Oh, they’re all on RetroArch, now.
I just hate them not letting you pay for it, their greed forces piracy, but then I’ve not downloaded a game because I was too broke to buy it for decades. It’s all been being unable to buy, or having terrible DRM that broke the game, or a shitty launcher that you were forced to use.
Nvidia, at least this time, they’ve ticked me off enough when I upgrade I’ll be leaving. Vulkan drivers are nice for Eden, though. Much better performance than the GL option, though a few games fritz out on Vulkan and I have dropped textures bad enough I need to force GL instead.
Animal Crossing, the one I play the most, is very mixed. It runs insanely fast using Vulkan, but sometimes my hair will disappear, or my floor will just be a black void when I enter the house. GL fixes this, but runs at about 3/4 the speed, which is good enough by I can see noticable lag when I am in the “park” I built between two waterfalls.
I’m sure there’s a setting somewhere I’m missing, but I’ve always just powered through things since this is the oldest my GPU has ever been, and an RTX 3060 isn’t that old and fairly decent for most things. I played Cyberpunk (the original even supported ray tracing, but I had to drop that with the 2.0 update and increased hardware requirements) without issue, though I have noticed anything running on Proton tends to have issues with reducing the framelimit which native Linux ports don’t have any I didn’t see in Windows before I switched to avoid the Plague of Eleven.
The weird one I get is DQ XIS, if I launch it in 2D mode it plays perfectly, but if I swap to 3D it crashes hard, like my whole computer has frozen up and I run Linux so that’s not normal.
I miss Xenoblade, and I’m mad I bought special editions of the whole series only to be unable to play them now, but that’s a few hundred bucks lost vs all the money spent buying three Switches only to have them fail and losing saves because you can;t back them up yourself and Nintendon’t sued the guy who wrote the code that let you to push their shitty cloud nobody asked for.
I’ve been off Sony for a while, as well, because getting ads on the home screen was a big “Nope!” for me, but when I left they had a better cloud system, but you could still plug in a USB device and backup your saves to it without PS+. No idea if they broke it as well, but Nintendo has always been at the forefront ot greedy corporate fuckery, it’s just now that enshittification has seeped into everything pushing the boundaries of an already bad ecosystem isn’t just kinda annoying like it used to be.
I mean the emulation, their online service as a sub with it all included, rather than letting us buy like they did from the time they implemented it up through the 3DS. There’s issues with digital copies, but my 3DS has a permanent license when they closed the eShop, so all of the games I have on it will work until the system dies and I can;t downalod them again. The Switch, if I am not subscribed to Online, all of them are gone.
Sadly Xenoblade doesn’t play well on emulation, the only exclusives I lost, I was kinda miffed about losing my Animal Crossing island after having spent hundreds of hours building it and raiding forums for island visit codes of people with rare items in the shop but it is what it is when the greey company locks your saves on internal memory and sues the guy who dropped the code to copy them.
The Steam Deck with Eden on it plays Switch games better than my Switch, move up to a more powerful Ally X or a full computer…
The Switch.
Damn thing was fragile af, and they wanted to rent everything to us, no more Virtual Console no more solid hardware, they spend more money suing people for fixing it then they do on it like blocking local backup of saves so they can force a cloud sub and them still not having fixed the drifting JoyCons then charging you more than they are worth for repairs.
Going into debt.
Well, crap, now I can’t remember.
They want all of your data in the cloud so they own it.
They want all their crap on your device, so you pay for it.
Oh, it’s not trusting them to see them relatively better.
Too late, they’re all in on the derp, as well.
I mean how many times is Chat Control going to come up? It’s their own KOSA, some “protect the children” lie by a bunch of Epstein Class pedos who want to track and profile everything about everyone.
They’re always “about to” but never seem to do it.
If one “side” fixed anything they would not only lose the backing of their corporate sponsors, they wouldn’t be able to point to the problem anymore and say they’ll fix it to round up some votes before promptly going back to ignoring or supporting what they campaigned on stopping.
I don’t plan on forgiving Nvidia or Micron or anyone else who sold us out to get in on the debt transfer scam that is propping up the US economy, the bubble will burst, and I hope they all go down in flames with it.
China makes great stuff, we just don’t see it here often, the cheap junk with “Made in China” stamped on it is disposable garbage or scam knock-offs of a better product from somewhere else.
I mean, that could have worked out, but instead they picked a reality TV star whose producers had to redecorate for the show because everything Trump builds looks gaudy and cheap and only knows how to make money by laundering theft and scams through failing businesses before writing them off and running.
Honestly?
I trust China more than I trust the US.
See, that right there.
I used to have a massive F-550, but it was so beat up and had the connections to make use of that towing capacity.
Most of these trucks have never been off the pavement and never hauled more than groceries.
Also, an F-250 now is the size of my F-550 in the 90s.
Distros from that joke stuff era are more user friendly than Windows 11.
And they’ll likely “forget” you are lifetime as often with them as they did with us early adopters who got it for cheap.
There’s a reason I use Jellyfin, now. Well, more than one.
Plex kept trying to charge me again, and every time I looked at it there was more clutter and spam being forced in front of my face by their “partners.”
Kodi on device, great interface especially when you are using touch, if I need remote access I swap to Jellyfin. There’s even plugins to sync between the two so your stats and history don;t get messed up by using both.