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-could we _please_ live in less interesting times. i'm actually kind of terrified about all the news coming out of the usa right now. a civilian gets shot by the country's own secret police. troops bomb a sovereign nation and kidnap their president before putting him to trial for breach of american law. donald trump will not shut up about invading greenland. what's the response from every other country on the planet? crickets. what is the point of representative democracy if people who represent us prioritise trade agreements and their own investments over the good of our country and the human race. the concept of world war 3 gets bandied about all the time but if the usa invades greenland that could really be it. either australia gets looped into an insane war, neither side of which being optimal, or worse, nothing happens, and the reality of international peace gets laid bare and suddenly everyone else has free reign to do whatever they want. taiwan and tibet are toast. usa's puppet war with russia probably continues indefinitely, or even gets worse. what happens if people my age get drafted, australia does the entirely predictable thing and beds down with the usa and suddenly i'm being told to shoot someone because a dementia riddled pedo needs distraction from the proof of his atrocities being made public. i _hope_ i'm wrong about this, i _hope_. but if i'm right i really won't be surprised
+i'm actually kind of terrified by all the news coming out of the usa right now. a civilian gets shot by the country's own secret police. troops bomb a sovereign nation and kidnap their president before putting him to trial for breach of american law. donald trump will not shut up about invading greenland. what's the response from every other country on the planet? crickets. what is the point of representative democracy if people who represent us prioritise trade agreements and their own investments over the good of our country and the human race. the concept of world war 3 gets bandied about all the time but if the usa invades greenland that could really be it. either australia gets looped into an insane war, neither side being optimal, or worse, nothing happens, and the reality of international peace gets laid bare and suddenly everyone else has free reign to do whatever they want. taiwan and tibet are toast. usa's puppet war with russia probably continues indefinitely, or even gets worse. what happens if people my age get drafted, australia does the entirely predictable thing and beds down with the usa and suddenly i'm being told to shoot someone because a dementia riddled pedo needs distraction from the proof of his atrocities being made public. i _hope_ i'm wrong about this, i _hope_. but if i'm right i really won't be surprised
 
 id actually been thinking a lot about charlie kirk recently and had been writing light notes on the transgender """"debate"""" in the usa and austalia and worldwide but it feels trite right now. there are constant issues in my local community but it becomes harder and harder to focus on them with this hanging over you. my local bike kitchen needs a new location! they're wonderful people doing amazing good for my city and my community and it might be completely meaningless because this pedophile has realised that international law isn't really a real thing. 
 

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+<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 352px;" rss-link="https://norabrown.bandcamp.com/album/sidetrack-my-engine" rss-linkname="sidetrack my engine by nora brown" rss-image="/_assets/img/blog_2026/sidetrackmyengine.webp" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4193705418/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://norabrown.bandcamp.com/album/sidetrack-my-engine">Sidetrack My Engine by Nora Brown</a></iframe>
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+thinking about pseudonym jones' comic about her mum and how its so beautiful and sweet and sad and how i dont feel that way about my parents https://www.tumblr.com/pseudonymjones/801683789921320960
 
 champagne.pages.dev
 nekoweb?
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 # butchering a chicken
 
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 https://terminaltrove.com/list/
 
 modern lego
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 "that's life right?" man the personal trauma hits everyone huh
 i fucking hate lego now
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+2010 as an aesthetic are so funny to me https://kyrn0v.neocities.org/kfavs#vgames

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 title: 'embarassing linux thoughts'
-date: 2025-10-08
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 <!--### my setup (2025-12-10)
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-PROTON_LOGS=1 %command% is super fucking useful for figuring out proton bugs
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-wine does not like ntfs - probably just suck it up and set your secondary drives to exf
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+### steam on fedora (2026-01-29)
+steam continues to be a bit inconsistent and sometimes fails to start on my fedora wayland install, but so far the best results have come from updating the steam desktop file (which you can find with the command `locate steam.desktop`), changing the exec line to:
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+`Exec=/usr/bin/steam --disable-gpu --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu-sandbox --in-process-gpu %U`
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+this stops hardware acceleration from kicking in, which can sometimes cause issues with amd drivers. hilariously, i'm yet to have any gpu issues with a game itself, just the program that runs the games
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+### drive format and proton quirks (2026-01-29)
+i've set up quite a few multi-drive linux devices with home servers / backup servers, but i've found file permissions really annoying. your server is a media device and you just have a second drive to hold music and videos and the like, formatting it in ntfs is a great way to leapfrog the problem. it's less secure, but there isnt any code running on the drive, and if someone gets at your movies then who really cares
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+i learned pretty quickly that this line of thinking doesnt work for my home pc because my other drives are meant to be used for storing steam games, but wine looks at its config files (stored with the game) and confirms that theyre not owned by root before starting. ntfs just shows every file as owned by root but with 777 permissions, so wine (and therefore proton) will complain, just silently, with no error message 
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+i figured this out using `PROTON_LOGS=1 %command%` in the launch options for the specific game, which is actually extremely useful for figuring out other bugs and led me to this precise error
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+the upshot is to just suck it up and learn how to deal with ext4 and file permissions on your secondary drives, unless you need to share that drive with a windows install
+
 ### cobalt-web (2025-10-08)
 this sort of deserves to be in its own self-hosted section, but i want to get it out now instead of waiting for that to happen. cobalt is a very slick website that packages up a bunch of media download tools into a simple search-like interface. it's very convenient, and while they say they don't save any of your searches (and they probably don't) you can be certain of the fact by just self-hosting the thing. unfortunately, about a year ago (~ september 2024) they took the web-element of the self-hosted program offline, saying that you can just link your own api to their website, or self-host the website yourself with a reverse proxy. i've read through the discussion and i _sort of_ get it, but i also don't know why they would say "there is a problem with the way the website is served via docker, but instead of fixing it, or highlighting that it's an issue, we're just going to undermine the point of self-hosting and remove the functionality altogether". bizarre. anyway, here's my current cobalt docker-compose. it uses cobalt 7, which still provides a webapp. i'm going to do some more digging and see if i can use the most recent version of the api with the old web container, but i haven't got that quite work yet. i also probably don't need to have watchtower on it anymore since i'm suppressing updateds, but i want to keep it there for when i get the aforementioned api working. also also, i'm shifting the port of the api because portainer uses 9000 by default. i should probably just get rid of portainer though. make sure to update the urls with your server's local ip!
 

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 - [gusbus.space/](https://gusbus.space)
 - [feuer-in-soho.art/](https://feuer-in-soho.art/)
 - [doodledave.neocities](https://davethedoodler.neocities.org/)
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