I assumed it meant using a separate device or software on the side

That’s what it is. I remember actually sideloading apps to my BlackBerry 10 devices (Z10 and Z30) (though it really wasn’t that long ago not to remember it…) using a PC with a Chrome based browser (though it worked on Firefox too with some minor fiddling) to push and install .bar files to the phone. That is what sideloading to me.

Now this term changed, so everything you install from a different source than the built-in appstore is called sideloading, which is ridiculous IMO.

Unrelated, but I had something relatively similar once with my Inspiron 7520 laptop. In theory, that machine only supports 8GB of RAM, but technically I could put 16 into it and worked fine. Later I upgraded to a different machine and put this laptop aside, but sometimes I set it up if I go to friends place and need a PC to do some light multiplayer lan parties or such.

For a while, the laptop has a strange locking up issue when I booted 64 bit OSs. Or I don’t know, after my testings, it seemed that booting a 64 bit OS would crash my machine sooner or later. Maybe even right after boot, maybe after when I logged in or used it for some time. Booting into Memtest also locked up eventually the laptop (but running the 32 version of Memtest didn’t). Pulling out either memory stick (2x8GB) solved the issue, it worked with both sticks on both slots, if I used only one. The two sticks together on the other hand made my machine crash after boot, no matter which stick went to which slot.

Difference is that every OS did this, not just Debian, though Windows seemed to keep up longer in this case, but it also crashed on me.

Now I don’t have this problem. It just… disappeared after not using the laptop for a while again.

So… if it’s not software issue, maybe try to reseat your RAM sticks. Or use some compressed air to clean up the slots, maybe check the contacts of the sticks and clean them with some isopropyl and a soft brush.

It also can be storage issue, if your Windows install works fine on a different drive. Once I had an Ubuntu installed to the same laptop I mentioned and its HDD was failing hard, but the system kept up for a while, just had some really weird issues popping up here and there. But then eventually failed completely. Amongst the weird happenings, random freezes were also a thing with my bad HDD.

that would be wonderful

I use NewPipe instead of Vanced for a few months now. Aside from a bug where it can’t load large playlists, it’s fine, I had no problems with it, and this large list loading bug is also fixed in a random development build apk, so that’s fixed.

The interface is… not the most convenient in some places, but it’s no worse than the official YouTube app.

But it’s good. If you don’t need your account’s recommendations or don’t want to comment, it’s perfect.

I did the change, because for a while I had to use a… weird little Android phone (Qin F22 Pro) and NewPipe was my only option to have YouTube. Since then I’ve got a different phone, but still stuck with NewPipe, to me it’s more than enough on the phone. Mostly I use it for listening music in the background, but not exclusively.

It’s an interesting plus that it can handle SoundCloud and BandCamp too.

RTX5070 works almost straight out from the box on Kubuntu stable. Had to try few of the drivers from the built-in utility to find which worked, but the latest version and open one did the trick. So no, it wasn’t hard to get it working properly :)

My gf recently built a PC for herself and just did moved her from Windows to Kubuntu stable as well. I was kinda surprised, she was the one who came to me and told me that she doesn’t want Windows 11 so she’s open to try out Linux. I changed to Linux (Debian) myself for a year and a half and she probably noticed that I still play my games and use it the very same way I did with Windows. I told her that most of the apps has alternatives, running games isn’t a big a deal anymore and if she really really need to run Windows software, there’s a great chance she can. (But this didn’t occured).

My only concern was full Huion Kamvas support and crativity apps, 2D drawing and all that… but she’s open to use and learn Krita, it seems she likes it. But if that won’t work out, my small research told me that ClipStudio Paint (the one she used on Windows) works well with Wine. The Huion tablet just worked out of the box, with pressure sensitivity and all that jazz. (Buttons don’t work though, but Huion has official Linux drivers which supposed to make them work, so that’s awesome.)

Why would they not include these into base kit Windows is beyond me.

Some of them felt a bit buggy when I last time used Windows, maybe they aren’t fully ready to ship (like Samsung’s Good Lock apps?). And most features didn’t do quite what I imagined it to do, but that’s probably a “me problem”.

back in the XP days, I used a software called “Unlocker” just for this problem. It probably still exists, I don’t know, because since Windows 7, the easiest way to find out what process locks a file is to open Resource Monitor (Start search: resmon) and on the CPU tab, using the “Associated handles” list, you can search for the file name and see the process in question (and kill it).

So yeah, Resource Monitor is a useful tool on Windows.

though now that I think about it, simply “butthole” would be enough. everyone has one, still feels offensive enough and works universally.

loose butthole

to me it’s more like post Enterprise that I just can’t get into anymore. Time to time I try again though, hoping one day I will magically start to like them.

I went to check it and… believe it or not, but it works now. With Joy Cons and with the 8bitdo controller as well. So I have no idea what did went wrong this morning. I was doing it multiple times, from world 3 and 4 and nothing. Weird!

Thanks!

save states

If it really doesn’t work here (which really would be strange), then yeah, that’s what I’m gonna use. Using it already.

It would be just nice, to have the “built-in” way of save states of some kind. It’s half-way cheating that way, since they put this feature inside the game and not the system you run on it.

And also, as you mentioned it too, using save states also saves the extra life counts. So soon enough, probably there will be a save where I don’t have any lifes and every death would mean game over.

Minor things. But yeah. Will try the A + START thing with Joy Cons, and if that won’t work either, I just use save states and maybe save at each world.

My smile would be more natural, if I could finish the game (for the first time, from the beginning to the end) the intended way, and I think using A + START is still fine.

I haven’t checked with the Joy Cons, but will do later the day, thanks for the input.

Even if that brings you back to the beginning of the world, it’s still a big help :)

unfortunately, radontop doesn’t support relatively old cards. I get this error. (And the github page states that >R600 will work)

Unknown Radeon card. <= R500 won't work, new cards might.

Also, my AMD CPU has a integrated GPU too, radeontop just doesn’t know about it.

The GPU works on my system tho, just radeontop doesn’t detect/support them. Oh well.

for newcomers, maybe this is the best combo. Debian stable with KDE Plasma.

that’s weird, too, but no

Ken (as the name) - ta (with a hard T and A as in catapult) - ur (with an u like in Vonnegut’s name)

tho I’m from europe speaking a weird ass language

and even then, for me at least, the dialog that pops up is broken and lot of times the “Allow” button literally does nothing

okay, you caught me, my .world profile was supposed to be my non-furry lemmy account.