I will be proud of myself for the fact I didn’t notice or know

Don’t need luck, I’m using Common Sense 2024™️ edition AV/EDR with an integrated SIEM.

Bruh you’re in so deep you don’t even see ads anymore 😱

When I was suicidal the thing that helped me most was lostallhope dot com.

"55% success chance, 15 minutes and 80-something agony for something as drastic as slicing one’s neck? Fucking hell there’s no getting away from it is there. " - I thought.

Think it got taken down a long time ago, last I checked it didn’t load anyway, prolly cuz of the shady shit happening on SS

These helplines ain’t shit, I’m not even suicidal and it makes me want to an hero seeing that patronising cringe shit. There better be some solid proof it works on the masses, I can’t imagine how much actual mental health service funding in the UK could’ve been done from the budget of all that social advertising.

Why would they go through all the trouble when they could simply join the channels by posing as people who belong?

You heard right. He never “sold” anything to any govt, he went to Dubai and hosted TG across like 50 different countries so glowies would be drowned in paperwork before they ever got a chance to submit a subpoena for anything, encrypted or otherwise, with it’s founder in a nation that basically gives zero fucks about international laws and affairs.

This is why TG was so trustworthy and had such a massive and brazen criminal element

Evidently it was.

Encryption shmencryption, there was a reason people used TG and not WhatsApp and it’s because the former just very clearly doesn’t glow and it’s why Durov was arrested and not Zuckerberg. The technicals are only a part of it, the politics are arguably far more a part of it.

wow that’s harsh why’d they…

sees username

That checks out ig

I don’t use RA at all, I just have to fix it for those who end up using it because of Reddit. Thanks for the recommendation though, I’ll check it out.

Yeah fundamentally it’s an issue with the emulation community more broadly recommending RetroArch as a one-size-fits-all solution for all emulation, when actually it’s kind of a niche software for emulation enthusiasts and developers to use as a base for some sort of more user friendly frontend. Hence why I am talking shit on the community hivemind more than the software itself.

For me personally I only emulate a few systems, but I tend to get pretty in-depth with various hacks, tweaks, mods etc. which can involve some basic debugging so I tend to prefer standalone emulators, it just keeps the overall stack much simpler, for these situations I also prefer to compile from source, so keeping things simple helps too.

“Don’t be afraid to do things the hard way.”

Your gripes with standalone emulators are not invalid of course and I’m happy it works for you.

What’s got my jimmies all rustled is that this is often recommended as the go-to by people online, making me constantly have to counter this.

There are many occasions where I’ve seen less tech-savvy friends, some far more intelligent folks than myself with a low patience for bullshit give up on emulation altogether, because they were having some issue or another, and it’s always with RetroArch’s peculiarities and troubleshooting issues in it to me feels unclear and fuzzy, requiring either dumb brute force or referencing at least several sets of docs, compared to a standalone emulator.

They don’t have enormous setups, they just want to play that one game they remember as a kid once every 4 years.

If you’re the type to know what [!] and GoodSNES mean with 70+ cores, then yeah, you could probably do worse than a nice set and forget configure-everything-once RetroArch install. I had just that on my Pi, for MAME exclusively, with ES thrown on top for good measure.

As for configs and updates I feel your pain. I never update software for this reason. If config is not in /etc/ or in ~/.config I uninstall immediately, if I see .conf.d - I uninstall immediately. Software exists to solve problems or be fun, not bloat out the system with complexity.

This is a really neat idea. I’m frequently put off by large highly distributed (among files and dependencies) codebases with no obvious entry point. I wanted to make some changes to GNU’s mailutils and the code felt genuinely incomprehensible (BSD’s implementation of mail was a bit easier).

Perhaps another approach is to parse ptrace.

it lets you look like a clown

I guess you were trying to say “it makes you look like a clown”.

I’m afraid that’s a C-, see me after class.

I’m afraid

It is a shit design.

It’s trying to do everything and ultimately does nothing very well at all. It’s such a bad frontend, the only way through which it is really useful is if you use another frontend for it, but if you want to change any settings you’re also SoL and might as well just use the standalones, since the way the RetroArch configs translate to individual cores is just a fuzzy mess where the actual dysfunction and if any - user error - will inevitably be obfuscated from the user.

Lol fuck off. I’ve been in the emulation scene since long before this absolute garbage became recommended by you drooling 12 year olds. It’s not a matter of “newbie”, it’s a matter of shit design that looks and functions worse than PCSX2 did circa 2013.

This is a shitty, fuzzy program that tries to do everything but does nothing. It’s useless for arrogant morons and otherwise non-technical people like yourself without emulationstation or some hundred hour youtube tutorial, and it’s useless for actual devs and technical folks like myself who want a clear simple model of program flow and interaction between all the settings so we can quickly troubleshoot whatever issues arise and get on with our lives.

If by “this method” you mean Steam Link like OP then yes that does work. It does not work in Sunshine however, and I need Sunshine, because obviously there is no Steam Link on a PS Vita.

Obviously I tried the sunshine method out or I wouldn’t have outlined all the things I tried to fix it with otherwise.

Indentation can be (and should be) tabs, EOL is it’s its own thing either \n or CRLF which Python source code did actually care about as recently as 2.3.

Assumptions like this is why most people should stick to verbose languages with lots of guardrail braces.

To be pendantic, it’s level of indentation in Python that has semantic meaning, not whitespace.

Well fuck. Telegram was a really good way to distribute tor bridges in Russia because account age can be inferred from id, so roskomnadzor glowies could be vanquished easily.

Well done Pasha, you just had to go to France, the one country that has a warrant on you? Don’t the indie pharma & finance industries have enough to worry about without the glowies? Oh and bring back the wall you bastard.