I remember Retroarch being a bit confusing/unfriendly last time I tried it, but it was so long ago, that it might not be the case anymore.

Similar for me. Something wasn’t working and it took me a while to figure out that some issue was preventing the settings from saving/loading properly.

I waited a long while to try it

look inside

crash to login manager.

Not sure if you’re using some non-proprietary driver or what, but I’m not worried about switching over. Maybe nice with AMD GPU, unlikely for me though.

I don’t want GNOME or Plasma (I’ve had issues with Plasma on X11 when I tried it) so that could be it, too.

Just grep the source for “wayland” and you’ll see what I mean.

and

# Refuse to build in Arch package environments

MATCHES ".*archlinux.*")

Not sure if there is more to this, but it seems like it screws over X11 users for no reason (I’m still using a 1050Ti).

Isn’t Luanti’s world height way bigger, though? ~62K vs MC’s ~400 are the numbers I see.

I mean I get that’s a different thing, but aside from exploration it determines build height. Also to me it’s a more visible limit, because falling made it obvious how short MC’s maps were.

The problem for me is that it repeats many of the issues I had with Minecraft, so I don’t really have a good base to start with. Not really interested in LUA either, so there is even less motivation for me to make something from the ground up (I should probably be doing something with Godot instead).

I imagine the benefit for Luanti would be if you want to make a simple grid-based game it should be easy to do so (similar-to-but-easier-than a MC mod for example). Trying different games though, it was hit-or-miss for me especially when it just spits you falling into an empty world (I assume that’s a known config-error or incompatibility).

Luanti (formerly Minetest) might be closer to what OP is looking for. Both because LUA and because it’s platform-like.

EDIT: Also I didn’t notice at first, but OP’s previous post was asking about Minecraft vs. Luanti

I was going to say I wanted to see video of it in action, but after search on YT (video was not much more than your picture) in the recommendations I saw the donkey bike (aka velocinno, or velocino?) that looks like a more interesting small (but odd) bike.

Odd because small front wheel (normal back wheel) and optional wraparound-behind-rider handlebars. Both gray footage (and British narration) and also many people chopping 2 bikes together (a child’s bike for the front wheel) to make it.

No idea on how it is to ride (at least inverted behind-rider) though.

EDIT: Seeing video of the non-reverse-mounted handlebars, I’m not sure the claim about changing posture is even true (that’s just about handlebar height, and it seems same either way). I think I’d prefer typical even just for mirror/shifting/bell/etc and mount-dismount (hop-back and tilt-bike-up if-needed).

I mentioned in another comment retro-direct drive, pedalling backwards for the low gear would make something like this even weirder/cooler.

I have a similar feeling for my barely-an-ebike (250w geared folder, ~45lbs, bought on-sale). I sometimes wonder how a non-e bike would compare, it seems like it might be easier so long as I’m half-in-shape (though I don’t have a lot of incentive to ride, so I don’t exactly stay half-in-shape, so I’d probably need a nice stationary bike too).

Wish I could try out a minivelo, probably not much chance of that in USA particularly not for a cheap price. Maybe a folder that’s better-designed than mine (D4S), Brompton is almost a dream (aside from even tinier wheels than 20") except way too expensive. Similarly, a lighter-weight frame like magnesium or titanium would be nice but probably also no.

EDIT: I forgot to say, if I didn’t go with a derailleur a retro-direct drive would be neat. Maybe even cool to make a minivelo with that myself, not that I have really anything required to do so (converting it, maybe). Better if it were somewhat easy to swap gears out (like per-season sort of thing).

EDIT: On second look I’m guessing the description was more of a rhetorical (which would make more sense if it were read before the image). So all I can say is

<me pretending I have a project>: haha same

A lot of issues like this are how things are designed. Taking a page from NotJustBikes (look them up if you haven’t heard of them), lots of things are car-centric (cities, housing, zoning, parking-lots, lack of public transportation) even when it comes as a detriment to everyone not in a car (and sometimes even those in large vehicles, because congestion).

It’s also another culture-war thing and not even just in the US, look how in Canada Doug Ford wants to remove even the painted bike lane.

I mean… they sometimes are (if the sidewalk is designed for it), look at multi-use trails. A city near me allows bikes (coming from the trail) on wide sidewalks to the main street.

It depends on the flow of pedestrians (too many people would be difficult to navigate with a bicycle anyway) and it can be a visibility issue with doors of storefronts (especially as people leaving likely aren’t expecting/looking-for someone passing on a bike).

It’s a lot less mass and speed (and thus momentum) and it also isn’t a room-sized suit-of-armor that can allow accidentally plowing through the brick wall of a store (unscathed) because they dropped their cellphone between the couch cushions.

Aside from lower lethality for pedestrians than vs cars (especially 30mph+, high hood height trucks, blind spots or malfunctions), a bike rider is at risk to injure themselves in any sort of adverse event (be it flipping over the handlebars, falls/skids, or something like a faulty bicycle frame/fork).

I don’t think I have any federation issues (at least directly), but yeah I don’t get replies probably because what I post is too niche. On 3 posts so far at least (~8 upvotes each) in 3 different communities.

Well, looking back most anything I post is probably doomed this way no matter the instance, unless maybe it’s something more general or eye-catching on a bigger community.

For a practical test, search for kbin.social (and then ctrl+f for it also to get the direct results). Or, just look at a community: !kbinMeta@kbin.social

The only thing that appears missing is the avatars images. Though I assume the text content is doomed in the long-run when it comes to new instances, as I doubt re-federation (3rd-party federation) is a thing. Unless of course, someone manually crossposts said content.

All I can think here is

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Even if so, PCIe 5.0 x8 connection so it’s probably less useful for older systems with PCIe 3 (or even PCIe 4) which many on a budget will want to keep using.

Likely will have the issue (that B580 has) with older/weaker CPUs as well though that might be more of a gaming thing not sure about workstation use… I mean if it is a bandwidth issue with the architecture itself (with a CPU not being able to saturate the data for whatever reason) maybe.

I’ve seen reports that the B580 may have lower performance with non-newest CPUs (possibly related to how ReBar being off can lower performance). Some of the options I see for that are also PCIe x8 as well.

I’m also on Linux, and from what I’ve heard it’s a bit behind there compared to the already expected beta-test. I mean, unless things (on either platform) have improved in the last 5 months.

That’s the thing, that’s way above my price range.

I’m still happy* with my other parts that I got on sale in 2019 (Ryzen 2700, 16GiB RAM). Also crazy to me that an entry-level GPU had 4GiB VRAM in 2016 and it still hasn’t moved much beyond that. I guess the market never fully recovered from crypto. Or maybe I just really threaded the needle when it comes to value.

* I don’t really play high-end/newer games though, so even with the GPU some of the issue is just that I worry that the fans are eventually going to die. So it’s that and the nice-to-have of something that could maybe fit in a backpack.

It’ll probably be a while. And it might even be some other tech like ARM, or maybe some new luggable PC even if that happens to just be some second-hand portable with no battery.

It (along with AMD’s habit of not having the full x16 capability, general gpu prices) does not inspire confidence that I’m ever upgrading away from my 1050Ti any time soon.

I may instead have more luck with an APU in a minipc (when the spec and price eventually makes sense).