Hi all, Sony loves these data collection messages at the beginning of their games. They don’t even give you the option to opt-out. It is mandatory and is either “Full data” or “limited”. I don’t want to give them either. Is there a straight forward way to do this? Thanks in advance.
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dm9pZCAq@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y
firejail --noprofile --net=none -- wine ...DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The three dots are what? The path to the .exe file? I tried that and it broke the game. It was complaining about some dx12 something. Also, I tried the firetool app, but it doesn't have anywhere that shows the blocked apps/files. You just have to trust it.
dm9pZCAq@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
yes, ... is path to .exe, and yes I also has similar problems with some games with default wine
but for gaming I use lutris with proton, and using firejail from lutris has better results for me (almost all games works without issues)
[SomeGame] > Configure > System options > Command prefix >
firejail --noprofile --net=none --DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Is there anything after the two dashes in the
firejail --noprofile --net=none --?dm9pZCAq@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
in lutris no, it will automatically launch as
${COMMAND_PREFIX} ${WINE} ${EXECUTABLE}DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Awesome, thank you so much. Do you know what the equivalent is in Heroic games launcher? They have so many options there, wrapper command, environment variables, scripts and some others. I have games there, too.
dm9pZCAq@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
I've never used the Heroic launcher, but I think the "wrapper command" is what you need
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Thank you. I like Heroic better because of the layout. It has all stores on one screen, unlike lutris. The wrapper is asking me to put the "path" in quotes. Oh well, I I'll have to get used to Lutris.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Easier than...?
There are dozens of ways to block that traffic, from DNS to firewall rules to just disconnecting entirely.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Easier than messing with the terminal. I remember on windows, you set an "outbound" rule for an .exe and you're done. I tried to do that with firejail, but the firetool doesn't have a spot in the app where it shows what you blocked. You just have to trust it. Unless I'm blind. I looked everywhere in the app and the wizard.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Well there are probably GUI firewall rule apps, but it's be faster just to use a command, since the apps are going to take all the same info anyway. Or you could just disconnect entirely.
coconut@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
DNS blocking if their telemetry domains are separate from game domains. They could technically do their own DNS resolution though.
Broken@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
This was my thought too. Seems easiest to me to DNS block on the firewall side (and be network wide).
lemming741@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Anything attempting to leave the LAN on port 53 or 853 gets redirected to my pihole and logged. It's mostly google stuff, but TV's do it too. A determined enshittifier could implement DoH or DoT.
Broken@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Smart. Right now I just rely on various blacklists that seem to block everything I need to. I might do something like this at some point though to be sure.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I'm running opnsense virtualized. I'd recommend a spare PC with two nics to learn it on first.
Broken@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, I'm already running opnsense on an old PC with an added network card. Then I use Unbound DNS with various blacklist filters on my outbound traffic.
It honestly seems good enough because I monitored it for a while when I set it up. But I don't monitor it continually and I don't have specific blocks that I set up myself, just the published blacklists. If something new is phoning home I'd be unaware until I check it, which is what I like about your setup.
AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
I use OpenSnitch https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
It prompts me each time a game attempts to make an outbound connection. I can allow or deny the connection from the process or to the host etc and it can set it as a rule with different time frames like once, until reboot, permanently etc.
enemenemu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Turn off internet
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
That's one way and guaranteed to work, but it's kind of annoying.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Seems OP wants to play online only games, disconnecting might make that impossible.
Feyd@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
That was actually a part of the main question, but then I decided not to include it. Opensnitch shows so many popups that I get confused which is to allow and which to deny. Sometimes things could break and a reboot is necessary.
Edit: I'm going to install it regardless. Thanks
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
That will be the case with any firewall, you'll have to block everything and then figure out what is needed for the game to work as expected.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
True, but I think firewalls don't have that scary popup opensnitch has. They do their thing silently. lol
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Set it to default deny and it should stop the popups!
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Why not spin up a pihole instance? Once you setup your blocklists you barely have to maintain it besides the occasional update.
Hell, if you don’t have a spare machine to run it on, you can likely run it locally and then change your PC’s network to use it as your DNS resolver.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
liang@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 1y
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Fair point, I didn't buy it, it was given to me.
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Let me guess, it was the usuall you dont own the game shill?
In that case, if you want m8, i have more than enough ropes for ya