loathsome dongeater

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Cake day: May 14th, 2020

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  • The gist is this:

    • I was using a terminal file manager called nnn
    • You can make bulk selections in it using the space key
    • However, unlike a graphical file manager, selections across directories persist. Like if you select some things in dir1, then traverse to dir1/.. and select stuff there, the selections in dir1 will persist. In hindsight this sounds like an antifeature.
    • Due to frantic key presses I accidentally traversed to /home and selected /home/name
    • Then I traversed to the actual directory where I wanted to make the selections, did that and deleted the selections
    • It was unknown to me that /home/name was also selected
    • nnn just executes shell commands to perform deletions. In my shell profile rm is aliased to rm -iv so the output conveyed to me what was going on (my home directory was being nuked)
    • I ctrl+c’d the operation and restored my $HOME from the snapshot



  • So I tried to do this today and the game wouldn’t launch. Logs show that steamapi_init() failed so it looks like it is because of the steam emulator the game uses. I looked around and apparently one could use the WINEDLLOVERRIDES variable to make proton use the dll that the game provided rather than something that Steam has. (Like setting it to steamapi_64=n.) But even that did not work. Have you any experience with this?