reply to Erin 💽✨

it does mention the @context name collision which is imo a real point of confusion
in reply to Darius Kazemi

well, the json-ld keyword has an @ in front of it for a reason: w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#syntax-to…

id and type got aliased but they're really supposed to be @\id and @\type: github.com/w3c/activitystreams…

other point of confusion re: @\context vs context was overruled: github.com/w3c/activitystreams…



Qalculate: Powerful and versatile multi-purpose calculator for the Android platform


Features of Qalculate


  • Platform-Native Graphical user interface
  • Simple default view
  • Optional calculate-as-you-type mode
  • Screenshots

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in reply to sag

not sure i can trust anything made by someone with that username
in reply to Sam_Bass

~~Why? Can you elaborate?~~

Edit: oh, I automatically read it as J. Herkenhoff, and started to wonder what is the problem with the name.

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in reply to sag

The biggest problem over found with this is how unexpectedly easy it opens up the Android keyboard and obscures the keypad, but this is otherwise a fantastic tool. I've been searching for a no-Enter FOSS algebra calculator for literally years!


Lemmy Development Update 2024-10-04


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in reply to 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮

Well the things themselves are real. What they e just observed about them changing states is the new part. They will present their findings, wait for peer review, and we'll see if what they observed checks out.


Cómo solucionar ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pip’ en un entorno virtual de Python


Hay veces que tras una actualización del sistema, tras actualizar Debian, todos los entornos virtuales de Python dejan de funcionar y devuelven el error [code]ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip'[/code]. Para solucionar el error, desde el entorno vi

in reply to John

Even though we may bump heads on certain issues. I wish them the best of luck.


umu-launcher 1.1.1 released | First official release of UMU launcher!


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/20491286

For those unaware, about umu-launcher
This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.


in reply to John

Afaik umu sets dlls based on game's ID. But what if i launch noname game from, let's say, itch.io? In this case wine GE adds some universal stuff for any game. Is it works the same for UMU?
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There's a section set aside for Itch but I don't think anybody has added any yet github.com/Open-Wine-Component…


umu-launcher 1.1.1 released | First official release of UMU launcher!


For those unaware, about umu-launcher

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.


Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be


The Busybox developers have released version 1.37.0, with some 50 changes.

Its developers call Busybox the "Swiss Army knife" of embedded Linux, because in one relatively small tool, it implements not just a Unix-style shell, but also about 300 different commands that are normally external programs in their own right. As a result, it's often found inside devices that use Linux in very resource-constrained environments, such as consumer firewall/routers.

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in reply to Andrew

"Noooooooo! One tool should do one thing and one thing only! Blasphemy! Heresy! Anthema! Systemd!"
crying in unix design philosophy
in reply to Masterkraft0r

yeahs systemd I know yada yada :)

But working with embedded stuff, sometimes MCU with like 8MB embedded flash, have a 512k uboot, 1.5MB kernel, you are left with 6MB of flash for the whole application and lib, and busybox is a savior here!

in reply to Magister

it was a joke xD
i like busybox (and systemd)
i don't particularly subscribe to the unix way, but to each their own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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BUT IT'S A SINGLE BINARY! UNACCEPTBLE!!!! THE BLOAT OF IT ALL!
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almost like it has box in the name for some sort of reason


Thousands of Linux systems infected by "perfctl" malware since 2021


TLDR: perfctl is a crypto mining and proxy jacking malware that exploits about 20’000 common missconfigurations to install itself on Linux servers. Mostly using a 10/10 CVE on Apache RocketMQ.

It is very persistent and can reinstall itself even when you have deleted all the perfctl and perfcc files. It hides itself by removing logs, network packets, and stopping all activity once you login to the machine.

Monitoring cpu usage using tools (I use net data on my server) can help identify infections (100% cpu usage when « idle »).

in reply to SuperFola

Surely y'all have monitoring and alerts for excessive cpu load already?
in reply to DigitalDilemma

On my own server at home, yes. Because that’s important for me to know what’s going on and not discover something by chance weeks later.
in reply to SuperFola

I will never understand people using 3rdparty MQ and RPC implementations. What a a PR for rocketMQ right here.

You can and you should implement your communication protocols, most of the time 3rdparties are very wasteful and a security liability. I like ZeroMQ (zeromq.org/), they have amazing tech guides (zguide.zeromq.org/). I still mostly do my own code.

I may have trust issues but sockets are not THAT hard, they're just amzaingly frustrating to debug, not as much as debuging 3rdparty code.

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I'm confused trying to get SCALE to work


Hi, I'm trying to get SCALE to work but I'm so confused by what they mean by PATH and I'm stuck.

github.com/spectral-compute/sc…

I'm at the CMAKE step.

This is the official guide I'm following. I do understand what they mean by SCALE_PATH though as that is clearly explained but PATH is just very vague to me or I'm just misunderstanding it completely.

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in reply to TheDarkQuark

Thanks. That's a good ELI5. Fortunately I managed to make sense of it before your reply but the link to environment variables is highly appreciated. As I already replied to someone else, I had no idea PATH was a global/environment variable and just assumed it's telling me to specify path so I had no idea I need to RTFM as it confused me greatly and on top of that I did another mistake which confused me even more when I finally managed to get it to do correctly which made me think I am doing it wrong.

I gave up at CMAKE finally as I really need to RTFM more on that as it started to throw many errors at me.



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