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New look for PS5 console this holiday season
    1. I dare

    2. I like the angular multi texture and led strip styling of the original PS4. It was distinct and can be identified just from a glance.

    Meanwhile the slim is just a featureless box with fillet edges and a trench. At a glance its difficult to tell what it is until you see the PlayStation logo.

    While I am not a fan of the PS5's design its at the minimum distinct, and striking. I just wish that it wasn't wider than a george foreman grill original PS3

  • Ender 5 plus as a beginner
  • The brillants of Creality's printers both the Ender 3 and 5, is that they use off the shelf parts. From its heatbed to its nozzle and stepper motors.

    Which means that if something breaks or wears out, a replacement is $0.20 from Amazon.

    The problem with Creality is quality control. Everything that I bought from Creality either broke in a few months, needed upgrades or came broken from factory. This isn't just their printers its their laser cutters too.

    However because they break they are excellent learning printers. While it may be tempting to print the biggest thing, I would advise a smaller printer like the Ender 3. It was hard to level 200mm leveling 350mm won't be easy.

    That said I think which printer you get should depend on what you want to do with it.

    If you are more interested in modeling and cad design than a low maintenance printer like a Prusa would be best.

    If you want to tinker with the printer itself: then an Ender is perfect since you can break it to your hearts content and fix it yourself.

    Otherwise you don't know: get the cheapest recommended printer around $350-$400 and use it til it breaks. Either you'll know what you want or break it and you'll get a good idea on what type of printer you need.

    @madewithlayers and @makersmuse on YouTube is a good starting point

  • What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets.

    Are they good games? No

    But they are well themed and have chiptune version of Jeremy Soule’s soundtrack. I like replaying the, from time to time.

  • Hard platformers with banging chiptune soundtracks?
  • DuckTales or DuckTales 2 for the NES playable in the Disney afternoon collection. TBH most of the games there should be your jam based on Shovel Knights influence.

    Hollow Knight based though, Guacemelee is good, not sure about its sequel. Axiomverge too. But they are metroid like games so Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion would be another recommendation.

  • Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
  • I wouldn't worry too much about not knowing this. The steam deck is still relatively new and proton/dxvk is improving at such a blinding pace compared to the rest of Linux that my head is still spinning.

    From my limited understanding, because of Arch's rolling releases and Valve basing the steam deck on Arch. DXVK the compatibility layer for DX games to vulkan is managed by the distro. How this works is magic is still magic to me. I also think graphic drivers gets pushed on arch early too, since it's a rolling release.

    However I am in complete agreement, Arch isn't beginner friendly, I personally like Manjaro and find it friendlier, but that's like having a pet cat, and it's a Bob cat. Sure it's not a Lion, but it's not a Kitty.

  • Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
  • Have you not heard of the Steam Deck and Proton? Running MS APIs through a compatibility layer is the main goal for Linux gaming for the past few years, as it allows legacy games that had no hope in getting a Linux native port (or a terrible Linux port) to run in Linux, through the Proton Compatibility layer.

    The apps I was using were running with DXVK, but due to a bug with intel iGPU driver which affects both Windows and Linux users, it didn't work. A Intel Mesa update patched the bug, and my game worked better. When I moved back I was on an older driver and had to wait for it to be added in.

  • Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
  • This comes from personal testing of games. There was a DX11 bug intel igpus where UE4 games crash instantly on boot. I was able to work around this by forcing dx12 in arch, but when I moved to fedora it wasn’t working, that was until about 2 months later after an update. Since I don’t know exactly how far behind fedora is in terms of graphics drivers I said it in ambiguous terms.

  • Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
  • From my personal experience Arch is several months ahead of other distros and depending on the package and sometimes has everything you need already included for gaming.

    I believe this is due to the Steam Deck.

    However for ease of use, I agree there are other better distros. Fedora is only 2ish months behind arch in terms of graphics drivers and Ubuntu… has the latest proton from steam and lutris since proton isn’t installed from the local app stores.

  • I know it's not much, but I shared my colorswatch models

    Also included on the Printables and Thingiverse Links is the FreeCAD file which I used to make these. Simply add a font file, and change the text.

    Printables

    Thingiverse

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  • I was more going for ease of use. If you are playing the latest and greatest then I agree you’d probably want Arch based or at the minimum Fedora based distributions. However if you are playing some more stable games, or I do titles and Ubuntu is fine. The updates will come.

  • Melting 3D Printed eReader cases on my deck.

    I made a 3d printable eReader case for my wife. Wanted to test what would happen if we water logged them and left them in the sun to dry.

    Two of the cases are made from PLA while the other is made from PETG. They are all held together by thread and leather.

    The test here is to see if moving from PLA to PETG was the right move since the last time I did this, the case turned into a banana.

    My eventual plan once I've finished with my testing is to sell these cases and make their designs available for others to print.

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    I took me 8 hours, but I finally finished building no my MK4 and did a few prints

    So far I am happy with it, though I wouldn’t make another kit at least not without a drill.

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