ProdigalFrog
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- The Ultimate Guide to Affordable NVIS Comms (How to Build a Regional Off-Grid Radio Box)www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 hour ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 2 comments
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 days ago:
I had no issue making Wii Sports Resort with motion plus.
Looking at it again, I misremembered the Dolphin wiki entry for it. Apparently it only has problems unless using Bluetooth Passthrough mode, which I didn’t really want to mess with to get working with my bluetooth dongle.
you can completely erase the pain point of this by using Playnite as front end (in windows) and configuring your emulators (Dolphin, PCSX2 etc) to start full screen WITH controller support started at run time, along with enabling hot key macros for shutting down game and returning to dashboard etc. Playnite has native scripting control.
Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to use Playnite, as I’ve fully sworn off Windows personally in favor of Linux. However, even if Playnite were on Linux, I’m honestly not sure I’d go that route for myself. Even though it’s fully configurable powerful, with macros that can be set up to get things just right, and specific versions of Dolphin may be more ideal for a particular game, I’m kind’ve at a point in my life where that type of fine-tuning and tinkering is far less appealing compared to when I was younger, where I would’ve seen it as a fun challenge.
The original merit of consoles was that they’re simple plug-n-play devices that don’t require much though to use, and that aspect is really appealing to me nowadays, as it leaves me more time to troubleshoot or experiment with non-gaming things, like tinkering to get a good audio production setup going on my Linux PC with certain outboard audio (which can be time consuming to figure out). So for me, a jail broken Wii really fits the bill of a simple box that I can just turn on and know everything will just work, and no update will mess anything up and require me to look into it.
But that’s just me! For others, that tinkering and the end result of it is highly gratifying, and more power to em, I say :)
- Comment on GPT 1 week ago:
I know its been a few days since y’all posted this, but I wasn’t logged in when I saw it, and I just need to lay down to ya how much I laughed at this damn thing. Damn if you don’t find the best memes, Track
- Comment on 10 Green Tech Innovations Leading the Future of Sustainable Technology and Planet Protection 2 weeks ago:
Bear in mind that only 10% of the userbase of a platform like lemmy will post any content at all (most users are lurkers).
Considering the fairly low size of our userbase, I would put forward that anyone bothering to make a post is being far, far more involved and active than most (even if you believe the posts are not to your standards). I don’t believe attempting to to shame them for not also putting the contents of a link into the post itself will not be productive towards fostering active communities.
I would suggest if you find the title or preview text is not compelling enough to read the article, perhaps just move onto the next?
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
Only downside with the miyoo is the size of it makes my hands cramp up if I play any game that requires a lot of movement, like fast paced racers. Didn’t think it’d be an issue since I have really small hands, but alas.
It’s excellent in every other way though, probably will get one of those grips that it can slot into to make it more comfortable, but I do kinda wish I’d opted for something a bit more ergonomic out of the gate, with controls on the sides of the screen, or a clamshell design, instead of the classic gameboy shape.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
If you have a compatible Bluetooth adapter (it can be hit or miss), you can select Real Wiimotes in the controller section of Dolphin, and make sure continuous scanning is enabled, then once a Wii game is running, you press 1 & 2 simultaneously on the Wiimote, and it’ll sync up (but certain controllers, like Wiimotes with motion plus built in may need you to use the dedicated sync button instead to sync).
You’ll also need a USB IR bar for the Wiimotes to function, which can be had for around 8 bucks from ebay.
However, I personally couldn’t get the Wii motion plus functionality to work in the handful of games that use it, and some games still don’t work right in dolphin, like Wii Sports Resort.
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 2 weeks ago:
Seconding the Wii. I personally dismissed it for many years as a gimmick console, but recently gave it a chance and did a deep dive on its library, and was astonished how many good titles it had available.
However, after experimenting with Dolphin vs using the games natively on a nodded console, I ending up forgoing emulation, as I found that it was significantly less convenient to use compared to just booting up the console and immediately having the controllers synced up and working perfectly.
That avoided the need to boot up my couch PC, navigate to Dolphin with my Bluetooth keyboard/mouse, make sure it was set up properly (some games need certain settings enabled to avoid weird visual glitches, like Resident Evil 4) launch it, full screen it, and then sync the Wii controller (certain models of controllers must be synced with the sync button in dolphin, while others let you hold down 1 and 2 simultaneously). And if I left a game to play a different one, I had to go back to my Bluetooth keyboard, launch a game, full screen, and sync all over again.
I could’ve negated most of that faff by installing a retroarch distro to my couch PC, like Batocera, but I personally hate the UI/UX of retroarch and its various frontends.
I also found that my Wii motion plus controllers simply wouldn’t work correctly for the games that utilize it, and some games still don’t work properly in dolphin, like Wii Sports Resort.
The only downside of using the actual Wii is that it only outputs 480p, but with cheap component cables and the deflicker disabled in the ROM loader, it usually isn’t that bad once you’re moving around and immersed.
But that’s just my 2 cents.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Review - Not the game I was looking for 2 weeks ago:
The reviewer concludes it’s not a good sequel, didn’t enjoy most of their time in it. It’s a fairly okay detective game wrapped up in poor beat-em up combat.
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- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 2 weeks ago:
I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, hopefully you find something interesting from it :)
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
Tyranny (a different RPG by obsidian) puts you in the role of a fairly high ranking judge working for a brutal expanding empire. You have the option to play a really nasty person if you wish. Not terribly funny though, usually quite a serious vibe.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve been holding off on Cyberpunk 2077, it’s in a really solid state nowadays, and has a pretty dang good main story with lots of roleplaying options, and plays well with a controller.
Terra Nil is a cool relaxing solarpunk game about restoring the environment. Not sure how complete controller support is, but its rated playable for the steam deck (could be hit or miss).
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- Comment on Video Game development throughout the 80s (Short Documentary) 4 weeks ago:
Glad you enjoyed! :)
I’ll be posting more of StrafeFox’s stuff here, they’re criminally lesser known considering the consistent superb quality of their videos.
- Building a Commodore 64 Laptop That Never Existed - The Portable 64 (Concept Design)www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
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- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 month ago:
It’s not that they don’t process words, it’s that those without internal monologues may think in concepts, images, or visualized actions rather than using the words those concepts are attached to. As an example, some deaf people if they have an internalized monologue have reported their monologue being visualized sign language, instead of audible speech spoken in their head.
Simon Roper does a couple really excellent videos on this subject, if you’d like to hear a very eloquent first hand experience of someone else’s non-monologue internal thoughts.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 month ago:
Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war did a good job of demonstrating that smaller communities could federate and work together cooperatively without a centralized hierarchical government.
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- Sodium-Ion batteries could lower grid energy storage costs by 80% For cities | Edenicitywww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 5 comments
- Comment on Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name 2 months ago:
I also thought buying the name for so much money (over a million, and Peri refinanced his house to afford it) just wasn’t worth it.
But with so much invested now, they’re likely to fight it out in court to the end. Apparently the Dutch company’s ownership of the name is more dubious, but it will still be costly to fight.
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 2 months ago:
Fair enough :p
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 2 months ago:
Ding ding!
- Comment on What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47] 2 months ago:
It’s the name of the channel, not a description of what Oracle does.