Nazo

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Big fan of #Utaite (particularly doing covers of #Vocaloid music,) games, and technology. Unfortunately I've been falling out of anime these days (harder and harder to get into things for me) and don't watch much anymore. I'm also a very slight bit of an audiophile (but limited budgets make it hard to be much of one.)

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2026-04-09 01:37:31 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn @nprofile…kqnv Wait, really? I could swear I've plugged a PS2 controller into my PS1.
An official first-party PS1 DualShock controller in black? Did those come with a special model or something?

2026-04-04 23:53:53 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I didn't say it does...
I said if you were worried about it using a lot of CPU power, it really doesn't do that much even without acceleration.

2026-04-04 23:42:08 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I mean the encryption that is used for https was 128 or 256-bit I think.
Eg it's not 4096 or something if you might have thought so.
Anyway, their https servers are clearly put up fully expecting normal levels of user traffic, so all in all I would say just don't worry about it and go ahead and use them.

2026-04-04 23:22:16 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I think they get AES acceleration or something from the CPU, but also, it just really isn't THAT much work in today's standards. It meant a whole lot more in the distant past with processors so much slower back then than it does today. Even the slower processors have so much more power per cycle that it makes a world of difference.
Bear in mind it's really small. What was it? 128-bit? 256-bit maybe?

2026-04-04 22:50:24 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I don't think SSL is that hard on a server's CPU...
Doesn't it even get acceleration from the CPU to ease things even more?
Servers all over the Internet are doing just fine with encryption to large volumes of users.

2026-04-03 02:10:00 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn I don't know which is more nostalgic. Dreamcast or Toys 'R' Us.

2026-04-03 00:46:36 UTC

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@nprofile…ryrt A lot changes, but some things don't. It's great that they can still get along like this after all that time.

2026-04-03 00:10:14 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 @nprofile…67n4 Agreed 1000%. I've heard that this could be done and I've always wondered why browsers didn't prioritize making it an effort to block all of this.
Really there are a scary level of things that just don't get the attention they should. Like why can browsers access your clipboard by default? I don't just mean write stuff. They can use an event to read it... Browsers seriously need to make a better effort to keep sites from getting access to any of this potentially identifying/privacy violating stuff...
Of course Chrome probably does this on purpose.

2026-04-02 07:34:30 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh I did not say you can't buy it for that now. I said it wasn't that price to begin with and they're probably trying to get rid of old stock.

2026-04-02 07:31:01 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh I mean, yeah they got more powerful CPUs, but that doesn't mean they should have been treated as if they were PCs.
They had a specific niche. Super cheap, super minimal general computing devices. A more powerful CPU was great, but that didn't mean it had to be treated like a desktop.
IMO they lost sight of that niche. RPi4 never debuted at $35, so if you can get one for that I'm surprised. That's mostly because it's old stock they're trying to get rid of at this point if so. It pretty much was the one that pushed the baseline up to where it is, though the RPi5 certainly took that a lot further. You definitely won't be buying a RPi5 at $35 any time soon...
The Zeros may be the closest to filling that old niche, but they also have more limitations to their bigger brothers

2026-04-02 07:22:43 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh That's the excuse definitely. But it doesn't cost that much for the amount (and especially the lower grade) of RAM they put in there.
They were already getting ridiculous long before the current shortages. When they started going over $100 IMO that's when the hobby was already dying. RPi used to aim for a $35 device and that was what gave us a cheap, minimal, plentiful general computing device. But then they just sort of lost sight of all that.
It's not just price. They started just treating them as if they were some kind of full blown PCs. They stopped doing a super minimal, super optimized setup with specialized packages and configurations to make simple things doable in 256MB of RAM. Now you need 4+GB to use them well...
Raspberry Pi was killed by... Themselves.

2026-03-31 20:28:51 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj We had no such rule — but also no TV guide. And, of course, no Internet.
(I suppose it may have been possible to look things up on one of those intranet services. Compuserve or AOL or whatever we were on back then, but I wasn't allowed to use those because apparently they were very expensive — by the minute I think even...)

2026-03-31 20:26:00 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj I had the most amazing ability to just miss the movies. Usually the rare few anime movies allowed to be showed to a western audience because how dare something from outside the west exist or whatever. Like I caught the very tail end of a Dragon Quest movie one time (yeah, apparently that's a thing) and then another time the tail end of this really dark Sonic movie. I got up earlier and earlier and never once caught a full movie. 😆

2026-03-31 20:22:38 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…stq7 Yeah, they can be fun when you go in with the right mindset really. I still enjoyed them a little back then. I just can't today.
It's sad you missed out on the experience of getting up early on a Saturday morning to watch everything that came on inside a quiet household while everyone else was asleep. It's hard to explain how that felt for me. It didn't even matter if the cartoons were good or not as I lay there on the couch wrapped in a blanket. IMO your parents robbed you of something there.

