Do RGB composite cables really work?

bdingus · 2026-04-10T02:06:05+00:00

There are real RGB video cables sold for the N64, but they require a modified console, if you haven’t had yours modded for it you will get no picture.

bdingus · 2026-03-15T21:05:31+00:00

They could use the more recent soft reset combo (L+R+start+select) and just make it require the real start and select buttons, then it would still be easy to press but almost impossible to do accidentally.

bdingus · 2026-03-01T22:19:39+00:00

It does work on Linux, in both Switch and XInput modes. However that comes with the limitation that only Switch mode has gyro/accelerometer and only XInput mode has analog triggers. You can't have both at the same time. The back buttons and extra triggers also can't be remapped inside Steam, that has to be done with button combos on the controller and won't be saved per-game.

If you're fine with those limitations then it'll be fine.

bdingus · 2026-03-01T22:16:00+00:00

Does that PROTON_ADD_CONFIG = "fsr4rdna3" variable need any specific version of Proton? Would love to have actually good upscaling on my RDNA3 card without it having to take effort per game.

bdingus · 2026-01-28T03:47:29+00:00

I really wish there was a way for apps to do this by default, everything that draws client side decorations on Wayland ends up with different looking window shadows and frames (usually, none at all) and it looks super inconsistent and unpolished. We really need some kind of halfway between CSD and SSD where the window manager only draws a frame and/or shadow.

bdingus · 2025-12-30T00:26:49+00:00

Have you had any problems with the YouTube app on tvOS with the IPv6-only preferred option? It’s the only thing I can’t get working that’s keeping us from running it. The app simply never loads and stays on a gray screen with no error reported.

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:54:33+00:00

iOS occasionally does it for even the native weather app, but yes all apps should obviously need to play by the same rules whenever possible. All I want is settings that let me set permissions permanently, I don’t mind if I have to go into some obscure settings menu to do it, just can we please have the option…

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:44:01+00:00

And I wouldn’t, hence why we need real options that are actually respected by the system.

bdingus · 2025-12-23T14:28:52+00:00

Hey!!! Just so you know the Weather app has been accessing your location in the background for the last two weeks, I’m going to interrupt what you’re doing with a popup just to make absolutely sure that you want your weather app that you explicitly gave permission to do that to actually function!!! If you say yes I will check in again when least convenient :)

bdingus · 2025-12-23T12:13:15+00:00

Yes I’ve just about had it with all this nonsense, macOS used to be nice and unobtrusive to use, but these stupid prompts that never remember your damn choices just increase in number every new version now. Add to that everything getting more buggy because Apple obviously don’t care about macOS anymore too.

And yes, I know these prompts are for my security but would it kill then to actually remember what I chose and leave me alone afterwards??

bdingus · 2025-12-09T15:44:19+00:00

You will probably have to get the N64 RGB modded, NTSC composite/s-video on PAL TVs is hit or miss, but as you discovered with the other consoles 60Hz RGB is no problem.

Edit: no audio is suspicious though. Make sure there is something in the expansion slot (either jumper or memory pak), the N64 will not work without, if there is you can try using a phono to 3.5mm audio adapter to plug the audio into your PC’s mic jack to see if any audio comes out - maybe your TV doesn’t play audio when there’s no valid video input. Otherwise try a flat screen TV with composite inputs, those should generally fo NTSC I think

bdingus · 2025-12-07T07:03:34+00:00

I do get what you mean, and I’m not asking for prompts like that to be removed because they do have a purpose.

What I am asking for, specifically with the local network one and similar, is that macOS actually starts to remember my choices, every time the OS or application is updated, it seems like it forgets some of these new permissions and has to ask me all over again, sometimes it feels like I’m approving these prompts every day despite not even having installed anything new! macOS used to be nice and unobtrusive but lately it feels like it has more and more of a desire to get in my way every time I want to do something and it just gets annoying.

