Hello all, so recently I been interested in having a custom avatar for my Lemmy account and I want to ask some artist to do it, but I've never done it before, can someone please guide me in how to do it and point me where to go?

Thank you. :3

Hello Lemmy, so I've been using Playstation basically all my life but this last years I've using more Steam than Playstation, so I stopped using my Playstation account.

In December from the last year, I received a strange email from Playstation telling me that I changed my account's password, I really didn't care expecting to be phishing (specially due to the emails use for Sony for this kind of emails), but one day I logged into my console and for my surprise I got a lot of recent hours in some games that I never played before, and no, I don't share this account with anybody nor my console.

So I changed my password, my email, and reset my 2FA, kicked all the connected devices and I expected that that's it, but no, one day after that I check my profile and again, I got recent hours in games that I have never even played, so I repeated this but this time I contacted Playstation, and in the first instance you need to talk with an AI until the AI decide your case need to escalate to an human, and after that the human just repeat the same over and over again, they basically tell you: "Oh man, that's too bad. All I can do for you is change your email and send you a link on how to improve your digital security" and instantly disconnect the chat, having you to wait for over 40 minutes to just send you a link and then cutting off the chat.

I've playing this cat and mouse game with this intruder and with Playstation support and nothing seem to change, no matter what I change they always access my account, and Playstation doesn't seem to care at all.

I really don't care much about that account since I'm now an PC player, but man, having somebody accessing your account to play their games feels like somebody entering your home just to use the bathroom without flushing, and Sony being the landlord who lends them the key.

So I'm here just asking if somebody know some email to contact Sony or somebody with more authority than the useless chat support agent.

Edit: I wanted to add, that all of this is really odd. Why if they can basically bypass all the security of my account they haven't changed the email account to theirs? Why Playstation never notify me if they logged into my account, but it does when I do? Why use my account to play shitty F2P games instead of creating their own account? And why if Playstation security is so easily to bypass to the point of gaining full access to an account with 2FA they just keep abusing my account instead of others? I mean, I haven't read of anybody else going through this.

In my work there are 3 guys who use your typical doom-scrolling apps, and they are basically what their feed show them. One of them is a fan of X thing, and their feed is constantly showing them how good is X thing and how bad is Y and Z, the algorithm would NEVER show them the contrary because they'll stop using the app, so they keep being fed with the same thoughts although they might be wrong, they might know that they are wrong but there's enough "evidence" (an infinite amount of short videos telling them what they wanna hear), and is exactly the same with each one of them, The most curious thing is, although as human beings we have our own personality, each one of them tends to "adapt" their personality to mimic what the stereotypical Tiktok guy says.

In my country recently were the presidential elections, and I found it specially funny because people who never in their lives talk about politics, now wear a shirt of their favorite political party, but is specially funny when they can't argue for themselves why they choose to prefer that political party, instead they show you an image from Tiktok where say that X o Y political party is bad because of W or Z.

Edit: Just read rule 3 after posting (oof). I don't want to specifically talk about politics anyways, that were one example.

I'm a recurrent monosodium glutamate (I got to use this name since this is not an +18 community) user, and each time I check the "Hot" or "Popular" pages there are like 10 new artists that I never heard about that draw awesome, so what I usually do is that I download the image and in case I didn't remember the artists name I use fuzzy search to search the image. I have tried using the remonosodium glutamate script, but its subscription function is local (obviously, is a script, it doesn't depend on monosodium glutamate servers) but I use more than 1 device so this is not the optimal.

The best thing would be that monosodium glutamate had some kind of suscription function built-in, so it doesn't depend on the script, so for this I tried FurAffinity but not all the artist that are on monosodium glutamate are there.

Finally, I tried creating an Excel with artists name, but I want to see a image to remember the artists style, and at least OnlyOffice Excel doesn't support this.

My bad if this isn't the correct place to post this, but I couldn't t find another community, and I didn't find any rule in this community that says that text-only posts are not allowed.

What title say, and I couldn't find a option in the settings to hide it or disable it.

Hey,

I currently have two monitors with the same specs, but I usually use the one on the left for playing and the one on the right for checking guides. I don't always use the right-hand monitor; sometimes it just sits there switched on, but I don't use it.

Is there a way to lock or dim my secondary screen when it's not in use, so that I don't have to turn it off manually? Ideally, if my cursor is focused on the left monitor and the right monitor hasn't received any input for a while, it would turn off or display an image.

Thank you.

When I use my GPS app or I want to use my Bluetooth headphones I need to turn on those services, but only in those scenarios, once I'm done using them I don't want them to be always on, is there a way to automatically turn them off is they are not being used?

