the16bitgamer

the16bitgamer , 3 days ago

Wow a rare time both consumer and retailers are in agreement.... oh. They're not talking about themselves.

the16bitgamer , 9 days ago

Look at the compatibility of the device you are running it on. Older hardware like the PlayStation Vita, will only work with H.264 AAC.

Handbranks is able to convert this for you with no issues (even on Linux flatpak ftw), and web playback on a Apache2 server is great. But if your planning on watching it on more modern devices, then don't worry too much about it.

the16bitgamer , 9 days ago

There is a handful of smaller communities that still exists that are still good. But most of them are gone or filled with content farming spam.

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

Yeah, I made these because my original case broke (Nova 3 color not kobo). I sell them on Etsy, though sadly since it’s so labour intensive to stitch it ends up costing as much as the eReader. Trying to make it more upgradeable and user serviceable to better justify the price, but I’m still testing them.

As for the desk, it’s my deterrent to keep eBay scam artists from selling my designs with my photos. I have fancy professional photos I can use if I want.

Like this one
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/60ccba62-c24d-4e0a-b5ed-3f1b81370ddf.jpeg

The Keyboard is from EVGA but it was on clearance when I got it so I don’t think they sell it anymore.

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

I have both (cuz I’m selling the case and needed to test), and I’m working on a video review for it.

Tldw for the video is this. Clara BW is a Clara 2e,, processor, ram, and storage are spec exactly the same, even the power button and sleep sensor is the same position. It only took me 9 days to make these since I reused the sleep cover from my 2e case design. However it’s a little snappier, making it on par with the latest Kindle for books. Still slow for comics.

The e-reader shown is the Clara color, despite the spec bump feels exactly the same as the Clara BW. Unless you read colored books like magazines, comics, or textbooks it’s not worth the upgrade. Kobo really needed more than 16GB of storage.

That said I was never a fan of Kobo so the Clara color is the first one I actually like.

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

!aobprepub is leaking. Praise be to the gods, and the saint.

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

16GB is more than enough for most written books, ranging from 1-3MB. But for comics they can range from 93MB to 250MB or more. As such while you can have 5000+ Books on your Kobo, you can only have 65 comics, and considering how large some manga series are, that's not enough to keep everything on the same device.

My gripe with Kobo is how they organize their books, and while I could organize them into collections, for DRM free books, they don't store them in the system, so if I remove and re-add a book to my e-reader, I have to manually re-add them to the collection. But in truth no e-reader is perfect, the closest I found is the Pocketbook, since they offer SD Card support, but I opted for the Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color. I like the fact I can write on it, like a remarkable tablet, it's running Android so I can get a lot of utility out of it. But I don't like the fact that it's a chinese android tablet stuck on Android 10 with no OS updates in sight, and the lack of Micro SD Card support (though USB support is nice).

You win some you loose some.

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

Yeah, yeah totally planned and not rereading the series for the 10th time... 😐

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

New ones can't ifixit shows that it's soldered in now. No easy storage upgrades (and I would've totally done it too).

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

Yes, thank you Public Domain

the16bitgamer OP , 10 days ago

fixed

the16bitgamer , 10 days ago

OK, let me fill you with my experience. Now I am on Desktop Linux, and I can't say how your Double Touch screens will work. But I can tell you about some of your points.

Affinity, canva, corel, and cinema4d are not Linux compatible and you'll need to run them in Wine/Wine GE via software like Bottles or Lutris. Most will not work, while others like affinity might work, but requires a lot of working around. If these software's are required, you may want to look at a Mac.

keyshot, gimp, vscode(ium) are all native and have either scripts or can be installed via Flatpak or from the distros app repos.

Davinci Resolve is interesting, You've lucked out since you have an rtx2060, but Resolve is quite finicky to get working Linux. You'll need nvidia drivers and the open source free drivers will not work. All good Linux distros should have easy access, but I found Fedora to be trickier to install. Once you can get Resolve working, you'll either need to buy Studio if you want H.264 support, and if your videos aren't using PCM audio then you'll need to convert it using FFMPEG. I have a script which I use at the end of my injest. Afterwords, it runs and works fine, with no issues (assuming you have the RAM to run it 32GB recommended). If you don't want to deal with any of this (understandable) Mac OS has no issues out of the box.

Working file explorer: up to taste, and personal preference. Every distro will have one and it'll be good enough, but some distros tailor theirs to their OS's tastes. If you are running with a popular Desktop Environment, i.e. KDE Plasma, Gnome, Cinnamon, then it'll work.

Now if you want my two cents on all of this. First you should aim for a Ubuntu based distro. While Ubuntu itself isn't bad, I personally prefer a different Desktop Environment as Gnome is too different for me from what Windows offers. Linux Mint with Cinnamon and POP_OS are good alternative with a more Windows/Mac flavoring, and since they are running Gnome underneath it'll have the same compatibility as Ubuntu proper with hardware.

Another option is Kubuntu which used KDE's Plasma. Plasma is OK, but I find it to be a little less refined than it's appearance lead me to believe.

