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A lot of the time the version of wine will cause issues with the application, so if you have something working, stick with it.

It would be worthwhile to look into a wine prefix manager like lutris or bottles for gaming. Regular apps can benefit also, but I am not up to speed on anything not for gaming.

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Weird, I thought there were already a few open casting projects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast

https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

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Usually I start debugging this type of thing by killing all instances of steam and then launching it from command line. Steam logs a bunch of good stuff and putting it in context of your interactions helps. That said, based on what you've described, I would try older versions of proton, targeting releases back when games were launching. Proton/wine versions don't always work for all games and sometimes you'll need to launch particular titles with specific versions. Proton has been absolutely revolutionary, but these issues still pop up. ProtonDB might have reports on specific versions for specific games/titles.

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This is totally right, but people with money like to point fingers and blame others. Ultimately paying for support is PR insurance.

I just received mine after waiting 3+ years actually. It is pretty sweet with waydroid and KDE connect. I'm still not daily driving it because of the lack of a maps application with navigation though.

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Yeah, I use anysoft and just deal with it. It isn't great, but at least I'm not on Google. I definitely respect your position though, just wanted to show support for anysoft.

Oh sure, I just didn't want to reference every miracast project, I suppose it is worth throwing a link for miraclecast out there though, since that seems like one of the most popular. I believe the GNOME desktop environment also had an effort to support miracast standard.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast

I just wanted to point out that fcast seems to have done their own thing when there were some efforts already in play, which is totally fine. I was just surprised I didn't see an entry in their FAQ like "How is fcast different from X?".

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Heck yeah, game industry workers are long over due for unionization. CDPR developers just had a headline in the news about unionizing after this latest wave of layoffs.

You got any more information on this? Also, is there a point to caring if it is an intellectual property rip off and run by a particularly set of people from a particular country?

It is pretty common when starting to use apps that don't depend on Google services to not get notifications. Many struggle with inconsistent and sub-optimal notification strategies such as background sync via polling or a custom notifications service and need battery optimizations turned off. UnifiedPush allows for push notifications from a server or your choosing so those other methods don't need to be used.

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I got really close to daily driving it. I had most of the stuff I wanted in waydroid on a pixel 3a. I just need to get the android notifications bridged out from android to dbus to postal and I'd make the switch

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Awesome! Can't wait to hear the official release and if it will end up being a separate release or not.

A checksum and a digital signature aren't the same thing. If you have a data block and a checksum of the data block, the data block can be modified and a new checksum can be computed to reflect the modifications. Instead of a checksum would be a digital signature using an asymmetric key. The data block would be modified but the signature of that block can't be recomputed without the key used to sign it, which is not part of the transfer.

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You could look into sxmo, something like i3 but designed for phones

I ran archlinux using the software and kernel in that repo for my surface pro 4. It worked great. Additionally I found GNOME desktop to work well, particularly with some extensions like toggles for rotation, on-screen-keyboard and other stuff you'd find on a phone. I also setup pop shell and cosmic for tiling window management, but paperWM might be better for this these days.

I should not that I had some troubles with the stylus. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not and if I used configuration tools it would sometimes help or sometimes make it worse. That said, I think my stylus is a little screwed up. There is a lot of good info in getting the stylus working and troubleshooting it, you should be able to get it working, for me it was always just a matter of time before I had to fuss with it.

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Maybe the problem is that there shouldn't be a financial interest in order to motivate or enable support.

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Possibly the source of any confusion here is when the encryption and when the compression takes place? Maybe some more details about how you are using xz and encryption would help.

As far as I can tell, xz doesn't do anything with signatures or encryption, but it does perform checksums like you stated, which is very cool and I'm glad you shared this.

Edit: I am re-reading your post above. You are compressing with xz, then encrypting, got it. So yes, if any part of the payload is tampered with, then it would be detected by the decryption, depending on the algorithm, or by the decompression because of the checksums like you said. Sorry for the confusion! You've got it all straight lol.

Oh cool! I'll give it a shot. Based on the other comment I got, I'll need to see if I can get flathub into the pureOS store.

Yeah, voting with your dollar definitely will make the change, just buy something else and struggle a bit harder, that change is right around the corner /s

Does anything else work? For example, can you boot a Debian live disk? What about a Debian install on a VM? This will help isolate the problem to internal or external of the hypervisor.

Oh yeah, I saw this on Ubuntu touch also. I'll see if I can get the flathub repo loaded in. That will certainly increase the variety in apps I can use!

Edit: for clarity, my comment is mostly directed at ublue or universal blue, which is what bluefin is based on.

I think the really value comes from the ability to easily roll new custom images and for the community to collaborate on those images to produce images that require minimal layering after the application locally.

I was talking about how the corrupt corporations are literally the reason we can't have nice things. We are on the same side here. I'm just trying to express that "financial interest" is only of interest to capitalists so they can continue to profit from the efforts of common peoples. The point was to shift the discussion from trying to interest someone financially to fostering an environment in which social interest can actually cause movement and development.

My sympathies lol. I've been a long time Linux user. Sometimes my experience can be optimistic but in this case I remember things working pretty well. Definitely post your experience here and feel free to DM if you need a hand with something.

Everything was pretty smooth after getting the right GNOME extensions installed for me. In the project wiki there is even an archlinux repo so you don't need to compile the packages from the AUR. The stylus was the only troublesome part, but like I said, I think my stylus has issues, so I don't think I can blame it on the Linux setup.

It was a good time getting the UI tuned in and customized. I had no idea so many good extensions existed for GNOME.

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There appears to be a flatpak for edmc, maybe that would be easier than using wine?

https://flathub.org/apps/io.edcd.EDMarketConnector

I can't quite remember the GPS situation. I believe I had something working, but I think it might have been something from the UT store, uNav. However I can't speak to GMaps since I do my best to avoid Google apps.

It looks like dayz is gold, rather than platinum, meaning it will take a little tinkering. https://www.protondb.com/app/221100

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The file is using org mode rather than markdown. I don't think GitHub has as good of support for org.

Just to be sure, you are getting your vanilla iso from MS?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

It has been a while since I've grabbed a recent iso, but I've always used these with no issue in virt-manager.

The problem I am alluding to is the way that "financial interests" means somebody reaping the value from others' labor. There is more than enough talent, interest and time available to develop robust solutions to hardware enablement if we stop feeding the machine what it consumes today. There is simply no reason that a manufacturer shouldn't be producing hardware with open specifications to a global market that consumes its product. Additionally there is more than enough revenue that goes to paying people that contribute less than they produce for the hardware purchased by consumers. We fix this by making it illegal to create walled gardens that make us beholden to vendors.

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You own it, like the mortgage is paid or you rent from the bank still?

The problems you describe are due to capitalism: profit motivated commerce. The open source business model has a focus that monetizes the human actions that are a value-add, such as continued development of targeted features, tech support and other things it makes sense to pay for specialized knowledge, but the tangibles are still open for all to modify, audit or use as they want.