overview for vinnymac

802.11ah Wi-Fi with 10 miles of range to gain importance in Europe, with major limitations in c/technology

[–] vinnymac 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m in the process of building my first LoRa with an old ESP I had lying around. Excited to see where this tech goes

It takes more effort to tell two language apart when you understand both of them in c/showerthoughts

[–] vinnymac 4 points 1 week ago

Weirdly that sounds identical to many of the hallucinations that newer LLMs are making.

Retroid with Splinter Cell 1 for PC in c/retrogaming

[–] vinnymac 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly how I feel. I played SC1 the first week it came out, and no one I knew had heard of it before, back before the internet was everywhere and people were reading magazines to figure out what was worth playing. Good times!

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Retroid with Splinter Cell 1 for PC (self.retrogaming)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by vinnymac to c/retrogaming

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I recently was gifted a Retroid 5 pocket. It’s been quite impressive so far. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get the controller working on Splinter Cell 1 via Winlator.

The game runs great, and looks so much better than the PS2 or Gamecube versions of the game. I own the GoG version, so I am not sure if this is an issue. But am wondering if anyone else has gotten the Retroid controls working with SC1 before.

I am running:

Winlator v9.0
Splinter Cell 1 (v1.3) from GoG

I can see my controller working just fine under the Game controller program, both for Dinput and Xinput. But for whatever reason every single controller fix I use with Splinter Cell triggers a Game fault protection error. If I try to setup a profile in Winlator to control the game, I can get some of the buttons to work, but the dpad and control sticks don’t appear to be able to move Sam or the camera.

I’ve seen some people mention Input Bridge or Antimicrox as a solution, but I’m hoping there is a low effort solution to this. If anyone has any recommendations for how to proceed I am all ears.

Thanks, and if this is better posted somewhere else just let me know

Since bits are ones and zeroes, and also mean true/false and on/off by extension, doesn't that mean all solutions to IT problems are just turning something off and on again at some level? in c/showerthoughts

[–] vinnymac 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

And yet I still have electronics to this day that require me to pull the plug to get going again 😂

Swapping LCD drive into new OLED in c/[email protected]

[–] vinnymac 9 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve cloned drives from an existing steam deck onto another brand new drive for a new steam deck. The swap you are doing should work the same without issue.

This command is awkward 'docket exec -t vaultwarden sh' , let's just have docker sh vaultwarden already ! in c/[email protected]

[–] vinnymac 1 points 4 weeks ago

Now that is more what I had in mind! I’ll definitely be using this, thanks

This command is awkward 'docket exec -t vaultwarden sh' , let's just have docker sh vaultwarden already ! in c/[email protected]

[–] vinnymac 1 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Always wondered why this wasn’t automated, from an ergonomics perspective, a command that lets me open a shell could detect that no shell exists, and then do as you said, without me having to lift a finger. It’s not very unix-y, but it could be a sort of plug-in for Docker CLIs.

I need some good content for my YouTube (newpipe) account. I like tutorials on anything as long as they're clear, explanations of things as long as they're short (15-30 mins), and NOTHING Mr.Beast. in c/asklemmy

[–] vinnymac 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree they are good. But his content is the opposite of “a short 15-30 minute video on a topic”. He has like 2 hour long videos where he talks about dishwashing.

What Monkey Paw Wish would you be willing to take? in c/asklemmy

[–] vinnymac 40 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I wish it was the year of Linux, and they get 90%+ market share overnight when Gabe Newell announces you can play Half Life 3 exclusively on Steam OS, which includes in-game copies of The Winds of Winter, Doors of Stone, an English translation of Mother 3, and footage of 10 seasons of Firefly that had secretly been produced in private for Gabe.

The downside is they start the enshittification process immediately. The DRMs get worse, then the ads come, and finally the lawsuits and psyops on distros that treat us well and give us options.