Now for testing, I'd advise you to get a second SSD and an enclosure and plug it into a USB-C port. It'll do wonders to quickly go an run everything, without sacrificing you existing install of Winblows. Linux is so efficent I ran my main PC for a week off of it, and only noticed while running games.

Finally, depending on how often you are using your Windows only software. You might get away with running them in a Windows 10 VM, and using a shared folder to the Host machine to move files back and forth.

This is definatly a project you should look into, but I feel you should probably look at more cross platform alternatives to your software first. Since another alternative, if you aren't playing games, is a Mac.

the16bitgamer , 10 days ago

Well your only alternative is Kdenlive, which is a very unstable experience. There are some alternative video editing software on Linux, but they follow the adobe model of, give me your money forever to use it. Resolve works, just need to tune your injest to get the video to work. I have a bash script I can send you that batch fixes videos which I can send you.

As for apple machines. I get the distain as I too don’t like Apple, and feel their locked in software, hardware, and ecosystem is overpriced and unreliable. But the way I see it, if the computer is for work, which this appears to be, I need the best machine for the job, and Apple unlike Microsoft and Google, has very clean software and hardware that I can trust for professional work. No ads, very fast hardware, stable, with no compromises.

That said I will not use them for personal use. Hence the switch over to Linux. I would’ve got a Mac Mini for work if I had the budget for one.

the16bitgamer , 13 days ago

It’s like al KDE projects IMHO. Good on the surface and works well. But use it for any length of time and you will find problems, unfinished areas, or parts where it was implemented without considering why it was like this in the first place.

For example, plug your 1080p laptop into a display with 4K and watch are your desktop icon gets sorted by a-z randomly instead of keeping the order you had it.

Or try to add a calendar even to your system by clicking the calendar which is found in the date and time on the taskbar.

Online accounts added to the system do not integrate into other KDE apps requiring additional signin.

I feel this is probably caused from KDE’s team being small, but having a large suite of apps.

the16bitgamer , 12 days ago

I've moved away from KDE for a while now. Been using Cinnamon since.

And most of my "bugs" are more missing features than anything.

the16bitgamer , 15 days ago

Haven't been buying from the local super store for a while now, however I have stopped buying from Shoppers.

the16bitgamer OP , 16 days ago

Nah, she's toast. Ran multiple distros, and the same problem persisted across Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. It's also an Intel machine, and I've been eyeing a Framework with AMD. Which is why I've stated I am not looking for tech support.

the16bitgamer OP , 16 days ago

No Pillow... yet, but yeah I've tried to look for replacement, but she's a Gigabyte Clevo so finding parts isn't easy.

the16bitgamer OP , 16 days ago

I'm just going to point this out, I asked for no tech support.

the16bitgamer OP , 24 days ago

1. cuz my pc had a spot for a floppy drive.

2. have a few old pcs laying around which makes my life easier to have.

It has a internal usb to floppy drive adapter so everything works

the16bitgamer OP , 24 days ago

There are dozens of us.

the16bitgamer OP , 24 days ago

Would it shock you that it wasn't taken on a pixel?

the16bitgamer OP , 24 days ago

Na its a Poco X3 Pro running the google pixle photos app. Mostly because LineageOS stock photo app doesn't support all cameras

the16bitgamer , 26 days ago

Happy you enjoyed my design, though I think you should’ve shared the printable/thingiverse link.

https://www.printables.com/model/158481-new-nintendo-3ds-stylus

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4895677

On that note if it breaks (since you printed it upright, try printing it on its side with the nub facing up. You’ll need a raft and supports but it can be easily remove and the stylus won’t break… it’ll just bend.

the16bitgamer , 25 days ago

No issues man! Happy your enjoying them

the16bitgamer , 28 days ago

O7

the16bitgamer , 29 days ago

This is true, I wanted to play a game and it looked broken in Linux. When I went back to Windows I discovered that it was a problem with the game. Then I went back to Linux and it ran better than it did in Windows.

Typical Ubisoft experience.

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

Saw this elsewhere, happy to see it's already posted. Good luck UK, 6,257 and rising!

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

Here a quick run down of PC gaming in general and the state of it on Linux.

PC gaming has boiled down to Clients which will manage your games, this would be your Steam, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, GOG Galaxy, and many many more. These Clients act as both the Store to buy your games, the Game manager to install and delete your games, the online client to let you play online with friends, and the DRM to ensure that you and only you can play your games. Out side of GOG most PC games will not run without a client installed.

In Linux there is only officially Valve's Steam which is compatible. You can find Steam as a Flatpak or as a Package in your distros Package Manager. Thanks to Valve's Steam Deck console there is a shocking number of Linux native games to choose from, however thanks to Steams implementation of Wine called Proton, many native Windows games are also compatible. Proton can be enabled for all games in the settings, though the results cannot be guaranteed.

Hardware wise, your default controller is your mouse and keyboard. But Linux is compatible with, from my testing, any modern controller compatible with Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo systems. For certain generas of games you may want to consider getting a controller if you find your mouse and keyboard is frustrating to control your game with.