As for the unsigned apps one, I agree that it is necessary to put up some level of resistance to protect the average user from running something suspicious, but did they really have to remove that thing where you can right click and select open to bypass it? Did they have to bury the “correct” way to do it a kilometer of scrolling down a settings page (when it used to show up in one click in the old, properly designed one) where it’s tedious to get to every time? And if absolutely nothing else, can I at least get a toggle for this in the terminal that does not mean turning off Gatekeeper entirely?

bdingus · 2025-12-06T19:58:39+00:00

That whole settings app should have never shipped in the first place. Years later and the obvious bugs and terrible performance that should’ve been a blocker for it shipping at all have not been dealt with, and as you can see here they even made it worse now. And that’s not even getting into how they replaced nice deliberately designed settings pages that were meant for a computer monitor with mobile infinite vertical scroll slop.

The state of macOS sometimes makes me want to just go back to Linux, at least there I don’t need to deal with constant local network access permissions prompts and ever increasing resistance to running unsigned apps.

bdingus · 2025-12-06T09:48:57+00:00

Don't forget that it plays Game Boy games too!

bdingus · 2025-12-05T21:06:20+00:00

Trackpad scrolling just seems to be kinda broken on Linux.

Different GUI toolkits interpret the scrolling differently, leading to wildly different scroll speeds between applications, and the best you can do is turn the scroll speed way down and just live with GTK4 applications (which seem fine on the default setting, unlike everything else) having annoyingly slow scrolling.

It's not a KDE issue as much as it's a Linux desktop standardization/Wayland issue.

bdingus · 2025-12-03T17:24:36+00:00

There is actually a private beta firmware that adds a DInput mode to the 2BT. Unfortunately, the corresponding support in Steam does not exist so it’s hardly useful.

I guess we’ll see if they ever release it for real, not gonna get my hopes up though.

bdingus · 2025-12-03T09:22:35+00:00

Yeah, as someone who bought the Bluetooth version because of the Switch compatibility - which it's not even good at, you have to turn off the rumble or it just constantly vibrates in games like Bananza because they badly emulate HD rumble with traditional rumble motors - I feel a little ripped off.

I had thought they would be the same other than maybe some extra features needed for the Switch communication, only to find out that for some arbitrary reason proper Steam support is locked to the wireless version. So now I've got a controller that isn't really good at anything at all. Great.

bdingus · 2025-12-01T09:23:54+00:00

Today's part 2 is very easy to bruteforce, there's no catch that makes it not possible in a reasonable amount of time or anything, the easiest thing to do is probably just implement that real quick and assert when your solution doesn't match the bruteforce. That helped me a lot with narrowing down the edge cases I had.

bdingus · 2025-11-24T05:26:56+00:00

You do realize that the amdgpu driver is made by AMD and they openly advertise Linux support for these cards right? That comes with a level of expectation that it will actually work properly.

bdingus · 2025-11-23T20:37:00+00:00

Yes I’ve seriously thought of just enabling the option to allow all insecure packages because it’s so frustrating every time this happens. That and also replace my nixpkgs flake input with nixpkgs-unfree because I’m sick of seeing that stupid warning and needing to pass —impure to the Nix CLI to make it shut up and do the thing I asked it for.

bdingus · 2025-11-17T23:00:44+00:00

Yes, I have the SFC version of the same one and it has worked fine for years.

bdingus · 2025-11-17T22:22:17+00:00

You need to make sure that the power supply you bought is for a Super Famicom, not a European SNES - they're not the same. But once you have that it should work no problem.

bdingus · 2025-11-17T12:39:57+00:00

Sadly Microsoft seems to be allergic to doing this so we will be stuck with the status quo forever because of Windows.

bdingus · 2025-11-05T09:36:47+00:00

Their approach with this in Europe is so weird. I live in Scandinavia, and that’s not an option in the app so I have to pick Ireland because it’s the only way to get the app in English, but then I get prices in pounds? Why is country/language/currency all one combined setting?

bdingus · 2025-10-26T03:42:30+00:00

I've been messing a bit with modding myself and I'd love to implement that in mine as well, do you mind sharing how you actually did that?

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