I already had GameNative but this is awesome and hilarious. Played some Portal on my old phone. 😳

Thanks! It played BAttERY Face Factory The Sims Edition NoCD, immediately recognized as Commando theme by Rob Hubbard on C64.

Most installers wouldn’t care if the disc got temporarily ejected but you risked AutoRun opening another instance of the installer, bringing your PC to its knees. XD

n00bs used “nocd”.

I loved when the keygens had MIDI prog/metal. Back then, that reminded me of cracktros on C64 games.

ODT?

Let’s say “average users” are even willing to use the terminal. I feel like people running random commands and scripts found online would quickly give Linux a reputation for malware just as bad as Microsoft’s.

Samsung annoyingly makes many variants of their devices; in the past, even phones with the same name would have completely different CPUs. So, be sure you have a5xelte and not something else.

I did see this on the top of the wiki page:

This device has been archived. This means that it no longer appears in pmbootstrap and is likely broken.
It can still be selected in pmbootstrap init by typing in the vendor and codename, but you will have to build the kernel package manually.

Do you have Heimdall installed on Linux PC? The instructions say to get in Odin “Download Mode” and then use Heimdall to flash TWRP into the recovery slot.

I wasn’t even trying to copy, just trying to connect a DVD player to my RF-cable-jack-only TV.

DVD player -> AV cables -> VCR -> coaxial cable -> TV.

Nope! Not allowed! It’s 2001 and we’re already screaming loud and clear that pirate copies are superior because they just work.

I ended up getting a Voodoo3 3500 TV on clearance sale, and playing movies on the TV through that.

I think only Rick Rubin can ever reach 1300kbps in a FLAC from CD; listen to System of a Down self-titled album. It barely compresses!

Well-mastered classical and 1980s albums can average ~700kbps. IIRC, using default FLAC compression level 5.

Windows 11. We installed a printer driver and unchecked “Restart my computer now”. It attempted to restart anyway, with Windows offering to either close all programs and restart, or cancel. I clicked cancel. It restarted anyway. Nothing was lost, but still… 🤦

We cannot let Microsoft have a monopoly… on sabotaging Microsoft.

RSS and/or Gemini protocol

I had heard that Ubuntu is an old African word for “can’t configure Debian”

You said Ubuntu three times. /s

AUR is supposed the last resort, after distro repos, building from source, Flatpak, and Appimage. Ubuntu’s equivalent to the AUR would be PPAs.

Personally, I have fewer problems gaming on Arch than any other I’ve tried.

Edit: Snap is bad for software freedom. I won’t touch Ubuntu anymore; if I use apt, I meant apt and not snap. Hijacking my command is Microsoft-style rug-pulling.

GameNative

Thanks!

Yeah, they don’t bring their stuff around for help anymore. They’re probably afraid I’ll wipe it and install Debian. 🤣 It’s been a long time; I’m an Arch fiend by now.

I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”

…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.

Makes sense. Let’s say you are standing with a tower directly in front of you. If you want to look at the top of the tower, you would tilt head back and step back to get a less acute angle. If you want to look at the base, you would step forward.

0.5.20 looked to have many features added but broke multiple games on multiple machines here. 0.5.21 existed but was quickly replaced with 22?

It didn’t tell me Lutris was going to break. Now I see they have their third point-release in less than a week!