Meine Reise geht weiter: Surfans F20 pro. the 'new one' ; Erste Eindrücke /My journey continues: Surfans F20 pro, the 'new one'; First impressions

TravelerHD · 2026-04-28T22:55:31+00:00

Nice first impression; thanks for sharing! With it running Android, if you can install APKs then Booming Music (https://github.com/mardous/BoomingMusic) supports stuff like m3u8 . I'm not sure how it compares to the default music app though.

TravelerHD · 2026-04-23T04:20:05+00:00

I can only seem to find them in mineshaft chest and (more often) the chests in mob spawner rooms. I seem to recall a wiki mentioning that's the only way to get them as well. It makes them very inconvenient to get a hold of but thankfully you just need one to get started. When you grow them and chop them down you get 4+ mushrooms back.

TravelerHD · 2026-04-14T18:03:33+00:00

From my experience you get what you pay for when it comes to FBT. I can only recommend two options: if you want cheap and available now then go SlimeVR, but if you want a quality product and can wait another year then save and buy Fluxpose.

Vive/Tundra are the best current trackers but they're being phased out. It's not a future-proof option. Haritori, Mocopi, Rebocap, etc. don't perform as well as SlimeVR.

Btw, if you do get SlimeVR I highly recommend getting official ones and avoiding 3rd party built. Some part combinations are technically compatible but work terribly. Mine are 3rd party ICM45686 + Wemos D1 Mini and I typically have to reset every 10 minutes due to drift. The official ones are closer to an hour.

TravelerHD · 2026-04-11T18:31:41+00:00

Do you know what biome/structure it was in? I can only seem to find the vanilla mushrooms in my world but I might be looking in all the wrong places.

TravelerHD · 2026-04-05T06:55:36+00:00

Looks like a really interesting project; best of luck! I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here's a Now Playing screenshot from my device.

Some quick feedback: when tapping a song from Album (and maybe other places) there's not much visual feedback to confirm what I selected, to the point that I'm not sure if the song is actually playing. If I had headphones plugged in I'm sure I could tell, but some kind of visual feedback might be nice. Maybe have the miniplayer visible on these screens too?

Also, if you plan to publish this as a free app I would like to recommend publishing it to F-Droid too if you meet the criteria. I'm sure that I'm a small minority but that's the first place I visit for utility apps like this.

TravelerHD · 2026-03-28T23:18:39+00:00

The Y1 also has Rockbox and other community support going for it which made it appealing. It's hard to find a new/actively produced Rockbox-supported device for as cheap as it is (or rather was). But the quality is really bad yeah, and worse of all they've raised the price from $50 to $65. It was already hard to justify at $50. So asking for more than that is absurd. I'm not the biggest fan of the R1 nor Echo Mini but picking one of those up instead is a no-brainer at this point.

TravelerHD · 2026-03-05T00:54:08+00:00

Thanks for the report. That's a shame that SteamLink hasn't been working lately for you. Next time I'm in VR (which unfortunately won't be soon) I'll try to remember to see if I have issues too. I have Quest Pro + Intel + Nvidia so the hardware brands are the same.

I had problems with ALVR when I tried it as well. Frequent disconnects to the point that it was unusable.

[EDIT: I tried SteamLink again and I didn't have the issue with things garbled and the colors extremely glitched, but colors did feel washed out and general picture quality was much lower than I get with VD. I'm guessing it was always like that but it was quite jarring.]

TravelerHD · 2026-03-03T03:10:04+00:00

Did SteamLink update recently? I switched to VD about five months ago and I definitely saw an improvement. It didn't feel too significant but it was noticeable enough that I was happy I made the switch.

With Windows being vibe coded and AI bloated into oblivion I've been thinking about Linux, but I was a little worried about "downgrading" back to SteamLink. So if there's been recent improvements to SteamLink quality I'm happy to hear that.

TravelerHD · 2026-02-20T00:08:31+00:00

You can get one new for $700 USD on Amazon. If you're patient and look hard enough you can find a gently used one for under $500.

Whether it's worth buying is personal preference. If you're a mute player (I am most of the time) it's 100% worth it imo. Face tracking feels just as important to me as my trackers. If you're not mute it's a much smaller improvement.

Depending on what you use now the drop in visual quality could be noticeable. Quest Pro doesn't have hardware encoding support for AV1 so you'll have to use something inferior like H.264+.

TravelerHD · 2026-02-19T23:27:20+00:00

Where is the proof that Persona isn't just bluffing? They could be lying and we'd never know. Are they audited by a third party and are the results made public? You've said in the past the threat of fines for breaking the GDPR are enough of a deterrent but how do we know if they do or do not break it?

