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  • I’m actually pretty opinionated on gamepads.

    For most arcade games, fighting games, and most 2D PC games I tend to go with a 6 button Sega style gamepad. The D-pad really lends itself to fluid, rapid movements. I honestly like them so much that I’ve picked up 6 button ASCII pads for my PS2/PS1 and Dreamcast.

    For PC games, Retro-bit makes good ones that are officially licensed by Sega. Their original wireless Saturn pad was my go to for years. They also made an updated version with dual analog sticks and four triggers instead of two, which I quite like. They also make a larger pad based on the original Sega Genesis pad, but it lacks triggers and only has one start button. 8bitdo, which is a fantastic company, also makes a 6 button pad.

    For everything else I use a DualShock 5 as long as I’m not using the D-pad much, and an 8bitdo Pro2 if the D-pad matters.











  • cfi@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSuggestions on SBC media player
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    7 months ago

    Ooh ooh, I know this one!

    You could run Mopidy, which has support for Subsonic libraries. You could also run plain MPD.

    Whatever you decide to go with can then be connected to Snapcast, which is a server/client setup for streaming audio from a source to multiple client endpoints (in this case your workshop, phone, PC, etc).

    On devices that can run the client software, like a desktop or phone, you just run the Snapcast client software.

    To connect stereo/AVR systems to Snapcast, you can build a streaming endpoint with a Raspberry Pi ZeroW with a Pirate Audio hat, or the version without the screen, and set up the Snapcast client software on it, and then connect it to your stereo system.

    If you have a 3D printer, you could optionally print out a case for the client devices.

    This is my setup, right down to using Navidrome as the Subsonic server and I couldn’t love it more!





  • Its much more responsive in my experience. It supports a wide range of options, has gestures for controlling certain settings (i.e. brightness and warmness) allows position syncing with other KOReader devices (Another reader,Android App for example), browsing and downloading from OPDS catalogs and Calibre instances, Downloading saved articles from Wallabag instances.

    Honestly the only thing I use the stock Kobo software for is to launch KOReader. It does everything the stock software does but better.

    I should mention, you install KOReader and its dependencies on top of the regular firmware, not over it. You can use them side by side