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  • Vulkan is just the API interface to your graphics hardware. It’s not directly involved with any functionality of the Battle.net launcher in any way.

    If the launcher is having issues, then it has to do with whatever is running that launcher. Can you explain more about how you have it running? Is it running under Proton/Lutris/Heroic? What are the actual issues you’re seeing? Any error messages?

    The entire point of these Wine managers is that you don’t need to fiddle with the underlying Vulkan settings. The configurations for each prefix do this for you, and you tweak the settings there. You don’t want to make global changes to your Vulkan configs as you are describing unless there is a defined issue with your system as a whole, which it sounds like there is not. Only with this one program.









  • An e-reader, so it’s unlikely to be of much use.

    Can it run Linux? Probably already does.

    Does that mean it can run a full desktop? Nope.

    It has a 533MHz CPU and 256MB of RAM, so it can run a stripped down kernel and do the basics, but that’s about it. Even if you got XFce running, your not going to be running a browser or any kind of games. That’s even before you think about how you’d run the display driver.






  • TLDR: Oven at 275, or microwave with a wet paper towel over it.

    Reheating baked goods is tricky. If the item in question has a fair amount of sugar, and you heat it too long, it will caramelize and dehydrate it. Heating it at a low temp for a short amount of time generally avoids that, and makes it taste more fresh.

    Microwaves are quick but work by jostling water and will evaporate it at a certain point. Putting a LIGHTLY dampened paper towel over an item (swipe it under a running faucet and squeeze the excess out so it’s uniformly covered) helps to gently “steam” whatever is under it in a microwave, circulating humidified air to replace some of what is lost.

    If you generally microwave dry items, you want a wet paper towel or lid over it. Game changer for things like rice, baked goods, or cooked meats to make them not taste “microwave weird”.