mranderson17

Dark mode back in the day (XP/Vista era). I wanted to theme everything and have cool UI/visual features in a non-shady download-this-third-party-totally-safe-theme-engine-wink-wink way.

No worries! So I followed, roughly, this guide and it works pretty much flawlessly for me. With the exception of rain, (I'm a patron on x4fab so I tried it, fought with it a lot, and couldn't get it working).

That guide is aimed at the steam deck so I just skipped all the steam deck specific stuff. Pretty much install GE-Proton7-55 like you normally would for any other steam desktop game. Then go through the install process like they suggest, letting it crash, setting the launch options, etc.

The one caveat I suppose I should mention is that I use sway (wayland) and have to run everything in gamescope to make it play nice with tiling and wayland in general. This works mostly fine, except that the content manager window can be resized, and resizing windows in gamescope makes them fill the screen at whatever size they currently are. So if you mess up you might end up with a tiny tiny window and need to launch it outside of gamescope to get it back to a reasonable size. Also the button tool tips are a little flickery, but I just deal with it.

Give it a try! I'm curious to hear if you run into any issues, and let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks! Here are prices/links:

40USD - OpenFFBoard

~50USD - Baldor BSM90N-1150AFP, I managed to get an "untested" one on ebay

150USD - ODrive S1

~50USD - I'm working on fabricating a massively overbuilt mount for which the steel plate (including cut fees to sheer the pieces into manageable rectangles, and a fair amount of extra material) was 50ish. Then "wings" will be eventually cut off so it's a little smaller footprint, I just didn't feel like cutting more plate that day:

So a total of ~300USD for parts and materials if I account for some odds and ends like connectors, consumables, and wire and such that I keep on hand.

I would say this isn't that much less expensive than some of the lower end DD wheelbases. In fact some of them are a lot cheaper if you buy a bundle with wheels and pedals, where as I'm using some things I already have for that. I did have the opportunity to purchase a 9.5Nm motor for the same price but missed it by a day. I'm keeping any eye out for another deal on something slightly more powerful but it'll probably be a while before I find one.

For me the drive (pun intended =] ) for building this was Linux support. OpenFFBoard uses standard HID force feedback supported in both windows and Linux. It does not require drivers and the configuration software is python+qt and runs on anything. Most other DD wheels either don't work at all in Linux or require community maintained reverse-engineered kernel modules like hid-tmff2 (what I currently use with my t300) or hid-fanatecff which has some missing effect support.

EDIT: Sorry for all the edits, I kept forgetting links.

LOL, that's amazing. I have one of those chairs which is currently piled with extra blankets and no one has sat in it in years. I may have to give that "1 DOF of relaxing movement" a try too! Even if I have to drag it out of the way when not in use. That's a much smaller footprint than what I was imagining for a motion rig.

Nice! I wish I had the space for a motion rig. That sounds like a fun project.

What motors are you looking at?

So I just now realized that the banner of this community is a picture of the rig belonging to the creator of the openffboard project. The board on the screen is their TMC4671 based motor driver.

Thanks! I just added some links to the project and github. I shouldn't have assumed everyone knew what it was.

I'll be honest, I did not expect to ever hear another person mention Foobar2000 ever again. And now to learn they have an android app!!!! Hmm, may have to use that for a bit just for nostalgia sake.

The pricing is reasonable though

Nextcloud is free unless you are a business choosing to pay for support or you pay a hosting provider. It costs nothing to run it on your own hardware. Also if you are interested in self hosting and would like to really put in the work to understand it the easiest place to start in my opinion is the docker examples, especially the docker-compose examples.

That said, make sure you have backups. Nextcloud is a massively complex application which does all the basic stuff pretty well, but you are the responsible person if it breaks. It's far far from set-it-and-forget-it software.

I also use Vimeo for videos I can't send directly to people or host my self. For example if I post a FreeCAD howto I put it there so I can link to it from comments and stuff and I know everyone will be able to play it. While it's not open source, It's really pretty great as an alternative platform with all the youtube like features and more (you can change your video title if you make a mistake for example).

I have a whole Linux machine with a bunch of displays, 16 cores, tons of memory, powerful GPU, and an internet connection. And I still have a TI-84Plus sitting on my desk which I use for all my calculator needs.... It's just easier.

My sim rig runs Linux, so while it may not impact framerate it almost certainly won't run on Linux or it will at least significantly impact online features. Denuvo has a history of triggering blanket bans for steamdeck users on other games for this reason.