JovialSodium

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Satisfying Game Boy Restoration (lemmy.world)

“Do you want this old thing?” My uncle asked, pulling the old Game Boy from an end table drawer. “Your cousin didn’t want it anymore so I’ve kept it. Your aunt and I played Tetris on it for years, but now the screen’s all messed up and the buttons hardly work.”...

JovialSodium,

My first thought when seeing but before reading is “OP should replace the screen”. But I can respect you wanting to keep it original.

Great work, looks nice!

JovialSodium,

+1 for checking out Strange New Worlds. Haven’t seen Lower Decks yet (besides the crossover episode)

JovialSodium,

Strange New Worlds feels a lot like older Trek. But if your feelings about the other recent series have soured you to the point of being unwilling to try another series, that’s your perogative. But I think you’re missing out.

JovialSodium,

Link for reference. play.date

JovialSodium,

Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol’ “vote with money” if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.

JovialSodium,

Apology not needed.

I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).

A small number of informed users won’t disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I’m not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.

I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it’s more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.

JovialSodium,

Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?

I don’t know if that’ll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.

Email service that integrates well with Thunderbird?

I hope I’m not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I’m looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux...

JovialSodium,

I use mailfence. They offer imap, caldav, and carddav. It’ll check all those boxes, but I don’t think those are unique offerings among the privacy respecting email services.

I use Proton Mail’s Proton Calendar app for my calendar though. I was using caldav + davx5 but I had issues with reminder settings getting lost on recurring events.

JovialSodium,

This recipe calls for 4 garlic clove bulbs.

JovialSodium,

TL;DR: Probably.

Some facts

  • I did, in fact, come across a recipe shortly before I saw this post that called for four cloves of garlic. A dish I’ve since made, and blatantly disregarded the quantity of garlic.
  • I found the recipe on a search engine. I have it set to “all regions” but anecdotal evidence suggests it prioritizes my region.
  • I live in a country with majorily Caucasian people, of which I match the majority.
  • In skimming over my reply I noted I was being vague about the search engine and nationality, which seems silly. DDG and Conflicted States of America.
JovialSodium,

NES (my nostalgia speaking)

JovialSodium,

MiSTer is a great option for high accuracy and zero/low latancy emulation. And besides being able to use original controllers you can also drive an analog display with an analog IO board, if that’s desirable to you.

If you want real hardware, this isn’t it. And I can understand wanting the real hardware. But for a nearly perfect recreation of the experience without the headaches of maintaining aging hardware, MiSTer does the job.

Analog Pocket looks cool too. But wanted to nerd out on the MiSTer specifically.

JovialSodium,

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iaAT6-dY1QI

Calcurse export schedule to desktop background?

I’ve realized that I need a calendar, and Calcurse seems like a good one, with easy handling of daily schedules (which is my main requirement). Is it possible to export that schedule to a Mint desktop background? That way I could see, at a glance, a graphical representation of my day whenever I boot up my PC....

JovialSodium,

Maybe conky but probably not?

Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I’m not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.

The big caveat is that conky doesn’t work with wayland. It’s a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).

Need a new distro(or help with fedora

So I have a new installation of fedora, which I reinstalled because gdm would freeze and prevent me from logging in and using my computer. I then noticed the same problem on the new installation. I noticed that using an older kernel worked, but system upgrades will break gdm again. I don’t want to have to never update my...

JovialSodium,

Some ideas:

Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.

See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.

JovialSodium,

A quick search tells me that mac mini’s have ethernet. Are you able temporarily connect that way to fetch the wifi drivers?

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