BiggestBulb

BiggestBulb , 5 months ago

I believe Batocera itself covers all the consoles you mentioned.

It's also got a pretty nice little UI (very customizable) and it has a really nifty feature where you can pair Bluetooth remotes super easy (basically just put the controller into pairing mode and click "pair Bluetooth controller" and it'll instantly pair).

It also runs like absolute lightning - I'm running my Batocera on a 2012 MacBook Pro and it still runs everything up to PS1 decent frames (which is an achievement for this laptop lol).

To top it off, adding the games is super easy. I just used a flash drive and put the ROMs into their respective folders in the file explorer and it just added the console's icon to the home screen.

BiggestBulb , 5 months ago

If you're very bothered by the ads, instead of an adblocker you can try out an Ad-blocking DNS. Personally, I use noads.libredns.gr

This will allow them to see all your data though, so I recommend using this method with a reputable VPN.

BiggestBulb OP , 5 months ago

Thank you so much for the detailed answer 🙏

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

Squad is definitely one of them! Also the Battlefield Collection is on 89% sale (only includes the ones since 2011 tho)

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

Basic, but Ubuntu. It's got snaps which are slow and generally suck, plus Canonical

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

A bit old, but gold: Fate (the dungeon crawler one). It's a bit low-poly by today's standards, but it's so fun and has killer music, lots of spells and weapons, tons of interesting enemies and can be beaten in like 6 hours.

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

Is kbin.social still going to federate?

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Man, just the "normies" user experience in general.

I've had so many issues from the start, even on "beginner friendly" distros. Hell, I'm a software engineer by trade - I literally use WSL2 every day for my job - but there are some things the OS should just do.

Prime example: wifi connectivity (er, just connectivity in general - Bluetooth included). It seems like every distro neglects this part to some degree. I've tried Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, Kinoite, countless others - but it seems like every one either has some form of Bluetooth connectivity issue (a la Kinoite not detecting my Bluetooth headphones) or a straight up wifi issue (like Ubuntu, Lubuntu and Linux Mint ALL not connecting to Panera WiFi on a wiped 2012 MacBook Pro - it was because Panera has a popup to accept wifi terms, btw, which is extremely common. Starbucks was broken too).

It's that sort of stuff that prevents people from staying on Linux. People DO go to internet cafes to hang out and surf the web. It's a helluva deal breaker that I need to turn on my phone's hotspot just to connect to some Internet and then deal with LTE speeds. And as for the argument of "well that's super old hardware" - it's prime hardware that people will try Linux on and get pissed off.

Also, Nvidia support. It's one of the most popular graphics card options - it's a deal breaker that it doesn't work out of the box on a lot of distros. Never ran into this myself, but just scroll here for a bit to see how prevalent it is.

I REALLY want to daily Linux but man, these issues prevent it (even now that I've moved on from the MacBook). If you really wanna help Linux grow, fix these problems and / or work on improving the "non-technical" user experience. You shouldn't need to know what KDE is to use your desktop, nor should you need to Google like 15 things to get thru the installer with certainty.

I know this will get a lot of hate, and I really really want to love Linux, but I've been burned often so I'm skeptical.

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

I don't necessarily need it anymore, but I'm sure someone would find it useful in this comments section! Thank you!

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

I just want to say I completely agree with you. If we want to withstand the companies at the helm of the Internet right now, we have to make it impossible for them to extinguish us. I think that's what we've essentially done with ActivityPub, and frankly I don't see any way they can try to take us down by normal means.

I mean, what are they gonna do? Pull the VERY loyal people from kbin.social or Lemmy.world into Threads? Or the people from Mastodon?

It's safe to say the people who have been here 5 months (or even more!) are not really keen on using Facebook 2.0, and we aren't really the demographic they're targeting. We also aren't exactly the biggest demographic, with the Fediverse being a couple million people afaik.

I think if anything we have the most to GAIN from federation. People will know about our little public ad-free corner of the Internet. It's downright silly to throw up pitchforks just because "Meta bad" because - at the end of the day - HOW will they destroy the Fediverse?

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

I think this is the perfect post to bring up XWayland.

