I don't use RA at all, I just have to fix it for those who end up using it because of Reddit. Thanks for the recommendation though, I'll check it out.
LainTrain
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Yeah fundamentally it's an issue with the emulation community more broadly recommending RetroArch as a one-size-fits-all solution for all emulation, when actually it's kind of a niche software for emulation enthusiasts and developers to use as a base for some sort of more user friendly frontend. Hence why I am talking shit on the community hivemind more than the software itself.
For me personally I only emulate a few systems, but I tend to get pretty in-depth with various hacks, tweaks, mods etc. which can involve some basic debugging so I tend to prefer standalone emulators, it just keeps the overall stack much simpler, for these situations I also prefer to compile from source, so keeping things simple helps too.
"Don't be afraid to do things the hard way."
Your gripes with standalone emulators are not invalid of course and I'm happy it works for you.
What's got my jimmies all rustled is that this is often recommended as the go-to by people online, making me constantly have to counter this.
There are many occasions where I've seen less tech-savvy friends, some far more intelligent folks than myself with a low patience for bullshit give up on emulation altogether, because they were having some issue or another, and it's always with RetroArch's peculiarities and troubleshooting issues in it to me feels unclear and fuzzy, requiring either dumb brute force or referencing at least several sets of docs, compared to a standalone emulator.
They don't have enormous setups, they just want to play that one game they remember as a kid once every 4 years.
If you're the type to know what [!] and GoodSNES mean with 70+ cores, then yeah, you could probably do worse than a nice set and forget configure-everything-once RetroArch install. I had just that on my Pi, for MAME exclusively, with ES thrown on top for good measure.
As for configs and updates I feel your pain. I never update software for this reason. If config is not in /etc/ or in ~/.config I uninstall immediately, if I see .conf.d - I uninstall immediately. Software exists to solve problems or be fun, not bloat out the system with complexity.
This is a really neat idea. I'm frequently put off by large highly distributed (among files and dependencies) codebases with no obvious entry point. I wanted to make some changes to GNU's mailutils and the code felt genuinely incomprehensible (BSD's implementation of mail was a bit easier).
Perhaps another approach is to parse ptrace.
it lets you look like a clown
I guess you were trying to say "it makes you look like a clown".
I'm afraid that's a C-, see me after class.
I'm afraid
It is a shit design.
It's trying to do everything and ultimately does nothing very well at all. It's such a bad frontend, the only way through which it is really useful is if you use another frontend for it, but if you want to change any settings you're also SoL and might as well just use the standalones, since the way the RetroArch configs translate to individual cores is just a fuzzy mess where the actual dysfunction and if any - user error - will inevitably be obfuscated from the user.
If by "this method" you mean Steam Link like OP then yes that does work. It does not work in Sunshine however, and I need Sunshine, because obviously there is no Steam Link on a PS Vita.
Obviously I tried the sunshine method out or I wouldn't have outlined all the things I tried to fix it with otherwise.
Indentation can be (and should be) tabs, EOL is it's its own thing either \n or CRLF which Python source code did actually care about as recently as 2.3.
Assumptions like this is why most people should stick to verbose languages with lots of guardrail braces.
To be pendantic, it's level of indentation in Python that has semantic meaning, not whitespace.
Well fuck. Telegram was a really good way to distribute tor bridges in Russia because account age can be inferred from id, so roskomnadzor glowies could be vanquished easily.
Well done Pasha, you just had to go to France, the one country that has a warrant on you? Don't the indie pharma & finance industries have enough to worry about without the glowies? Oh and bring back the wall you bastard.
Incredible that it's only happened now. Just goes to show how actually old the average Brit is. On the one hand it feels good, I'll still be "young" for another 15 years, even though past 25 it's all downhill, but on the other hand the downfall of civilization to the cheer of the boomer property tycoons hopped up on the daily heil isn't that nice to be around.