In terms of games it really depends on your tastes so a recommendation is difficult. I'd look at what TV Shows, books and other forms of entertainment you'd like to discover titles which you prefer. If you aren't afraid to raise the Jolly Roger you may find some classic games on older video game consoles online as ROM files which you can play on open source emulators. Linux is compatible with a wide array of them, though Retroarch is used as a hub that has a minor learning curve but is compatible with everything. (Just make sure to install the Flatpak version or the steam version).

Last piece of advice, Humble Bundle bundles is a good place to find a lot of games for cheap. Not all the games are bangers, but often can include games from small developers than can often fall between the cracks of many user recommendations. You can find them here: https://www.humblebundle.com/games

Here are some game recommendations which I feel would be fun to anyone who wants to play games.

• Antichamber A Fun Indi puzzle game which twists reality and loop back onto itself.

• Fallout 3/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim - Some of the more critically acclaimed games, both are adventure games in the same style, but Fallout has guns and based in the Post Apocalyptic Future, while Skyrim is more like Dungeons and Dragons.

• The Stanly Parable - A Hysterical narrative adventure with no combat. A YouTube playthrough will explain the game better than I could.

• Team Fortress 2 A Team Based First Person shooter, also the first Free game here. It's an older title but it still holds up and can be a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.

• Besiege A sandbox medieval weapon construction game. The tutorials will get you going and you can many many silly things.

• Portal/Portal 2 Puzzle Platformer shooter, where you play with physics to solve puzzles. It's a must play and is often on sale.

• SimCity 3000/Cities Skylines A City Building game where you can build and manage your own City. SimCity is an older title but holds up well IMHO but Cities Skylines is a more modern game (Skylines 2 is a buggy unoptimized rushed mess. Avoid it for the time being)

• Civilization 6 Strategy game where you can build an empire. I prefer 5, but 6 is the go to game right now.

• Rollercoaster Tycoon/Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 Make your own theme park, from the rollercoaster to the rides. OpenRCT2 has a more modern look to the classic.

Now just because I am recommending Steam doesn't mean the other launcher won't work in Linux. Lutris and Bottles can be used to install and manage your Windows apps, with varying degrees of stability.

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

In Settings you'll find an option called "Compatibility" here you'll find 2 options, I'll advise the Steam Play for supported titles, but the all other titles option is more desirable, but the results may not be desirable.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f85065c-7794-4e70-9287-c2d63eb31aed.png

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

While you are technically correct, I feel there are better ways to raise awareness. Like pointing to verified sources that shows that she is an asshole, and why people shouldn't support her.

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

Printed on a PrusaMK4, prusa sclicer is a good starting point, but also good filament helps.

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

It’s easy to forget that this isn’t Reddit and posts can have descriptions. It’s why I like using lemmy.

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

ELI5: when a computer stores something like a file or a folder, it needs to know where it lives and where its contents are stored. Normally where the a file or folder lives is the same place as where its contents are. But there are times where a file may live in one place and its contents are elsewhere. That’s a symlink.

So for your video example, the original video is located in Downloads so the video file will say I am movie.mp4 and I live i live in downloads, and my contents are in downloads. While the symlink says, I am movie.mp4 I live in home, and my contents are in downloads over there.

For a video player, it doesn’t care if the file and the content is in the same place, it just need to know where the content lives.

Now how software will treat a symlink as an absolute. For example if you have 2 PCs synced with cloud storage, and both downloads and home is being synced between your 2 pcs. Your cloud storage will look at the symlink, access the content from pc1 and put your movie.mp4 in pc2’s downloads and home. But it will also put the contents in both places in pc2 since to it, the results are the same. One could make software sync without breaking the symlink, but it depends on the developer and the scope of the software.

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

Game Boy Zelda is best Zelda.

I love Links Awakening due to nostalgia, but Oracle of Ages is still the longest game I’ve played (since I’ve yet to beat it). Seasons is fine but not my cup of tea, and minish cap is a bit too shaort

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

I am doing my part 🫡!

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

It did and it went by so fast I couldn't take a pic.

the16bitgamer , 1 month ago

Ubuntu Late 2000’s. I wanted it because of the CUBE. But left because the only game which worked was TF2.

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

I have no clue.

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

I think you need to define "normal".

Normal as in, drag and drop clips and music then output the results. Not much since they are both free, but Kden arguably better is better since it's compatible with AAC audio.

Normal as in, doing YouTube for fun. Then the workflow is a lot easier, like being able to duplicate entire video tracks, or change the order of the layers. A very robust effects system with Fusion that can be copied to other clips in a timeline.

I personally prefer Resolve for my workflow, as it makes my life easier. But I do usually have Kden on my laptop since (a) Resolve doesn't work on Intel GPUs... yet (b) I see it as a better MS Movie Maker.

the16bitgamer OP , 1 month ago

For me the "best of Gnome" was having the online accounts actually be usable in the desktop. In KDE if I was to sign in to my Google account my calendar events wouldn't show up in my desktop calendar, while one Gnome and by extension Cinnamon it does.