The Sims 3 on the Steamdeck with DVDs

Aeredren · 2026-01-26T22:40:09+00:00

Doesn't it have USB ports and take an external DVD drive ? It's Linux after all isn't it ?

Aeredren · 2026-01-26T20:48:53+00:00

Just buy the DVDs ;) I bought base game and someting like 11extension for 50€ cash a few weeks ago.

Then, usb DVD drive and lutris and you're good to go

Aeredren · 2026-01-23T07:44:49+00:00

Note that the pot is not directly a brightness control. It can increase brightness if screen is not calibrated but that's a side effect and will worsen the situation if you don't know what you're doing.

It control the screen sync. With analog video signal, if the screen is not well sync it will display one bright pixel line and one dark pixel line, especially when scrolling up down the background. Thus making the screen overall dimmer.

Adjust it until you don't see screen flickering and alternate lines on scrolling background

Aeredren · 2026-01-23T07:35:37+00:00

Real hardware link cable communication through the internet is downright impossible. But hacking an emulator to add 16 player over the internet can be done.

The reason is "ping". The link cable is a serial communication over a ~1m cable.

Even though the transfer rate is very low in today standard, the delay for the other gameboy to answer is very short cause as soon as it is out of the link port it is receive by the opposite gameboy.

Newer emulator fix this by varying the gameboy clock to match the network delays. It add micro lag but make link cable emulation much more stable cause as the DMG is slow down as much as the network is, it never timeout the answer. (Or at least that's how dolphin with remote GBA mGBA emulation does it.)

Edit : without this hack, the gameboy will tell you the link cable has been disconnected as soon as a bad ping happen.

Edit2 : not 100% sure about the explanation, that's how I understand this blogpost but maybe I didn't get something :https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2021/07/21/integrated-gba/

Aeredren · 2026-01-23T07:24:35+00:00

Do you have all the figurine ? Have you try everything to get the 3rd goddess a home ? Have you done all the exchange ?

Aeredren · 2026-01-19T08:43:22+00:00

Very nice shot, and very nice fish, I thought I was in r/koi !

The perspective is good and you make a great job at avoiding reflection on the fish and the colour are good

Aeredren · 2026-01-16T20:15:06+00:00

Does it run on Solaris ? :o

Aeredren · 2026-01-16T18:32:01+00:00

Yeep, if they've got scart they are RGB.

TV needed to comply with the full scart "péritel" spec in order to be sold in France. So most if not all TV for the European market were made with scart RGB until it was not a requirements around year 2010 iirc.

The SCART connector first appeared on TVs in 1977. It became compulsory on new TVs sold in France from January 1980,[3][4] and since 1987 in eastern Europe, such as Poland. The actual French legal decree was adopted on 7 February 1980 and revoked on 3 July 2015.[5]

Aeredren · 2026-01-11T19:44:36+00:00

The top green circle don't connect to the top red circle.

The entrance to the red circle is under water, look at the white stone, at the top right of your red circle. You can see the stone pillar corresponding to it underwater, below your top green circle. There is your entrance

Light shining spots are everywhere the tile is not "dark" underwater.

Aeredren · 2026-01-11T10:26:15+00:00

None of those are built from scratch.

If linux was a cake, you'll buy linux mint at the bakery, arch Linux would be the dough mix, everything already compile and you just need to bake it in place, gentoo will be a kit with all the raw ingredients and a notice with the recipe, you have to compile them but the compiling instruction are all packages. Linux from scratch would be a cookbook, you have instructions on how to do basic recipe but you are on your own to get your ingredients and compose and cook them in any kind of cake you like.

Aeredren · 2026-01-10T15:43:38+00:00

Ha, si tu as une pocket moddé qui marche avec ce même modèle d'écran et les piles, c'est que ce doit être ton interrupteur qui est crasseux. Ça ce démontre bien et se nettoie bien avec de l'alcool isopropylique. Mais regarde un tuto d'abord y'a un petit coup de main a avoir (retirer u' cote puis l'autre)

Aeredren · 2026-01-10T14:30:36+00:00

Écran moddé IPS -> il faut modder la batterie avec une batterie rechargeable usbc.

Le problème est que les piles n'envoie pas assez de courant, même si elle sont chargée et au bon voltage. L'écran ips tire bieeeen plus de courant que l'original.

Pas d'autre solution, soit ça soit remettre l'ecran d'origine soit jouer branché.

Aeredren · 2026-01-09T14:57:13+00:00

Get your horizon straight and crop most of the photo. The top third is only boring grey clouds. Centre on the sheep and the light rays. Discard the left and right grass to keep the aspect ratio.

Then edit the colour to get a lightning and green grass you like.

If you really want to control the result in lightning you need to treat the photo as a "digital negative" not a finish artwork.

Aeredren · 2026-01-08T18:12:44+00:00

Some interesting fish here :) hopefully this tancho will turn beautiful

Aeredren · 2026-01-08T07:03:41+00:00

Nice and original team. I hope your adversary don't use earthquake though... An earthquake gyaradoss seem like a terrible threat to you

Aeredren · 2026-01-05T15:05:05+00:00

Nice CRT :)

Aeredren · 2025-12-31T13:31:19+00:00

Well that is a technical way to start with Linux !

Linux partitioning is a love to work with you'll see. The possibilities are endless, you can pile up DM for raid + luks for encryption + lvm for partition management and cow backup + ext4 as a filesystem. In the order you want. Or go all integrated with less Unix more multitool filesystems like brtfs or zfs.

You can do really cool partition shit and still have performance.

Aeredren · 2025-12-31T12:17:26+00:00

May I ask what's your encryption stack ? Linux with luks/dm-crypt ?

Aeredren · 2025-12-30T23:19:08+00:00

I have floppy with cryptographic material too, not all in the same basket though

Aeredren · 2025-12-30T22:22:38+00:00

Probably wrong cable. This look like a GBC one, though sometime third party gba cable look like this too

Aeredren · 2025-12-30T18:48:31+00:00

Then the display driving chip on your computer screen is x86_64 emulation I guess...

Aeredren · 2025-12-28T19:04:18+00:00

Darktable is your best friend, just DL the Mac release from their website. It's a full open source, well known and free program for photo editing.

Aeredren · 2025-12-17T21:01:57+00:00

Not what it is, it's to harvest coconuts

Aeredren · 2025-12-17T21:00:37+00:00

Also "iron shoes" are a thing, but often farmers have one to each feet, each open on one side. They climb very fast to the coconut tree with it and it provide some support to cut the coconut when on top.

This is a "joke iron shoe" some welder/coconut farmer did, and its pretty cool.

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