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- Comment on 1 day ago:
they play everything up to ps1/dreamcast, n64 not so much though.
Wait, but Dreamcast is newer than N64. Did you mean Saturn or 32X, or is N64 weirdly hard to emulate for some reason?
the R36S clones on Aliexpress, i got one on sale for ~€22.
Is there anything to watch out for, other than price (and maybe avoiding paying extra for a bigger SD card, if they’re unreliable anyway)? Do ones from different sellers have different software? Should I worry about trying to avoid malware, or just assume I’m going to want to wipe the thing and re-flash as soon as I get it, or what?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I want to get something with a physical D-pad and buttons off Aliexpress or whatever, but I have no idea how to sort through all the random no-name choices. The only other criteria I have is that I want it to be fully Free Software with no malware and the best value for money I can find.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
What’s the best $35 handheld to get?
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 3 days ago:
Haven’t watched Lower Decks yet, huh?
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 5 days ago:
Does that mean you can use IP6 to connect despite CGNAT, or do the ISPs that use it tend to firewall off the IP6 connections anyway?
- Comment on Pfft 1 week ago:
I suppose he could’ve joined some of those Arctic indigenous people that hunt whales in canoes.
- Comment on Police to seek criminal charges against 77 companies and people over Grenfell fire 1 week ago:
About fucking time, considering that it happened almost a decade ago!
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 1 week ago:
A shoe molding is thin enough that it could bend and wouldn’t need to be scribed (which is the point of it). It would effectively hide the imprecision, but it would diminish the modernist aesthetic.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
You mean, before employers stole our paid lunch breaks and gaslit everyone into forgetting about them.
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 1 week ago:
cut straight.
Well there’s your problem! Unless you’re prepared to skim coat and flatten the ceiling, you’ve got to scribe your trim to it (and even then the result will be “less bad,” not “good”).
You can’t do trim on trim because it’s too much ornamentation for those modernist cabinets.
This is a perfect example of what folks often don’t understand about modernism: they think it should be cheap because it has simple shapes without fancy ornamentation, but they don’t realize the ornamentation his all the crimes. To do modernism right you have to have precision instead, and that actually costs more than fancy trim.
Frankly, the drywalled needs to be called back in, because he didn’t understand the assignment.
- Comment on I guess I won't see a concert tonight. 2 weeks ago:
Excuse me, but !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world is a different community.
- Comment on New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic 2 weeks ago:
“Mildly” only because I’m pretty sure it’s already illegal. Still, fucking absurd that they even have the gall to try.
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- Comment on My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it. 2 weeks ago:
He should unionize the staff before he leaves.
- Comment on New York lawmakers endorse Governor's plan to reduce car insurance premiums by making it harder for crash victims to seek compensation 2 weeks ago:
!actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
Nothing “mildly” about this shit!
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Save it for the general election, not the primary where it isn’t applicable.
- Comment on How do stunt people fall down stairs without hurting themselves? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Banning from social media 5 weeks ago:
👉 👉 banning social media from being owned by any single entity
- Comment on load bearing worm 5 weeks ago:
A Story About ‘Magic’, from ESR’s “Jargon File”
Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab’s PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab’s hardware hackers (no one knows who).
You don’t touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labeled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words ‘magic’ and ‘more magic’. The switch was in the ‘more magic’ position.
I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it’s a basic fact of electricity that a switch can’t do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.
It was clear that this switch was someone’s idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.
Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the ‘more magic’ position before reviving the computer.
A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the ‘more magic’ position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn’t affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.
The computer promptly crashed.
This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.
We still don’t know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we’ll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.
I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I’m silly, but I usually keep it set on ‘more magic’.
1994: Another explanation of this story has since been offered. Note that the switch body was metal. Suppose that the non-connected side of the switch was connected to the switch body (usually the body is connected to a separate earth lug, but there are exceptions). The body is connected to the computer case, which is, presumably, grounded. Now the circuit ground within the machine isn’t necessarily at the same potential as the case ground, so flipping the switch connected the circuit ground to the case ground, causing a voltage drop/jump which reset the machine. This was probably discovered by someone who found out the hard way that there was a potential difference between the two, and who then wired in the switch as a joke.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 5 weeks ago:
Biochar is cool and all, but it’s still not as good as preserving the wood completely intact. The article you cited itself says “it is predicted that at least 50% of the carbon in any piece of waste turned into biochar becomes stable,” which is quite a bit less than 100%.
I suppose it’s good for the twigs and other leftovers that aren’t even good enough to be made into OSB or MDF panels.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
They’re the same picture.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 5 weeks ago:
You gotta sequester the carbon by harvesting the trees and then either building stuff with them or burying/sinking them in anaerobic conditions so they can’t decompose.
- Comment on Kitty 5 weeks ago:
Wake up babe, new pre-Columbian contact theory just dropped.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way 5 weeks ago:
Yet [contraception] doesn’t come up in the section spelling out the department’s top Title X spending priorities. What does? Addressing “exposure to harmful chemical and environmental toxins,”…
Meanwhile, they’re systematically dismantling the EPA in order to supercharge “exposure to harmful chemical and environmental toxins,” so you know exactly how (in)sincere thy are about this shit.
- Comment on Batteries 1 month ago:
It’s a dark pattern to steal your data.
- Comment on Batteries 1 month ago:
“Sorry for the convenience” – Mitch Hedberg
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 1 month ago:
I’m gonna need a link to that '80s sitcom intro video.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 1 month ago:
Do you have to have them do the assembly too for that service to kick in? I’ve ordered bare PCBs a couple of times and wasn’t aware of it.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 1 month ago:
Too thin as in “not suitable for the amount of current,” or too thin as in “exceeding the capability of the manufacturing process you chose?” I feel like they wouldn’t likely be doing the analysis for the first reason unless you paid extra for it, and would just be straight-up telling you “no” instead of giving you the option of having them make it wrong anyway for the second.
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 1 month ago:
I feel like this attitude is bigoted in more than one way:
- it’s anti-POC for obvious reasons
- it’s anti-Welsh because it implicitly assumes nobody who isn’t ethnically Welsh would have a reason to learn the language (because it’s dying or whatever).
