Eggyhead

Whoever as Square Enix decided this is how “fun” is defined needs to be firmly slapped across the face and fired.

Yes I’ve watched the YouTube videos, I know all the tricks, I’ve been at this for two nights on easy now and I still can’t even make it into the room where you need to do the banishment attack.

There is no way to grind, adjusting the difficulty makes no difference, Yuffie throws in her own direction and not the direction you aim the camera, if you continue on in the story you cannot come back, the reward is an EXP boost material which is only useful on your first play through…

This shit is NOT fun and it pisses me off.

I've got an RMA on my Deck over a sticky button issue, so I ordered a 1TB external drive online to back it up before wiping and sending it off.

What's the bare minimum you would recommend I back up if I just want to preserve my desktop settings, apps, and some non-steam game content (since much of that is already tied to my account)?

1. Is it just a matter of copying folders over in desktop mode or is there an official (or recommended) backup tool I should use?
2. Would Syncthing, which I use to transfer files normally, be a reliable method to use my Mac as a potential backup location?

Thank you for any advice.

I've been using kbin since the Reddit exodus and I still don't really know the path to finding my way into a specific community/magazine I've subscribed to. I usually search for the name using the search function, then hope I find a thread from there in the results where I can just click directly into it. Surely there must be a faster, easier, and more reliable way, right?

Excited to see what kind of mods come out for this!

First off, I absolutely love that microblogs are a part of my main feed now.

I do have a couple requests to consider, I apologize if this isn't the place to post such a thing.

1. I think an option to keep microblog replies inherently collapsed would keep the feed from feeling too cluttered.
2. Perhaps microblog posts could be colored a little differently from threads to make them more easily distinguishable at a glance?

They feel really loose, rattly, and mushy. The X button gets stuck very frequently and I can't tell why. I suspect it's either that the button is hooking on the frame when fully pressed, or the membrane itself is sticky for some reason and reluctant to pop back out. The B button also makes me worry, but it hasn't gotten stuck yet.

I'm considering taking the deck apart to look at the buttons from the inside.

With that in mind:

1. Do other people feel this way about their OLEDs? Is this an issue ore just how the deck is?
2. If you've had this issue as well, how have you dealt with it?
3. Are the LCD-model teardown tutorials still valid for OLED models?
4. Do hardware mods exist on the market that might allow me to replace the current buttons with better ones, or possibly to convert to from membrane to dome switches?

Thanks to anyone willing to help.

PC/Linux/Steam Noob here. I just got a game from GOG and I’m seeing tutorials mention Heroic, Lutris, and Wine via ProtonUp-QT as methods to get non-Steam games installed and running on Deck. Which method would you consider the easiest and most reliable for content from GOG, Ubisoft, Epic, etc…

Follow up, here's what I did:

1. Desktop Mode: I installed Heroic Launcher (it handily chose a location in my games folder), and added it to my steam library.
2. Game Mode: I did the change artwork stuff for Heroic, booted it, signed in and all that jazz, then installed and launched the game (Lost Ruins).
3. Desktop Mode: I navigated to the (Lost Ruins) game folder and found the "start.sh" file that boots the game, then added that one to steam.
4. Game Mode: Did the change artwork stuff for the game itself, and now I can add game-specific settings for it.
5. (Extra) I added a "Heroic Launcher" collection to store GOG & Epic content.

I apologize if this comes out weird, I've never crossposted from Kbin before. I hope it works.

~~Edit: It didn't. Link to the tutorial is in the title, sorry!~~
Edit 2: Maybe it did!

I got this game to play with my wife and her family. The characters are adorable, the levels are full of charm, the music is outstanding, and the platforming is really tight.

However, the multiplayer is an exercise in frustration.

1. The camera constantly jumps ahead at minimal prompts, forsaking anyone who isn’t adept enough to get every jump as perfectly as the best player, even if that player is the kind who is inclined to wait. The camera just makes whoever it follows into an ass to the other players.
2. Online connection options aren’t intuitive. It cannot even be disabled in the middle of a level. You have to quit, run somewhere on the map, disable it there, go back and restart the level. Contrary to the intent, it takes you completely out of the game.
3. There is no shared progression with online friends. If a step is particularly complicated and you leave your friend behind, you don’t really have a means to “carry” them through the level or get the items for them. If they get stuck and you want to progress together, you just have to wait in the over world until they struggle it out for themselves. Otherwise hope they understand you as you try to explain what buttons they need to press, when and where. I think my wife and I spent an hour in online co-op with her parents just waiting for them to finish a challenge that her father refused to give up on. We ended up not doing anything else that night and a bit disappointed in ourselves.

I just don’t know why they needed to go with this whole ghost thing. Just let 4 of us play in the same world, the same levels, and collect the same resources. Why is that so hard?

I jump between kbin and Lemmy fairly often, and it just seems like most content/communities end up settling on Lemmy. Which kbin communities do you actually think are better than the alternatives?

Hope you're all having a good weekend.

I've just been giving it the old college try to see if I can get a proper workflow going with it.

I teach, so I often have a lot of apps open for research/reference, lesson planning/preparation, as well as messaging services and other various apps.

I keep Apple Numbers full-screened in a space to the left, where I maintain a Grade/Schedule/Planner "book". I have Affinity Publisher 2 full-screened to the right, where I make prints/handouts for my classes.

On my desktop in the center, the stages (app sets) I keep are dedicated to...

• a single instance of Safari for lesson research (and procrastinating on Kbin)
• all my chat applications (iMessage, WhatsApp, etc)
• multiple finder windows to find, manage, and organize materials and resources I require to prepare new lessons every week.
• both my email client (spark) and calendar (FirstSeed).
• occasionally Spotify, if I need some music to help me focus.

If I didn't have stage manager, I would have been using a similar setup across around 2-3 desktop spaces and some full-screened apps. My "home" desktop in the middle, with reference-based stretching apps leftward, production-based apps stretching rightward, and my entertainment-based apps out on the fringes. This worked really well for me in the past, but stage manager has actually made things smoother for me, since I'm doing a lot less swiping around. (Yes, Mission Control was ideal for reaching more fringier desktop spaces, but when you're in the habit of just quickly swiping between 1-3 key desktops, it gets easy to forget how "far away" some of the other desktops are.)

Currently, my two biggest wishes for Stage Manager are...

1. that we could save stage presets so I could launch mine quickly with a Siri shortcut, and save a LOT of organization time after a restart.
2. that there were more comprehensive keyboard shortcuts specifically for navigating stages rather than individual apps. (There might be, but I haven't found a clear guide anywhere since most publications are more interested in the fact that Stage Manager exists than how to make it useful.)
3. a greater number of stages, with the ability to scroll through them and pin favorites to the top.

(I'm still on Ventura, so if these features were added in the betas, I wouldn't know.)

Question:
Has anyone else been discovering ways in which Stage Manager on Mac as worked out for them?

Microblogs are an interesting thing. I was never able to get into Twitter or Mastodon because it feels so disorganized and chaotic to me. That said, I think microblog compatibility is low key one of Kbin’s best features with a lot of potential. The problem is that right now it seems like kbin doesn’t really know what to do with it.

This is where I wonder if a dedicated Kbin app like Artemis could really carry it further. Has there been any discussion on this yet? How would you imagine microblogs being better implemented with Artemis?