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Well it’s cloudflare, not cloudsflare. Maybe overcasthosting, or sunblockservers…

-$4 and include an unopened, chilled 20oz cherry pepsi. You deliver. Take it or leave it.

Tbf I’ve read that they missed their third deadline for an early access release. I was interested in the game but if what you have after like 5 years still isn’t enough for even early gameplay scrutiny, maaaaybe some major mistakes were made. And then never addressed. For half a decade.

I’ll hate on big companies and executives alllllll day, but I’m an equal opportunity hater whenever it’s warranted.

I’ll get the camcorder

What if they want to be warm, though?

I used to dabble in programming as a hobby, but now I’m a disabled home-bound sysadmin and homelab enthusiast.

Oh, and a flaming gay fur.

It’s all good :) I reverted back to kubuntu and all is well. I hope things improve for you!

cheapest is $670

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I did this, for flexibility and to tinker without screwing myself.

But then my first install was Debian to run my docker containers sooooo

lifts

“YOU FUCKING LIED TO ME”

“if only we had a way to like, take a desktop pc and make it, like, not tethered to a power outlet. and made the mouse and keyboard a part of the case. and added a screen and speakers too. too bad we have no idea how to do that.” -Microsoft, as they shove the 10,000 laptops off of the desk. “guess we will have to do it ourselves.”

(yeah yeah a laptop “isn’t a handheld” but you get the stupidity all the same, surely. MS abandoned their platform just to make a different, more constrained platform, and charge people for multi-player. and they want to act like they couldn’t do that 25 years ago for free. fuck off MS.)

Yeah, essentially ‘all’ WWAN modems (in the states?) that are sold as part of a laptop, have FCC locks. One needs to run a script designed for their modem (I believe, I’m new to cellular modems in Linux) on every boot that unlocks the modem so that it can be used by the system. I grabbed the necessary script but there’s something else missing that I’m not aware of, but kubu has ootb.

I’m just a geek who pokes at things and learns by doing/breaking/fixing, I’m nothing special. But I’m just very baffled at this. It would appear (?) that maybe the service necessary isn’t running, but I don’t know what that service would be (afaik things ending in .d are daemons, of which the /etc/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d is) so I’m sort of flailing, confused.

I might poke L4N, as if I can get this going, I’d be content with the system. I’m used to struggling with stuff (flashbacks of getting wifi working in the 00s), it’s just so frustrating to be right there and stuck.

Thanks, by the way :)

Could I bother you for some guidance? I installed spiral an hour or so ago, and I got to the fcc unlock, but the expected folder with the scripts doesn’t exist, so ln fails of course. Searching / came up with 2 folders and a few files that aren’t what I need, and trying to search for ideas online has just been frustrating. I’m assuming I’m missing a modemmanager package that contains the scripts, but again searching online has lead me nowhere. And the Debian package info site is having server errors so I can’t even use that as a clue D:

Do you have any ideas?

E: command that worked on kubu was sudo ln -sft /etc/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.d /usr/share/ModemManager/fcc-unlock.available.d/105b:e0ab

E: I copied the required files (for the command) from the kubu live system, ln successful, reboot, but I’m still stuck as it’s acting like there’s no (usable) WWAN card in ModemManager gui. I setup the apn but can’t connect to the cellular network, there’s no option to connect.

E: also if it’s any help I have been using this guide (successfully on kubu) https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X13s

I’ll check it out, thanks :D

Eh. I’m just (again, take 371) trying to get a ThinkPad running on Linux for light use, and I’ve dabbled with a lot of distros in the last 20 years, but I’ve always reversed course because something didn’t work, and I got frustrated troubleshooting it.

This go around, I wanted Debian 12, fde, btrfs, snapshots. And I wanted it to work ootb (spoiler: it did not). It also needed to support my hardware, which includes WWAN.

D12 installs fine, everything is great, until the restart, where it hangs on hardware errors (I thiiiink it’s thunderbolt but I can’t remember) on boot. Okay, let’s try Fedora - yay it works. Oh no, the fcc unlock for WWAN doesn’t work. Let’s try Mint (Debian Edition). Wtf, I can do fde but only on ext4, and gparted is useless here. I want Debian(-based) since I have the most experience with it, and the software I use is available easily. Don’t like straight ubu, but not a lot of options so let’s try kubu. After a couple installs, it checks all my requirements (Debian, fde, btrfs, snapshots via gui, WWAN, ootb* (with fcc unlock and added apn)).

It’s fine, it works, but it’s not what I wanted. And between needing WWAN working, and needing compiled packages for my software, I’m kinda stuck.

So I dunno. Kubu is fine. It’s like the compact car you get as a rental. It does the job. But fuck, WHY is WWAN support so shit, why isn’t btrfs support in the installer more common, why is it often difficult to do fde. Those three were a huge pain for me. And I’m not fresh off the boat, but I’m not going to fuck with the terminal just to install a fucking system. Ugh.

Anyway. I’m not “happy”, but it’s currently working. Suggestions (or assistance) welcome.

E: I should add that I tried fedora because it was recommended to me to try; afaik it’s based on red hat

Imitation is illegal… Smh why does nobody just print real money? Am I the only one seeing this loophole?!

I got this email a few days ago. It’s definitely CP2077. Their example even shows like 5 titles in a sample account and that game is far and away using the most space. As to why, I have no idea.

Also to answer the “how do you know”, it’s the only GOG game I play that has a decent amount of playtime. Everything else is in the single digits. I assume lots of others are in a similar situation.

E: and the pedestrian, but I finished that in one sitting, and it’s in double digits because I let others try it out. I think there are a whopping 2 saves for that game for me.

Every other service: “oh yeah, oops” scratches that feature off the free plan

You: “no wait not like that”

Look ma, you can fit a whole jpg on one of these!

Ma: oh I thought those were coasters