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  • They just drinking some of the residual koolaid that team Trump was pouring into social media to convince left leaning voters, who were never going to vote for him, to throw their votes away.

    It’s the same tactic they used in 2016 to target black people. They simply put out a lot of fake posts from fake “black people” creating the illusion of a movement of people who refused to vote for Hillary.

    The Great Hack is a documentary that covers the Cambridge Analytica scandal and shows them talking about using this exact same tactic in other elections. The former employee said it was like injecting poison into the veins of social media.

    The person you’re responding to probably doesn’t even realize that they’re still regurgitating the same nonsense because they think they’re living in a world full of other people who agree with them. But that world is artificial and was created to manipulate them.






  • There’s an equally rabid and irrational type of person who identifies as being left of center and they, like their mirror image, would rather burn the whole world down than to compromise.

    We have to learn to recognize these toxic people for what they are, an impediment. Just because they’re using left-wing memes instead of right-wing memes doesn’t mean that they’re our ally.

    Populist movements require everyone, this necessarily means that we have to reach the people who’re not the swastika flying white supremacists and the first step is to recognize that most voters are not the extremists and labeling everyone that voted for Trump as a ‘Nazi’ is helping drive division and plays into the hands of the elites that seek to divide us.


  • Dude, the number of times I’ve resorted to a reinstall are innumerable. You know a bit more than you did yesterday and that isn’t nothing.

    If you want to try a new project that’ll need tinkering with (but won’t break your existing install) look at gamescope.

    Currently it’s the only way to get HDR and variable refresh rate to work. It’s what Valve made to get those features into the Steamdeck.

    You just run it with

    gamescope -- %command%
    

    In your steam launch options. You’ll need to look up the options (otherwise it defaults to 720p@60hz). Ex:

    gamescope -w 2160 -- %command%
    

    For 4k. There’s a switch for HDR too but I don’t remember it without looking it up. You can use gamescope to enable FSR in any game, it can apply reshade shaders (so, things like anti aliasing in games that don’t have it natively).

    Other than that, any issues you have with a particular game can usually be solved by looking at protondb.com

    Keep using the GE-Proton builds of proton for best results.

    Have fun 🤓


  • Yeah, you have Vulkan and Mesa and the GPU drivers are in the kernel. That’s the whole stack (along with Proton).

    Before reinstalling completely, run a full system upgrade, I took this from system76s support page:

    sudo apt update
    # configure any packages partially setup 
    sudo dpkg --configure -a 
    # fix any missing package dependency 
    sudo apt install -f 
    # upgrade all packages and dependencies to newest in release 
    sudo apt full-upgrade 
    # make sure the `pop-desktop` meta package is installed 
    sudo apt install pop-desktop
    

    You’re also likely using some flatpak applications, so:

    flatpak update
    

    Then reboot.

    They want you to reinstall because walking you through a fresh install is just more time efficient for their support staff than trying to troubleshoot system configuration problems (imagine the possible things a random user could change x.x).



  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

    Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.

    This book was published in 1997



  • I just noticed my reply from my phone didn’t go through x.x

    This seems a lot like you’re missing some 32bit libraries. There isn’t a /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i386.json listed in the vulkan logs.

    I have no idea how they’d be named in PopOS, but I’d look into vulkan first. You may have the vulkan-radeon 64bit drivers , but not the 32bit. Wine needs the 32bit libraries for the time being.

    Check

    dpkg -l | grep vulkan
    

    (or post all of dkpg -l if it isn’t too long)

    to see if you have the i386 version of the vulkan radeon drivers (for reference, in arch this is lib32-vulkan-radeon, possibly the same in PopOS)

    If not install them (apt search vulkan and look for something with vulkan, radeon and i386 in the file name)