HoloPengin

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[–] HoloPengin 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last time I tried to use Arch for gaming I ran into constant issues like what you describe. Almost like it wasn't using the correct graphics drivers for the games even though I could verify it was. I never could quite figure it out.

If you're not against distro hopping, I suggest switching to Bazzite or Nobara. Plain old Fedora is usually fine too if you're not using an Nvidia GPU or don't mind futzing around with RPMFusion, but the extra utilities and tweaks provided in Nobara and Bazzite are really nice.

[–] HoloPengin 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That driver tends to work decently, but the performance on windows can be a bit iffy, especially for games like Skyrim because of how the content archives work iirc.

I also ran into a bug where one specific program (Aseprite) wouldn't save files correctly on winbtrfs and instead padded them with zeroes to a full 4KB or whatever, which didn't happen on any other filesystem.

WinBTRFS is cool, but treat it as somewhat experimental just in case. Back your stuff up.

[–] HoloPengin 3 points 1 month ago

I'm so sad that he never went anywhere else with this himself, at least publically. Looks like there's at least one team in Norway trying to take this concept to market though, hopefully they're successful

[–] HoloPengin 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why not just do this actually legit with PS1 and Saturn games

[–] HoloPengin 4 points 1 month ago

"we chose the name because of..."

Nah they just wanted an excuse to not use UWU, since this was originally Universal Wine Launcher iirc

[–] HoloPengin 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't call it a japanese accent, that's a bit different, but ルール is the loan word for rule, approximated with japanese syllabary of course. So it's ru-ru instead of rool. The r is also kinda rolled like a Spanish R, between and R and L sounds.

A japanese accent tends to have awkward stress-accent as well as R and L sounding too similar if not identical, and some general phonemes just not sounding quite right since japanese doesn't have them (the ae sound for instance). Words that end in consonants can be tricky too, but japanese has a few in very casual speech (mostly by just leaving off the u in tsu) so that concept isn't so foreign.

[–] HoloPengin 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love the content on thingiverse, but the website itself, the search, the loading speed, just so much about it is awful. Printables by prusa is leagues better

[–] HoloPengin 21 points 2 months ago

Could be a bug in their crash handler, just like, infinitely looping and printing something over and over.

[–] HoloPengin 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a long thread on Mastodon by the main Arm Mac Graphics dev for Asahi Linux. Perhaps one of the fastest developed and most stable graphics drivers ever made, thanks to a couple amazing developers but also very very much thanks to Rust. And one of the kernel devs flippantly calls it an "unmerged toy project" as if it's not kernel devs' fault that useful stuff and even small non-breaking improvements to existing systems are so incredibly hard to get merged. Not to mention that writing the entire m1 graphics driver in Rust ended up actually thoroughly documenting the DRM subsystem's API for the first time as a side effect because everything the Rust code interacts with pretty much gets strictly defined within Rust's type systems and lifetimes.

https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576

[–] HoloPengin 4 points 3 months ago

Pseudoregalia was fantastic

[–] HoloPengin 3 points 4 months ago

Also if an update gets completely borked while installing (i.e. you lost power), then it just boots into the version you were running previously thanks to the A/B update scheme. It's neat.

[–] HoloPengin 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Original wipeout? Phantom HD Edition.

Wipeout Omega Collection for PS4 includes HD+Fury+2049 (all of the content from PS3 and Vita), and a lot of the PSP content had made its way into HD+Fury iirc.

For everything else, your options are emulator or tracks/ships ported over to BallisticNG. IMO you can just play BallisticNG as is though, it's an amazing game.

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Android tip: Google Lens + Aedict (self.japaneselanguage)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HoloPengin to c/[email protected]
 

I've been playing japanese games on my steam deck lately and have discovered a useful workflow for looking things up if you've got an Android device on hand.

Install Google Lens. Install Aedict and add JMDict in it (JMDict is what jisho.org uses, so it's pretty good). When in Google Lens, you can use "Text" mode to take a picture then select and copy text. When you copy text, Android will helpfully pop up a Share dialog. Click the share logo, find Aedict in the list and bookmark it so it's always at the top by holding down on it and click "pin".

Google lens will smartly let you select entire words with a single tap and has a dedicated copy text button, so this workflow is a surprisingly fast way to open your dictionary when trying to read text from other devices, from physical media, or out in the wild. It's even pretty good at reading handwriting.

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