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Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?
  • Anecdotal, but when I was just messing with qBittorrent and its search feature, I found some ROM sets just by searching for system and sorting by size. This torrent for example is not necessarily comprehensive but contains a lot of roms of which can be shared with friends and family :)

  • YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream
  • I've been searching for a solution to this exact problem. My partner sends links occasionally and I always ignore because of how the web interface is blatantly hostile. Tried routing the links through MPV on android but no dice.

    If anyone has a solution please share.

  • What's up with this tree?

    My friends had me over and this poor tree looked to have fluid coming out of a very old wound. They say it was like that long before they arrived, is there anything they can do for the tree? Hate to think its been like this for years :(

    !

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    Quickly Disconnecting Bluetooth Controller

    Just wanted to share something I did, still very amateur when it comes to bash, but I wrote a script to disconnect bluetooth controllers after I close my emulator. I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but this is my way of coping having lost DS4Windows PS+Options quick disconnect-

    #!/bin/bash

    # Run Retroarch flatpak run org.libretro.RetroArch

    # Disconnect Controller after Quitting bluetoothctl disconnect 40:1B:5F:C9:94:2C

    Just wanted to share as either my search games is weak, or there really isn't anything out there this straightforward.

    Next up, trying to set up antimicrox to enable the same feature... :)

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    Nintendidn't hear no bell
  • Fear not, yuzu may be gone but there are always alternatives. Plus like YouTube Vanced, the yuzu latest build is likely to continue to work for the foreseeable future.

    For a thriving alternative, check out Ryujinx, and keep an eye out for Yuzu mainline getting picked up by another team with a slightly higher barrier to entry.

    The neat thing about open source software is they are really hard to kill unless interest burns out, but considering how hard yuzu has been hitting headlines I think the Streisand effect will take it course.

  • In what ways are people today being convinced to spend money beyond their means?
  • It's important to note that when you buy liquid detergent (or liquid anything in most cases) you're paying for both product and water. In most cases buying powder instead can lead to a lower 'cost per load'. At Costco I have to admit the difference is only ~$0.01-$0.02 per load, so it equates to $8 over a few months anyway.

    That small value delta could ostensibly be argued as convenience fee but I still order powder on principal.

  • GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids
  • After a lot of research I went with a gen 1 Volt and couldn't agree more, just enough battery to keep me from getting gas! The car was clearly designed with a lot of thought, and really sound engineering decisions all around, making ownership pain free.

  • Making Awesome 166 - Bambu Lab, Segment about Bambu and decrypted Bambu Logs.
  • Man you guys think this is bad? My partner bought a Cricut because they thought it would be good for quilting (fancy vinyl cutter) and its a locked down nightmare.

    Proprietary software with no alternative, cloud upload required to print anything, even over USB connection... Oh and repair-ability, total nightmare with very little access to replacement parts, with Cricut regularly bricking older models as they reach EoL.

    Sorry rant over lol

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  • Upgraded my ram, CPU was still a ways out but I maxed the speed anyway.

    System kept locking up during games, couldn’t pin down why, ended up destroying the graphics drivers trying to fix it and eventually got frustrated enough to start fresh.

    Turns out I exceeded the max ram speed my CPU supported (was running 3600hz on a Ryzen 2600…) Switched it back and everything went back to normal.

  • Sony WF1000XM3 Water Damage
  • I was happy with the battery life until I switched on EQ, then it plummeted to like 45 minutes. These were my first real pair of wireless earbuds so I don't have a baseline.

    I'll have to keep an eye out and look into the WX4s. I picked these up because the repairability was pretty good but they aren't idiot proof apparently :)

  • Sony WF1000XM3 Water Damage

    May have accidentally sent my earbuds through a wash cycle, pretty gnarly corrosion on the right bud and the main charge controller. My first water damage! Is this worth doing anything with or shall I move to another used pair of buds? For reference I picked these up secondhand for $50 :)

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    What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
  • Sorry for the unwarranted input but like you I tried FlorisBoard and it was awful and to me seems like a dead project. Since then I went with a fork of OpenBoard and it even has gesture typing similar to that of Gboard! If that's important to you of course

  • Finally boarded the ship! And all it took was swallowing my pride.

    Started learning Linux with Manjaro a few years ago, but there were always stability issues pushing me away from daily driving. I found when I did have time to use my PC, it was largely for gaming, and when any issue presented and needed to be fixed it was a bit of a barrier to entry.

    Because of biases I always leaned to Arch for that 'bleeding edge' and rolling updates, so when I gave Linux another shot long term a few months ago I went with EndeavourOS. Everything was rock solid but I found a lot of nitpicks and after a week or so my monitors wouldn't wake from sleep... I of course don't blame the OS as more than likely there was a log somewhere explaining my issue, but I really just want to enjoy playing games after a long day.

    So I gave up on my faux dream of living on the edge and instead installed Pop_OS!, and to my pleasant surprise it has been rock solid and performant to boot! My preconceived biases against Debian and it's derivatives drove me to borderline tribalism. Flatpak has remedied worries of outdated packages, and even if I did have an issue (bluetooth headphones defaulting to HSP not AD2P) I found the solution on the archwiki!

    The beauty of this ecosystem is that Linux is Linux, we all benefit from improvements so long as they are made open and free, and no matter what flavor you choose, you'll always be part of the family.

    Thanks for reading, and thank you to the contributors who work tirelessly to make an open and free desktop a reality :)

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    Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
  • I might be a little paranoid here so feel free to lmk, but a few uses for the data gathered by a foreign government/keeping people addicted:

    The most obvious: Propaganda to push people to distrust their government

    The less reasonable but still possible: Time wasting, people spend less time trying new things due to the lack of instant gratification, decreasing productivity/capability of the users. We've seen China begin to address this domestically with new laws limiting usage, what the US would consider overreach (unless it effects the bottom line perhaps?)

    The downright unreasonable: Profile building using accounts as a digital fingerprint to determine military capability, it's amazing what people will advertise about themselves online, TikTok occasionally tells people what illness (mental or physical) before even they are formally diagnosed. Imagine leveraging that information in a 'unethical' way, the possibilities are endless.

  • Madison on why she quit
  • Just speculating but it sounds a bit like they've drifted apart. According to Luke on the most recent WAN show, he and Linus haven't gamed in about half a year and apart from the WAN show they don't interact a lot. This could be the reason for they're lack of interaction?

  • Garage Door not Settling Correctly?
  • Sorry I took so long work took over for a little bit, but I finally found some time to check every bolt on the door and found one that was both a different size and loose! Tightening it solved the problem, thank you so much again :)

  • Ideas for Stocking a Yummy Snack Drawer

    Just wanted some recommendations for salty snack foods for a grab and go drawer for my partner. My partner has trouble going up and down stairs often and needs a lot of salt in her diet so I was thinking some homemade beef jerky and trail mix with salted nuts. Surely there's a ton of great options out there!

    TL;DR

    Please share your go to homemade salty snack so I can stock a snack drawer for my partner :)

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    How about a BIFL Air Fryer
  • Probably not the response you want, but in my experience if you have the room and extra to spend I would highly recommend a second oven with convection. I picked one up for ~$50 at an auction and apart from the install and overhead from upgrading electrical I found it killer for when I have a lot to cook or there are multiple people interested in using the kitchen.

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    Garage Door not Settling Correctly?

    When the garge door is closed it recently developed a kink as show. Is this a simple fix such as adjusting the brackets, or is it possibly something more structural to the door? Other side has no problems, if you aren't sure thanks for looking anyway!

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