2026-03-31 20:14:50 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…stq7 It really was terrible. The only reason I watched any of that stuff was because it was themed after games, lol.
I recently tried to watch some of that stuff (without "AI" resizing or etc) and honestly just couldn't sit through it.
I'm sad I couldn't even sit through the Zelda one.

2026-03-31 03:51:06 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Putting aside the misinfo and etc, the particular formulaic way they all come out is just maddening...
And what is this OBSESSION they have with emoticons? They stole most of their text from everyone on the Internet, but the companies that make the models heavily trained those in on their own... Like... they just did that on their own for... some... reason...

2026-03-27 16:19:38 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh @nprofile…ns22 Can you believe some people out there supposedly had 1600x1200? Bah. Rich people.

2026-03-24 17:29:20 UTC

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@nprofile…7g5c @nprofile…pfuj This is what bothers me about all the people saying "I'll just throw my laptop into the ocean" in response to all this.
The issue isn't that there could be an app for everything. The issue is that the apps for everything are actively evil and designed by corporations who have a heavily vested interest in keeping them from being minimal or universal.
There's no viable reason you couldn't do everything from, say, a HomeAssistant setup just running on your LAN from a cheap little device with no phoning home or anything.
People shouldn't hate that apps exist, computers, etc, they should hate what's being done with them. They could all be wonderful and helpful. Corporations made active choices to keep them from being to protect their profits.

2026-03-24 00:25:43 UTC

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@nprofile…6jyx It looks like an incident just happened...

2026-03-22 18:00:15 UTC

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@nprofile…rtup @nprofile…ay7w I do want to be clear: collecting user data to be submitted to applications outside of the user's control is non-compliant with a lot of privacy laws elsewhere. I'm no lawyer, but I'm willing to bet it's non-compliant with privacy laws even in California, as limited as those are... (Yeah, the law itself is pretty contradictory.)
They don't have to do this. Systemd is not California (or Colorado) based. It's global and it's implemented globally, which means it absolutely is violating laws elsewhere.
They could have spoken to lawyers. The EFF would have been glad to take this up I have absolutely no doubt. They even could have listened to the voices of people saying "hey, this may not even be legal."
But it's being rushed through in a hurry instead.

2026-03-22 17:53:44 UTC

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@nprofile…rtup @nprofile…ay7w The problem is, they aren't being made to comply with laws in one or two areas, they're falling over themselves, ignoring dissenting voices in their rush to implement this in a thing that shouldn't even have anything to do with it anyway. Systemd just supposed to handle startup and services, not keeping records of the users.
The thing is, the laws aren't even binding them yet. Most don't even apply to them since they aren't centralized in those two states. The laws aren't even really finalized yet and implementations now may not even comply with the final laws...
And implementing those laws globally also tends to violate laws elsewhere. They're picking complying in advance with area laws that aren't even 100% legal over complying now with global laws that are.

2026-03-21 17:33:13 UTC

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@nprofile…maql I just realized what the scariest thing about this truly is. It's not even just that they're doing all this. It's how FAST they're pushing it through while ignoring any and all opposition. Like basically a lot of people already have it on their systems right now probably just from automatic or frequent manual updates.
This one person in particular seems to have made it a crusade to put age-gating into Linux and is doing PRs all over the place in a hurry, many of which are just being evaluated by Claude rather than real humans (well, I guess a big XZ-style exploit but even worse has been found in this process.) Just like that, a thing that invades user privacy to comply in advance with a law in one very specific area that can't legally be applied to people outside it is in.

2026-03-10 03:43:07 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn It really was mindblowing from the title screen on. Even talking right in the intro. Talking, omg, what's that? 😆 So atmospheric.

2026-03-05 03:17:21 UTC

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@nprofile…vuvh Even though the article turned out to be untrue, every single bit of this is still 100% applicable... Really really time to get rid of Microsoft and all the horrible things they're doing to every single one of their own customers willingly and knowingly...
Like, you know, the TormentNexus actually is optional. You can just, you know, say no.

2026-03-01 00:40:18 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Jealous maybe?

