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Grangle1

@ Grangle1 @lemm.ee

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  • What are you playing this weekend? 2025-05-30

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  • Only gaming I've done lately is beat the Elite 4 and Delta episode of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. Due to being underemployed and having other recent large expenses it will probably be a while before I pick up a Switch 2 or any other game, for that matter. I only got Pokemon and Kirby from a Christmas gift card. Time to go clear out the backlog.

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    Looking to get into Sonic games

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  • The franchise is very much split in gameplay style between the 2D and 3D entries. Generally the 2D games are much more highly rated, but there are good 3D games (and not-so-good 2D games) too. Here's a list of what's worth checking out of each:

    2D The original trilogy from the Genesis (found in various Genesis collections and Sonic Origins) Sonic Advance trilogy (GBA) Sonic Rush (DS) Sonic Mania (any modern console and PC)

    3D Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 (Steam, modern consoles MAY have digital copies) Sonic Colors (most easily accessible through recent remaster on PC and modern consoles) Sonic (X Shadow) Generations (just remade everywhere) Sonic Frontiers (haven't tried it myself but heard it's alright)

  • A mighty hunter

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  • While I agree that cats are fine outside (while supervised and/or staying within their own yard - a small harness and leash can do the job), cats are just as healthy and happy staying indoors. My own cat actually refuses to go outside despite enjoying looking out the window all the time. I tried taking him outside a couple times to get him some exercise and he absolutely hated it. Different cats enjoy different environments.

  • "This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.4’s enters soft feature freeze, Dolphin and other KDE apps "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs get a visual overhaul, and that the file transfer

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  • Do you know if the major issue with QTWebEngine will be fixed so that KMail/Kontact and Falkon will work again?

  • Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts

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  • "Pretty capable" will get you dunked on in the PC gaming world. For what I've seen PC gamers actually recommend I could buy 2-3 modern consoles.

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  • Ubuntu 8.10 in early 2009, after Windows Vista otherwise bricked my laptop. I've distro-hopped on a few occasions but most of my 16 years of Linux have been on Ubuntu. That said, I moved away from Ubuntu after a failed upgrade to 22.04 LTS, to OpenSUSE and then to KDE Neon, now I'm on Nobara and couldn't be happier.

  • Most under-utilized consoles?

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  • I've just seen a bunch of videos about it, haha.

  • Most under-utilized consoles?

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  • The one notable time I can think of a game trying the dual perspective thing with the gamepad was Star Fox Zero at the end of its life cycle, and it was not received well at all because it made the control and aiming way too complicated since it was too much of a challenge to try to look at both screens at the same time. Can't think of another game that tried something like that, but I did see a good number of games that used the gamepad for inventory, like the Zelda games and Monster Hunter.

  • Most under-utilized consoles?

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  • Lack of advertising and its business model of the hardware basically being produced by licensees tacked on to other electronics products of the time ended up crippling consumer awareness, and the price point was the big nail in the coffin, at roughly $700 in the early 90s you really had to commit to wanting one. Unlike most other console companies, 3DO couldn't afford to sell the hardware at a loss because they didn't have much, if anything, for first party games to make up for it. It had some games that look like they'd be decent, at least a better quality library overall than arguably the Jaguar and definitely the CDi, but it's that tough cycle in gaming where you need good games to sell consoles (especially at $700, in any time) but third party devs won't make good games for consoles that don't sell.

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    Grangle1 @lemm.ee

    VPN: excessive IP blocking

  • I did not like Pokémon Emerald.

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  • TBF, the poor sounding soundtrack was likely as much to do with the GBA hardware as the music itself, they did what they could with the GBA's God-awful sound chip. The type distribution isn't great but Diamond and Pearl's in Gen 4 is even worse (Platinum fixed it in Sinnoh though).

  • My Advanced Retro Simulation Environment brings all the boys to the yard

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  • I like big content and I cannot lie, you other brothers can't deny

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  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tired of government censorship, whether it's left or right wing. They both do it, and it sucks either way. Then both sides will "champion free speech" when they're not the ones in power.

  • Almost finished Gold and looking forward to starting Emerald.

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  • I recently purchased a copy of Alpha Sapphire since I haven't finished a Hoenn playthrough yet. Looking forward to finally finishing a Hoenn region run!

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  • I think the biggest factor in that is getting tutorials and such out there that focus on the basics, written by people who mainly do things on Linux using the basics and GUI tools. So much of the Linux content out there is focused on power users and even the tutorials for new users tend to be written by those power users who may have been tech focused before switching and forget or just don't know how basic they really have to get to not make people feel intimidated. Given the right distro/desktop environment, and there's plenty of good ones to start with, people can use Linux almost just how they use Windows. They just need someone to show them how without pushing them to do everything in the terminal too fast or going immediately to scripting as a solution to problems.

  • PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist

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  • I don't think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn't just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.

    That said, doesn't Bluesky run on something like a federated model?

  • The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new

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  • The RAM usage of Akonadi was my one big complaint with using the Kontact apps. With Thunderbird going a similar sketchy way to Firefox, I might have to take a look at Kontact again.

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  • Sadly, I've seen how much the average non-tech enthusiast LOVES all this AI stuff. Like, people's parents/grandparents who only occasionally use a computer when they have to. The types of folks who will call tech support and actually need the answer, "Is your computer powered on?" And there are far more people out there like that than many tech folks think. That's the market that keeps powering this stuff.

  • It probably won't give you nightmares or anything

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  • Probably the most legit scared I ever was in a video game, and I was 13.That, and Half-Mummified Gibdo Dad popping out of the wardrobe in Majora's Mask.

  • Since I've been mostly using #LibreWolf and Tor Browser @torproject anyway, and almost never plain #Firefox, it wasn't a big deal to say goodbye and to delete Firefox from all devices

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  • You should be able to add the LibreWolf repository on Ubuntu, if they don't have an Ubuntu one the Debian one should work. It's how I got it on a Fedora based distro (using the Fedora repo).

  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml
    Grangle1 @lemm.ee
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    Debian-based package repo not updating?