[–] 1 point 57 minutes ago

I had a lag spike situation on a steamos machine playing a game called shape of dreams when using wifi but not ethernet, and it wanted a network card driver update. Kind of a shot in the dark but you might try it.

I'm reading that there's a network stats API that addons can use https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/API:GetNetStats

Maybe there's a network performance monitor addon you could find, but I don't have suggestions there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (3 children)

    There are a ton of unknowns here, it may end up being as easy as disabling some game setting related to network optimization or ipv6 use. Most of troubleshooting is just thinking of more questions to ask!

    Are you launching the game using wine/proton/???

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

    What traceroute and mtr have told us is that ICMP echo requests (called a ping) don't get there reliably, but that can happen for multiple reasons. Maybe a server along the path doesn't feel like passing your ping along and drops it. There's a point in their machinery which blizzard doesn't want you peeking past, and other companies might have their own reasons even if the route is healthy.

    A friend says the game has two network sockets that have individual pings (latency measure this time not echo) and you can see them by hovering your mouse over the indicator. Which is it that's misbehaving?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (7 children)

    If you can traceroute to some unrelated cloudflare dns server like 1.1.1.1, then the problem seems likely to be outside your machine, outside your home network, and then we scrutinize what hop it's failing at to see if we can rule things out further. (I'm making assumptions obviously, this is just how I'd think about it.)

    Maybe that's your ISP, or something in a data center with a hostname related to wow itself?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (9 children)

    SteamOS is an immutable OS so many changes will be overwritten at your next update, but you can always pull a tool down temporarily, or keep a script saved on your desktop!

    Pop the hood open

    sudo steamos-readonly disable
    Pacman is a package manager you'll have on steamos/arch. Refresh pacman keys and resync database.
    sudo pacman-key --init

    sudo pacman-key --populate

    sudo pacman -Syy
    Install the tool you want (traceroute) sudo pacman -S traceroute
    Close it up again until your next change
    sudo steamos-readonly enable

    Once you're in a position to use traceroute you can just follow it with an IP or a domain.

    traceroute 1.1.1.1

    It will check each step (hop) along the networking path path between you and that target with details like the round trip time a message took to go there and back to you. Look for a hop where the latency gets bad and stays that way for the rest if the hops like a clog in a pipe. If you don't see that you'll probably want to examine with some other tools like mtr that go into more depth.
    https://man.archlinux.org/man/mtr.8.en

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  • [–] 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Because there are the easy to measure Yandex web scraper bots, and the difficult to measure social manipulation bots. The former dropped noticeably.

    It may also be that the latter dipped, but thats more difficult to say, and it would behoove a manipulative political entity to spread such operations to as many countries as possible so that they appear more organic and grassroot.

    Imagine being a social media company with a bot problem though, how honest would you be? There are a lot of groups with motive to mislead in this scenario, so to me it makes sense that we see conflicting accounts regardless of what the truth is.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's a good idea, and I think if you fail to herd them it will be related to where they placed their larder.

    In Earthworm Ecology, edited by renowned entomologist Clive Edwards, researcher James P. Curry notes, “Large quantities of mutilated earthworms are stored in caches within a mole fortress as future food.” One study found 470 live earthworms in a single chamber. This amounted to nearly 2 pounds, of worms. A study of moles in Britain found a single mole consumes approximately 39 to 70 pounds of earthworms annually.

    I wonder if voles are thieves, and a population boom in a mole tunnel system results in the mole starving?

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