Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Okay, after all the work I did to hack my two 3DS systems, I start the Nintendo DS app to finally check that everything is finalized and done, and this comes up.

For a split second, my heart stopped thinking I broke something.

It's an April Fool's joke....

I had planned an April Fool's stream today, but my cough is really bad the last few days. Maybe next year.

I'm actually not the biggest fan of April Fool's day, since most posts that day simply can't be trusted. The AF streams I've done tend to be more silly things, versus trying to fool you, like streaming 7 hours (SEVEN HOURS) of Zork Text Adventures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Ck_Mj08gw) or Not Actually Playing A Game, just running the cutscenes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibn0QQCB6tc).

The "Geared Down" diet. Costs me about $175 a week, has a few more calories than I'd like, but stays inside my blood sugar requirements.

At least I know some good steak/pork/chicken seasonings to vary it up....

Goodnight...

While I was digging through my SD cards, I came across a 1TB SSD that was just hanging out in my box of digital storage stuff. thje Gaming PC I had has a criminally small HDD (made smaller because it's split between Linux and Windows), so I transferred the OS over to that.

I like using Linux on low end systems cause it doesn't eat a lot of processing power or storage space. It was surprising to see that Linux had 128GB of the 256GB partition filled out.

But with the 1TB drive in there (split between 512GB each for Linux and Windows) I don't think that'll be an issue for a while.

Had something wierd happen today with on of my SD cards.

There's a lot of shenangians going on over here trying to find an SD card for 40GB of data that I simply didn't have any SD cards for. They were either too small (32GB), or FAR too large (512GB). I found a 200GB one I could use and copied the 3DS data to it.

And it promptly failed. The 3DS would not see it, or would see it, but couldn't recognize it. I'd put it in my PC, and the both Linux and Windows could see it just fine: a 200GB SD Card formatted in FAT32.

I had it checked with F3 to see if it was a counterfeit card (I had to deal with a LOT of counterfeits at NOA, where they'd bought a 2TB card (which didn't exist at the time) for $10 (really?) and in reality it was a 2GB card hacked to read 2TB.), and it was a proper 200GB card.

I kind of gave up on it, and put the data on my 400GB card (wasting 90% of it's current capacity), and put the 200GB card in my laptop to format. It also saw the card, but couldn't read it correctly. It was the correct size, but the format was "Unknown."

So I had THAT Linux format it in FAT32, and it recognized it, and so did the 3DS. But why would it work on my PC just fine before?

Don't matter - I've got a 64GB card coming in tomorrow, so I can clean out the larger SD cards and use them in something that could use the space....

There were FOURTEEN Air Bud movies?! IT WAS A FRANCHISE?!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/opinions/transgender-day-visibility-wellness/index.html

Listen, I love snow as much as the next person, but....really? REALLY?

The main problem I had with 3DS streaming was I couldn't move my games BACK to the old 3DS to stream and had to buy them all over again (thankfully, I ended up only re-purchasing mostly cheapie virtual console games). But that's no longer an issue....

I couldn't get the Linux version of the capture software to work, but I did manage to get the Windows version to work just fine.

My final 3DS downloads. The only new games were Liberation Maiden and Phoenix Wright Dual Destinies. The rest are redownloads of old games I'd since removed.

Myst for 3DS was such a hack job.

Been a while, hasn't it, Personal Trainer: Walking?

The best thing about the Trump indictment? I've heard he's being tried as an adult.

There isn't just a big spoiler for today's Picard lurking around on the internet, but a double spoiler, so be careful out there....