Lost_My_Mind

I tried signing up for a pixelfed account. I picked pixelfed.global. the last step of registering is they send you an email. You click the confirm, and your account becomes active.

Except I never got the email. I thought "Maybe I typed the wrong email?"

But no. My email and username was free to register the first time, but now it says that email and username aren't available.

So I'm registered, but can't log in because that username doesn't exist. I can't register that name, because it's now taken.

So I'm in limbo of registration process....but now I can't even figure out how to email the admins.

What do I do now?

So about a year ago, I remember seeing a guy testing out his blog comments section. What he had done was made a lemmy community, and every blog post he made, was a thread on the lemmy community. But here's the interesting part.....all comments on Lemmy in a thread were the same comments on his blog.

So if you have user@lemmy.world, and you go to his community, you see a thread, you comment.....your comment is now in the comments section of his blog.

Now today, I see these websites, from corporate websites that have reviews sections. Or news sites with comments sections.

And unless you're on a mega corporation like amazon, or youtube, these comments and reviews are mostly dead.

So I was thinking. What if there were a way to do this with multiple fediverse services?

What if you have an article, and the comments are 1 lemmy user, 1 mastodon user, 1 misskey user, 1 friendica user, ect ect ect? Basically start making ANY fediverse service a viable way to leave a comment, which can be replied to by any other fediverse user, regardless of service?

Now imagine all these websites that sell things that have 1-2 reviews. They almost always seem to be propriatary comments section that you need to register for that one website. And it doesn't work anywhere else. Which is usually why there's only 1-2 reviews.

But if they were using their lemmy account, that they already have, they could leave a review TODAY, and in a month leave a comment on another website using the same account.

And this would start to standardize the fediverse accounts as being universal across the internet, besides mega corps.

This in turn will grow the fediverse, because eventually people will say "hey, you know your fediverse account that you use to leave comments? Well thats a mastodon account. You already have it, and you CAN go on mastodon, and use it like you used to twitter back before it was a nazi platform. Mastodon isn't fascist."

From a technical limitations standpoint, is that even possible?

Just to watch confused looks on customers faces.

"Our soup of the day is Chunky chicken noodle. Be careful. It's very hot, and also very wet. You won't be able to use a fork and knife on this soup. You'll need a spoon for sure! Did you bring your favorite spoon? No? I'll get you a spoon. It is a very basic spoon. Just made of metal. No gps navigation on this one though I'm afraid. You will have to navigate to your mouth manually."

And just watch as their faces try to hold a poker face of normality. They don't want to be rude, but also, this waiter is insane.

I haven't gotten her spam, nor heard her talked about in a while. Did she finally get banned?

So, I recently got a Retroid Pocket Flip2, but I've had a rough go.

I've been setting it up for the past week. I've had one major problem this whole time.

I'd go into ES-DE, go into NES, go to a game, and boot it up. Aaaaaaand I'd get a black screen with no context. Game wouldn't load. No error message. Nothing to tell me what I did wrong.

So I go into retroarch directly, and find it works just fine. Huh.

So off to google I go, and I got thrown for a loop, because apperently about 8 months ago there was an actual bug in the nightly releases that was patched a few days later. But that was 8 months ago in the nightly releases, and fixed, AND I only downloaded the stable version 1 week ago. But thats all google was finding.

The other thing I was finding was that this problem happens if you don't have the proper BIOS files. The problem with that is, the NES doesn't have BIOS files at all.

Finally I figured out theres a log file. And so I look at the log file, and it says Mensen.so was an invalid or missing file.

No clue what that means.

So as it turns out, ES-DE has preassigned default cores that it expects you to use for each system. Mensen is an NES core emulator, but I had downloaded FCE. And I only downloaded one NES emulator, because I figure it's the NES. How hard can it possibly be to emulate a 40 year old system on modern hardware, right?

Well, that's true. But ES-DE is specifically always looking for the default. In this case Mensen. When it didn't find it, it gave up. Didn't matter that I had a perfectly stable, and solid core emulator. It just gave up.

So what you do it, go into ES-DE, go to menu. Then Other Settings. Then Alternate Emulators. Then select the one that you want to be the default.

Now restart ES-DE, and load your game. Should work like gravy.

The only other reason you'd get a black screen is if you're using a system that needs BIOS files, that you never set up.

Hope this helps someone using google in the future! Happy retro!

You know the ones. Ambernic, Retroid, Miyoo, and the like. I swear they come out with a new handheld every 5 minutes. You can't even research the damn things before 3 more latest and greatest come out.

Anyways. I bought a Miyoo Mini. Love it. Hands hate it. Thought "This would be way better if it were bigger. Duuuuh, I'm an idiot right? Well 5 minutes after I bought the damn thing, they release the Miyoo Mini Plus. Which is just a Miyoo Mini, but bigger. So apperently I'm not alone.

Then I started playing my DS Lite with a flash cart, and loved THAT form factor.

Then they came out with Retroid Pocket 5. And I was in love. I had my hand on the buy button. And remembered how the Miyoo Mini played out.

So I said "If I still love it in 6 months, I'll buy it." Literally 1 month later after I saw that, they announce the Retroid Pocket Flip 2. Which is just the Retroid Pocket 5, in a DS style case, but only 1 screen. Which is fine by me. I never cared about the dual screen gimmick.

So I said "Ok, if I still love THIS in 6 months, I'll buy it."

Welp. 6 months passed, and last week I got my Flip 2. Now I'm in the process of setting it all up. And hooboy do I have all the questions.

I watched Retro Game Corps guide on setting it up, and thats great, but I also want discussion, and advice, and to share what I learn over time.

But if there is a community for these things, I'm unaware. This is the closest thing to an active community that I know of.

So. Who wants to talk shop?

I'm wanting to buy a Retroud Flip 2. Specifically the gamecube one.

Now on Retroids website, it's $229 + $25 shipping.

On Amazons website, it's $269 + shipping. However the amazon shipping is within the USA. (I think).

Is it going to be worth it to order straight from Retroid? Or are there going to be tarrifs? How much are the tarrifs?

So, what's the best Linux distro? Right answers only. Give details...

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I tried to explain the concept of cute aggression to someone who's never experienced it before. It did not go well. They thought I wanted to hurt puppies.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's when you see a cute thing, like a puppy. And it makes you want to shake the puppy and hug him so tight that his body turns into liquefied puppy batter that splatters all over your face.

.....I'm bad at explaining things.

I just had an amazing idea, that I need in my life.

William Shatner needs to perform a spoken word rendition of "Pants on the ground", in the spirit of "Rocketman".

Let's crowdfund this, and make it happen.