How would I try to track the issue down given I don’t exactly know when the issue will appear? Is there a way to set something like a listener on the discord process and just wait for it to happen and see what else happens around that time?

I just replied to someone else below with regards to the drive checks. I could also go ask on the arch forums, or maybe in some irc chats if theres people actually in there

I dont believe its a drive failure after checking. Its a pretty new NVMe drive:

$ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Self-test has begun (NSID 0x1)
Use smartctl -X to abort test

$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Also with nvme-cli:

$ sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1
Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0n1 namespace-id:ffffffff
critical_warning			: 0 <<<<======================= Seems good!
temperature				: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
available_spare				: 100%
available_spare_threshold		: 10%
percentage_used				: 1%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
Data Units Read				: 8034527 (4.11 TB)
Data Units Written			: 70423529 (36.06 TB)
host_read_commands			: 58265590
host_write_commands			: 901798802
controller_busy_time			: 10039
power_cycles				: 340
power_on_hours				: 1500
unsafe_shutdowns			: 63
media_errors				: 0
num_err_log_entries			: 0
Warning Temperature Time		: 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time	: 0
Temperature Sensor 1			: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
Temperature Sensor 2			: 48 °C (321 K, 118 °F)
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time	: 0

As for flatpacks, I’d like to avoid such install methods if possible, at least for now. Whats weird is I don’t think I’ve come across anyone else with this issue, so I doubt its something wrong in general with the packagement process.

Oh i didnt know about this. Where did you read this, id like to see if theres more info?

My first lemmy account was on an instance called iusearchlinux.fyi then it just disappeared suddenly and without explanation (admin probably burnt out). Anyway, it was nice to be able to tell people i use arch linux without actually having to tell them. I miss that instance

It do be like that :p

Is… Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?

It seems Ive installed it through the official repositories:

$ pacman -Qm | grep "discord\|Discord"
// EMPTY OUTPUT

Ill get back to you about the drive checks, either tomorrow evening or the day after. Ive got a technical assessment for a job position tomorrow so I’ll have to look into that issue after that. :)

As I mentioned replying to @just_another_person@lemmy.world, my root partition is on an NVME which is not even 3 years old yet, and I have not had any other problems with it apart from discord, so I don’t think its a drive failure issue, but better safe rather than sorry, so if you’d be so kind as to let me know how you’d like me to test/verify its health I’d appreciate it :)

Is it possible that the read-only error occurs because the directory its trying to write to doesn’t exist (/opt/discord/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-log/src/core/ doesnt exist)? It may be a stupid question but as I said I’ve no idea how node works so consider me as having the intelligence of a rock when it comes to it

$ ls -lh /opt
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app1
drwx--x--x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 15 16:43 containerd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 discord
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app2
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 25  2025 app3
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app4
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 app5
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Mar 20  2025 texlive
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun  4 00:59 app6

$ ls -lh /opt/discord
total 216M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_100_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_200_percent.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5M Nov 25 00:11 chrome_crashpad_handler
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root  15K Nov 25 00:11 chrome-sandbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182M Nov 25 00:11 Discord
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  299 Nov 25 00:11 discord.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.9K Nov 25 00:11 discord.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10M Nov 25 00:11 icudtl.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247K Nov 25 00:11 libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.9M Nov 25 00:11 libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2M Nov 25 00:11 libGLESv2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6M Nov 25 00:11 libvk_swiftshader.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600K Nov 25 00:11 libvulkan.so.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 locales
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.8M Nov 25 00:11 resources.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333K Nov 25 00:11 snapshot_blob.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702K Nov 25 00:11 v8_context_snapshot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Nov 25 00:11 vk_swiftshader_icd.json

As for the drive, my root partition is on an NVME drive which should be fine considering its not even 3 years old.

What info does this give you? As someone more experienced, what jumps out at you when looking at this (trying to improve my knowledge while troubleshooting - 2 for the price of 1 xD)

“Why should we give them back? We managed to steal them so they were obviously not safe in your hands. No, no, we’ll keep them here for safe keeping.”

I also play a lot of eve online, and the ships engine looks a lot like the capacitor meter in the game 😁

I was so sad when i watched the last episode (it had been over for a while but i had only recently found the show and binged it). Its so good

Thats such a good way of explaining it so people understand, Ill start using that example

Edit: to clarify in case there is confusion, im not trans, just like the explanation and will use it in future

The way I understand it is that you dont need the extensions if you use brave (i dont have any of those installed and just use as strict shield settings as I can) but they will support them for as long as possible for those who also want to use the extensions. Brave seems to use a modified version of the chromium engine in their browser which includes the shields.

The only issues ive had so far are with youtube’s recent “3 strikes” message, which gets fixed by brave within a couple of days to make yt unable to detect that brave is using (or is itself) an ad blocker.

Brave Shields block ads and trackers by default, and they’re built natively in the Brave browser—no extensions required. Since Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase, they don’t rely on MV2 or MV3.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

1. Why use bottles rather than lutris? Whats their difference? Im asking because the one time I tried using bottles I dont think I managed to get it to work with whatever it was I was trying to install.
2. Ive never heard of portproton, but it looks like it does essentially the same thing as if you install through the steam client as a non-steam game using proton (?). If thats the case, why use it over any of the other options?

Thanks

Check out stremio

Honestly that sounds horrible. Women scientiss?!? Whatever will they come up with next

This seems like an easy implementation, and I can skip the variable and just directly check the timestamp from the script i guess. My question is, if I install something, say yay -S a_single_package does that also update the timestamp of the core.db file?