• RVGamer06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      That’s a Geometry Dash difficulty smiley. Or more likely, a reference to the “fire in the hole” meme

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    22 hours ago

    Lmao I’m over here literally right now backing up, wiping, and reinstalling windows because the fucking in-place upgrade system is hanging at like 90% completion on referenced files that aren’t necessary (user created) but that it can’t find, so instead of fucking ignore them it just nopes out and does fuck all. I’ve been passively trying to fix this for about 18 months, actively for the last 4 days.

    I swear to fuck

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        21 hours ago

        I can’t, not on this machine - not yet at least. I’m disabled and use a logi g903 that has side buttons on either side that I use to play fps games (I’m left handed only, so finding an ambidextrous gaming mouse with enough side buttons, that I can remap buttons per-application is like 3 options, before adding 🐧 compatability to the list); and I have two sound blaster cards - one for system and game, one for voice chat - that, with either of them in 5.1 mode, the rear, center, and sub channels are incorrect. No fix worked for me :(

        So here I sit, broken hearted, tried to shit but only farted switch but only [got] frustrated 😞

          • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            15 hours ago

            Basically, you can’t do 5.1 surround sound (3x 3.5mm) and stereo (headset) + microphone (2x 3.5mm) on the same card. I’ve been using sound cards since like, 2005? And I hate on-board audio chips. I don’t particularly trust the quality (both sound and physical build quality, longevity) of USB-based audio/headsets. Thus I disable the on-board mobo chip and run the two add-on cards.

            I’m like an audiophile but on a shoestring budget, so I work with what I have :p

            It’s the SB AE-5 and SB Z, I’d you’re curious.

            • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
              3·
              12 hours ago

              I have an old SoundBlaster Z whatever it’s called. I’m pretty sure that worked on Linux last time I tried. There’s also programs like Input Remapper to remap mouse buttons which I have successfully used before. I am certain you could get a similar setup on Linux, but it would require more work to get it up and running. Maybe some script to configure the soundcards and such.

              • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                12 hours ago

                The Z works, but again only in stereo mode. Which is fine, the Z is for voice chat, the AE-5 is for 5.1… but both have the exact same issue, 5.1 garbled the channels.

                I’ve looked at input override tools… But I’d need it to be automatic and per-application, and if the g903 acts how it works on windows, the official software can differentiate between left side buttons and right side buttons, whereas the OS cannot. I didn’t find anything that met the auto + per-app requirement the last time I looked, so it’s back to the ‘eventually’ pile.

                • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                  2·
                  5 hours ago

                  I only have a basic stereo setup, so I don’t know how bad it might be, but depending on how long ago that was, it could be a pulseaudio issue that was fixed by pipewire. I also know that if the issue is with the channels being hooked up incorrectly, that you can change how they’re connected in pipewire (in the worst case, using a virtual device that takes in the correct layout and adapts to the incorrect one to output to the sound card)

                  But I also understand that it might be a lot of tinkering to make it work, so no judgement here, hopefully the software situation improves.

            • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              3·
              14 hours ago

              Thanks for the reply! Thats indeed interesting, and yeah the built in stuff is… not great. The dac itself might be alright but then so much ends up garbage anyway.

              I have a g600 and run Linux, hah, but I had set the mouse to onboard memory and then just… can’t change it now. I was looking at how to do that because windows is dead to me for sure.

              The sound card stuff is certainly a blast from the past. Haven’t thought about sound blaster in many years!

              Linux is ready and great for most people I think, but yeah to your point, the stranger the setup, the more difficult a time you are set for!