@fastfinge@mcourcel Welp, if it were me, I'd be on the phone or email or whatever with Framework. "This is my problem, these are my symptoms, I installed this bios version and can't be sure it's not my cause." I mean, it might not be, but if it is that's a manufacturer issue.
@quanin@mcourcel If it wasn't a third party drive that I'd installed myself, I would be. But I hate to be "that guy": I opened the laptop and did things to it and now I want you to fix my problems!
@fastfinge@mcourcel I mean, the entire point of Framework is the opening it up and doing things to it. What did they expect you were gonna do? And honestly, I mean, when you upgrade your motherboard you're basically replacing your bios anyway, so if it's a bios issue you've just solved it. What you want to make sure is you're not transferring a failing motherboard to your media PC.
@quanin@mcourcel I'm also keeping a close eye on the Framework Community forums, and I haven't seen anyone else reporting this type of issue. So...yeah. Once I get the new motherboard I'll have a lot more testing options, and almost none of them will involve opening the laptop multiple times. And if the motherboard is failing, it's still under warranty, so I can go through the replacement process on the media PC while still having a working laptop. If the drive is failing, it's mine and I'll be sad and replace it. If the BIOS is failing, I'll at least have more proof of that.
@fastfinge@mcourcel That's a valid approach, absolutely. Do you have somewhere you can stash that data temporarily on the off chance it's the drive? The thing is right now it's just annoying. I don't want you waking up next week and it's a disaster.
@quanin@mcourcel The only things on the drive are steam games, and files synced to it from iCloud and Dropbox. So it's pretty much impossible for me to lose any data. Downloading almost 1 TB of steam games and another TB of synced files would be annoying, but not the end of the world.
@quanin@mcourcel Just the two The Last of Us Games are close to 500 gigs all by themselves. Then Forza is like another hundred, AS Dusk Falls is multiple gigs, etc. A terabyte of games is surprisingly few games, these days.
@quanin@mcourcel Heck, even hearthstone, a turn based card game, is five gigs! Stuff like The Last of Us is a 100 gig download, but then it decompresses itself and caches all of its shaders and so on and so on.
@quanin@mcourcel The nice thing about Steam is your saves are stored to the cloud. So assuming you have lots of Internet, you could get away with a 500 gig drive and only install the game you're currently playing. If you uninstall it, you can generally just reinstall and pick back up again and all your saves will be there. Also there are smaller games like Stardew Valley that's only like 500 megs or slay the spire that I think is under a gig. It's just the AAA titles that are huge.
@fastfinge@mcourcel Has Steam gotten around to indicating on its platform which games are actually accessible for us or are we still left with trolling places like Audiogames?
@quanin@mcourcel They...uh...sort of have? But a game can have all of the accessibility features and still not be fully playable without vision. But if you've played a game for less than two hours, Steam will issue an automatic refund, no questions asked. partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessibility_features
@quanin@mcourcel You can also find other completely blind folks on steam, and follow them. Someone's steam profile shows every game they've played, how long they've played it, and the achievements they have (if the game supports achievements). However, some games may have accessibility mods, so once you find a blind person who plays something, you then need to do a quick internet search for game+accessible mod or whatever.
@quanin@mcourcel Okay, here's a list of the games I have: * Alcyone: The Last City: fully playable, but only with annoying SAPI text to speech * Alt-Frequencies: fully playable * Arcade Spirits: fully playable, outputs text to the clipboard, so you need autoclip * Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers: same * As Dusk Falls: fully playable * Balatro: you need a mod but installation is easy * BROK the InvestiGator: fully playable * Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant: fully playable * Conjury: fully playable * cyberpunkdreams: fully playable * Dark Passenger: fully playable * Diablo: mostly playable * Doki Doki Literature Club: you need a mod and installing it is irritating * Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!: this is a remastered version of the above game and the mod is much easier to install and better in every way * Escape from Norwood: fully playable * Factorio: fully playable with mods * Firebird: fully playable * Forza Motorsport: fully playable * Hearthstone: fully playable with mods * Heroes Rise: The Prodigy: fully playable * Kilta: fully playable * The Last of Us™ Part I: fully playable * The Last of Us™ Part II: fully playable * Lost and Hound: fully playable * Luck be a Landlord: fully playable * Magic Research: fully playable * Magic Research 2: fully playable * Microsoft Flight Simulator: only playable if you devote your entire life to it and pay a monthly subscription for the mod and make the correct pagan sacrifices * Night of the Full Moon: fully playable * Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain: fully playable * Periphery Synthetic: fully playable * Pizza Game: fully playable * Sanctuary in Time: fully playable * The Secret of Darkwoods: fully playable * SEQUENCE STORM: fully playable * Shining Song Starnova: fully playable with autoclip * Skullgirls: fully playable if you own a controller * Slay the Spire: fully playable with a mod called say the spire * Smugglers 5: Invasion: playable if you like using object navigation and OCR * soundStrider: fully playable * Stardew Valley: playable with mods * Thaumistry: In Charm's Way: fully playable * Trawel: fully playable * Warsim: The Realm of Aslona: fully playable * World Empire 2027: fully playable
I would recommend sequence storm as your first place to start. Good fun, finishable in a few days, requires no modding. Then maybe move on to Slay The Spire and Balatro to get used to modding stuff and how that feels. Both excellent games that take months to master. There are many more mainstream accessible games, these are just the ones I've personally played.
@svenja@fastfinge@quanin And like that, I have a slew of games to try out. Thank you Sam. For the Last Of Us, don't you need like a crazy processor and GPU?
