Hopefully this teaches people there are platforms to upload video other than Yotube.

Oh no by all means do preach. I was just about doing the same about schroot. :p

And, like I said, it’s not that I don’t like it. It was just too much for the rather small usecase I had back at the time. I’m pretty sure if at some point I move to a distro less featured than Debian Sid I’m gonna have to pay more attention to Flatpak and Nix again.

I basically took the general idea from this Ubuntu doc and made som changes. After installing debootstrap, I followed these general steps:

• set up an user for Steam, with adduser steam.
• created a directory to host the “virtual machine” at /var/lib/chroot/steam64.
• used the page linked above to create a schroot profile directory with the chroot data I want.
• used the page linked above to create a schroot profile entry for the chroot, adding steam as one of its allowed users.
• set up an Ubuntu 18.04 schroot with the following command: debootstrap --variant=buildd bionic /var/lib/chroot/steam64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
• on the host, allowed cross-“host” applications to lauch windows with xhost +local:.
• once completed, entered the schroot as root and added the needed i386 arch and packages for Steam and for bubblewrap / Chrome containerization.
• still in the schroot as root, installed enough packages for a basic graphical environment (basically: a text editor, xnest and xterm; between their dependencies, they’ll take care of most of everything).
• exited the schroot.
• entered the schroot as steam and fired up the Steam launcher manually.

It’s not perfect, there are a few issues (in particular with audio) but once I had the installed schroot ready, I never had to worry about its 32-bit packages ever again. And that was back in… like, 2019 or something. Six months ago I copied to old schroot to my new machine and resumed playing, with no more cost than having to set up the schroot packages and the steam user (with the same old UID) on the new machine.

Here’s a sample of the schroot profile file I’m using. The “steam64.local” is the profile directory, which is basically a copy of schroot/buildd (or of schroot/minbase) with some configurations in fstab and copyfiles to account for eg.: isolating /var/run and dbus, and giving the schroot access to the home directory for the steam user.

Tried Nix once, I liked it but overall found it too complicated to setup and manage for the [counts fingers] three programs I was using it for. Might be worth the while if I need a larger library of programs from Outside, but so far Debian and AppImages have not failed me.

Do they get to stay in the tautology club?

Part of the problem is, sure, that installing an entire arch for a package touches up a lot of stuff… What I did was I set up a debootstrap schroot and added i386 arch to that so that neither they nor Steam touch my main system. Not only did I never have problems with Steam again, but I actually resumed pretty much from what I was when I got a new machine, simply by copying the schroot files over. Didn’t even have to install anything (but the schroot serve on my new system itself).

I think they mean the original.

My understanding is that Matrix is worse than XMPP in basically every way.

Signal is unfortunately as vulnerable to this as Telegram is, as it is a fully centralized service so once the CEO is grabbed is Game Over. Something like jabber / XMPP would be better.

So wait, Apple effectively mandates that users of their store lie to their users? Wonder if that’s something that can be tackled legally.

Eh, at least beats the Trump mpreg.

Is this new work of art in AO3 yet?

So now Mozilla can stop receiving their hush money, right?

Only after the researchers tried a Bayesian analysis

If I remember my college classes right, this basically means “we invented data to fit the curve we want”, right?

Since when has any antivirus ever had the intent of actually protecting against viruses? The entire antivirus market is a scam.

To be fair: not by our own account.

, and the laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port so off you go to buy a usb-eth adaptor.

What, no Android USB tether? It’s been native since Debian 6 IIRC.

How did you even get the picture of the W fan? W doesn’t even provide screen capture, nor global hotkeys to make PrintScreen work.

No need to invoke copyright. They’ll just do it to own the libs.

I’m totally fine with something like 540p or 480p, although I guess that’s because my preference is good ol’ TV shows that aired in the 90s or 00s over TV cable, so I’m fine with SDTV quality. And honestly, there’s not much sense in downloading all seasons of, say, Ally McBeal in 4K when you can download 8 full glorious 90s shows with their entire seasons in SDTV in the same space.

Even with “modern” stuff, I’ve seldom found a movie or TV show post 2012 that merits anything higher than 720p. I don’t get why don’t movie codecs get a multi-res options so that for example you can get the action scenes in 1080p, even 60fps if you want, but the melancholic scenes and the quiet drama scenes and the credits in 480p. Would save lots of space without losing quality where it matters.

Oh, you believe law is fair? You sound so cute.