I dont remember exactly which programs i looked at. But most remapping tools i found seem be made for keyboards, mice, xbox pads etc and often create an emulated output device which may conflict with the Force Feedback/beeing a Wheel from my understanding. You can reorder the buttons with jstest-gtk though. But that wont persist through a reboot which made me really sad.

At first i thought that it would really annoy me and looked several hours into it. But tbh its alright. Most games let you remap your controls freely either way. In one game menuing is a bit borked because i cant remap those menu controls. But even that is okayish.

Either way, thanks for the suggestion! I bookmarked Input Remapper just in case a game really needs remapping in the future.

I use a TV as my monitor which only has HDMI inputs in combination with an AMD card. No HDMI 2.1 thanks to the HDMI Forum. Fuck the HDMI Forum.

Audio output over HDMI breaks when the PC goes to sleep. Need to shut the PC down to make it work again. Restarting it doesnt solve the issue.

Here and there some websites break slightly more often on Linux compared to Windows. Both with Firefox.

VR already was a troubleshooting sinkhole on Windows. On Linux its a bit worse. BUT it gets better every month and i’m amazed how well it already works tbh.

KDE doesnt let me resize the PIP window of Firefox on all of its sides. I heavily use this feature on a daily basis. I got used to it. But it was paaaaaiiiin the first few weeks.

Sometimes something breaks and CachyOS just doesnt want to shut down and i need to get the pillow to physically kill the PC.

I atleast had more hard system crashes than on Windows. Sometimes i feel like just the RAM fills up and in 70% of times only a reset helps. On the other hand killing rogue programs which dont want to hand me back the desktop like on windows arent an issue at all anymore.

Button mappings on my g27 racing wheel are out of order with seemingly no fix. Its a really minor issue. But still…

The documentation for certain things is still just utter ass. Sometimes i read through the most technically complex official docs ever for an hour without finding my answer. Then give up and ask in forum/chat/discord and its like: oh yeah just type “yorking” and if your done “exit”. Which wasnt mentioned once anywhere else.

Anything else was just getting used to a new OS and learning new things. Which can be painful but isnt a Linux issue.

Overall super happy. Its a pretty big post but i could write a book series with my Windows issues…

pet the kitty

Is this a screenshot of Imessage, which was printed out on physical paper, which was photographed in a shitty angle, which was projected onto a screen, which was again photographed and then for whatever reason superimposed on a stockimage of a laptop with a dslr on the side?

i did it for the old “delete system32” memes before i nuked the drive. fun fact: when i tried to empty the trash with system32 inside dolphin even threw me an error.

now only a single ntfs remains in my system. took me the whole day moving around data to repartition my other drives. tomorrow follows the rest.

Maining it since august. But after i cloned and compiled a git repo entirely in the terminal yesterday i thought it was time to get rid of that “safety” windwos install i still had around just in case.

Yes, but CachyOS for me.

So far only one update broke my entire system but luckily snapper was configured in the installation process so i just rolled back and updated 4 days later.

All Pixel phones with Tensor SOCs have “AI” Chips. So even the Pixel 6 and 7 come with a NPU.

I’m a huge nerd so take everything with a grain of salt how my experience translates to a non-techie.

Storing and playing music with Android is pretty straightforward. You just copy your music into the music folder. Then use either the media player your phone comes with or choose one of the 1 million other options on the playstore/f-droid. But i never liked Itunes to begin with. Not with the Ipod i had 20 years ago and not with the Ipad i had 10 years ago. It just gets in my(!) way of how i want to do things. If your whole music library and management revolves around itunes… uuh yeah, idk its going to be a new learning experience i guess.

Good quality camera shouldnt be an issue. Especially coming from a SE. Look up Samsung/Google/Apple camera blindtests on Youtube. The differences are minuscule and mostly about how they handle whitebalance (yellowish/blueish tint) and how pronounced the contrast in the shadows is. The UI of the camera will be different. But if you just point and shoot without needing more advanced settings it will be just fine.