2026-02-27 22:46:03 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
Why are there usb ports on the microwave?
wrong answers only
I'm pretty sure "there are usb ports on the microwave" is already the wrong answer.

2026-02-24 06:46:53 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh That is... very strange...

2026-02-23 22:03:18 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh The kernel sources package is linux-headers in *buntu/Mint and isn't installed by default. Is that what you mean? That's not really "not available" just not installed on its own. Easily rectified.
Sorry if I misunderstood.

2026-02-22 23:04:41 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn
The Xbox had some good console exclusives, and often better versions of games that were on PS2 :xbox:
I guess it had some advantages with games that were built primarily for PC, but other than a few of those, what was better than the PS2 versions?
I always felt like the PC games were still best on the PC. Especially in those days. Even the one I'd had the highest hopes for being fun on console (Morrowind) ended up being kind of blech on the Xbox. (Lots of slowdowns and such. But as a side note, if you had a CFW you could actually get quite a few mods to work on it at least, which was kind of cool. I don't think I've seen that again until Skyrim on the Switch and even it has to deal with a different texture format on any mods that use textures.)

2026-02-12 02:31:33 UTC

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@nprofile…sxam Anything you need is gone within moments. Anything they can use against you is forever.
Isn't the modern age of enshittification great?

2026-02-07 00:15:42 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj I just want to see more people know that Rune Factory and Story of Seasons/once Harvest Moon exist. 😭

2026-02-06 20:37:29 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 Glide was fairly simple to support in DOS. It was generally pretty stable. It wasn't until you started dealing with Windows and stuff like alt-tabbing that it became an issue. (I remember even having programs that actually disabled the start button for people to avoid accidentally bumping it. I do NOT miss that...)

2026-02-06 18:27:46 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 Even 640x480 makes a world of difference compared to 320x200. Even way back then I was nuts about getting higher resolutions out of everything that I could and hated that my PCs at the times generally couldn't handle it. (Well, not that Descent 1 had higher resolutions, but Descent 2 did apparently.) I still, to this day, as someone who grew up with everything on PC being 320x200 find it weird that people look at 320x200 resolution stuff now and think it is better that way so make stuff look like it on purpose.

2026-02-05 22:45:27 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 Maybe it's an issue of the type of joystick? I have an ancient Saitek X52 I bought used way back when and it never has made me feel uncomfortable even using it hours and hours at a time. It has a couple of mostly minor issues (its age is showing) but still very nice.

2026-02-03 21:22:13 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn Looking at screenshots, it definitely looks a lot more confusing than Blockout. The lack of colors really hurts it in particular. Not much they could do about the hardware limitations.

2026-02-02 23:45:45 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I always did find it kind of funny how little difference it truly was hearing that specific game with a proper wavetable synthesizer. Don't get me wrong, it still sounded better, but I had hoped for a much bigger difference on the title screen in particular.

2026-02-02 23:35:15 UTC

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@nprofile…rtl5 I'm not even sure about piano. I personally feel like it's pretty different.
I'd say the best stuff are things that are already synths. For example, electric guitars might be an example of something that probably comes closest.
And now the Duke Nukem 3D title screen music is playing in my head and won't go away. Thanks a lot. 😆

2026-02-02 21:07:01 UTC

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@nprofile…rnn3 Imagine if someone could go back in time somehow and tell them "by the way, your demo will be so popular that someday someone implements it into one of the most inefficient scripting languages that runs inside something that is, in turn, shockingly inefficient by that point.
I mean, they worked hard to tweak every bit of code so it would run as efficiently as possible. This couldn't be more opposite. 😆

2026-01-30 01:48:39 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Yeah, was just saying basically that if they could be unlocked that would be a great option (and it's easier to learn than you think.)
I suspect the point is moot. Any semi-modern Chromebooks are locked down as much as an Apple device (albeit sometimes easier to "jailbreak" via exploits.) Google and OEMs realized quickly they could use that to cash in and people weren't fast enough on the draw in telling them no.

2026-01-30 01:43:17 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj I want to say you really should talk to IT about it if they actually could run Linux, but most these days are locked down. It's a crime that they sell to schools and such frankly. They're designed to be locked down, heavily tracked, etc etc and then to be abandoned and force schools to buy new ones every so often...
(Which really, quite literally, shouldn't be legal... I mean, how is that not a con?)

2026-01-11 04:42:39 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn The most hated thing in any fighter — getting stuck in a corner and you just can't break free.

