Honestly the easiest way is just getting a Dolphinbar, It has the correct bluetooth adapter built into it. I got mine in the UK from eBay and after installing BlueZ and tinkering with some settings I got it to work perfectly with my launch model Wii mote + nunchuck.

I’ve only used it for normal Wii mote mode in Dolphin, But it has a mode to use it as a mouse + keyboard or generic gamepad.

I mean it also depends on the gamemodes you play?

Kind of the reason I preferred playing Free for All over Team Deathmatch on Call of Duty, because if I lost, all I had to blame was myself and not the amoebas on my team giving the other team free points by only doing 360s off the crane for the whole game.

Also might be why I fell out of love with Battlefield after BF1, The game itself was great (wish I could still play it on Linux…) but you could tell there were a lot of new comers to the franchise who just ignored all the objective and teamplay aspects. I still find decent squad play on BF4 & 3 to this day.

I already had a strong reaction when the term ‘Influencer’ popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.

Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it’s only gotten worse since…

Battlefield 4 still works on Linux and we always been more transport pilots…especially on Flood Zone.

I’ve only had like 3 games from FitGirl not work fine installing with Lutris.

2 of them needed some dependency like .NET installed first, and only one I could get working at all but the DODi version worked fine.

Everyone kept telling me Wine sucks even before I switch to Linux. But I’ve had it work fine a lot more times than not, even for some old obscure software that barely works on Windows 10 anymore.

I’m still a relative newcomer and switched fully in 2023 after having zero experience with Linux before that year.

I feel like I’ve only just gotten comfy with regular Linux and don’t feel like reworking my setup around the quirks of an atomic distro.

And if you count the Steamdecks “SteamOS” then the only time I’ve remembered it isn’t standard Arch is when it’s “atomicness” is forcing me to do workarounds for something that I can easily do on my Arch based desktop.

But I’d give NixOS a try if their docs page didn’t block my VPN when literally no other FOSS or Corpo site does…

Honestly might be the other way around for me. I was mainly a multiplayer guy for the longest time but most franchises I was invested in quickly went down the drain and a lot of the newer battle-royal style shooters didn’t appeal to me.

Started mainly playing older games that had been on my backlog for a while. And videos of the Steamdeck running them games started popping up.

So since I already hated Windows 10 from the start and I didn’t need my PC to run the latest AAA multiplayer games anymore, seemed like a better time than ever to switch.

I still play some multiplayer with Battlefield 4 and Battlebit Remastered. (R.I.P Battlefield 1 and Ironsight on Linux though…)

The Simpsons.

There’s something new to see every time! I’ve only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

Heavily depends on the game and how the patches are installed.

If the patch comes as an exe, on Lutris next to the Play button you’ll find a wine glass icon with a menu next to it, you can use ‘Run EXE inside Wine prefix’ to run the patch installer and I’ve had it work most of the time. Sometimes you’ll need a .NET dependency which you can install through Winetricks using the same menu.

A lot of patches for older games require DLL files which you have to manually declare in Wine, One again in that Wine glass menu you’ll fine ‘Wine Configuration’ and in the Libraries tab of that, you declare what DLLs you need to “override”.

I don’t play either of those games you mentioned but I mainly play and mod older games these days and had pretty good luck running 95% of them through Lutris. You just sometimes have to find workarounds.

Think most people just use ROM as a catch all for “console video game format” these days.

I know at least one person who said they use Googles DNS because it stopped them getting pissy letters from their ISP.

Some people only care about privacy to the point were they don’t see the immediate consequences for their actions.

I’ve been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of “search quality” than Google.

Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it’s still somehow “better than DDG”.

Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they’re use to. Even if what they’re used to has changed around them for the worse.

My only real complain I have is I wish ‘search by date range’ was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.

I’ve been wanting to abandon ship for years, but sadly convincing the average gamer is another story.

Which is the main reason most of us are stuck using it if we want to talk to friends.

Lately it’s been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.

That or I check the groups I’m in to see what I’m late to the party on now.

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.

A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.

By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.

Leave a text file along with your music including a donation link and thanking people for listening.

I’ve heard more than a handful of artists getting some money that way after putting their own albums up on torrent/file-share sites.

This one ^

The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.

I’m older GenZ “Zillennial”?

What in particular makes you think there’s not many of us on here? Not like Lemmy makes you state your age on your account.