sorry, that sucks
I ended up installing ds4windows because after using a xbone and the the seriesX controller I just get hand injuries. Here is to a lot more headaches.
Still using the seriesX when I plug it into the tv for the screenshot button. Maybe I can setup screenshot button in ds4windows but I am lazy.
New laptop seems to get less than an hour playing a game on battery, i should look into that.
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there are a lot of ways that idle power consumption could be going awry or underperforming, but power consumption under max load is pretty consistent in practice, I think thatās just a consequence of getting a laptop with a relatively high-end GPU and a manageably-sized battery
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Best thing to do may be to cap framerate and resolution in-game. I think they build an auto-limiteer into the software suite now
ā¦ah yes, in Nvidia itās in the GeForce Experience settings:
Itās really weird that my non-Elite Xbox pad worked automatically but the Series 2 required mappings but after I mapped it itās working fine with the caveat that the driver uses 12 for the Xbox guide button instead of the actual āselect button.ā I turned off the OS level uses of the guide button in the bluetooth options menu for it
Thatās still a pain in the ass but Iām guessing RetroArchās part-time Mac developer doesnāt own an Elite controller which has its own Mac OS bluetooth driver for some reason.
No idea about the video, thatās Felixās arena, sorry
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they told me Iām not allowed to talk about my master blaster anymore
this PR might do it?
also have you tried openemu
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Iām interested in running a really simple instance of a dedicated Minecraft server for just a few friends, who probably wouldnāt play at the same time too frequently. Anyone know of a cheap service where I can set this up?
Or, does anyone here want to rent me space on their webhost or something to run this?
Good news, all the parts came in today and I was able to successfully replace the iPodās 160gb HDD with an SD card adapter and a 256gb SD card! I ended up leaving the original battery in because she said it was still doing fine. So no need to buy an unofficial replacement battery online and gamble on its quality.
Everything about the installation was easy aside from opening the damn thing. As expected, that part was super tough! I followed this goofy guyās tutorial and it made things much easier:
The real key to it was to acquire this apparently infamously useful spudger made for apple devices:
To open an iPod Classic, you have to force that spudger in between the two halves of the case, and blindly use it to disengage several internal hooks holding them together, all around the case. I printed out a very helpful diagram created by that youtuber, depicting a perfectly to-scale iPod Classic, opened up to show exactly where each little hook is inside the device. So I was able to put the ipod right in the middle of the diagram and use it as a guide so I knew where to insert the spudger. That made the job SO much easier, and I was able to get it open after about 15 minutes of intense concentration. I didnāt even break anything or warp the case in the process!
So then I removed the broken hard drive and replaced it with this cool SD card adapter thatās just made by some guy:
After that, I was able to plug it into my gfās macbook, which recognized the iPod and offered to reformat it and install the latest (2009) firmware. It was kind of a buggy process and took a few tries to make it stick, but once it did we were all set.
The iPod is now BETTER than new! Without the HDD it weighs a lot less. It now has greatly expanded storage capacity. It syncs faster than it used to. In theory, the SD card will use less battery than the HDD, so the battery life should improve. Itās more resilient to drops and bumps too.
Iām so tempted to try to acquire another iPod Classic with a broken HDD on the cheap and do the same operation again for myself, but even the broken ones are weirdly expensive on ebay. Guess Iām not the first person to have this idea.
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I keep meaning to buy an iPod mini for this, supposedly the sound quality is incredible on them, and theyāre a little cheaper because they can literally only do audio
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Do you still gotta use iTunes to transfer music?
CopyTrans Manager.
I am looking into getting the Macbook Air M2 and I have never had a Mac before. Anything I should keep in mind when configuring/picking out hardware?
iām no expert but i gather that getting the extra storage space also means faster data speeds. uh idk how much RAM one needs though
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Yeah get at least 512GB of storage to avoid the performance penalty you get from Apple switching to a single storage module at 256GB instead of dual 128GB modules.
Personally, I think you should go for 16GB of memory as that should lower the frequency of memory swapping to the SSD that is not replaceable.
So. Bare minimum? 8GB/512GB. Recommended? 16GB/1TB.
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get as much ram as you can afford
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Appleās windows tooling is so bad, like they havenāt improved it in 20 years and donāt want to, on Mac theyāre basically filesystem devices at this point
it just so happened that iPhones got really, undeniably dominant and more configurable around the same time that it was no longer necessary to connect them to a computer at all for sync (like 2015-2017) but Iām always kind of surprised how many bitter lifetime Windows users still hold the state of their tooling against them from having used an iPod once in 2004 or whatever, and in those folksā defense it absolutely still is that bad.
You can and probably should put Rockbox on any modded iPod for wider file support and drag-and-drop syncing.
As you push the db size (# of files/records, not the capacity necessarily) the RAM is so tiny itāll have trouble loading, just a heads up for anyone wanting to make their own monster iPod.
The aluminum face models are also a fantastic pain in the ass where the plastic face ones are a piece of cake. I think the ā5Gā has the Wolfson DAC IIRC.
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Yeah, my gf likes the original ipod firmware so I left it in, and by most accounts 256GB isnāt so high itāll break things. Though I have heard it depends more on the number of files than the capacity, as you said. Weāll see if she butts up against that limit! Sheās nowhere near hitting it now though, sheās only using a fairly small fraction of the SD card.
If I make one for myself Iām definitely putting Rockbox on it. I love Rockbox, been using it across various MP3 players for like 15 years. Sadly, there are almost no new MP3 players these days that can run it. Good to know about the 5G. Apparently the 6G has an artificial storage limit that you canāt really get around, but the 5G doesnāt. If itās got a great DAC then even better! Iāll have to see if broken 5Gs are any cheaper than the 7Gs Iāve been looking at.
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Yeah, youāre golden as long as youāre working around capacities that the iPod originally shipped.
My brother made a 2TB one out of a 7G for @Brooks that we need to ship after aforementioned pains-in-the-ass meant we had to order a replacement hold switch. Iād definitely go 5G and max the capacity there unless you want to push the storage envelope to the very limit. I think iFlash has a table on their site of what capacities theyāll support.
Keep an eye on the battery if itās original, by the way, might want to plan on swapping it at this age. Without the hard drive itāll be hard to tell when itās swelling. I use Coconut Battery on Mac to check the health/cycles, but Iām sure thereās a Windows equivalent. (Maybe iMazing? But there has to be a free tool.)
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@Father.Torque what Zune model are we talking? I still have parkerās dead one I could slap a new battery and flash storage in (per my word, the hard drive was opened and destroyed with a razor blade; the battery was ready to burst, now sitting in my flame r*tardant lipo disposal bag)