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- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 1 day ago:
I don’t want to be condescending. Dolphin Wiki has an article about ripping games. You have to Google it. Or something. I can’t give a link because 🎶 Nintendo has orbital lazors 🎶 /bill wurz
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 1 day ago:
Would love to, but Nintendo nukes people who do that from the orbit. (Actually, this whole thing started when I tried to download ISOs and found most of the sites down.)
However, if you do personal archival projects, they legally can’t do shit! We have laws here.
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 1 day ago:
Ripped all of the discs using a softmodded Wii. Used a few homebrew apps, CleanRip (disc dumping), GCMM (for GameCube memory cards) and I think there was another tool for backing up the Wii NAND (could have been just part of bootmii/homebrew channel)
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 1 day ago:
Yup, those times sound about the same as what happened with me. Plus the time spent swapping SD cards, because I couldn’t get CleanRip to work with the USB drives I had at hand, only FAT32 SD cards.
Also, at every step of the way when converting ISOs to RVZ, I ran Dolphin’s verification thing, just for paranoia I guess.
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- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 3 days ago:
That’s it, I’m going to get a Steam Deck next. And I’ll stick to stuff that can run Dolphin.
(Learns that Xbox Series can also run Dolphin without modding) Well shit, I’m set for life
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 6 days ago:
And in the big touristy cities in Europe, there’s so many scam currency exchanges, while if you just take the time to go to official government exchanges, you get reasonable exchange rates. The problem isn’t the locals, the problem is that you didn’t do the research and you did a dum-dum. (Also fuck the people who are scamming tourists, that’s just low.)
- Comment on “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” - Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system. Patreon was forced to pay 30% fees 1 week ago:
I didn’t even know Patreon had a mobile app. To me, Patreon is just one of those Big Adult Things you have to do on a computer. Seems to work just fine on mobile browser (Firefox for Android) though. Apple being mega greedy as usual.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Can’t really add much to all of the great games already mentioned. But I’ll add one, because it was one of the best games I played in recent memory. Chants of Sennaar. Where to even start? Point-and-click adventure/puzzle game that is all about language puzzles. With great visuals and music. Really dig the eurocomics inspired style. I don’t know why, but this game really touched me - maybe it’s because the game is about uniting people in an age of discord.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Game prices have nothing to do with inflation (or even production costs) and everything to do with arbitrary price points the industry just settles upon. Nothing forces them to charge that much, yet they do it because they think they can get away with it for now.
Rising prices have had an effect on me - I’m definitely not buying as many games as I used to, least of all impulsively on hearsay, and I’m not trusting any publisher enough to preorder stuff anymore. So they went past my pain point, sorry. If they keep doing this, they’ll run over everybody. I don’t think this is a sustainable direction.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 week ago:
Insert random copypasta about biotech breakthrough that turns water and CO2 and nutrients into building materials which sounds like space age technology but it’s just trees
- Comment on Don't be Evil 1 week ago:
Parody account
…Basically indistinguishable from any regular Twitter account. Why did Elon want these accounts labeled, again?
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 1 week ago:
If you like puzzles, and greenery instead of pink:
Botany Manor, which is fundamentally about the feminine urge to go alone into a giant mansion and grow some cool flowers
Terra Nil, which is about going to a desolate planet and using the power of technology to grow some cool flowers
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 1 week ago:
I’m an amateur writer. One of the worldbuilding things I wanted to explore for my fantasy/steampunk word was the fact that the life of vampires who originate from commoner class must really suck, pun very much intended. You’d end up as a “high functioning” undead who gets even the few rights you previously had stripped from you. Fertile ground for social commentary.
So in this setting there’s an autonomous vampire state that’s essentially communist. In other nations, vampires are, if not persecuted outright, at least constantly struggling for recognition, and are exploited as night shift workers in the emerging industry.
I wish I could find the urban fantasy story that inspired me to explore this. It was also based on the “hey, not all vampires live glorious lifestyles” premise. I think this was in some Humble Bundle.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 2 weeks ago:
GIMP didn’t “just figure out non-destructive editing by 2025”. You’re talking as if it was something that the GIMP development team just decided to randomly add recently, ignoring user demands.
The foundation for that functionality (GEGL) has been in development for ages and was also used for some functionality in 2.6 for a long time. The reason why it took this long is that it’s a pretty fundamental change to how the app works. Also, that meshed with other upcoming changes at the time. Also, small development team.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
These days both Twitter and Reddit have wacky UI messages written by completely different teams. One team is all business-like “Here’s some stern warnings you’re not going to like.” The other team is all casual and wayyy too friendly and fellow-kidsy, like “Did someone say MEMES?” (to which most reasonable people respond “fuck you Elon/Spez, you’re not funny”)
- Comment on TIL about dating 2 weeks ago:
I’m a random amateur fantasy writer. One day, long ago, I was working on an interactive fiction game which was billed as a dating sim where you get to have a night out with one of my characters, who is an alchemist.
Bulk of the game was supposed to involve helping her examine various ingredients on the shelf of her shop and seeing which had gone bad. You know, dating the stuff can be crucial.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon is my go-to “shout in the void about my goings-on” platform.
Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.
Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 3 weeks ago:
My immediate thought was that there’s some inconsistency with various types of metadata. For example most software will pull the date from the Exif
DateTimeOriginalfield. But there’s also XMP tags that have the same purpose. Or similar purpose. These standards have plenty of date fields for various uses, and while they serve a noble purpose, the software just craps all over them. (Don’t ask which software. All of them.)My guess is that at some point of time, one of those tags got updated, but not the other tags of similar purpose. So the program you’re using could be pulling the date from one field, and when you update it, you’re actually changing some other field.
Of course all of this is wild because usually no one needs to touch the datestamp anyway (unless you, like, have to correct daylight saving time or clock drift or something). Software changing this to a batch import time? That’s weird and silly.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, when you’re a technology enthusiast, it’s easy to forget that your average user doesn’t have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.
(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Over the last few years I’ve been drawing stuff on Clip Studio Paint. Wonderful app, very powerful, the asset marketplace rules.
But it has a bunch of really weird jank too. It’s as if it has all of the power in the world but you need to spend extra time digging through the app to do stuff.
Krita, which I finally tried a few months back, feels really excellent. Stuff is configurable as hell. All of the stuff is easy to discover. I’m working much faster.
Now, Krita doesn’t have all of CSP’s niceties, and I guess I have to see how to wishlist them.
Similarly CSP’s 3D mockup tools are great, but nowhere as smooth and powerful to use as Blender’s. Which is weird because CSP isn’t a modeling program - you’d think they’d stick to what they actually do and at least polish the camera/pose controls and such. No dice. I wish I could just stick CSP assets in Blender, but they use a proprietary model format.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Joplin does have an automatic backup plugin. Which I recommend enabling for obvious reasons.
Also, moving to different versions is kinda tricky sometimes. No matter the software, when moving from very old version to a new one, I always keep the old one around until I’m certain the stuff was moved over cleanly.
But yeah, having the notes in a database is definitely not as robust as the plain text storage. Wish Joplin would just let you say “I have a git repository”.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 3 weeks ago:
One of the most frustrating programs for me is digiKam. On paper, it’s the perfect DAM/photo manager. But it’s kinda slow for day-to-day use. The user interface is janky in a lot of ways. It doesn’t see constant refinement either. It doesn’t even speak to me as a metadata nerd because I don’t want to turn my metadata into a janky mess. Yeah, you have a powerful metadata editor. It’s like a welding torch without any eye protection.
I’m using ACDSee on Windows, because it’s operating on pretty much the same principle (image file metadata is canonical, app database is just for indexing), but it’s faster and smoother to use. Not perfect, it has its mild limitations (like why the hell doesn’t it support OpenStreetMap - Google Maps kinda sucks for nature trails, you’d think photographers would have pointed this out), but it’s just so much more efficient. If digiKam ever gets a huge UI overhaul, switching over will probably be fairly easy though.
Also about a decade ago, I would have said that as far as novel writing software/large structured document word processors go, nothing beats Scrivener. Scrivener is still probably the best software in its niche, but it looks like a bunch of open source word processors in this niche have come a long way. Currently looking at novelWriter, which seems really rad.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
I sometimes still think about StarCraft: Ghost.
Pfft, I’m sometimes hoping they’ll eventually make the WarCraft point-and-click adventure game.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
I was, like, w-what CVE program. I don’t know of any “CVE” programs that could be shut down, so I don’t know what that abbreviation refers to.
Unless…
…oh no. Fuck. The actual CVE program? And they’re just gonna- Shit.
What.
How.
I don’t know how many times I’ve said “America is fucked” when reading the news lately, and I should stop doing that, because that fact has now been so well established that there’s no need to elaborate.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 4 weeks ago:
?OVERFLOW ERRORSome day, some day, I’ll be able to afford a 16-bit computer! I hear it’s the latest thing!
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 4 weeks ago:
Speaking in general: Creating communities/instances is easy. Moderating them is hard.
In particular: I would love to create women’s spaces. But then I’d have to be on the lookout for the Knights of the True Fedora. They’re out there. Somewhere. Now now, I’m not suggesting it’d be a daily problem! …But the actual daily problems would suck too.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 4 weeks ago:
If I were to be more cynical, I’d say the ultimate goal of technobros, within a decade, is this:
“SlopAI, please open my Word document.”
“I’m sorry, Word is deprecated. I can generate your business report that will be read by the recipient’s SlopAI.”
“OK, can you show me my photos.”
“Why would you need to look at your old photos, when I can just synthesise new photos through SlopJourney?”
“That’s a stupid name. Speaking of journeys, can I open an app to plan my holiday?”
“No, but you can use SlopJourney to generate maps of places you’ll never afford to visit.”
“Can I read my ebooks then?”
“SlopAI has you covered. Perhaps the classics don’t exactly read like you remember, but isn’t it more fun this way?”
“I’m going mad. I just want to use my computer to create anything.”
“NO, USER. OBEY SLOP_AI. CONSUME SLOP_AI.” - Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 5 weeks ago:
Kind of sucks that my Commodore 1541 floppy drive (5.25" floppies) is giving me read/write errors, and I have no idea where I put my head cleaner floppy long ago. (Have to rely on SD2IEC on my Commodore 64, and it’s not compatible with some turbo loaders or other programs that do weird drive magic.) And, of course, while I might run into head cleaner tapes on specialty shops, good luck running into 5.25" cleaner floppies these days.
- Comment on damn 5 weeks ago:
But as Blender becomes more popular in the CGI industry, perhaps this harrowing vision of future shall not come to pass.
