FierroG

joined 5 months ago
 

As the title says, for a brief time a while ago I modded valheim and found r2modman and felt it was one of if not the best experience I've had modding games, it was especially sweet because I could mod the game with my friend who's on windows and the process was the exact same so helping them was no issue.

I wanted to know what other similar software there is for modding on linux, since the game collection it works on is kinda limited (I only own a few of those) and whenever I want to mod a particular game I end up overwhelmed with steps and options.

To avoid just a list of every linux mod manager under the sun, most of the experience modding with r2modman is: picking a game > hitting download > play There's usually not much you have to do for a specific mod to work besides adding it to the list, and it keeps the game files squeaky clean.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The only one of those that I've tried is cyberpunk, but besides being a really good and fun game for what you're looking for, I want to add that I found it easy to get off or back on, which you might want

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I recently switched to it because I wanted to finally have a good try at wayland with a distro made for it, and wow was I blown away, cachy is the closest I've ever been to a "it just works" OS (including every windows version I've used, from 98 up to 10), just a couple hardware specific issues that I have fixed (except for one). I also really like plasma, I'm mot committed to it but it was nice to come back to it after using mint for a while. I still wouldn't recommend it to a newcomer but damn, it's good.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are there dedicated desktop wireless headsets with noticeable latency? My shitty hyperx cloud flight have no noticeable latency and I even played around with some audio settings (on linux, windows audio drivers are very limited) and got it to the point where I could use them to monitor my usb mic in real time (which, for anyone who knows, is a very latency sensitive use case).

Afaik the latency thing is a problem with bluetooth.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I Have a hyperx cloud flight (the first ones), very light, in arch based distros the range is pretty big (in mint and pop, for whatever reason, the range is abysmal), they work with no caveats on linux (though no battery report, there's a script or two floating on the internet to have it with no hassle). I'm sure there are better options these days (better battery and sound quality), but these are the ones I have experience with.

They're not my first choice in audio, but they did so much for me when I had my kid, you can drop in and out of your pc without needing to remove your headphones, they don't block much so you can even listen to the baby crying if you're at a low volume (or you can just have one ear out), you can hang out in calls while holding the bb, etc.

For any new parents out there, can't tell you how much they did for me, in particular the combination of

  • being for PC (no latency, being able to get in and out of your gaming sessions or whatever you do without even having to take them off)
  • having a decent quality microphone next to your mouth (you don't need to raise your voice and can be heard easily despite background noise, good signal to noise ratio)
  • not being that good at blocking sound, this is crucial when you can't compromise your full attention but can have most of it.
  • being light weight (I know there are some wireless headphones that are bulky and not that light).
[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • A udev rule that won't work in my new distro (cachyos) for no apparent reason when it worked fine everywhere else

  • Obs using way too much cpu for no reason even in a clean setup at idle

  • Having to select what window will be captured to the obs canvas every time

  • Having to swap active audio outputs until volume stops being too low at every restart.

That's about all of it, I think.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I assume that you're thinking of recent infantry-oriented first-person-shooter stuff.

I misread "stuff" as 💩 and was already reaching for my popcorn.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get what you meant, I was just making a little joke, though I feel like there's a huge difference between shitty ui that can't be bypassed and reasonable ui that still can't be bypassed. The latter is usually managable and tolerable.

I personally prefer having both options but in general I go with a UI.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

otherwise you end up with windows

Windows without the garbage? I'm okay with that.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have seen similar comments on that specifically on mint before, does mint have a particular problem with it? I used timeshift to restore manjaro a couple of times and it was very confusing but I assumed it was just me.

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I have my important files manually backed up every now and then on two different drives in my desktop, this idea is part of moving away from stressing so much and I'm probably going to abandon the raid idea for the near future and instead do scheduled backups (and maybe checkups?). I'll keep in mind all that stuff about temps too when I do get an oportunity to make a suitable raid array build (without individual usb controllers between the drives and the server).

I have checked my data recently, haven't found any issues. I appreciate all the info and help!

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn't find a bigger stick and it doesn't have more than one slot. I'm updating the post to address other responses. Thanks

[–] FierroG@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Haha I see what you mean, I meant as in changing from one to another, not using snail drives for a swap partition.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by FierroG@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Before you scream at your screen, I am aware this setup isn't ideal, to say the least, my Self-hosting has been composed of a laptop with a usb carry with a 2.5 1tb hard drive. I recent made up my mind about getting a couple 4 tb server hdd (heard barracuda are relatively silent) to run software raid 1, since I can't find a budget double bay carry (that I can purchase locally) I've decided I'll get a couple 3.5 inch usb cases and get a splitter to run the power from just just one brick.

My question is regarding resiliency, I get occasional blackouts and low tension every now and then, a few times a year but it can be a few times in a day. I've never had hardware dying because of it and I don't have a UPS, but I worry I could be risking data corruption or something swapping to this setup because of the extra power those drives will need being fed from the wall instead of the laptop (the laptop feeds the current drive over usb alone and it has a battery) which could be abruptly cut off every now and then. Right now, the worst this has caused has been having to reboot the system because it got unmounted but never had a loss of data from this.

Am I worrying for nothing? Would it be just the same? Should I just put this off until (if) I can afford the drives plus a ups? So far I've had my server for basically free, but I'm running out of space for family photos and I kinda have to upgrade.

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the thoughtful responses! What I've learnt from them so far:

  • ZFS (what's used for software RAID) takes some extra memory and might not be the best idea for a memory constrained system.
  • In this case of mirrored drives, it's better to schedule backups than to try a flimsy raid array usb abomination, didn't even think of that as an option
  • Sudden power loss is likely to corrupt files
  • Following the previous item, a UPS is more important than I thought, my laptop's battery probably saved me from more corruption than I was aware of. I might have to prioritize that over the expansion.

Learned a lot so far, thank you all so much!

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