That being said, I haven't used it yet (so I can't comment on whether it works flawlessly)! Can anyone elaborate on their experiences with it? I'm curious on it and don't have my hands on a Linux machine at the moment

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

Interesting, thank you for sharing. I'll have to give it a go next time!

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.

Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn't know about Flatpak back then).

I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

Doomed by I Prevail

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

People definitely still play Planetside 2

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

It really is so good. I haven't played in years but not by choice haha

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

When I had a miserable case of Covid (the variant that gives extreme nausea) the only way I was able to eat anything at all was saltine crackers. The only way I could drink anything was ice cubes (sucking on them slowly)

Try those out! If they don't work, definitely call a doctor. Have someone check up on you, last thing you want is to black out and die (which is very easy to have happen)

BiggestBulb , 6 months ago

I can also back that up! KDE feels way faster than Gnome (and especially Cinnamon) on older computers

BiggestBulb , 7 months ago

Ditto on a Pixel 6 Pro. There were a ton of people with issues when this thing came out, but I was lucky enough to dodge all the issues.

BiggestBulb , 7 months ago

If you're looking for a free site hosting service, fly.io might be what you're looking for. I've been using them a little while and their service is pretty great (though the monitoring kinda sucks)

BiggestBulb , 7 months ago

Lemmy.world as Picard Maneuver explained, but also Artemis.camp is down too (which is ~1000 people).

BiggestBulb , 8 months ago

Wow, I was not expecting to read Civilization: Call to Power in this comment section. There are so few people who even mention the game!

If you're not in there already, there is a Discord for the Call to Power games you should totally join: https://discord.gg/qwe83zjXES

BiggestBulb , 9 months ago

As a long-time Tenchu fan, I feel this was about Sekiro to be honest. It started life as Tenchu 5, then got turned mid-development into Sekiro. I just wish it had a bigger emphasis on stealth, rather than just swordfighting...

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

Do Revanced or Piped allow you to easily cast now? That was my main issue with them a while ago (I'm on a Pixel 6 Pro, maybe it was my phone?)

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

I'm hoping (more than likely in vain) that we can have the opportunity to do some of the wackier stuff seen in SimCity: Societies. By that, I mean I would love to craft an authoritarian police state, a beautiful pagoda-filled village or a Disney-esque paradise town.

SimCity: Societies was very bad in a lot of aspects (game froze all the time, roads were awful and it was massively unbalanced) but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it at all when it comes to city building. I just wanna make clown schools and have a bunch of free-roaming clowns, damnit.

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

Why not? As long as you run a reputable VPN it's perfectly safe (and most places let you use a VPN - the ones that don't, I just roll LTE lol)

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

I had my work stuff shipped across the country to me. No in-person onboarding required

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

Oh my gosh you're right, that's embarrassing. I'm deleting my comment from before, oops. Thank you!

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

This is cool, but there appears to be no issues tab in GitHub which is a bit of a red flag.

BiggestBulb , 10 months ago

My one big gripe with Mastadon is that images take absolutely forever to load if they have even a marginal amount of pixels. I scroll art often and I'm left waiting for greater than a minute for these things to load (and I'm on a very, very fast connection).

BiggestBulb , 11 months ago

I learned Gimp alongside Photoshop ~10 years ago and it's my preferred image editor. It does have some silliness sometimes, but overall I adore it.

One of the best things they ever did was making it one-window by default.

BiggestBulb , 11 months ago

I was, indeed, a frustrated developer. Struck at the worst possible time, too

BiggestBulb , 11 months ago

I don't understand personally why Lemmy.world isn't utilizing load balancing (specifically, horizontal load balancing). Is it due to budget concerns?

BiggestBulb , 11 months ago

There was definitely a bottom banner but it was quite unobtrusive

BiggestBulb , 1 year ago

Just because it's made by Google doesn't mean literally anything. Google hacks happen literally all the time.

Just heed the warning and slap new Android on it or an up-to-date alternative OS. Otherwise you're pretty likely to get gotten

BiggestBulb , 1 year ago

In the US, public transit is almost universally unavailable. If it is available, it's a massive luxury (or strictly necessary, like NYC).