You can totally get a fake PSN service running in RPCS3. It’s called RPCN. However, LittleBigPlanet servers were not hosted by PSN, they were hosted by Media Molecule in conjunction with Sony.
Unfortunately those servers were hacked and they took down everything. So any content for LittleBigPlanet 1, 2 or 3 is totally gone.
I was taught that it’s really only voltage that really needs to match to avoid damage. And even that can be a bit fuzzy with modern electronics and their charging circuitry.
The wattage and amperage only measures how fast the charger will recharge the battery. There will be a minimum amperage needed to power the laptop… but as long as you exceed the the minimum the laptop will run fine even if the adapter is capable of crazy high Amps. The laptop will only pull what is needed.
You should be able to use dd to create bootable device. Ubuntu has a guide, just replace their iso with yours: scroll all the way down to Using the Linux command line
Yeah, whatever roadblocks are set up can easily be dismantled using the same privs.
Only way to achieve this goal is to either hand the keys to someone else or to lock yourself out.
My fuzzy memory says this is super accurate to SLP mode… but I’ve been too far removed from that old analog video standard to actually remember the quality. I know for sure it’s better than most plugins I’ve tried at least.
Nah, this wasn’t an issue with gaming. This was just that the parts were new. The motherboard I chose used a 2024 chipset that Debian didn’t recognize. Basic stuff like detecting drives and outputting video beyond VESA standards was busted because of it. It took around 6 more months until Trixie came out with support.
I tried Debian when I built my PC back in 2025. It didn’t have any support for the bleeding edge parts I chose.
I then tried LMDE as a compromise. It also didn’t have the support I needed.
It’s a little too stable for my use-case… but runs well on my older laptops.
full vim. It always messes with my muscle memory when vim-tiny is installed as a replacement.
that’s good for testing if a device will work or not, but it’s terrible for judging how the OS performs. Mostly because your DVD/USB is going to be a serious bottleneck for I/O. Combine that with the 4GB of RAM and you’ve got some potentially crunchy performance ahead of you, which would not be indicative of the install performance.
If I were handed that hardware, the first thing I’d try is…
If what is currently being used is usable, and I don’t want to risk making it unusuable, shrink/resize the active partition with a partitioning tool. Then, assume I’m multibooting and I’d install on the secondary partition:
Raspberry Pi Desktop. I’d choose Pi OS because it is designed for an ultra low power 700MHz ARM11 that comes with the 2012 Pi 1. The drawback is it’s an older Debian install (Bullseye), but still getting long-term support until August. I assume they will release a new Desktop version when that date comes.
RetroPie. I’d grab the RetroPie script for ease of use on installing SNES emulation. It should prompt every emulator choice available for your system, and set up controller support (or keyboard+mouse) and emulationstation so you can browse your legally dumped roms after putting them in the correct directory.
uploading one at a time, uploading in smaller batches
Yup, that’s where I’d start. Creating a tar and splitting it into parts. Just as an example. Not sure if that guide is good or not. It was just the first thing that popped up in the search engine.
I’m a happy middleground. I’ve had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I’ve done.
One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn’t let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn’t let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.
The second failure was just… I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn’t even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.
Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha
I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.
I learned the VP9 sort after I saw how randomly abysmal the encoding is for AV1.
Just look at these numbers:
and a direct comparison, same frame from AV1:
and then VP9:
use --compat-options prefer-vp9-sort
yt-dlp -f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] -S height:1080 --compat-options prefer-vp9-sort --all-subs --no-warnings -v https://www.youtube.com/watchx
I had used Lubuntu to rescue an underpowered laptop back in community college. At university, I was on the campus tech support team… and ended up “the Linux guy” for the few foreigners who had installations (I knew how to run apt and that’s about it). Out of uni, I ended up in a career supporting RHEL. Of course Raspberry Pis skyrocketed in popularity as well, so I got to sink my teeth into a Debian-derivative and blow up a few installs without having to worry about change management.
When time came to build a system in 2025, I figured I’d try it as an experiment. I stumbled at first and learned Debian does not play well with new hardware, but after switching to Linux Mint it’s been nearly painless. Most of the software I had been using in Windows was already open source (because I couldn’t afford to buy software), so almost everything migrated 1:1. Excluding Winamp… :(
I just hit the same issue a few days ago. So Debian 12 (Bookworm) still has i386 support, but that support may end as soon as next year as they haven’t confirmed i386 as an architecture for LTS.
If you do go with Debian, you can easily choose a lightweight desktop during installation.
I tried XFCE for some older hardware and had the same experience.
I poked around at stuff like fluxbox and found it too minimal. So I ended up using LXDE instead and got better results, but that was before it transitioned to LXQt. I have no idea if it’s still as lightweight as it used to be. Someone else might have to chime in.
I can’t find a proper source, but I think even the fan communities were taken down.
It is not surprising that Sony would hold that level data close to the chest. If LBP4 did actually become a thing, they could release all that legacy data as day 1 content.