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Cake day: June 29th, 2026

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  • First time I ever got paid for tech support, my mom’s coworker came over with a laptop with wifi that refused to work. He was clever enough that he had tried reinstalling drivers and all sorts of stuff. He was so frustrated he gave into my mom’s suggestion that maybe her 12 year old son could help.

    Windows was still booting up when I found the hardware switch for the wifi on the side of the laptop.

    The guy looked so defeated, I couldn’t even laugh or smile about it at the time. He was literal head in hands, practically in tears, and then he peeled off a $20 without looking at me.

    So don’t feel bad, this has been happening to the best of us for decades.


  • Second protontricks.

    Also, when you open random exes with proton tricks, it will give you a list of existing proton instances. If you have a decent steam library already using proton, it’s going to be a list of installed games. If a game on there uses the dll that you need, you can just pick that game and you don’t need to setup anything, it already is.

    I asked Google for a list of games that use directx9c, and it gave me Fallout: New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Portal (early builds/legacy render paths), Left 4 Dead 2, and Mirror’s Edge. L4d2 is free I think, so you can just install this game then run your game through that proton instance. Zero headache.

    This probably has some hidden caveat I’m not aware of, I’m just trying to play games.

















  • Boycotts don’t stop EA money. They have superbowl ad money. The market of consumers that really just don’t give a shit about this is way too large, and they will go with what’s advertised to them constantly.

    I’m not saying don’t boycott them. I have for decades. I’ve preached that for decades. It doesn’t work, the AAA dev is going to still have the main stage during every gaming convention and there will still be some weird ass overnight line to be the first one to buy corporate slop game 2026.