This is what happens Larry, when you find a stranger in the alps.

Ah, ok. I guess I misunderstood.

I’m afraid I don’t have any other suggestions that haven’t already been made elsewhere in the thread.

Best of luck, and I hope you get it figured out.

Shot in the dark here…

You said that blacklisting the module brought back your device, but not the sound. Is it possible that pulse is selecting the dummy as the default interface?

Before reloading alsa and restarting pulse - If you go into pavucontrol and change the input/output devices to your sound card, does the sound start working?

If that’s the case, then you should be able to edit your pulse config to force your audio device to be default, regardless of whether or not the dummy is present.

(No idea about the dummy device, sorry)

I have sort of had enough of copy and pasting commands I find on the internet without having a good understanding of how they actually work.

One thing you could do is start trying to understand those commands.

Read the man pages or the documentation to figure out what the commands are actually doing. Once you have the “what” , you can dig deeper to get to the “why” if it isn’t obvious by that point.

After enough of that, you’ll go to copy/paste and already understand what it’s doing without needing to look it up again.

Then from there, it’s a matter of building the instinct to be able to say “I need to do X, so I’ll use commands Y and Z.”

Might be fiddler

I’m just wrapping up my first playthrough of Fallout 3. I’m not “done” but I finished the main storyline and am starting to lose steam with side quests and DLC. So I may wind up putting it down soon.

But I really enjoyed it. I’ll probably play something else for a while, then give New Vegas a try.

I haven’t played it, but my wife thought it was too difficult, also.

However, I was talking to a coworker and he mentioned that one of the DLCs really ramped up the difficulty, so she should try it without that particular DLC (sorry, I don’t recall which one).

Anyway, she turned off that DLC and found it much more playable. In fact, I’m pretty sure she went on to finish it.

So if you’re keen to give it another go, you might try it without whichever DLC it is that makes it harder.

If you go into the game’s preferences in steam, you can modify the launch command to enable logging:

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%

Then when you launch the game it should put a log file in your home dir. That will hopefully give a clue as to what the problem is.

You need protontricks and the numeric game id.

From a terminal, run

protontricks game_id winecfg

And it will pop up a config window for the proton instance for that game. From there, you can tell it to pretend to be windows 10 instead of win7. You should only need to change it once. (Well, maybe again if you change proton version, or maybe not. I’m not sure how steam manages its wineprefixes)

Maybe you’re right. I get all confused when it’s not in Möbius order.

Not to be all “Well ackchyually” but most (maybe all?) of the moisture reduction happens after the nectar has been stored in the comb, but before it has been capped with wax for storage. So the bottom two panels are out of order.

Also, if anyone cares, the term for the mouth-to-mouth passing of the nectar is trophallaxis.

Interesting bee fact -

In a hive that has been queenless for a period of time (long enough that there’s no way they can raise a replacement queen), one or more workers may develop the ability to lay unfertilized eggs.

Due to how honeybee genetics work, those unfertilized eggs can hatch into drones (males), which may then have the opportunity to mate with queens from nearby colonies.

I guess this is sort of a last ditch effort to propagate the hive’s genetic material before it fizzles out and dies. Which I think is fascinating.

I don’t have an alternative program to suggest, but there are some workarounds for using redshift.

First, in the config file, you can set the location provider to manual, then specify a lat/lon and it will use that location in its time calculations. I do this on my laptop, and it works well except for when I cross multiple timezones - things are obviously off a bit.

Second, with the caveat that I haven’t tried this, it looks like you can also manually set dawn/dusk times in the config, which sounds like what you’re after.

See man 1 redshift for more info.