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@davidgerard@circumstances.run unfortunately their refund policy they're bringing up is "paid in the last 14 days"
so a lot of people can't get shit
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@mikemccaffrey @EmilyEnough The "you can write natural language queries" idea has always gotten a response from me of "why the fuck would I want to do that?" Standard search engine queries and stuff are so much easier.
@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Nintendo and associates tend to suffer the least from "why do all modern video games look like that" syndrome in my experience.
@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art it is some peak modern game graphics (derogatory) to make it blurrier though
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@zerodogg surprisingly Gentoo of all distributions took a hard line against AI
This may wildly end to me running Gentoo at this rate.
Question: As someone who's been messing around with 90's retro computing in part to explore the fascinating juxtaposition of elements that stayed around to this day, the odd multimedia and early web elements, and the insane jank underpinning it all in this transitionary period, is it worth trying out early Linux?
It feels like it'd be like just kind of like using a non-systemd Linux distro but more archaic and a higher chance of needing to hand-tune Xorg.conf in nano, combined with restricted software availability especially due to dependencies on online repositories. But I'd love to be wrong and have another topic of study.
you know, I should be surprised this DVD set took a 480i60 show and somehow encoded episodes 480i60, 480p30 with bad deinterlacing, and "480p30 except for video effects shots which are 480i60" inexplicably across the same disc, but it's Shout Factory
Shout Factory: having no idea what interlacing is and what they should do with it for 15 years and counting
Doubled the video RAM in a computer I have for $10: taking a S3 Virge from 2 MB to 4 MB. :P
This has no real practical effect beyond bumping the highest resolutions and color depths I can use in Windows... and anything over 800x600 is too blurry on the monitor I'm using anyway. It's still a Virge, it still runs Quake at literally less than half the fps of the CPU in software rendering at 320x200 while having awful dithering, lol.
(The more useful mod I did to it was replacing the Video BIOS ROM with a modified version that disables a register that causes all Virges with the stock video BIOS to have terrible black levels.)
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"Republicans are trying to pull a trick this week," wrote Ocasio-Cortez. "They say we are voting on an 'insider trading' bill, but have snuck in massive SAVE Act-style voter suppression measures to it. This is a GOP effort to sabotage national mail-in voting, disguised as a trading ban."
AOC issues dire warning about planned GOP 'trick' to pass voting restrictions - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/aoc-voting/
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@cas@social.treehouse.systems I mean, they did recently open themselves to "AI" coding, so trusted is a bit of a stretch.
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@ezlin@gamepad.club @tiefling@bardicperspiration.club the inability to color these makes them unsuitable for most of my outfits, sadly
See also the disqualifying categories for hair of "looks bad with a hat on" and "clips constantly"
Although if you're playing Miqo you basically have to resign to tail clipping at all times. *sigh* :P
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@branch300bpm and hey, at least I know Linux isn't affected by BIOS disk addressing bugs :ac_laughter:
(Those trashed so many OS installs until I figured it out and installed a modded BIOS that fixes that but isn't a precise match for my mobo so I have to disable integrated audio and USB that don't exist and power management it can't do.)
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@Blender@mastodon.social rolls eyes clearly the problem is you're not selling the peons on taking the money from them enough, riiiiiight :facepalm:
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@zerodogg I don't mind compiling some stuff from source if necessary but compiling LLVM or Chromium-based shit is a nightmare I never want to do if I can avoid it. :p
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@jacqueline Also, props on getting the memory usage in Tangara so efficient: while it needs to to index in order to do sorted files unlike Rockbox... I have to use Rockbox in file browser mode on my iPod 6th generation because it'll run out of RAM (64 MB!) and White Screen of Death usually trying to update a database with 10K+ songs on the drive and corrupt the database in the process. Tangaras successfully do it with 8 MB.
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@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean There are things I can find to admire about Gentoo. The time investment to figure out what those are and maintain them is very, very steep.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social The biggest issue isn't CPU power for the emulation itself, ironically.
It runs fine if choppy at native game resolution (320x200). The problem is the ScummVM UI brings the system to its knees to render until you turn off anti-aliasing (really), and then since ScummVM can't output below 480p it shows up as a tiny box in the center until you turn on scaling and that causes performance to tank too.