2026-01-10 00:50:05 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj You... you just got a matter synthesizer and the first thing you do with it is make rocks?

2026-01-07 02:48:02 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…s0kv You admit your crime!

2026-01-07 02:46:44 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…s0kv There is definitely absolutely a lot of smug pollution coming off of this photograph. 😆

2026-01-03 23:44:34 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn Something tells me Nintendo might not like that. 😆

2025-12-30 20:18:48 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 They mean to imply it's set in the same universe, but yeah, even for someone who knew the series from way back it's just confusing as heck and sometimes I forget which is which. 😆

2025-12-28 03:50:21 UTC

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@nprofile…ep96 They memorized every single movement to a pretty ridiculous extreme it seems. The only thing missing is quickscoping. Or is that just not a thing in this game?

2025-12-28 01:25:55 UTC

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@nprofile…kuzq indeed

2025-12-24 19:20:30 UTC

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@nprofile…wzht You... definitely wouldn't want to short a capacitor with something conductive you're holding right in your hand...

2025-12-19 23:37:18 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry Oh my god, have I happened upon a fellow hater of peppermint? I thought I was the only one in the whole world...

2025-12-17 04:47:24 UTC

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@nprofile…wes6 @nprofile…mfuv This sounds potentially dangerous though. What if matter ends up intersecting with other matter? Won't that destroy the universe?

2025-12-17 03:13:11 UTC

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@nprofile…mfuv The real question is: will it still do so if there is no cat nearby? Eg. will a cat teleport into it from elsewhere if needed?

2025-12-12 21:12:15 UTC

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@nprofile…mfuv I feel like it's more like an aesthetic thing? Just they decided it wasn't as good and moved away later?

2025-12-10 18:55:42 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 This is actually a pretty convincing set of reasons. 😆

2025-12-09 03:56:25 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 You hate everything I like. I'm going to go sit in a corner for a bit. :Sobbing:

2025-12-09 03:53:35 UTC

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@nprofile…rtt8 DARNED good game...

2025-12-01 20:06:33 UTC

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@nprofile…mfuv Sadly they can't because SONY became emotional first.

2025-11-28 23:56:51 UTC

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@nprofile…6s3h Lol, so what, they bent over the pan and the glasses fell off, but... they didn't notice? I mean....... HOW???

2025-11-22 14:07:12 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry @nprofile…q7h2 I don't know where to start with all that is great about this picture. The computer, the stack of disks, the Sonic 2 poster, the Prodigy poster, more disks, that old DOS installer that so many things used (and I found out had an easily editable script system I could use for my own stuff,) the more disks, and of course the robot thingy. Did I mention the disks? 😁

2025-11-19 21:37:28 UTC

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@nprofile…6zuf This really doesn't get said enough. The only reason they have cookie banners is because they want to harvest data. All they have to do is not harvest data and then no need for cookie banners...

2025-11-14 04:48:28 UTC

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@nprofile…mfuv Now it will forever taunt me wanting to know the truth. How could you do this? 😆

2025-11-14 04:31:50 UTC

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@nprofile…mfuv Oh wow. As much as I played Descent I didn't realize that. Given that I always had a system that was rather weak in those days, I imagine that homing missiles were probably worse for me than they were intended to be, lol. (When I later played the game on a faster system I was blown away how differently it felt. However, the faster system was a laptop and the LCD's ghosting made me feel sick, lol.)
Let me know if setting core type to normal works. I'm kind of curious now, lol.

2025-11-10 08:17:23 UTC

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@nprofile…wzht Could you have it set too far? Decibels are a non-linear scale (logarithmic.)

2025-11-10 08:11:02 UTC

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@nprofile…wzht You may want to go down instead of up perhaps. (Eg output less bass/mids rather than more highs.) Or at least find a good balance between them since going up too high can cause plateauing in the waveform and clipping (as well as the potential hardware damage mentioned. Though if these drivers are as heavy as I'm betting from your description, it's probably not likely to damage them and that's probably more an issue with laptops and their dinky little drivers.)

2025-11-08 06:25:39 UTC

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@nprofile…ep96 What if the shoes don't really fit and are really uncomfortable and are cutting off the circulation in your toes so they've gone completely numb by the time you've walked a mile?

2025-11-01 23:15:39 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry Lol, there is so much out there to rant at, but what is this particular rant at?

2025-10-30 01:36:11 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry @nprofile…wqfp Any year now it may become dangerous! Won't someone please listen?

