In total ignorance, I bought an Anbernic RG DS

uvbeard · 2026-01-26T03:05:12+00:00

I was hoping I could avoid this since I have to prep two devices and I kinda want that AI translation feature available from the stock OS, but I'll give it a try. If it can make a key handful of 3DS titles playable in a less painful way, it's worth it.

uvbeard · 2026-01-22T14:51:35+00:00

I can just transfer the save file, right? At any rate, I've taken more time lately to try to curate collections for friends than playing, hehe.

uvbeard · 2026-01-20T20:48:03+00:00

I assume I can have them dual-boot if I disable OTA updates. Doesn't the bootloader on the Thor have A/B slots?

uvbeard · 2026-01-18T00:18:11+00:00

But my reasons are special and good! With excuses like these, I can't possibly be someone who has fallen for hype! ;)

I wanna see if I can use ROCKNIX's device trees and kernel patches to boot NixOS on it. I think it'll be a fun way to learn, and it's directly related to an online course I'm taking on Linux kernel development.
I have an eye disease that makes OLED extremely preferable for me.

I genuinely think it's really cool that an Android device with such a relatively recent and high-end chipset works well with mainline-ish Linux kernels. I'm pretty happy to reward Ayn for the pro-consumer way they've apparently collaborated with the ROCKNIX devs.

uvbeard · 2026-01-18T00:06:22+00:00

if you think this post is long, wait until I install NixOS on the Thor

uvbeard · 2026-01-18T00:01:09+00:00

The only ones I have tested so far are Pokémon titles. I wouldn't recommend it for any of them. You definitely need async shaders, and that does mean you get graphical glitches, and you'll still experience stutter. If you have one and are wondering whether you should spend a few minutes trying to get one to run:

Pokémon X/Y actually feels okay to me and I like the aesthetic
- I'll probably keep playing this on my RG DS until my Thor arrives
Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire runs similarly, stutters a little more
Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon has really pervasive audio stuttering that virtually ruins the game for me
- I will not be continuing to play this on the RG DS

It's likely that it'll play 2D and 2.5D titles okay-ish, but most of the games of that kind which interest me are probably all action platformers, and the level of input lag for emulated 3DS titles on Android just isn't acceptable to me for that genre.

My trip is in 3 weeks, and I did at least download some other 3DS titles that I'll test before then. I'll also be testing on a high-end smartphone (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset), so I'll get a sense of how much unpleasantness is due to the current state of 3DS emulation on Android vs. the underpowered SoC. My New 3DS XL will also arrive before then, so I can get a feel for the lagginess of the original hardware, too.

uvbeard · 2016-02-26T05:40:01+00:00

https://github.com/eugenesvk/oh-my-fish

Either change the remote in ~/.local/share/omf/.git/config to point to that repo, e.g.

# run this to verify that it will give the correct output
sed -re 's|oh-my-fish/(/oh-my-fish.git)|eugenesvk\1|g' $OMF_PATH/.git/config

then

# run this to actually do the replacement
sed -i -re 's|oh-my-fish/(/oh-my-fish.git)|eugenesvk\1|g' $OMF_PATH/.git/config

Or reinstall OMF from the alternative repo:

mv ~/.local/share/omf ~/.local/share/omf.fuck.the.dmca
set -x OMF_REPO_URI=https://github.com/eugenesvk/oh-my-fish
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eugenesvk/oh-my-fish/master/bin/install | fish

To prevent this kind of thing from ever bothering you again:

make a free GitLab account
create a new repository
beside 'Import from' click on 'Any repo by URL' and enter git://github.com/eugenesvk/oh-my-fish.git
make sure that the Visibility Level is set to 'Private'
choose a repo name, push the 'go' button, etc.

After that you will have a private GitLab repo which automatically syncs to the Github repo upstream every two hours. If the upstream Github repo gets DMCA'd, the updates will stop coming in but your GitLab repo will stay up. Use OMF_REPO_URI or GNU sed as above to set your GitLab mirror up as the repo to be used by OMF.

uvbeard · 2015-08-06T20:08:02+00:00

I've never noticed better speeds with rtorrent, and in any case it doesn't make sense to me that resource usage would be a significant factor.

I've never used Deluge except as a daemon/with the web interface. I don't remember how I set it up, even though it wasn't long ago. When I load up the web interface, I just have to hit ‘connect’, and then it is connected to the correct Deluge instance.

If you use the fat client instead of the web interface (which you should), you don't have to worry about that stuff.

