Don’t worry, if RFK Jr has his way in the next administration, we won’t be “living” with the diseases anymore, they will just be killing us off instead.

I’ll be fine, I don’t lie about my beliefs, and it’s pretty 50 50 here. I’m pretty sure I have some family members that would be sweating about it though.

Unfortunately its the down side of trying to upscale a PS1 or PS2, its fine with a cheaper one, for example you could get a retrotink 2x or something else and use that to convert to HDMI, it won’t be as clean as the 5x and you would still have the issues with games that switch resolutions causing the HDMI signal to drop for 3-4 seconds, but it would work. I just know from experience how annoying it is when I want to play one of those games, so for me it was worth it, and it was a lot cheaper when I bought mine…

For ps2, you want a retrotink, ps2 and ps1 have resolution switching mid game which is fine for crt tvs, it doesn’t work well with hdmi causing a drop out on resolution change, for 3-4 seconds each time. The retrotink is one of the few that can buffer the video so it keeps a steady 1080p signal through hdmi.

I have a 5x pro and it’s an amazing device. Upgraded from an ossc because of the above issues on my ps1 and ps2 games.

I assume you installed Kubuntu to the external drive on your laptop, in which case it likely installed the boot record into the laptop’s main drive