2025-10-30 01:25:12 UTC

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@nprofile…e4ry @nprofile…wqfp No, I measured it and it was definitely a centimeter further away last year. I have proof, just no one will listen.

2025-10-28 01:44:47 UTC

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@nprofile…h5m0 @nprofile…4xf4 Can you still even do passively cooled GPUs anymore? Seems like the closest thing anymore is probably a water cooler with a quiet pump.

2025-10-25 23:42:54 UTC

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@nprofile…548d Oh wow, this is really good.

2025-10-18 05:15:40 UTC

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@nprofile…ep96 I mean... it was just a normal person walking normally? Didn't exactly feel like a ghostly walk to me anyway.

2025-10-17 19:06:49 UTC

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@nprofile…nydn Your cats don't charge wirelessly? Mine always have. Is this more efficient or quicker or something?

2025-10-13 20:09:14 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 BTW as a point of fairness, Diablo 2 has a much different way of actually doing story stuff and pretty much the only way they could do it was that way.
RTS definitely works differently from other game types in this particular regard. Though this also means it's much much harder to work with...
Do you know about the Command & Conquer games btw? They don't reach quite this level I guess, but they sure did a great job in their own ways.

2025-10-13 20:02:05 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 Maybe I didn't word it well because that's basically what I was saying. They learned from those and improved.

2025-10-13 19:51:54 UTC

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@nprofile…gwm4 They learned a lot from Warcraft/Warcraft II (some of which then later went into Warcraft III and of course World of Warcraft) but StarCraft definitely struck a lot of good balances right out of the box in that regard. Blizzard was actually really good at worldbuilding and story writing back in those days. Even Diablo II did surprisingly well.
Now I'm getting nostalgic for the way games back then actually really tried hard at having a bit of depth backing things up even when the gameplay was simple (I mean in Diablo II you're just running around killing things, lol.)

2025-10-13 03:13:09 UTC

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@nprofile…lptk There is the thing though. The DOS windows are essentially super minimal VMs without really a true full machine even being virtualized.
In comparison, QEMU and DOSBox actually emulate a whole system down to a really low level. QEMU is able to virtualize a bit of the processor access for more efficient operation (and DOSBox does to a much lesser extent) but they're actually pretty heavily emulating a whole system. (Keyword: emulation because they actually are emulating a lot and only virtualizing a bit.)
NTVDM comes closest to what those do, though even it doesn't go as far as they do.

2025-10-13 02:46:05 UTC

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@nprofile…lptk I wouldn't really put those on par with the likes of DOSBox or QEMU...
I'm not sure what we're talking about here "pre-NT." Windows 9x? 3.x? 2.x? In most of those cases, it wasn't a VM at all, but actually the host machine because they were actually DOS-based (even 9x.)

2025-10-06 06:37:02 UTC

I was just inspired to dig through some PS2 stuff as I started rebuilding a new drive for my old PS2. Did you #retrogaming fans know that there is a Phantasy Star 1 remake on the PS2 known as "Sega Ages Phantasy Star Generation 1"? It seems to have gotten... quite a lot more enhancement than the recent remake released on modern consoles. As in they put quite a lot of work into it.
Why on earth wasn't this reused when they did the recent remakes? If they worried people wouldn't like the enhancements they could have made it a toggle or something. I mean... the work was already done, why throw it away?
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2025-10-05 21:25:42 UTC

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@nprofile…lptk No no, I don't mean that at all. I know about ctrl+mouse wheel and use it a lot. I mean the smoother movement as well as it being 2D. (I know some mouse wheels have left/right movements as well, but it's even more awkward than the normal wheel movement.) A joystick would be 1000x better at smooth scrolling content in one or two dimensions IMO and it seems a shame this didn't get adopted.
I don't think websites actually recalculate/redraw though. I think it's handled almost like a rendered image once it's done rendering a page. That's why there is such a huge rendering pipeline and probably even part of why they use orders of magnitude more RAM than seems at all decent. They even handle things like fonts internally and don't always respect some OS settings...

2025-10-05 21:13:20 UTC

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@nprofile…lptk That... actually is a really good idea and it's kind of too bad it didn't go more that sort of direction. Now I envision one of those dinky little nubs like some laptops used for mouse controls (or the 3DS for the right analog, lol.) It would offer a much more comfortable control and likely would last a lot longer than wheels tend to as well...