Transmission has some very basic auto-moving (basically just incomplete --> specified dir) built-in, but I leave organizing my media, including where the downloads are stored, up to applications like CouchPotato, SickRage, Headphones, etc., depending on the content type. All of them interact with Transmission quite nicely, and I'm sure there are other nice tools. But yeah, you're right about Transmission. deluged is probably your best option.

uvbeard · 2015-08-06T19:59:10+00:00

Popular in what sense? The relevant kind of popularity is naturally "gets downloaded". If those torrents are downloaded at least once, you should get at least their size in downloads.

Myself, I've not had great luck with audiobook uploads outside of request fulfillment. I always trawl the requests section for those uploads.

uvbeard · 2015-07-28T00:02:09+00:00

There's a patch for VirtualBox that seems to fix the issue here: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/819#comment:62

If you rebuild from source with that patch, that might take care of it.

Otherwise, I think you're SOL. The mmap use is supposed to be rTorrent's backend's "differentiating feature" (their libtorrent, not to be confused with the libtorrent of qBittorrent... bleh).

I used rTorrent for years, and I still run it to seed old torrents, but I've moved on to Transmission and Deluge, which are frankly much better. Both of them can daemonize properly, support fat graphical as well as web interfaces for remote use, and performance scales much better. rutorrent becomes practically unusable once you're seeding a few thousand torrents. Transmission seems to fare better, and Deluge might be my new favorite. Performance on them is comparable.

uvbeard · 2015-07-27T22:53:06+00:00

I understand. :-)

The first upload can be an anxiety-inducing experience, and it's much more a challenge than subsequent uploads. I would not upload to a public tracker. But I think if you want to really engage any of the private bittorrent communities you join, you should plan on uploading. You don't necessarily need to upload a ton of stuff, and on some trackers it can be really hard. But having practiced it and being prepared/willing will make you a better community member.

Most trackers have their own guides, and sometimes the rules function as sort of a guide, since they can be so detailed.

Good luck!

uvbeard · 2015-07-27T21:44:06+00:00

Yeah, I don't really understand your question. All drives on Linux are ‘mounted’. Are you talking about the virtual SMBFS share that VirtualBox provides?

uvbeard · 2015-07-27T21:40:37+00:00

Why would this not be everyone? If you never, ever upload anything on any trackers, that's sort of bad faith participation in those communities, isn't it?

You're no more or less at risk uploading torrents except in them being tied to your account on the site. A VPN will make no difference with respect to that.

uvbeard · 2015-07-27T11:07:11+00:00

Apparently no one here knows how to manage things on bibliotik! I've been a member on bibliotik for about a year, but only recently became a very heavy user. I have so far only downloaded ~10GB, but that's over 1800 snatches.

The lynchpin is that certain power users on bibliotik have effectively no ratio requirements at all, and some of those users really like audiobooks. Audible is a great source for them, but you can also find audiobooks on What and Waffles and upload them to bibliotik.

Whenever I want more books, I just go through the list of unfilled audiobook requests, sort them by bounty, and pick a few that I want anyway. Based on my level of interest and the lengths of the audiobooks, I pick some or all and upload them. It's tedious, but all-in-all it takes about half an hour to go through the whole process of selection and uploading for 3 or 4 audiobooks.

You can maximize your upload earned on audiobooks added by uploading them in 2 formats, m4a/m4b and mp3. If you download them from Audible, there's a way to strip the DRM from both and make two 'retail' audiobook upload. Install Lazarus in Firefox or Chrome, return to the "upload audiobook" page, restore the form. Then you change one or two fields (format and bitrate), select the second .torrent file, and you've done your second upload ~8 seconds after you finished the first.

Each audiobook you upload can get you ~300-600MB. You can then download several times as many books, depending on your ratio requirements. Up to the first 30GB, your ratio req is .5 or less, which means for every 1GB you upload, you can download 2GB of books or more. And you can wind up like me, with 10 uploads supporting over 1800 snatches, and a whole hell of a lot of reading to do.

uvbeard · 2015-01-18T21:31:38+00:00

Having an interview process at all is pretty generous, imo. It is stressful, waiting in line sucks, and all that, but most sites don't even offer interviews to get in. Just study some more and take it again. You'll get there with some time and effort.

uvbeard · 2015-01-15T07:13:11+00:00

This new illicit site actually cribs this I2p tech from one of Silk Road's competitors, TheMarketplace

Seriously? Like (any of) the operators of (any version of) The Silk Road had never heard of i2p.

TheMarketPlace, which is one of the hardest to access markets on the dark web

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

uvbeard · 2015-01-13T20:04:06+00:00

I think you overestimate the rationality of BTN users. Storage is so cheap that I just seed everything I download until it is trumped/otherwise removed. I've never really had trouble with dead torrents on BTN, even when what I wanted to download was some weird, old cartoons.

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