Dolphin - absolutely banger of a gamecube/wii emulator. It has absolutely everything imaginable.

Dolphin has so much customization if needed, it even allows typing mathematical equations to alter analog stick sensitivity curve. My mind was absolutely blown when I found that out. Added some tiny tweaks to it to “round out” the curve a bit, as I felt like the small movements didn’t really register as neatly as I would have hoped, and with small mathy-math-math input it was great. For the life of me I can’t remember what the equation was, probably squareroot or squaring the analog input so it curved a bit. (EDIT: I did the equation for trigger, not analog stick, but option for the stick is still there)

Mesen is also quite dope for NES, at least the version I’m still using. I’ve understood the current version bundles nes and snes into same application? Either way, probably still pretty much top tier.

IMO, best features:

• integer scaling to big image, bilinear scaling back down to fit to screen. Less blur and pixels stay (visually) same size without distortion
• online play

ScummVM, not really an emulator per se, rathar an interpreter (afaik). Essentially it lets you play old (and some new) adventure games on modern systems. It does all adlib/midi/mt32 (with roms you need to source yourself) and graphics tricks. Unified settings and all my adventures in one places? Easily scummvm over actual retro-pc/mac/amiga/whatever.

started with NES games in late 80’s, so in theory I should be fine with game pads? Platformers and driving games I can generally do fine, anything else? … heh, it’s like watching parents use computers. I just can’t do first/third person aiming with analog sticks or use bumpers/triggers at the same time with anything else.

Mouse and keyboard are my weapons of choice, at least with those I’m not embarrassingly bad.

edit: though, Nintendo Game Cube controller is kinda my thing, not that I’ve played much of NGC games or anything, but I did finish Eternal Darkness just fine (emulated, used savestates, but still), the controller just feels way more natural than modern xbox/ps controllers

is Gearbox still in terms with Epic? It’ll probably be in holding cells Epic store for a year anyway, and then it’ll move to other stores with ULTIMATE EDITION -dlc bundle, with another dlc planned later on which isn’t in ULTIMATE EDITION. Wasn’t that the play with 3 as well?

Unless 4 does something truly new for the series, I’m probably not going to get it, at all. Kinda feel like I’m done with the series.

Yep. Apparently outlook does this and afaik because some kind of link sniffing/scam detection/whatever, but it does it by changing the first characters of each query argument around.

We spent amazingly long time figuring that one out. “Who the hell has gotten Microsoft service querying our app with malformed query args and why”

I only did so because I had installed proton-ge. You know, “when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” -type of thing. :D

Running Galaxy with proton-ge. Sure, it doesn’t install linux versions of games or anything, but it works.

Basically what I did was:

• run arch btw, obviously and loaded with sarcasm, as always
• install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-ge-custom-bin
• aquired galaxy installer (GOG’s site hides download links on linux… why???)
• proton gog-galaxy-installer.exe to install. It installs to ~/.local/share/proton-pfx/0/pfx/drive_c/Program Files/GOG Galaxy (or somesuch)
• I made a shortcut to launch the galaxy.exe with proton from the directory & using the directory as working directory
• profit.

Seems to work fine, some older version of proton-ge and/or nvidia driver under wayland made the client bit sluggish, but that has fixed itself. Games like Cyberpunk work fine. The galaxy overlay doesn’t, though.

not to be rude, but the brand reads on the device :D

anyhoo, going by the name & browsing their website: https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-solutions/trackball-products/expert-mouse-wired-trackball3-1/

oh, I’ve been wondering about this, as I’ve had occasional youtube-video just enter the infinite buffering. Oddly it has only happened on linux o_O

if you use the archinstall to setup everything (partitioning, locales, de’s, etc), not that much, but def. more than some “everything and the kitchensink straight out of the box” distros. The installer worked nicely on 2 machines I’ve tested it on, a laptop and a desktop. While the base system and graphical desktop installed nice, there was quite a bit of manual tinkering left.

But, steam works more or less the same on linux as it works on windows - but there is some proton version selecting, and even then absolutely everything doesn’t work.

Personally, nvidia+wayland (and xwayland in general) is pretty horrid with some games, but supposedly that’s supposedly getting fixed next month… It’s always something and the fix is so tantalizingly close.

and, it’s not like the EOL for win10 is that close, seems to be October 14, 2025, so there’s still plenty of time.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-freaky/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq2

sample size of 1, admittedly, but there’s so few times I’ve managed to break arch - which I can’t 100% attribute to myself.

Once the updates broke, somehow wiping bash -binary and kernel. Not entirely sure how or why, all I did was a normal pacman -Suy. I might have issued the pacman -command from a long path which didn’t exist anymore, not sure if relevant or not. Hasn’t happened since, so… dunno. It did spook me a bit, but nobody else at the time reported similar issues.

I’ve ran arch for years at work (webdevelopment, desktop and laptop), home server (irc shell, mumble, etc hosting) and now home desktop too (gaming, media, dualbooting with win10).

The home server has required a powerbutton -forced boot once or twice, many months of uptime & regular kernel updates can apparently mess something with networking and usb, so can’t ssh in and keyboard doesn’t get regognized when plugged in. So, you know, reboot after kernel updates? :D

It’s always a good idea to check the website for breaking changes which require manually doing something, there has been a few along the years.

list of surprised people:

personally: only second-hand info about reddragon keyboards.

The pricepoint is low, don’t expect premium experience. It’ll do keyboard stuff just fine, most likely.

Also, apparently the customization app doesn’t work at all on linux, even through wine. EDIT: openrgb does support some reddragon models, but only mice. https://openrgb.org/devices_0.9.html?search=red+dragon - but, keyboard support might happen?

installing operating system: 15 minutes, give or take.

give a name to the computer: 45 minutes

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1363080/achievements huh? the numbers show differently (for me, at least) on the page.

just… bookmark folder? menu -> bookmarks -> “…” on the bookmark folder you want -> open all in private tabs?

ah, right. that’s a thing.

Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P

only played the unity-version, it’s cool but “old school brutal” in difficulty. I guess there are some cheese tactics/methods you can use to overcome it, but a casual/blind approach has a steep learning curve.

The tutorial alone took some effort to survive, got to some town later on, got some quest to go into a dungeon, which continued to be deadly.

I do like older games, but I can’t help but to feel I’m lacking some nostalgiagoggles for this one, even if the game is from “when I was a kid”

wonder if it’s going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of

A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY

the plot of

in a nutshell?