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  • FlyDigi Vader 4 Pro now working for me. A few things that are needed:

    • Controller must be in PC/Dinput mode, blue led (hold O + A to switch)
    • Don’t enable the built in gyro mode in the Windows app as it might cause problems
    • Udev rule:

    KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2412", MODE="0666"

    (get the idVendor and idProduct from lsusb if you have a different controller)

    • Some (patched) versions of xpad/xpadneo might conflict with it. If you’re using the stock versions it should be okay.
    • Your user might need to be in the input group.

    One last thing that may or may not be needed is that I installed the SpaceStation app on Windows to test some things. It started working after that but I can’t recall if I force reloaded the udev rule so it might have just been the reboot that fixed it.

    Anyway, now I have gyro + all extra buttons working with Steam Input.

    See here for further discussion: https://github.com/paroj/xpad/pull/268











  • Cool, but the title is a big oversell.

    LookingGlass basically added a pretty fast software renderer for Windows guests. Which is nice, because it’s a pretty slick interface and works better than many of the alternatives, but it probably isn’t useful for gaming.

    The main strength of LookingGlass is for GPU passthrough setups, and this new feature doesn’t seem to be relevant for that. I’d say the stuff happening with Venus and native-context on Linux guests is more interesting (if quite new) since it doesn’t rely on a second GPU.









  • Looking at the specs:

    Positives:

    • Higher refresh rate (with VRR) and slightly larger screen (so smaller bezel), higher resolution.
    • Hall effect joysticks
    • Possibly better speakers

    Negatives:

    • IPS instead of OLED display (but a good quality one at least)
    • Only one touchpad, and its tiny
    • Seems to be only 2 back buttons instead of 4 on the deck

    Neutral / unknown:

    • Long term support compared to official Valve devices (hopefully Valve is handling this for third party devices similar to Bazzite).
    • Price seems to be the similar to the Deck OLED model (depending on region)

    Going by the Verge review of the Windows version of the hardware, it seems the SOC of this isn’t that powerful (and may even be outperformed by the Deck when rendering at 720p on both systems with some games): https://www.theverge.com/reviews/617613/lenovo-legion-go-s-review-feels-good-plays-bad

    They did see framerates improve with Bazzite, so presumably the Steam OS release will have similar improvements.


  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldcalibre 8.0
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    Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.

    calibre-web is technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it’s a good option and I highly recommend it.


  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldcalibre 8.0
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    3 months ago

    you just load your books from Calibre (or right through USB if you’re hardcore for some reason) and you’re basically off to the races.

    There’s also an OPDS server option with calibre-web that you can use to load books from if you’re using koreader.

    You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with calibre-web although I personally couldn’t get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice.