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I’m winnyace, or winny for short. Welcome to my blog! Here, I talk about things that interest me or that I want to share, which are mainly video games and computers.

Rambles: Long time no see.

Yo! Long time no see. I have began university, at computer science. Things have been mixed, but mostly well. I kinda just want to do a post to say that I’m here and I want to do stuff here. Not sure what, but I know want to do stuff. I wanna try to do blog posts that talk about random stuff, either in my life or online that I have an interest in and that sparked my own curiosity....

April 5, 2024 Â· 2 min

Fixing a new bug that causes TF2 to crash on startup on Linux.

Hi! I like playing TF2. It’s a fun game, even if Valve doesn’t really give a shit about it. Problem is that I haven’t played in quite some time and I wanted to play it recently. Sadly, I couldn’t due to a new update that introduced a bug, I think. I would tell you more if I knew more. All I know is the fix for this issue, that I found on ProtonDB’s page for TF2....

September 5, 2023 Â· 2 min

Let's try to talk some personal matters

Hi! Well, some people, if there is someone reading this blog, knows that I’ve posted something similar to this a few months ago. I’ve removed that post due to some trolls coming on a Discord server I was in. They saw my blog and that post and began to do what a troll does best: troll. I’m going to hope something like that doesn’t happen again. I know this isn’t the usual stuff I talk about here, but it’s my blog and I will just talk about whatever interests me at the time....

August 21, 2023 Â· 4 min

What is, in my opinion, the reason why Linux isn't popular for normal desktop use?

Hi! For as long as I’ve used Linux, it wasn’t super popular with mainstream desktop usage, even amongst people that I consider to be nerdy or knowledgeable in this topic. I’ve tried many times to bring people over, oftentimes being met with failure. If you don’t mind a confession, I used to think that many people who didn’t want even try Linux were just… dumb. Lazy and dumb people, blinded by Windows’s and MacOS’s marketing....

July 13, 2023 Â· 4 min

Some changes to my configuration

Hi! I’ve realized that, since my last configuration post, things have changed, quite a bit. I’d like to talk about them and some of the things that I still haven’t ironed out yet. Let’s begin! First, my desktop environment: for a long time, I’ve used XFCE4 as my main DE. I’ve tried window managers like stock Openbox before, or desktop environments like GNOME or Cinnamon, but currently, KDE Plasma is the destkop environment I use....

March 17, 2023 Â· 4 min

A little story of an old laptop and Linux

Hi! Happy New Year! Today, I bring you a little story. It’s a bit of a sad one, at least for me, but I think one that would be interesting. Let’s begin! Last week, I got quite sick. It wasn’t anything too bad, but it was enough to make me not able to go to school and not being able to go to school means that I had a lot of free time on my hands and I had to do something with it....

January 24, 2023 Â· 5 min

SteelSeries Rival 3: Linux config mini-guide

Hi! I’ve purchased recently a new mouse: a SteelSeries Rival 3. I had a Logitech G102 mouse before, but it sadly broke. Setting it up was a bit of a challenge, however. I want to show you today how to set it up using two programs: a CLI one for general configuration and a GUI one for the lighting on it. I’m doing this post mainly as a reference for setting up most functions of the mice as of November 2022, using Linux native software....

November 30, 2022 Â· 4 min

osu! improvement week end

Hi! I come forward to you today with the sad news that I sadly didn’t get the Asymmetry score this week. In fact, I’m unsatisfied with what I did this week, so I will have a retrospective around this whole thing instead for the end. It felt fitting. I should, however, at least post what I managed to get in terms of the score, which is a slight improvement over the previous score....

September 4, 2022 Â· 3 min

osu! improvement week 6

Hi! This week is a bit disappointing due to serval reasons, but I think it’s time to do some retrospective and bring some news to this series. I will present the scores, first off, in no chronological order. Spoiler alert: only 2 FCs this time. Most scores will be passes. First up is a score that I wanted since week 3&4: Futari no Kimochi no Honto no Himitsu DT FC:...

August 28, 2022 Â· 3 min

My configuration and stuff

A few months ago, I put my configuration files in a GitHub repo, something I should have done as soon as I learnt how Git works, but alas. Today, I’m going to tell you why things are the way they’re there and also I hope to give some opinions on some things related to configuration. Let’s begin! Before I go into them, I want to get out some basic things out of the way....

August 22, 2022 Â· 10 min