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imperialxtal
2 months ago
I love Sega but if I'm honest they were always inferior to Nintendo in many ways. Even my favorite Sega console, the Genesis, has its annoyances. Too many "notable" Genny games are style over substance and a pain the ass to play (looking at something like Comix Zone). The average Genesis game always controls looser and twitchier than the average SNES game, which were typically "weightier."
imperialxtal
2 months ago
Also too many Genesis platformers have that "one big room" design. Sonic being the prime example. SNES drunk talks about this.
wizardperspective
2 months ago
Put it all back together and stress tested the console using Uncharted 2 because that's a graphically challenging game for the system. Played for an hour and only noticed a strange smell (Not sure if it's something burning or maybe it's the new thermal paste or perhaps I'm very close to burning my house down).
wizardperspective
2 months ago
Played a couple of minutes later and didn't have any abrupt shutdowns, cmos battery seems fine, and I guess the fan is working because I can hear it and warm air is coming out from the vents. I guess I succeed? It was a pain in the ass with all the different non-standardized screws.
wizardperspective
2 months ago
Something I noticed about Uncharted 2 as I started from the beginning is that yellow paint meme. I had no idea it was abundant in this generation too. When you're aware of it, it's blatantly obtrusive.
wizardperspective
2 months ago
Agree. I give the 3DS remakes a pass just for that, even if they did change a few things.
wizardperspective
3 months ago
Also doesn't come with a controller unless you pay $100 more and only 512GB of storage!
didntask
3 months ago
"Playing online should be a basic human right" so true also i hate that the 360 started achievements, they ruined video games by turning them into checklists.
wizardperspective
3 months ago
Also forgot to mention how wonderful Halo's OST really is. I would love to play Halo 3: ODST someday just for the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk
imperialxtal
3 months ago
When the Xbox One was in development it was announced that it would have always-online DRM. Even though they ended up reversing this I decided to never buy one of their consoles again.
wizardperspective
3 months ago
Using pacman -Qm to check my foreign packages. None of them appear to be the ones that were compromised followed by this script from catchy OS thread: bash <(curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh) it appears none of my packages are compromised (at least that's what I hope).
wizardperspective
3 months ago
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-almost-2000-packages-affected-20260611/31040 and https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/chaotic-aur-packages-requests-recompilation-reports/26/1238?u=sunda-spirit for more info
wizardperspective
3 months ago
Also reports on: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/
wizardperspective
3 months ago
I am safu. Everything is fire. There's a better overview and update here: https://thecybersecguru.com/news/atomic-arch-aur-supply-chain-attack-ebpf-rootkit/ But suffice to say, I probably won't be updating for the time being. I got a Devuan iso so now I have to mentally debate myself if I should make the switch back to Debian based distros (For my X230T specifically, I run Mint on my desktop).
didntask
3 months ago
im safe πͺ we cant let windows users know that this happened, we'll never hear the end of it
foxtrotalpha
3 months ago
I've been tempted to try something besides mint for a long time but I just cant justify that
wizardperspective
3 months ago
Mint is fine. Just werks for the most part. But on my laptop, I stride towards minimalist i3wm setups. I like having the ability to switch workspaces with bindings and use less than 4GB of ram on the daily.
"There's a dark underbelly to the suburbs... all those peaceful looking white people who live there are secretly evil"...... the worst Gen X fiction trope. So common and so tedious.
Yes. Such a tired trope too.