This may or may not help. But I’ll give you the basic steps using wine only and no Proton magic to run a game from disk:

• Create an empty folder to be your wineprefix (emulated system folder) or use the default.
• run WINEPREFIX=[full path to new folder] winecfg command in terminal (just winecfg if you will use the default prefix).
• mount your CD so that you can see it in your file browser. (Might be simply clicking that device in the file browser when a CD is in the drive bay)
• In the winecfg set drive D: to point to the folder where you mounted the CD.
• run the CD installer with wine… e.g WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine /media/something/cdrom1/setup.exe, install the game to C:
• run the game with WINE on the same prefix and with the CD inserted and mounted (if there are resources on the CD or basic DRM) e.g. WINEPREFIX=/some/path wine '/some/path/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Cool Game/coolgame.exe
• if that works, you might be able to create an image of the disc and mount that instead of the physical CD, you’d then rerun winecfg and set D: to the correct folder where the disk image is mounted.

That is one angry burrito.

Mamdani’s Election Night Retrospective [Youtube]

Ohhh sounds sweet! I’ll definitely want to watch it pass through sometime once it’s running!

I’m still not sure if it connects to the Polar Express at Matheson or whether the train will get to Cochrane.

Earlier this year I protested outside a Tesla dealership, and there were more Cybertrucks coming into the dealership on flatbeds, than there were visiting or passing on their own power.

Can you filter keywords to block very specific things you don’t want to see? If a post matches those words you can make it so that post won’t show up at all.

Issue is of false triggers, you won’t be able to see what got missed. Examples: mastodon would filter out someone’s post about someone being a dick to the cashier at the grocery store if the keyword is ‘dick’, and plenty of false triggers for ‘fuck’. So filter out words like ‘penis’ and ‘sex’ instead.

As soon as I read his trademark word I knew it was Doctorow, awesome! I’ll give this a full listen sometime later.

Have never even really noticed them in west coast Canada’s 4L milk jugs (215 mL/7.25 oz more than a gallon). I’m in bagged milk land for the holidays, so I can’t check right now.

I prefer FOSS over Proprietary software for my personal life. I look for FOSS alternatives first and only if it is extremely unsuitable or missing crucial features I’ll go for the non-FOSS versions.

For work, since other people are paying me to use proprietary software, I will use whatever. In a professional capacity I am publicly searchable anyway.

Elon Musk is not qualified to open his own damn mouth on any topic of authority.

That’s where I think Bazzite really shines… I didn’t need the terminal to setup all of the normal stuff at all, and new apps I discovered right from the start menu so I didn’t need to go far at all.

The exit provisions are new, for sure.

How about construction vehicles with a cute little indication of their status… some suggestions:

“tired” becomes a little tornado cloud coming out from the bubble.

Idle is zzzs coming from the bubble

You could use these kinds of marks, as inspiration.

How much money is coming in every month (salary + other income)? How much money is going out (bills, food, subscriptions, other recurring expenses)? How much are you putting towards short and long term savings each month?

Once you’ve set aside those categories, the remainder is what you can spend without worrying about needing to take away from your more essential obligations.

I’m a miser, so I’d think hard about whether I really need a MacBook. If I felt I’d make do with the PCs I had, and wouldn’t open the Macbook much then it’s not worth, but if it would be my daily driver then it would be. Divide the price by the number of hours you’d use it. And then just spend less discretionally for a couple months until you build up the buffer again.

It is kinda verging on the theme of this frequently memed comic though:

Maybe in gaming is where we will see it first, before other software and webapps.

If the DRAM shortage is long and protracted, perhaps more dumb appliances will make their return, but that’s just a pipe dream of mine.

https://nowtoronto.com/news/toronto-reporter-premier-ford-press-conference/

Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, Canada, the provincial progressive conservative party, one week ago (19 Dec 2025), and the tweet is from a career CityNews reporter, not just a Xitter rando.

Can you cite your source for

TransLink ridership is still down… where it was supposed to be a decade ago.

I’m curious what the ridership projections/goals were from 10 years ago, even if we are back at 2016 levels of ridership today, as seen here:

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/data-and-information/accountability-centre/ridership#historic-ridership-trend

Remote work definitely changed commuting patterns drastically in cities, so it’s debatable how well pre- and post-pandemic stats can be compared.

The Base, read as “al-Qaeda” in Standard Arabic with similar aims as expressed by their founder?

I have lots of compassion for people without a roof over their heads, and I agree there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, and we shouldn’t just use this program to move people into a prison or cattle pen away from public view.

And while I support and advocate for tackling the precursors to both addiction and homelessness (affordable homes, secure food supply, safe drug supply, proper care, up-skilling), there’s a certain level where those things won’t work well anymore and you have to move to treat before things get even worse for them. How can one navigate living on their own if they are on the street bent over from the fent? A program shouldn’t treat every homeless person in the same way as an addict, but an individual in the bent over situation needs treatment that they cannot easily obtain on their own, and would make sense to put them in involuntary treatment until they can make their own decisions uninfluenced by drugs.