u/Dodgy_Past

I wanted to add my nas storage to my batocera by symlinking to the nas folders. This is a write up for anyone else who thinks this would be useful for them.

First of all this is only necessary if you are using non-cachy and valve protons such as ge.

Found out that proton plus supports commands so I thought it would be cool if I could make yay update my proton versions. This means that if you've set global compatibility or a game's compatibility to a 'latest' version in steam updating your system will update the proton you are using.

fish

funcsave yayfishfunction yay --wraps yay
    command yay $argv
    and if test (count $argv) -eq 0; or string match -qr -- '^-S(yy?)?u' $argv[1]
        protonplus update all
    end
end
funcsave yay

https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1ucf9vx/fsr_411_int8_has_leaked_through_proton/

I tried the current 4.0 version and the performance hit was extreme. Looking forward to testing this.

[System Agnostic]

Self-hosting V14 (build 364) on a Debian VM in Bangkok, AIS fibre. For weeks now Browse Packages and Update All just die with "TypeError: terminated" after about 30 seconds. Every single time.

The weird part is everything else works fine. License check is fine, the version checker happily tells me 14.364 is out, I can paste a manifest URL into Install Module and it installs no problem, and I just pulled the 141MB update zip from r2.foundryvtt.com at full speed. It's literally just the package catalog call that dies.

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole with mtr and curl timings. Short version: Bangkok to their server in Oregon is ~210ms RTT with some genuine packet loss on the trans-Pacific hop, and I think the catalog response is just too big to make it through before whatever timeout Foundry has set (~20-30s) kills it. Small requests sneak through fine, the big one doesn't. Notably their release downloads come off Cloudflare R2 which has edges out here, which is presumably why a 141MB zip works while a few MB of JSON doesn't.

If I bring up a WireGuard tunnel to a US exit, Browse Packages works instantly. Which to me rules out my ISP being broken, since the tunnel goes over the exact same ISP.

Contacted support, they were friendly but basically said it's probably backbone-level stuff outside their control, mentioned they'd seen similar regional clusters before (rural Italy apparently), and suggested trying again in a week. Fair enough from their side I guess, but it's been like this for weeks and the VPN test makes me fairly confident it's not going to fix itself.

So:

1. Anyone else in Thailand or SEA generally seeing this? Trying to work out if it's just me or a regional thing they can't see because there aren't many of us.
2. Any workaround better than "VPN on, update, VPN off"? That works but it's annoying.

I just tried the FSR 4 work around in the latest cachy OS proton and my framerate in Forza Horizon 6 at 4k dropped from 70FPS for FSR 3.15 to 36FPS for FSR 4.03

Edit: This is with a 7600M XT GPU which is just a bit more powerful than the one in the steam machine, both trials were at ultra performance.

Just to report that I tried this on a mini PC with a 7600M XT GPU on Bazzite and it had no problems hitting more than 60 FPS at 1080p, medium settings and FSR 3.

Contacted support and they kept promising to provide me with a valid tracking number then closing my dispute without giving me any information and telling me that I have to contact the courier company. Of course the courier company cannot help me without a tracking number. Eventually a senior agent admits that they cannot get the local courier tracking number after 4 previous conversations that promised me they would email me the tracking number.

Such an absolute shit show. They demand that you contact the local courier company but cannot give you the necessary information.

I wrote an automation in home assistant ( with the help of AI ) that detects the temperatures of my drives and turns on the room's AC when the drives get too hot.

This is integrated into my current setup based on prescence sensing that usually turn off the ac if no one is home and turns on the ac when people come back.