Tim_Bisley
@Tim_Bisley@piefed.social
- Comment on Console(s) to TV 3 days ago:
I go component or svideo for everything, whatever is easiest. Get a svid or component switch box and hook everything up.
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 1 week ago:
I have 2 voodoo 2 cards that never did boot. Always got a black screen. They’ve been sitting in a box for years.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
I think it will be the last one I run as well. I’ve always gotten grumpy with updating my OS since XP. I skipped Vista and 8 entirely. So I went XP > 7 > 10. I tried out Cachy OS and it works great. Did I have to go in the terminal at times? Absolutely but I have to go into the command line in windows sometimes too. Only thing keeping me in Windows at the moment is some windows only software and hardware drivers.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 2 weeks ago:
Headline should be: Person sneaks example of vagrant copyright infringement on a scale not previously seen into National Museum Cardiff gallery.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What alt front ends are there? How would you bypass the age check? Back in the day I didn’t have an account and you could get around it using third party sites but those don’t work anymore as far as I know.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
They added AI which I thought was one of the main points of using an alternative search engine so you could get away from that nonsense?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 5 weeks ago:
Forcing users to ditch WIndows 10? I can’t help but feel like this is a giant media campaign by microsoft to make people switch to Win 11. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. I can still use Windows XP if I want to.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Reddits search function was so bad it spawned an entire industry.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 month ago:
Can we tax rich people instead of listening to them say stupid shit?
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 2 months ago:
The issue I feel, is we live in a society that equates money with importance. This guy over here made lots of money so he must be smart right? No, no it doesn't.
The headline should be Stop Talking to Technology Executives, Tax Them.
- Comment on Judge blocks FTC probe into Media Matters, calls it government "retaliation" that should alarm Americans | FTC probe blocked in escalating X dispute 3 months ago:
I've been in a permanent state of alarm for months now. I have anxiety and a weird twitch in my eye. Why aren't our politicians and news orgs alarmed?
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 3 months ago:
The rules only apply to low paid employees. You bet your ass a regular federal employee could still be fired for receiving a free lunch.
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- Comment on High on snus in school: The hidden nicotine pouches shredding teens' gums 4 months ago:
Just join the USA already. Got rid of free tuition, defund NHS, have NFL games in your own stadiums, love the snus snus.
- Comment on This mindblowing project lets you run Windows XP on the web 4 months ago:
https://win32.run/ gives me a black screen. It flashes something for a split second but it gone. Brings back memories.
- Comment on Old School Rally scratched our ‘90s arcade racing itch... then promptly disappeared 4 months ago:
Funny how topgear.com couldn't bother to go there for the explanation.
On a side note I really enjoyed playing Sega Rally Revo on the PC. Its abandonware and has some of the best countersteer mechanics I've ever experienced in a racing game. Similarly Touge Max G for the PS1 has some of the best drift mechanics I've ever experienced in a racing game.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 4 months ago:
Same here
- Comment on Recycled Plastic is a Toxic Cocktail: Over 80 Chemicals Found in a Single Pellet 5 months ago:
Is it normal to find 80 chemicals in say a plastic bottle of water? I have no frame of reference.
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 5 months ago:
I still remember those protests. They are trying to do the same to the NHS too. Americanize everything.
- Comment on Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time. 5 months ago:
That is wild they've never met.
- Comment on We caught 4 states sharing personal health data with Big Tech 5 months ago:
Here's the article about the class action lawsuit - https://themarkup.org/impact/2025/05/02/after-markup-investigation-linkedin-and-google-face-lawsuit-alleging-improper-access-to-health-data
- Comment on YouTube is hiding an excellent, official high-speed Pac-Man mod in plain sight 5 months ago:
Reminds me of tetris the grand master.
Is there any way to download this for offline play to preserve it for when Google inevitably removes this at some point later?
- Comment on Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs 5 months ago:
My problem with USB-C is I've had multiple cables fail now where the connector is physically failing it looks like. These were supposed to be made to not fail like this. I still have old USB cables working fine without this type of failure.
- Comment on Datadesk Technologies: mechanical keyboards from 2001. This site is still up! 5 months ago:
Damn these look nice. This one is my favorite. I wonder what switches they were using.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 5 months ago:
Its apparent that the health of the internet has a direct impact on the health of society.
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 5 months ago:
- Comment on I won a key code for life of p does anyone want it? 5 months ago:
I'd give it a shot on the PC.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 6 months ago:
I used it extensively on my Kobo as well. So nice to be browsing on my phone and see long articles to read and just save them to enjoy on a nice eink screen later when I have time.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 6 months ago:
The bought it out. It was originally an extension.
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 6 months ago:
That's one way to say there were shit.
