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- Comment on Sonic magazine ad 8 months ago:
I was wondering what Virgin had to do with Sonic… it has their London address under the Sega logo.
- Comment on Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results 9 months ago:
Again?!
- Comment on It’s divine 9 months ago:
…and learned Fly!
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 9 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi 9 months ago:
I get your joke, but it’s even cheaper than a “Raspberry Pi”. Pi Pico, one RP2040 chip, that’s basically RPi’s new version of a Teensy. I just installed one in my GameCube to defeat its “BIOS” and boot from micro SD card :P
- Comment on Where's my safety pin. 9 months ago:
🤨
🟡
- Comment on Don't cut yourself on that edge 9 months ago:
It’s “I hope we never part”, now get it right or pay the price!
- Comment on What's the best type of food to eat in an active shower? 9 months ago:
You’re welcome. 😂 I think I first found this in the days of dial-up, she’s probably in her 50s by now, if she hasn’t died of cheese curl diverticulitis or something.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
Agreed. I dual-booted years ago; start menu ads made me wipe the Windows, and Edging their way back into people’s computers made me realize how meaningless the antitrust lawsuit was.
It’s a slow march toward subscription OS and when it’s their computer, people probably won’t be able to use the nice one-click registry hacks to remove the ads and spyware.
If there’s anything particular about your Linux OS that you don’t like, there’s likely a different distro that does it the way you want, or dig in and learn how to change it.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
You can turn off Microsoft’s ads, browser nagging, and data faucet, but as long as you are dependent on them for Windows Updates, that gives them an opportunity to undo your fixes and turn them back on.
FOSS software has a similar problem in which the program author can sell out to a less-friendly entity, and when you update the program it starts misbehaving (see Audacity, Simple Mobile Tools, etc.)
This is why I use Debian stable branch. Disadvantages: outdated software (but still get security updates) Advantages: outdated software (but still get security updates) 😅
- Comment on What's the best type of food to eat in an active shower? 9 months ago:
Can it be a bath instead of a shower?
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Oof. The real Feeder is a FOSS Android app, get it on F-Droid.
On PC, there are two Firefox plugins, one to bring back “live bookmarks” (RSS feeds), and one to bring back the radio-waves-like icon in the address bar of sites with RSS feeds available. Let me check…
- Comment on How can you drive off a gas station with the hose still connected? 9 months ago:
Wisconsin, too.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark 10 months ago:
A la carte
0 through 8: $0.99 each
9 through D: $1.29 each
E & F: $1.99 each
Individual codes: $4.99
Bundles
Master code (per game): $9.99
All available codes (per game): $49.99
Extras
Ability to quick enable/disable codes: $19.99
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
It does say “Buy” and refers to a “purchase”, but everyone’s arguing semantics; the Terms of Service say that you are buying a limited license to download and use the software. You may have a “one-click purchase”-type option enabled?
- Comment on Can't be stopped 10 months ago:
uraniam
More like uraniOM NOM NOM!
- Comment on Gamecube is the most underrated console while it was in circulation. 10 months ago:
I think it’s safe to say that Sega wasn’t doing anything with Dreamcast in 2012, ten years after it was discontinued.
- Comment on Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers? 10 months ago:
I’m sorry, what were the links? Are librewolf dot net or lemmy dot ml slash c slash librewolf just Reddit?
- Comment on Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers? 11 months ago:
LibreWolf. Cut out the Mozilla spying, too.
- Comment on [Zelda II]I did it! 11 months ago:
10th enemy has the bomb
They’re explaining how enemy’s loot isn’t totally random. If you kill nine enemies without getting hit and kill the tenth enemy with a bomb, you are guaranteed to receive more bombs from it.
- Comment on What the hell! Let's all just go crazy! 11 months ago:
Salmon is a type of ghoti.
- Comment on For longevity, is it better to leave retro consoles plugged in or unplugged? 1 year ago:
“Wall warts” AKA AC-to-DC adapters do draw a small amount of electricity as long as they are plugged in. Unplug them when not in use.
As for the consoles, capacitors dry out and go bad even when not in use. If you power up the console at least once every few years, it is possible for the caps to “re-form” and stay useful before needing replacement.
Sadly, my previously working PS2 no longer outputs audio or video after being in storage for a few years. I haven’t had time to investigate it further, but I have had several other pieces of quality Japanese electronics go bad after their supercapacitors leaked.
