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HL3 is going to be launched with Valve’s brain chip.

They don’t even have to make the game. The chip will convince you that you have already played the game and it’s the best game ever.

“Yes honey, I’m coming. Just one more thing to compile in my head”

Segmentation fault

Agreed. OP should just backup their Linux home directory (Everything inside ~/) and do a fresh install. Your Linux install will thank you for that.

The cause of death was clear, PSU fan died, killed itself from heat.

PSU: “Release…me…from this mockery called life”

In my university (where we used proxy), we had a saying “it’s always DNS proxy”

That is a good point. But I remember launching the application from the terminal where I explicitly set the env variables as null. Still it didn’t work.

Agree.

However, I always have those “trivial” conditions be explicitly set. Usually, when the device is unplugged correctly, your primary display will be automatically be turned on. However, in very weird scenarios (incorrect voltage signals, loose wire, etc), it’s possible that the explicit else condition will be triggered.

What about the condition that when the external display is disconnected, the main display should be reenabled?

You can have a perfect distro on a USB which boots into Linux automatically when inserted into your PC and it preserves all your files and favorites. Still it will hardly increase the market share by 1 or 2%. It’s because a super minority of people will bother to get the USB drive.

The core issue we have to understand is “availability of preinstalled Linux on PCs in brick and mortar shops”. Till this is solved, we won’t get market share. The only reason people are using Linux on their SteamDeck is availability.

My brother in Christ, do you think an average person knows what BIOS/boot menu are?

Nooooo. If you do that, you won’t be paying for Teams Premium which has built in support for screen recording. Think of the revenue lost 😭😭

Edit: I should add /s incase people think I’m a Microsoft shill

Copilot: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

As per the article

on my own network a whopping 66.6% of all traffic is blocked

I stated it’s actually 66.6% DNS requests being blocked, not the raw bandwidth utilization. Raw bandwidth savings (by not downloading the non-zero ads) would be much lesser.

Can’t we be nicer on the internet?

Correct. The payload of DNS requests is tiny compared to, say requesting a webpage. So there might not be a huge decrease of bandwidth usage reduction. However, having 66.6% less DNS requests is still a win. The router/gateway doesn’t have to work that hard because of the dropped requests.

Issue resolved!

It was swhkd. Thank you very much for your insight and extremely detailed response!

$ ls -l $(which swhkd)
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2583192 Mar 10 17:16 /usr/bin/swhkd

Since we know what’s causing it, can you make a “guesstimate” of what it’s doing? Why are other applications are getting infected by it? And why is a keybind manager affecting permissions?

I will raise an issue on their github. The project is already looking for maintainers.

How do you open the shell inside sway? Keyboard binding from sway config? Launcher? Which terminal? Do any of the involved programs have setuid root bit set (looks like rws instead of x in ls -l output)?

I think you may have just pointed me to the correct direction.

My keybinds setup is a bit weird. I’m using swhkd instead of sway’s built in keybinds. swhkd is a setuid binary (https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd?tab=readme-ov-file#running) which might be causing the issue. I’ll quickly disable swhkd and check if the issue is resolved. Will keep you posted.

$ which sway
/usr/bin/sway

$ sway --version
sway version 1.9

$ file $(which sway)
/usr/bin/sway: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=70fe358f7e410f618ad8a9ce0e573ed6826b2e75, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

$ ls -l $(which sway)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 600352 Apr  1  2024 /usr/bin/sway

id pre and post login

uid=1000(xavier666) gid=1000(xavier666) groups=1000(xavier666),0(root)
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uid=1000(xavier666) gid=1000(xavier666) groups=1000(xavier666),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),120(lpadmin),132(lxd),133(sambashare)

A funny thing; I think this has nothing to do with gdm. I have gdm disabled now and launching sway directly from the terminal and the issue still persists.

The problem goes away (xavier666 becomes part of sudo like expected) when I type exec su - xavier666 for that terminal session only. If I open a new terminal, it problem reappears. I’ll just in case check if zsh/omyzsh is doing something funny.

I was experimenting. This might be helpful (https://lemm.ee/post/62662283/20097388)