I tried Tasker but the "Turn off Bluetooth if not being used" profile wasn't working at all.

I've been considering buying a Steam Deck but already having a decent PC I don't know if it's worth upgrading my PC or buying a Steam Deck.

I have a mid-range PC that runs any game nowadays, but I'm used to playing on console and I'm really more into programming and working on my PC, and what I like about the Steam Deck is that I just take it wherever I want to use it and I have everything ready to play, unlike a PC where for example, for emulated games I would need to look for a controller.

I guess I will buy the Steam Deck, but there are two things that concern me:

1. How can I add pirated games to my Steam library? Honestly I'd be lazy to have to go into desktop mode every time I want to run a game. Is there a way to add it directly to my Steam library? I understand that Heroic (Epic Games and GOG Launcher for Linux) has an option to add the games automatically to the Steam Deck library, adding my pirated games there would add them to Steam or is there a similar method to do that?

2. What is the emulation situation in the Steam Deck? I guess the Steam Deck is able to run almost any Switch game and some PS3 games, but I remember there was an emulator launcher specifically designed for the Steam Deck, does anyone know which one it is and if it is possible to open it directly from Steam?

I've been pirating on Linux with Bottles for years and I've never had any problems, I would consider myself an "experienced user" because I always solved my problems on my own but lately I can't run any pirated game on Wine with Bottles.

To start with, I first downloaded Terraria and the game wouldn't open, so I ran the game with the terminal and got this error:

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely
002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L "C:\windowsystem32\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
0084:err:hid:udev_bus_init UDEV monitor creation failed
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specifi
ed file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: Internal error. 

Investigating I simply realized that it is a generic error, so I started to install the dependencies of the game (from the Redist directory) and they do not open either, I get the same error, literally no executable opens through Bottles, and the funny thing is that I tried everything and nothing changes.

I already tried to change the prefixes, disable GPU acceleration, remove the prefix and create another one (that is, the Bottle) and obviously Bottles has permission to write and read the directory where the games are, so I really don't know what could be causing the problem but it's pretty fucked up.

The curious thing here, is that I have a Bottle where I have EA Play and Battlefield V, and the game opens perfectly, but the Terraria executable does not. I wonder if it is simply some misconfiguration of my system, or the Bottles devs made some change that affects running executables, and I doubt it is the fault of the games being pirated because they are DRM-free games, such as Terraria.

Edit: Nope, reinstalling Bottles did nothing.

After some time of practicing PyQt I found out about Kivy, as a beginner which one can be considered with an "easier" syntax to learn? After several days of practicing PyQt I feel I would be throwing away my learning for Kivy.

PyQt is not that complex really but what I hate with all my heart is using Qt Designer and then exporting that to a .py file, I really don't like the way it formats the text, but that's just a personal detail. I know I can perfectly do it manually but all the tutorials and I mean ALL of them always do it in that way.

I want to clarify that I'm interested in Android application development, that's really a strong point for me of Kivy.

I've been learning Python by myself for about 3 years now and I can say that I know quite a lot but I don't really feel confident in my own programming skills and always after a while of practicing or reviewing I end up quitting because I feel exactly this.

I don't know how to explain it, but I really feel like I'm in a cycle repeating the same noob exercises over and over again.

For example, lately I have been practicing a lot PyQt but I really feel that I am wasting time when I don't learn a new concept or I don't memorize something and I need to look at my notes to remember how to do it, and also that practicing with online courses, especially with Youtube is often a challenge because the authors do things differently and I get confused by that. And when I want to learn something new the amount of information overwhelms me and I feel tired because of that.

As a Linux user I know that what I just said is stupid, because for example it is impossible to learn all the commands in the world, you just really learn the ones you use most regularly but in programming I feel that for example asking ChatGPT (or any ChatBot) counts as cheating for some reason, I don't know how to explain it.

I really consider this probably a mentality problem more than a skill problem because honestly even though I know I can I don't feel sure how to program, many times I even doubt the name of my variables or my functions.

Thanks for reading my silly post!

I downloaded the GOG version (from a secure site) and it runs fine, my PC can handle it and it runs perfectly on medium at a stable 60fps, but sometimes when I play the game it seems "slow", I can't really describe it but it's like the game runs fine at first and then drops below 20fps and when I restart the game it runs fine again.

I know it sounds like the cryptominer from 1337x, but I didn't download from there and the GPU and CPU usage is exactly the same.

The game is installed on an SSD.

I'm running Bottles with wine-ge-proton8-13, dxvk-2.2, vkd3d-proton-2.9 and the problem persists in both dx and vulkan.