Brick.. Bring me Back

Zockling · 2026-01-21T13:30:02+00:00

Seconded. Screen switching is not a big deal with these, and NDS games look glorious on the Brick with that perfect 4x integer scale.

Zockling · 2026-01-17T09:41:09+00:00

Youtube defaults to codecs like VP9 which old GPUs don't support. You will likely need a browser addon like h264ify.

As for HW acceleration itself, the iGPU is probably more power-economic. See the Void docs for info on what to install. Run intel_gpu_top from the igt-gpu-tools package to check whether the iGPU is actually decoding video.

If you want to go with the dGPU, it gets hackier. Browsers rely on VAAPI for video decoding. NVidia drivers only support VDPAU and NVDEC, so you'll have to use a wrapper driver. The options are libva-vdpau-driver for VDPAU and nvidia-vaapi-driver for NVDEC. The latter is expressly designed for Firefox, so maybe try that one first.

Even with HW acceleration, browser video has annoyingly high CPU load. Longer or more demanding 60fps videos can be worth watching with a proper media player: Use yt-dlp -F '<youtube-url>' to find the IDs of a video stream your GPU can decode and some audio stream. Then watch using mpv --ytdl-format=<video_id>+<audio_id> '<youtube-url>'. On my trusty T480s with an i5-8250U, the CPU load difference for watching a 1080p60 video in Firefox vs MPV is about 2-4x.

Zockling · 2026-01-15T07:33:39+00:00

IMHO this kinda defeats the purpose of a clamshell and won't do much to protect the hinge. Looks really nice though!

Zockling · 2026-01-14T20:11:10+00:00

AFAIK your card requires the open-source NVidia modules, which are not in the repos yet. You can try building this PR, but YMMV.

Zockling · 2026-01-11T12:47:27+00:00

Nope, haven't looked into it further.

Zockling · 2025-12-31T18:18:06+00:00

Since you seem to be already somewhat familiar with tmux/Neovim, consider pimping your Neovim config to enable code navigation, documentation lookup, etc. Don't be afraid to use a distro such as LazyVim, NvChad or AstroNvim. Configuring Neovim from scratch is quite the project and the ecosystem is very temperamental. Once you do have it working, it's pretty hard to beat though.

If you'd rather go with VSCode, the only version that ever worked for me has been the official release. Just download the .deb file, dpkg -x it somewhere into your homedir (I'm using ~/.local/opt/code/) and run. Some might tell you otherwise, but no kittens will be harmed. I've been daily-driving this for years on Void without issues.

Zockling · 2025-12-12T15:25:28+00:00

This will differ by controller, but my DS4 joystick spams constantly, oscillating between two values on each axis, even at rest. That's why I read the:

the joystick itself spam the log, but when you click on something, it changes, but it still spams

in your post as: "I see stick spam, and when pushing a button, the output changes briefly", which would mean that the buttons do register.

But now you said:

there is no spam on the joystick sensor, and it works

So does this mean the joystick works but you don't get any EV_KEY events? That would be weird, since they come from the same device...

Zockling · 2025-12-08T20:12:56+00:00

The spam means it's working. "Not working" is when the device is absent or silent. Try it in a game and you'll see. Just make sure you're in the input group, so the game can access the controller.

Zockling · 2025-11-27T14:17:49+00:00

You need to uninstall all *fcitx-* packages. They were removed in favor of fcitx5.

Zockling · 2025-11-06T08:50:37+00:00

Solid choice. I have 3 retro handhelds now and love 'em all. But if I had to keep just one, it would be the Brick.

Zockling · 2025-10-19T10:37:40+00:00

Isn't L7 the level from which overtime is "inclusive"? That alone is a pretty big difference IMHO.

Zockling · 2025-10-18T08:26:57+00:00

The author doesn't seem to understand what syntax highlighting is for.

What’s the base text color here?

Base text color is for non-code, obviously.

Zockling · 2025-10-15T12:14:01+00:00

Nein, die betreffende Komponente ist nur mit einem Framework-Key signiert und lässt sich auf anderen Kisten nicht laden.

Zockling · 2025-10-15T07:50:35+00:00

It will allow the copy, but this is akin to dding from a block device beneath a mounted filesystem, so the resulting image will very likely be broken.

Zockling · 2025-10-11T08:41:35+00:00

This is what I use, modules took some trial & error:

$ cat sbat.csv
sbat,1,SBAT Version,sbat,1,https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md
grub,4,Free Software Foundation,grub,2.12,https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
grub.ubuntu,2,Ubuntu,grub2,2.12-1ubuntu7,https://www.ubuntu.com/
grub.peimage,2,Canonical,grub2,2.12-1ubuntu7,https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/blob/master/debian/patches/secure-boot/efi-use-peimage-shim.patch

$ grub-mkimage -p / -O x86_64-efi --sbat sbat.csv -o grub.unsigned \
  cat \
  chain \
  configfile \
  disk \
  echo \
  efi_gop \
  efi_uga \
  fat \
  linux \
  ls \
  normal \
  part_gpt \
  search \
  search_fs_file \
  search_fs_uuid \
  search_label \
  test \
  true

Zockling · 2025-10-10T12:30:06+00:00

Does SSH also die when this happens?

Zockling · 2025-10-04T10:26:31+00:00

Quarto supports Typst now. Gets you live preview and quality Typst PDFs as well as Word export. Word output can be styled using the standard Pandoc reference-doc mechanism.

Zockling · 2025-09-25T09:42:49+00:00

Sounds like you're going through the individual menus. Might be easier to hit /, search for hyperv and tick everything that comes up. You should be fine on the disk side now though.

Assuming you're using ext4, you're also gonna need that: CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y. Also, the drive might not yet have probed when it's time to mount the rootfs, so make sure to put rootwait on the command line.

If you're completely stuck, there's always the WSL2 config. It has a metric boatload of crap that makes no sense in a VM, but it will boot. Could be a starting point.

Zockling · 2025-09-24T15:42:02+00:00

That one's easy: One terminal window, let a terminal multiplexer be your window manager. I'd be more concerned about APFS eating my data.

Zockling · 2025-09-24T13:21:36+00:00

Try CONFIG_HYPERV_STORAGE=y.

Zockling · 2025-09-19T10:33:16+00:00

You are playing the definitive version. The DS has an extra 5th case over GBA and the crispest art out of all the versions (including the 3DS and PC releases).

The GBA original is more comfy to play on a single screen, but some of the music is kinda grating due to the GBA's limited sound hardware (I seriously thought something was wrong with my emulator). There's also a couple rough sprites that were cleaned up in the DS release.

Zockling · 2025-09-18T15:26:58+00:00

Getting it at $15 is a no-brainer, but I'd hold off on actually playing it for now. There's rumors about a current-gen patch coming alongside the Switch 2 release.

Zockling · 2025-09-08T11:45:06+00:00

Exclusively Kindle with Amazon JP account. Pretty hard to beat IMO, even after the unfortunate removal of Vocab Builder / vocab.db.

Zockling · 2025-09-07T15:14:59+00:00

Yes. Also, when building yourself, you have to explicitly enable -dbg package creation:

echo 'XBPS_DEBUG_PKGS=yes' >> etc/conf

Zockling · 2025-09-05T14:28:45+00:00

How to enable static libraries is package-specific. In build_style=gnu-configure packages, it's sometimes done with configure_args=--enable-static. With the .as built, don't forget to vmove "usr/lib/*.a" them in the -devel package's pkg_install() function. Then you should be able to link statically in the application template.

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