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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Do you have heroic installed through Flatpak? If you do then install flatseal (through Flatpak) and use flatseal to enable permissions for heroic launcher. It should be pretty obvious how to do this once you have flatseal open.

    By default Flatpak does not allow applications to write to directories outside of your home fir (and I think it also blocks access to other partitions).

    Source: I did this on my system last Friday to install return to moria. Also I got zzz to work on my steamdeck out of the box with heroic game launcher.


  • This is true. And it’s also why I always recommend downloading steam through their website. They distribute their own Deb directly, and it auto updates.

    Flatpak version is also okay but if you want to use a secondary disk then you need to know how to use portals (or the Flatpak configuration tool that I can’t remember the name of).






  • This might help in the future in case you setup a remote mount for backups in the future. Look into using systemd’s automount feature. If the mount suddenly fails then it will instead create an unwritable directory in its place. This prevents your rsync from erroneously writing data to your root partition instead.





  • I did something similar (that my professor still talks about in class as a cautionary tale)

    I ran chown -R user .* (intending to target all hidden files in the folder) and for people that don’t know .* also matches .. (.. was / in this case) which changed the permissions on all files on the system to that user, including sudo.

    We fixed it by mounting the root of the file system in a docker container which effectively gave us root.


  • Net neutrality being brought up as an election topic would be very unusual for our politics. Our two party system is very set on the topics that they like and don’t like to bring up.

    Of course the parties have negative incentive to do anything more than the bare minimum about these topics that they fight so hard to advertise. Otherwise, they might need to come up with new reasons for people to vote for them.