If you want to use GrapheneOS or a custom ROM in general: Buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS. If your not a nerd other custom roms will be a huge pain to install. Graphene has a pretty straightforward web based installer which guides you through the process. The cheaper “A” models had pretty often issues with their batteries. But atleast Google just reimbursed everyone in those cases. I’m still on my Pixel 7 and i dont see any reason to upgrade until its support ends. Camera is still great, performance is still great, screen is great, battery life is okay. Choosing anything between 8-10 series Pixels should be just fine. Older ones have a shorter support period. Newer ones a slightly more expensive and a bit better. Pro models have a bit more ram and a telescopic camera for more zoom. Nice to have but i(!) wouldnt pay extra for that.

The finer the chain link the higher the resolution

Hugging my Ram before i get myself a dude, a child and a cat.

Yeah, i agree overall. I’m also not an IT-professional. But i’d call myself maybe a pOweRuSer.

In my experience there is no way around the terminal sooner or later. Even after 1 1/2 years of regular linux usage i’m still reluctant to use it because there is so much needed knowledge frontloaded to use it effectivly. But on the other hand the frequency where i NEED to use it is more or less the same compared to the windows equivalents like cmd and powershell. Atleast in my case the last few years on windows involved overall even more tinkering than on linux right now. Probably a different story for many people but it holds true for me.

Outdated guides, wikis, and searchmachine answers certainly fucked me over in my past ventures with linux. Its not like on Windows where you could find that one thread from 2005 which actually has the answer to your hyperspecific windows 11 problem. So looking for a distro with good and current documentation is really important imho for a beginner. In that regard i’m really happy with cachyOS’ own wiki in combination with the arch wiki. On top of that their forums and discord server. I just started to disregard any info older than 1-2 years. Meanwhile searchengines got so much enshittified that i cant rely on them anymore either way.

The file structure completly broke me tbh. It was always my most hated thing with windows. How windows itself and all the programs just leave behind a scattered mess of folders and files with no fucking coherency. In my mind linux had to be soooooo much better in that regard. Like obviously, right? But nah, its somehow even worse. I even used the pretty alright search function to find and purge some last remnants of an uninstalled program. Just to be greeted with another left behind cache file in a hidden folder a few months later.

The data is certainly there. The best way to read it is that they specifically make no attempts to analyze it.

Which becomes a bit of a moot point considering that with the fediverse some rogue instance can collect and do with your data whatever they want.

Still a pretty good joke.

have you seen the generated stuff by that new google banana nano whatever model? we’re fucked. just looking a bit closer on the details and obvious telltales isnt enough anymore.

as is tradition

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lmao i dont need critics in my thinking. radical left wing media already critizes us enough.

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My guess(!): Big topics are already crowded by big channels which get an algorithmic boost because of their past success. Its harder to get your slop prominently shown and establish your content slop farm with these topics. While with niche topics its easier to get your video to the top of the search results.

There are opensource tools like https://n8n.io/ to automate the creation of slop content. From what i heard its piss easy to setup. Like here is a half an hour tutorial to set you up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u54cy2nQig

Then you shit out the slop content and hope your channel picks up. If it fails to drive numbers you abandon it and start with the next channel with the next topic variation. If you get lucky and the algorithm blesses you, you continue to shit out hundreds of videos.

As seen eg in the video of redlyne about the dead internet theory. Where he looks a bit into the slop channels on youtube and other stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJKOYOkRMk

GT2 with even more shitboxes? Sign me the fuck up!

I’m going to frontload a few links:
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page Emulation Wiki(very good)
https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/ he has also a YT channel and lots of other guides

The emulator itself is RPCS3 but you can use probably frontends like Emudeck or Retrodeck to make things easier.
To obtain the gamefiles you either get them from your modded PS3 or you make a visit to r/roms.

I dont have a steamdeck so idk how well the GT games would run. It really depends on the game. Demon Souls or Skate 3 probably run just fine. MGS4 on the other hand is really taxing even on the newest desktop hardware. The GT games are probably somewhere in the middle. Check youtube, there are high chance somebody already uploaded steamdeck gameplay.

Otherwise i cant recommend the GT4 Spec II Mod enough. Upscaled GT4 still looks fantastic and even more so on a handheld screen.