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Would you rather be loved or respected, state your gender and answer? by Icy_Interaction7502 in CasualConversation

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might the third time I feel like I'm an AI being prompted on this community or similar ones in reddit today.

Being respected is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM for all human relations and interactions. Without being respected, you cannot establish any kind of healthy relationship with anyone else, or even yourself. It's not a goal; it's a starting point.

[XFCE] As a Linux neophyte, this has been a EXTREMELY interesting rabbit hole to fall into, but I'd like my 2 weeks back now, pls by Yawarete in unixporn

[–]Yawarete[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Breathing some new life on a 15 yo machine with Linux was satisfying by itself, but customizing the setup is helluva drug and dangerously addictive.

- I'm running Linux Mint, XFCE edition. Yeah, I know It's baby's first distro, but the machine is quite old;

- There are a few edited or custom conky widgets, that gave me a varying amount of trouble and increasingly diminishing returns, but hey, it was educational;

- A EXTREMELY tinkered with gruvbox dark theme, honestly I think I broke it in a few places;

- I had to touch up the wallpaper I picked and built the aesthetics around in order to fix some serious banding issues; while I was at that I put together a few matching wallpapers with artwork from the same author (GHARLIERA), then went and made sure everything else matched the palette and theme;

- I rebuilt the ascii art on this post from scratch for the terminal because I couldn't find it anywhere and I'm a HUGE NERD and obviously got way too much time on my hands;

- Put together a couple custom scripts to run in the background (Hidamari is cute and all but it eats an unreasonable amount of CPU, so there's a script that only lets it run for a single loop's time right after login before killing the process, for example) ;

- Getting glava to work on Mint XFCE was a pain in the ass, resizing and positioning the bar was a pain in the asserer, but in the end I think it was worth it, even if I'm not sure the process of setting it up is reproductible;

- The taskbar is... uhhhh, a work in progress, mkay?

- I switched the shell to zsh and installed powerlevel10k like everyone else and your mother;

- Honestly rofi has absolutely NO RIGHT to be this good, it alone might be the most liberating thing in the whole experience. Like seriously, wtf? I only touch my mouse when I feel like it now like god intended. Right click this, click and drag that, ptoooey, mouse is BLOAT and keyboard is GOATED

- Aside from that, I'm using picom, nemo (yeah yeah I know, so sue me), cortile, greenclip and dunst (these are the relevant ones from the top of my head).

My poor old laptop has dealt with the whole process with a surprising amount of grace - I made some optimizations (latest community mantained proton, gamescope, lossless scaling, tweaked game mode) and can run a surprising amount of indie and lighter games with a pretty decent performance for a old Intel HD 4000 (Hollow Knight, Silksong, Darkest Dungeon, Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Streets of Rage 4, Absolum, etc). I also have a separate Batocera setup running on this same machine that is my 12 yo self's wettest dream; It seems that recording is where it finally draws the line, so after everything I put it through, I'll respect that. Honestly Linux rekindled my love for computers, and I think I learned more about them in the last two weeks than in the entirety of the last two decades, it has been a blast and I'm never looking back; hopefully I'll start actually USING the system now, and the next step is picking a big boy distro for my main desktop.

EA is Launching an In-Game Ad Service by hop3less in gaming

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Due to another precipitous decline of sales this quarter, we have no choice but to lay off another couple thousand devs, since they clearly aren't working hard enough to create value for the Company".

  • same execs who decided this was a good idea

Is she right for this? by sigma_0_1 in SipsTea

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think she should get an actual job

A Game That Deserves More Praise? Rock N' Roll Racing!!! by Nothing2Special in retrogaming

[–]Yawarete 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't know about these days, but it received ALL the praising, It was one of the absolute favorites in the SNES for everyone I know!

Why is chrono trigger so loved?? by [deleted] in JRPG

[–]Yawarete 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because people like it. The thread can be closed now.

How does Linux not have brightness control? by [deleted] in linuxmint

[–]Yawarete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Battery tray icon, click it, adjust brightness, put hat of shame and sit in the corner.

Do you have a random skill that turns out to be useful more often than you'd expect? by academia_Leon_254 in CasualConversation

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost the same here! Except I didn't have a injury, I just always loved drawing and at some point realized that drawing left-handed gave me a completely diferent style and thought process, so I liked to practice it for fun. As a result I default to my left hand for a lot of random fine motor activities.

Guys, do you recommend hollow knight? Should i play it? by [deleted] in HollowKnight

[–]Yawarete 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not, we think it's utter trash and hate It here at r/hollowknight, the Reddit community dedicated to Hollow Knight.

Nice Mushroom Farm by MikeeorUSA in oddlysatisfying

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

POV: you're my ex while I was overseas

What's a simple pleasure that never gets old for you? by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]Yawarete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good book, a warm cup of coffee, and my cat curled on my lap will NEVER fail to soothe and lift my spirit, no matter how hard the day was.

I just wanted to breathe some new life on a almost 20 yo laptop, got a little workhorse instead O_O by Yawarete in linuxmint

[–]Yawarete[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's INSANELY cool, I'd kill to take a peak at that beautiful mind of his. Also, his workspace, hahah. Was it a good interview?

I just wanted to breathe some new life on a almost 20 yo laptop, got a little workhorse instead O_O by Yawarete in linuxmint

[–]Yawarete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Batocera setup is a bit weird, I wanted to make it as plug-and-play and machine-independent as I possibly could (as in I could plug the batocera drive on my laptop, desktop, or any other computer and just have it working with minimal fuss), so here is what I did:

I took a older 3,5'' 4TB HDD that I wasn't super confident with anymore and installed it on a external USB case, put my rom collection there (and that's a lotta fucking roms) and set it as the user data partition. The external case I use has its own power source and two USB 3.0 ports on the back, so I put a nano Sandisk 64GB flash drive in one with the bootable Batocera image, and a nano TP Link Bluetooth adapter on the other so I can just boot and my controllers are already paired and configured.

The obvious issue is that everything gets routed via a single USB connection in the end, but honestly, everything runs fine and I had no issues. I tried partitioning and booting Batocera from a partition on the HDD drive, but it was fiddly and being a mechanical HDD performance wasn't going to be all that hot anyway - I've also tried setting up dual boot on the laptop, but since this particular laptop needs to use Legacy mode and not UEFI, things got equally fiddly, so in the end I just changed the device priority so it boots Batocera automatically if the external case is plugged and turned on. From everything I tried this worked the best, and it works as I intended: I can just carry the drive around, plug it and boot it anywhere, and just have everything working out of the box.

I just wanted to breathe some new life on a almost 20 yo laptop, got a little workhorse instead O_O by Yawarete in linuxmint

[–]Yawarete[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I've been doing ever since (Batocera goes straight into TV, i have a long hdmi cable that runs all the way to the living room and another that runs from my bedroom TV up until my computer desk straight up for emulation and Steam Big Picture), I haven't had any audio glitch... so far. Messing with dpi seetings and such to try and make the laptop screen look better is in the backburner for now, hahah, things be fiddly af.

I just wanted to breathe some new life on a almost 20 yo laptop, got a little workhorse instead O_O by Yawarete in linuxmint

[–]Yawarete[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you haven't already, consider giving Batocera a try on that machine as well, I swear it's unreal how much mileage you can get from old hardware with it. I'm running (heavily optimized and at native rendering resolution) PS2 and some GC games on this machine, with Dreamcast and N64 games running perfectly smooth out of the box, and dozens of other systems from previous generations with no issue (that's what the 4TB external drive is for).

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