We’re excited to introduce a new segment: Listener Battle Stations! Show us your setup—whether it’s a sleek Linux battle station or a DIY masterpiece, we want to see where the open source magic happens. Send us your photos or videos, and we’ll feature our favorites on the show!
Being announced on episode 398!
Where should we send the photos to?
I’ll share an old system I have with F34 on it I have setup for retro games.
It is the only system with a DVD player so I wanted to also use it for ripping DVD. I might switch to using MakeMKV instead of handbrake, the colors seem a bit inconsistent, sometimes slight purple, slight green. Using MPEG-2 and tried various other formats that use over 2GB for a 20 minute episode.
Because Fedora is so out of date, I’m using debian as a dualboot, just to install software from a repository, instead of who knows how many upgrade cycles I’d have to download to do so in Fedora.
I tried to upgrade the amd cpu, maybe bent some pins on the two CPU i bought and couldn’t get it to work, ended up breaking the cheap plastic pin grid over the socket, and I decided to replace the whole board. I wasn’t sure what else to do, but looking back I probably cpu super-glued the plastic and tried to fix it.
I believe I’m still using the original CPU and memory with some I added, and it has a decent RX amd gpu in it. Good little system for basic tasks, a shame a motherboard went to the landfill and I lost the two CPU I bought, no idea where they went, had them in a drawer and couldn’t find them again.
I have some old games to play, but I can’t remember how to add gamecube and ps2 support to retroarch, I haven’t spent much time getting it all setup, and have tried Batocera as well, but had too many issues having to leave the custom interface to add files.
@nickerchen you can just post it here or you can also share it in our Discord server here: https://discord.com/channels/366022993882906624/1308945814911193160
@How_many_servers do you have photos of the setup?
Is it cool if I just show off the case and mainboard side? I don’t want to share my personal setup, it’s just a large monitor on a desk, nothing really interesting.
I’ll share some screenshots though
@How_many_servers you are welcome to share whatever you want. To be featured on the show we would need more to discuss but you could share it anyway