2025-09-30 19:49:35 UTC

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@nprofile…k6yr @nprofile…r0kn If "forrges" means forges, no, they don't own the actual chip manufacturing. They create the chip designs, but the manufacturing of the chips is done at TSMC (along with virtually everything else these days.) What they own are the actual chip designs and basically they just sell the chips and design specs to OEMs to make the cards. In fact, I don't even think nVidia themselves actually produces any real hardware directly beyond those chips. Quite a lot of their business consists more of licenses than physical products even.
TSMC is completely separate (not even US-based) and is also used by competitors like AMD.

2025-08-18 23:02:06 UTC

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@nprofile…le8n Everyone watched it because "oh, a game made into a movie? That has to be neat!"
Most didn't watch it a second time because it was, in fact, not neat.

2025-08-16 03:02:49 UTC

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@nprofile…d82u Maybe some sort of superlight alloy used by the aerospace industry could come close?

2025-08-13 03:05:00 UTC

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@nprofile…7093 Yeah, no doubt this was generally the case and all that was intended, but...
Were there ever any actual monkeys? 😁

2025-08-13 03:02:56 UTC

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@nprofile…7093 I'm wondering how literal that is. Were there ever any monkeys trained to change the tapes?

2025-08-13 01:53:45 UTC

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@nprofile…7093 My parents used to put me on disk swapping duty for installations, lol. In retrospect I think I was shortchanged a bit on that. They'd watch a movie while I did the disks. I mean I'd turn and watch the movie too, but still!
I should probably demand back pay on this.

2025-08-10 16:58:29 UTC

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@nprofile…tmud Rofl, not "explode." The base will "explod."
That's much scarier than a mere explosion. Who even knows what will happen if it explods. I mean, that could rip the very fabric of the universe!

2025-08-08 13:55:20 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d @nprofile…aut5 You're not supposed to blow yourself up. Didn't you get the memo?

2025-08-07 18:06:11 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d I don't want to use the o word, but...
You might have overdone it just a bit. 😁

2025-08-03 19:38:22 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d Apparently plastics recycle very poorly and most are just thrown away even by recycling plants.
Not saying it can't be used, but plastic is definitely a thing we need to move away from in general.

2025-07-24 19:10:15 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d Same really. It was my father's old one (crazy he used to actually play some games, but for some reason it was mostly only Halo) and I had no interest in the incredibly small number of games that were exclusive to it. Honestly, to me it always felt clunky and such anyway.
I was a bit disappointed I couldn't do as much as I'd hoped with it though. In the end a very long VGA cable to my PC won out instead, lol.

2025-07-21 15:49:12 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d Why do I feel nervous and I'm not even there?

2025-07-20 22:37:14 UTC

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@nprofile…args @nprofile…0f9y This is kind of scary. This looks like that point where if you accidentally got between them it could actually be dangerous even to a full sized human, not just merely painful.

2025-07-16 15:57:22 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d I hear manufacturers are very careless about SMART implementations and they shouldn't be trusted too much. Though, that said, that's probably a distinctly possible thing with normal HD usage.

2025-07-16 13:56:57 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d The ultrasonic waves probably shouldn't do any real harm. I'm not sure what the liquid is though. (If you said I missed it.) If it's something really harsh like high percentage alcohol maybe that might have an effect.

2025-07-16 13:54:32 UTC

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@nprofile…el4d After all your talking about all this my mind keeps going to wondering how many other things might benefit from being cleaned that way, lol.

2025-06-26 19:43:12 UTC

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@nprofile…lpyw It sure didn't record the sound well though, lol. It sounds less like uniform static and more like some kind of electrical sparks and crackling or something.

2025-06-25 17:37:30 UTC

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@nprofile…nm3g OMG, don't even think those words aloud!

2025-06-25 17:32:02 UTC

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@nprofile…nm3g What confuses me is they don't even add onto them. Like why not give them 128MB of RAM instead of 64KiB? It would be zero effort and not even add to costs at this point. And why not put them on a smaller process? That actually costs less because they wouldn't have to have special huge process lines just for these and could produce enough in one batch to last them for a very long time of making these and they'd be more efficient. And why not tons of flash RAM?
Like even if they're keeping basically the same CPU and everything, at least upgrade stuff!
It's so weird. It feels like it's beyond "captive market" and into a range of "can't be bothered even to update their designs or anything as long as anyone still buys them."

2025-06-25 17:22:37 UTC

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@nprofile…nm3g I've always found it weird that graphing calculators today are basically just the same hardware as machines they made in the 80s, just with USB tacked on and that's about it, lol. Like literally the same CPUs even. I don't even think they're a smaller process?