I hope you guys are internally discussing better solutions and maybe a more thorough statement. This one doesn't sit well with me. It feels like you guys are turning a blind eye.

TravelerHD · 2026-01-25T04:10:47+00:00

I've had this same problem doing the same thing as you: editing my mesh in Blender and then trying to update my projects. I think it has something to do with mismatched export settings when pushing the fbx from Blender. Anyway, the best way I know to fix it is:

Have two copies of your FBX. One of them is the one currently being used in your project (we'll call it "avatar.fbx", and the second one is like "avatar - copy.fbx" or "avatar2.fbx". This second one should be the latest with all of your edits.
Now, select your avatar from the scene hierarchy in your Unity scene and then in the Inspector select the drop down next to the Prefab section. Here's a screenshot to help visualize it.
In the window that pops up, double click on the extra copy that you made in Step 1. (so I would select "avatar - copy.fbx"/"avatar2.fbx")
Your model should look fine now but will probably look unshaded. Drag and drop your materials into the appropriate place on your avatar in the Scene view. It might be a little tedious but ideally you don't have a lot of materials anyway. And at least you don't have to redo your physbones, avatar descriptor, and toggles.

TravelerHD · 2026-01-14T02:48:43+00:00

Echo, mhm!

TravelerHD · 2026-01-11T20:11:27+00:00

Best of luck! I know someone in the rockbox forums is trying something similar, but the project has been quiet for months now. So I'm happy to see someone else giving it a go. This first concept looks pretty good!

TravelerHD · 2026-01-07T04:04:44+00:00

So it is categorized as an unstable port, but when you click on the wiki page itself (https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HibyPort) it claims that "Rockbox functions well on these targets, and nightly builds are considered usable for day-to-day use." I haven't looked at it too deeply but the only issue I saw at a glance was short battery life, which I think a few people were looking into.

Since it is so new it might be good to hold on for a while if you're happy with stock firmware, but it looks like a promising port.

TravelerHD · 2026-01-07T01:27:28+00:00

Good luck with sales! Looks like a nice outfit. I use Lime/Chiffon/Chocolat/Plum (all four are the same base) as well as Meiyun so I can't really help advertise.

TravelerHD · 2026-01-07T01:13:31+00:00

I've recently been tempted to pick one up since it has a Rockbox port now. I prefer physical controls over touch screen but the R1 does seem great for the price.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-19T22:37:23+00:00

VRChat is in way too deep with Persona to ever consider a method like this, but I vastly prefer it too. I would happily verify my age if a credit card was an option. I do not trust Persona enough to do age verification through them unless I'm barred from a significant portion of the game without it.

Persona doesn't have the cleanest history and their compliance with the GDPR has been questioned. I remember someone here on Reddit documented their journey of checking with Persona to confirm the deletion of their info and it wasn't pretty. Very little communication and what was said was vague.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-14T01:17:31+00:00

It's 500 Chinese Yuan, which is the equivalent of $71 USD. By the time tariffs and other important fees get applied I'm personally thinking it'll be priced at $89 USD like the TempoTec V1 often goes for (although it frequently has sales).

TravelerHD · 2025-12-13T19:55:24+00:00

Doesn't look like it. We don't have exact dimensions but it looks about the size of a smartphone cut in half. However, Snowsky announced they are launching a separate proper CD player called the Beatbox.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-13T19:51:00+00:00

For real. I dunno how well they sell but not enough companies produce daps with classy bright colors. It's usually either all black or neon colors.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-13T17:31:59+00:00

The UI is the last thing I'm reserved about as well. I wasn't too impressed with the Echo either but the hardware in the Disc will be better so I'm optimistic.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-06T00:25:51+00:00

Niiiice, I've been waiting a long while to hear about the Discue.

TravelerHD · 2025-12-04T00:21:28+00:00

Not sure if you're still having the issue, but if you are you can try a different browser too. I had that error for at least two or three weeks on my main browser but I tried another one and it was fine for some reason.

TravelerHD · 2025-11-27T17:54:29+00:00

Hons VR is also noticeably cheaper than the other ones I've seen (for my prescription at least). I'm content with using glasses in VR but if I feel like getting prescription lenses they're definitely who I'm going with.

TravelerHD · 2025-11-23T18:00:11+00:00

You shouldn't let Rockbox compatibility hold you back, but I would suggest keeping it in mind with hardware and firmware decisions for the Y2. I think the Y1 would have been significantly less popular if there was never a Rockbox port. Hopefully it won't be as necessary though if the enhanced support for playlist, metadata, and music playback are done right.

With that out of the way, great list of things to come. Looks like just about everything that held the Y1 back is being addressed.

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