Somebody found the arm client! :neocat_hyper:

life is made from DNA, while chips are made from NDA

So Valve has for a while already been pushing arm64 and FEX-related stuff all over the place including in Proton. However I didn't notice, that the Proton repo literally contains build instructions for ARM64!

And I happen to have a great little target device lying around, an android handheld […]

This is the point unfortunately where this little experiment comes to an end.

Looking into proton’s sources for `lsteamclient` the issue becomes obvious. It tries to load `steamclient.so` from the linux steam client to expose the steam api to the proton app.

Because our proton/wine build is an […]

Error dialog saying “Assertion Failed” for program “C:\windows\system32\steam.exe” in line 375 of “steamclient_main.c” for Expression “!status”.

Okay! Now we have proton wrapped with the right steam runtime, should just work, right?!

Well… not so fast. Since Steam runs via FEX, I did actually build a whole multi arch image based on x64 with the necessary aarch64 libraries for FEX. If you actually […]

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I tried for a hot minute to just change the appid to the “normal” x86 steam runtime, which I had working correctly with FEX (including host arm64 libraries), hoping it would just call into proton at some point, which would work given it would try to run an aarch64 binary on an aarch64 host […]

Screenshot of a steam dialog saying “An error occurred while launching this Game: Compatibility Tool Failed”.

I picked Celeste as a pretty easy to run and well supported game. So I selected the new runtime, click Launch and…. we get an actually error dialog from Steam. “Compatibility tool failed”, not very helpful, but expected.

Browsing through steam log files […]

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So armed with this knowledge, what exactly are we trying to accomplish here?

Well, we are unfortunately stuck with running Steam through FEX until Valve either publishes an official arm64 client or at least recovery images to the unreleased SteamFrame.

But wouldn’t it be neat, if we could […]

First some background. If you have been paying attention, playing games on arm64 isn’t exactly news. Emulators like Box86 and Box64 (and its subcomponent Box32) have existed for quite some time and have been able to run x86/x64 wine just fine, while requiring an accompanying x86/x64 root FS. The […]

So Valve has for a while already been pushing arm64 and FEX-related stuff all over the place including in Proton. However I didn't notice, that the Proton repo literally contains build instructions for ARM64!

And I happen to have a great little target device lying around, an android handheld […]

Mac OS X v10.0 running on the Nintendo Wii. Amazing

/via @Rairii

bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-o...

Photo of Earth from the Moon which is made of cheese

NASA photos from the Moon are incredible

Firefox added tiling in 149? :neobot_confused: (Or more accurately a "split view" mode.)

Oh gawd, this means people are so glued to their web-browsers these days, that we will see more "window management" functionality in the browser, doesn't it... :neobot_shocked:

Cat tail as a CAT6 Ethernet cable in a MikroTik router

Anyone else using those fancy CAT6 cables? 😼

@drakulix completely agree. even feel compelled to say dito :neocat_blank:

Happy “watch companies fail to be any amount of whimsical”-day. I am getting nostalgic for the easier times, where one could laugh about a Nosolus Rift. Am I getting old or just exhausted? Both probably.

[star wars]

@somsnosa That is a lot of words to confess, that we are watching episode 1.

[Hot take? AI, FOSS, genocide mentioned]

Anyone insulting people as facists for *using* FOSS software with any AI involvement whatsoever, should've reacted with the same outrage when employers of Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazons, etc started contributing to these same projects.

"Oh you […]

Is it just me, or does anybody else feel immediately demotivated, if you get a bug report with "BUG" written in all caps in the title? I am not sure, if intended to be read this way, but to me it conveys a non-existent urgency to look at this specific report over the many others. So naturally my […]

are catgirls self-aware? now we can determine as such by administering: the purring test

a box saying "DO NOT USE BLADE TO OPEN" being opened with a dvd copy of Blade (1998)

New blog post introducing the WIP Duranium project (immutable postmarketOS), some of its major features, and explaining why some design decisions were made. :blobcatthink:

> Either the new image works, or the system falls back to the previous one automatically. No partially-applied state. No […]

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-no...

[age verification; foss; abuse]

Apparently it is time to say it again: You aren’t helping or achieving anything by squatting onto github/gitlab/irc/etc to tell people, that you think age verification is a bad idea.

1. Nobody involved thinks the laws proposed in some US states are a good idea […]

feeling vim-sical today. might forget how to exit later

[OH; trauma-adjacent; funny(?)]

In a transfem group chat: “Well somebody has to keep the therapists in business.”

Everybody starts posting “I am doing my part” memes. :neocat_googly_shocked:

i've been pretty quiet regarding work stuff lately, but finally have something to share!

here we have Qualcomm display drivers up and running, demo'd on the Ayaneo Pocket S2, but it also works on the SM8650 HDK.

This isn't relying on an existing […]

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Selfie with the sun glaring into the picture from behind through my hair. I am wearing sunglasses with little cat ears.

Enjoying the first proper day of spring :neocat_cool:
(Before the allergies come to get me.)

[unfug]

@drakulix ist Längsstreifenkaffee dann die kalorienarme Version von Querstreifenkaffee?

[unfug]

Die Existenz von Caro-Kaffee impliziert die Existenz von Quer- und Längsstreifenkaffee.