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social My guess is a graphics card with decent OpenGL support would fix the scaling speed issues, but one of those would be amusingly anachronistic given the preponderance of MiniGL "we did just enough OpenGL to get Quake to work" implementations.
also it's a Virge, it'd probably still be slow even with full OpenGL :P
There is an extremely funny anti-Goldilocks zone where my Pentium MMX 233 MHz 90's computer has a CPU too fast for Sam and Max Hit the Road to run correctly because the MIDI output will crash above a certain speed, but is too slow to run ScummVM well. :ac_laughter:
(There is a fan patch for this issue here that came out in the last year, surprisingly. Not much demand with ScummVM around, understandably.)
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social @foone@digipres.club Cathode Ray Dude did a video on fast floppy drives a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWwp3vVtElw
Reading floppy disks? GOTTA GO FAST!
@fabio I mean I like the connector standardization but I still need multiple USB-C cables for devices with different power/feature requirements on cables...
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@valere like it's not good, but whatever, I install updates whenever they come up (and they have for me in the distros I use) and then just go ahead with my life with another tool to jailbreak embedded devices with :P
This isn't a Specter/Meltdown where it's "guess our CPUs keep getting slower forever" issue.
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@bekopharm Eureka Seven is a 2005 mech show about sky surfing robots. Eureka Seven AO is the sequel nobody besides me and about five other people like that gets into absurd nonsense riffing on so many things from the original in obtuse ways.
E7 AO didn't even get a toyline and got buried at late night. Which is wild.
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@bekopharm I love both shows so much. Both are gorgeously animated shows by Studio BONES and director Tomoki Kyoda, with the first show IMHO being one of the best looking series of the early 00's with cool mecha. E7 is a show with a great cast and character drama amidst the goofiest metaphysics, while E7 AO is just running on five cylinders of galaxy brain at all times.
(One character in E7 AO is basically "what if Kaworu from Evangelion showed up in episode 6 proclaiming cryptic nonsense, then he walks into not!NERV HQ, tries to find not!Central Dogma, gets lost, and ends up in a restroom asking for directions". God, I love Truth so much, the hammy loser dumbass. XD)
For reference, the GIF in the pinned message you liked on my profile is from Eureka Seven AO.
blacksky currently not loading messages for me again due to bluesky's vibe coding lol
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@jenny753 If you installed them as your user account and not systemwide, check ".local/share/applications" in your home folder for .desktop files related to them, and delete them. It's what I do to clean up outdated WINE entries to the launcher menu.
Systemwide is "/usr/share/applications", but that's less likely.
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social no matter how much money they have, they still won't be able to figure out how to make blocks private, anyway :P
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@zerodogg but Gentoo is a distribution where pre-compiled package repos are a new thing as of 2023
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @baldur@toot.cafe whenever I see Bluesky describe ATProto as "privacy preserving" et. all I just am completely baffled
my dudes you have everyone's blocks public and have been unable or unwilling to fix it for years and you had to implement DMs off protocol lol
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@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @baldur@toot.cafe bluesky: what if technically incompetent techbro pre-Musk Twitter with no concept of privacy
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@nicole I beat Mega Man 3 like that. :ac_laughter:
There are patches these days to fix it, but there's also almost no reason to play this version given other options and the blurry sprite scaling.
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@gmc Compiling your own kernel is a surprise. Was this to get newer driver support, or did other non-Gentoo Linux pull a "compile kernel at install time?"
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@Forbearance@mastodon.xyz also old software frequently breaks in much funnier ways that can sometimes be diagnosed :p
I am also completely unsurprised Delta isn't that popular. I mean, I see an episode where a military industrial complex fucker who's bullish about Song Energy outlines for twelve minutes straight his thesis ultimately about the sheer difficulty of making popular music that opposes the status quo without being coopted and copied to the ends of capital in which he calls music the Ultimate Weapon literally and eat it up.
But I also completely understand why the general Macross audience is not there for it.
Macross Delta is the Eureka Seven AO of Macross (complimentary). :ac_laughter:
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social the funny part is I immediately after a moment of panic realized I was safe because the only systems I run Daemon Tools on are too old to run recent versions :ac_laughter:
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@Forbearance@mastodon.xyz I have basically been treating my old computer and getting stuff working on it as a game that doesn't matter, but on each run I can get further before like, the Windows NT requirement to install network cards before patches shows up as A Thing and bricks everything. :ac_laughter:
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@TTFKA_Tay0 IronFox, which is Android Firefox compiled by someone else and the bullshit removed but better updated than Fennec.
(GrapheneOS user here.)