Echoing the other user; I just worked on a data recovery job with your symptoms near identical. Back up your important files while you still have them and get new ones ASAP; preferably some form of SSD.

This is hardware failure, not driver error. Your files will start to corrupt if you wait too long.

Kinda reminds me of when Lizardbyte had a falling out with the Arch base re:Sunshine.

It sucks but I can understand considering how terminally online and entitled a lot of users are, plus there’s an AppImage for this still so hopefully that covers the gap.

I’ve actually been on my 3DS a lot this week, I replayed Hamtaro: Ham Hams Unite! and a short homebrewed game jam GBA called World of Zoink, which was cute.

I also picked up Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door for the Switch at good prices last weekend so once I’m past my current retro obsession I’m excited to start on those!

That’s fair.

Dream world would have Ghibli pick it up, or the team(s) behind Secret Level.

But we’re already in motion on this plan so just gotta cross our fingers and hope for the best.

In comparison to the animated Mario movie, most likely.

Live action doesn’t usually translate as well from animated/rendered media.

Tech illiteracy is 90% of why we have work.

Doing it for free sucks though.

FP and Electron both are brutal on limited storage, so being able to pick and choose where needed can be helpful.

I was in elementary school when the 360 came out, so no, I wasn’t aware at the time of the corporate smarm coming from Microsoft.

You’re right to be put off of it though, MS is…yeah.

I’m (also pleasantly) surprised most of those arch derivatives are listed separately.

I don’t think I’ve ever actively been put off of wanting a new console before this. Lukewarm feelings or too poor, sure.

I love my original Switch and (most of) its first-party titles but each new article about its successor is making me want a Steam Deck instead.

We’re getting Tomodachi Life for the Switch?! Sweet.

Similar to other users - repos go down or corporate stuff starts to creep in.

As long as I get to maintain agency over my system I’m pretty content.

It’s wonderful.

I do miss being able to send stuff from my PC to my iPhone though, but that’s Apple’s fault.

Oh thank hell it’s not just me. Every so often I retry the man command only to get frustrated having to flip through six walls of text via keyboard for something a 20 second Internet search would have easily refreshed my memory on.

This exactly.

I enjoy the level of control I have on my Linux machine but I spend about 40% of my time in CLI.

I recently had to troubleshoot a windows machine, and the lack of control was frustrating but every step for that problem was GUI-centric. Everyday people don’t want to remember commands so they can set up their browser and word processor. They want (to them) simple and straightforward.

To us it’s a low bar, and most of us are from the generations that dreamt of a predominantly tech-literate society, but that’s not reality. We have to meet them where they are, and if they want to learn beyond that then we welcome them in.

Bee Simulator! Way cuter than I thought it would be (due to other “simulator” titles) and I’m about 70% through the main story.

EndeavourOS club! Gorgeous blend between granular control and reasonably configured initial guardrails for a willing-to-learn new Arch user.

I played around with other distros too, before settling into this one. Haven’t looked back after 2-3 years of use so far.

Ooblets!

Take a cross between Pokémon and Stardew Valley, make the fights dance battles, and toss in some Slime Rancher aesthetics and you have Ooblets.

GNOME is a lightly upgraded MacOS interface. Every time I’ve had to use a Mac has pissed me off so GNOME gives me war flashbacks.

Not necessarily the DE’s fault but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Decided to do a replay of Cattails: Wildwood Story in between my Balatro runs.

The former is pretty cute, fairly low stakes adventure/exploration game. Once you befriend the cats in your colony town you can start taking them along as adventure companions too, which is helpful especially in the mining areas.