MajorHavoc
@MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
- Comment on Somebodies gotta do it I guess. 10 months ago:
We’re working on promoting that Stem Bolt. It recently got an excellent recommendation from Admiral Janeway.
- Comment on Somebodies gotta do it I guess. 10 months ago:
At least he still outranks Ensign Kim.
- Comment on Dukat is upset they still haven't built a statue of him in the parking lot for pushing a cart into traffic 10 months ago:
Was reading this to my SO, and was given a correction for Quark: gets Rom to pay Quark for the privilege of returning Quarks cart.
- Comment on Best distro for linux gaming? 10 months ago:
I second the folks who recommended a Raspberry Pi and RetroPi variant. For no frills, just-start-playing, it can’t be beat.
Another option I haven’t seen mentioned yet, is Ubunutu with Steam. Thanks to the rising popularity of the SteamDeck, lots of great games run perfectly, with no fuss, under Steam on Ubuntu.
But again, with your target including a lot of retro games, a RetroPi is the smooth path. Most of your PS2 games will work fine with some fiddling. Your PS3 experience will be more bound by the current state of PS3 emulation, than by the power of the Raspberry Pi (though you should certainly plan to get the biggest supported model, and get a big cooling kit and overclock it.)
I’ve played various PS2 games with relatively little fuss on an overclocked Pi3 with a cooling kit.
For PS3 era games, I would just make the leap to Ubutnu and then just buy any that are Steam Deck Verified, through the Steam store. Some won’t be, but the ones that are should be a good time.
I, personally, don’t have the life spare cycles to mess with emulating unverified PS3 era games. PS2 era was still very hit and miss last time I bothered for an arcade machine build. I’m sure it’s doable, and might affect your hardware choice. Your best odds are probably Ubuntu, again - thanks to all the investment by Valve.
- Comment on Best distro for linux gaming? 10 months ago:
Pi has the power to do up through PS2 just fine, though last I checked the state of emulation for PS2 and PS3 wasn’t good yet, for the average hacker.
If this is your first time emulating, you’ll have a nicer time learning the ropes on RetroPi on an actual Raspberry Pi. Statistically, you’re not really giving anything up, because anything that doesn’t require insane levels of expertise and esoteric knowledge emulates perfectly on Pi.
Contrarily, is this isn’t your first emulation outing, or you’re down to go all-in down the rabbit hole; then build the whole PC around whatever you find emulates PS3 well, and the rest should be trivial to add.
- Comment on If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight 10 months ago:
I love that episode!
… But… Yeah. It’s not good. It’s kinda great. But not good.
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 10 months ago:
It’s been awhile since I finished if, but if I recall correctly,
Abzuwas about 5 hours. - Comment on On the eleventh day of Trek-mas, 10 months ago:
That looks exactly like my warbird tattoo. I’m starting to think all that extra money I paid my artist for a custom design was a rip-off.
- Comment on Idea for future corporations trying to federate 10 months ago:
This is terrific. Thank you for starting this discussion.
I don’t think we can or should wait for individual users to make these decisions. Server admins are the ones who understand the risks and so should make this call. Guidance for server admins based on past experience (cough XMPP!) should be quite welcome.
I might refine the bit about altered API versions to really focus on the real problem: proprietary extensions. We probably want to leave the door open to try out additions to the spec that come with detailed RFCs.
But we know from XMPP that proprietary extensions are a huge problem.
- Comment on On the ninth day of Trek-mas, 10 months ago:
For a moment there, I really did see five latinum bars.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 10 months ago:
Indeed. It is, I daresay, fucking perfect.
- Comment on We Can’t Hire You. Developers’ Challenge 11 months ago:
“When we decided to give the test to the development team (about 15 developers) — most of them got scores that were lower than our threshold (45%), despite them all being rock-solid developers. Also, there were some candidates who managed to get 95% and above — but would then just be absolutely awful during the interview — we would later discover that they were paying someone to complete the technical test on their behalf.
There is no substitute for taking the time to sit down and talk to someone.”
That’s pretty good advice. Interesting read.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 11 months ago:
I’m planning the same.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.
But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.
We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.
I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives it and platform.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Yeah…We do it beacuse we’re cheapskate bastards, trying to get more than we’re willing to pay for.
Source: I worked for a cheapskate bastard, at one point.
- Comment on Who's the MVP of the MPV's? 11 months ago:
Nice. I didn’t realize there were do many awful Vulcans. This has been enlightening.
- Comment on Who's the MVP of the MPV's? 11 months ago:
Can we get an honorable mention for Spock’s brother?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
there will be a drought of genuinely good talent in the industry.
You’re exactly right, and there’s actually already such a drought. We had this same conversation 15 years ago and it doesn’t feel like we’ve made much progress.
has to change imo, the path should become clearer than telling everyone to get 5 years of experience then come back when they’re ready.
Absolutely, it must change. We need to find ways to do better.
- Comment on "Cowabunga" would make a great warp phrase 11 months ago:
You suck. I had no idea about Vader. What the fuck?! Fuck you.
- Comment on For thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people? 11 months ago:
Narrator: They did not.
- Comment on "Cowabunga" would make a great warp phrase 11 months ago:
Spoiler tag would be welcome here. I understand that Last Ronin keeps the identity of the remaining turtle under wraps for awhile.
- Comment on A Muppet Borgmas Carol 11 months ago:
“I’m pleased to see you still function, Mr Errol!”
- Comment on A Muppet Borgmas Carol 11 months ago:
“And he relied heavily on the advice if the ship’s cook, Long John Silver of Borg.”
“What’s that 1 of 10? Oh! I’ll tell them. He also says that resistance is futile, and you will all be assimilated.”
- Comment on A Muppet Borgmas Carol 11 months ago:
Unit 2 of 20 Million of Rat of Borg (formerly Rizzo the Rat): “Thank you for making me a part or this.”
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
Partial Spoiler
Normally when Trek is going to do a Trelane or Q story, it’s introduced early in the story. This was a weird left turn at the end, and leaves us wondering if any plotline later will also do so. I didn’t mind it in this season, because the season was so focused on about values and tradition, so I wasn’t expecting a hard scifi conclusion. Realizing they were ‘doing a Doctor Who’, wasn’t too shocking to me. But as much as I thought it fit here, it’s a weird way to resolve a Trek season, and I hope we don’t get that approach often.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.
- Comment on Project Management Tips from a Developer’s Perspective 11 months ago:
Lol. Nice.
In my decades doing this, I can honestly say I enjoyedboth times that happened for me. It was nice.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.