WhiteBurrito
@WhiteBurrito@lemmy.world
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 2 days ago:
Who is this “4chan”?
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 week ago:
I agree, people make it out like we’re giving human rights to unconscious AI… I’m just saying thanks because I’m polite to anyone and anything easy as that
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 weeks ago:
No worries! If you have any questions on the smart pro just let me know, it’s the only one of those devices that I have
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 weeks ago:
If you look for stores with good reviews and good sales numbers you’re 90% sure you’ll get what you paid for. There are some other sellers for these types of devices like LITNXT, and you can even find them on Amazon (usually more expensive).
If you want anything like PS2 or gamecube prepare to pay $150+ for a device, and most likely it will be an android based device like the retroid pocket devices
Most of these ambernic/Miyoo/powkiddy/Trimui Linux devices are aimed to play up to PSP, and some PSP games will run poorly, they’re using older cheaper chips, so they’re honestly weak devices.
IMO, best case is buying one of these devices for psp and below, and a steam deck or other handheld PC for PSP onwards… And PC gaming obviously.
I have an ROG Ally, and PS2, gamecube and WiiU runs great, but it feels like overkill for GBA and PS1 for example, so, for older emulation I just use this $60 device
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 weeks ago:
I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro, if you’re looking for horizontal devices, it’s also worth a look
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 weeks ago:
Confort and battery life.
I love my ROG Ally, it’s amazing for a bunch of games, but I honestly don’t find it comfortable to play GBA or PS1 games for example, and the battery life is like 4 hours tops.
I recently got a Trimui Smart Pro and been playing GBA games on and off in between work meetings or when I go out. It fits on my pocket alongside my phone and the battery lasts like 6 hours depending on the system.
Different uses cases, and for $50 it’s honestly not a hard sell
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
The pump works without software obviously, but iCue let’s you change the speed of the pump.
Sound levels of the headset refers to the equalizer profiles.
FSR Frame gen ISN’T AFMF, which is great on older games capped at 60fps where you can easily get 120fps and it honestly feels fine.
and of course I know steamOS is just a distro, but they actually fine tuned stuff for gaming, and like I said, if you’re only gaming, sure SteamOS/Bazzite or whatever might just work. But if you use your computer for basically anything else, most people will still have issues.
All of what you described is just EXTRA work people need to know just to play games. The reality is that most “solutions” are always workarounds or alternatives. Most people prefer NATIVE first party support.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
I would, except there’s always some software or some feature missing. And there’s always the FOSS app that “might” meet “some” aspects of what native software does but it’s almost always never “native” support.
Sure, I know I can play MOST games on Linux, but I know for a fact they’ll launch on windows.
Or things like, sure, I know that my corsair Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB, but what about controlling the pump in my AIO? Or the sound levels on ny headset? Or the DPI in my mouse?
Then you have things like drivers. I’m not using any Nvidia GPUs right now, but the nvidia support for Linux is atrocious and you lose access to things like RTX-HDR and RTX Voice, and hell, even in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2.
Then the software, not only does things like Adobe or Office just don’t exist, the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that’s worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum, hell, even the Google office suite is being adopted faster… Ah, but if the software is available there’s still a chance it doesn’t work because it’s missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and… Sigh
All in all, it’s just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it’s ok, and for laptops I’d think is mostly ok, great even. But I know I could deal with Linux, and I don’t want to troubleshoot a whole PC to play a game when I already spend the whole day dealing with solving issues or servers or services on my job.
I’m rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that “could” work nicely.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Feeling glad I bought my lifetime license like two years ago
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
Hadn’t thought of it that way, but you’re completely right, same as Black Flag tbh
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
I honestly enjoyed the setting of Origins and the “new take” on combat, since it was before anything they could basically do whatever they wanted so it kinda worked , but that’s the only one I enjoyed after revelations
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
Man, I dunno, but anything after AC Origins hast felt so bad and soulless… I’m probably not buying this, specially since anything after AC3 just stopped the “modern day” storyline and now is just incoherent plot lines that really amount to nothing… Dunno, not a fan of it
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 month ago:
They recently sued a tiny convenience store in Costa Rica because it was called “Super Mario”, because in Costa Rica, any moderately large store is a “Super”, and the owner happened to be named “Mario” so… You can figure it out.
Anyways, Nintendo lost that lawsuit
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds | Review Thread (89/100 OpenCritic) 1 month ago:
I don’t think that “game-wise” people had issues with it, the formula clearly works, but the performance is fucking atrocious for how it looks like…
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 2 months ago:
Dual boot Bazzite and windows(?)
- Comment on Hardcore gaming 2 months ago:
Just get an ROG Ally at that point
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 2 months ago:
I don’t recall tbh, I played it ages ago lol
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 2 months ago:
Have you played Chasm? It’s a metroidvania, nothing outside of the ordinary, but map is randomly generated, so you’re guaranteed to get lost lol