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- Comment on Azahar Is Dropping Official Support for Anbernic Handhelds Over an Unofficial Emulator Fork 5 days ago:
All these fancy new DS hardware models and I’ve gotten lazy about my wireless multiplayer project I’m supposed to go research and work on lol.
I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally want to buy this console for family and friends so we can play multiplayer just like the DS/3DS era but MelonDS (and Azahaar AFAIK) only implemented the protocol over the regular network stack which makes it almost impossible to play over WiFi and just barely doable over Ethernet because the DS needs <20 microseconds of “packet” latency.
- Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push 6 days ago:
Firefox is controlled opposition for Chrome so that Google can claim they aren’t a monopoly in the browser scene. It’s why Mozilla always makes stupid decisions in spite of making an otherwise quality browser software.
The internet of the past also didn’t need 4GB of RAM to render a page.
- Comment on Time of death: 1:19 am October 18 1 week ago:
What brand is it?
G.Skill has a lifetime (sometimes 7 years) warranty on their sticks and they honored mine when it failed almost 3 years after purchase.
They take the whole kit back though, so you’ll be ramless for about 2 weeks.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
They make curved induction stovestops to rest your wok like a traditional wok burner, but a strong induction stovetop will be able to do the same, you just won’t be able to set it down on anything lol.
Its not as common in consumer because gas is still very common in Asia, but there are several models available as well as full sized restaurant induction wok stoves that can fit proper big woks with ease and hit the very high heat needed for the first use seasoning stage.
The heat response time is slightly better than gas, you just lose out on the visual queue of your flame.
- Comment on The gubmint is lying to you, we figured out fusion power in 2013 1 week ago:
Runs just as well as the android ART in 2026
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 1 week ago:
It’s worth it if you can get it for cheaper than an AYN Thor, and always worth it if you have anyone you know who also still uses a DS/3DS because of local wireless multiplayer.
The tradeoff with a Thor (or the couple of other ds emulator handhelds) is that you lose out on local wireless multiplayer (emulators might eventually support this in the future, they only do WFC via WiFi at this time) and the specific hardware gimmicks of the 3DS (3D, stereo cameras, perfect input latency, etc.) but you get access to GC, Wii, WiiU, PS1/2, Switch 1, and Steam/PC games.
What’s the reason behind its sudden resurgence despite it being an “old” console as the Switch lineup has replaced it?
This is gonna sound like nostolgia glazing but really the DS era was Nintendo at their finest and the absolute gold standard of handheld gaming and a serious platform for handheld technology of the time. Stuff like streetpass could have easily been utilized for some amazing technology in other platforms like smartphones. The 3DS gets access to all of that + its own 3DS library of games, which is why its the most optimal console to buy.
95% of that library will never see the light of day again because they relied on the specific hardware the DS/3DS offered, the main one being the two screens. It would be impractical/impossible to remaster most, and Nintendo is still wary of attempting to emulate even a handful for their virtual console due to the aforementioned hardware and a bunch of PITA development required to make it work well (see the MelonDS forums of how long its taken to get to a solid state).
It’s been in high demand ever since they ended production because of that reason, and it continues to climb due to limited supply.
Does it have to do with physical game ownership?
No, you should homebrew your 3DS to make it incredibly more viable to use and everyone uses big SD cards to hold all of their game ROMs and data.
- Comment on Goteem 1 week ago:
They’ll just get auto blocked by the great firewall then lol
- Comment on How do "pirates" go about getting their username uploaded with a torrent? Like Fitgirl or NoSteam or something? How do they become big and famous? Can the average joe do this? 2 weeks ago:
I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?
You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group
And how do peers know it comes from them?
This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.
PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.
On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.
The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Obviously there’s a hundred joke comments about using Linux but it if you already had a ventoy USB lying around, it would unironically be faster to liveboot a distro, install libre office and then prsent your pptx (or log into google slides and do the same).
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Unless something has changed, this setting was entirely worthless during Win10
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 month ago:
Lol I already said a year ago that even if they gain a supermajority, they’ll still somehow fail to successfully impeach Trump.
For the third time.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 1 month ago:
I’m gonna take this opportunity to also point out that a lot of major banks’ online banking portals are actual dogwater. I have a credit union account and it is almost hilarious to me how well made their online portal is because it actually loads fast and doesn’t throw errors every 5 seconds probably because they hired a qualified dev to make it with a solid HTML/CSS base and not a bloated JS framework hell PWA.
Unlike a certain penny colored bank site that can’t even handle my auto filled password and complains I need to enter the already filled input box.
- Comment on Works great and costs less 1 month ago:
Even with the potato quality you can see the water leak from the tape lol.
No matter how much you use, that tape is always gonna leak.
- Comment on Assmold fans being moldy. 2 months ago:
I had a buddy who went into the army in HS and it was around the time some doofuses suggested arming teachers with guns.
He already thought the idea was braindead stupid so we decided to look up cops as a comparison to civilians in terms of accuracy.
We couldn’t find civilian data but the cops in our state had a whopping 21% accuracy of actually hitting their target (in real situations) with some areas as low as 11%.
He doubled down on disqualifying police as a real occupation after that lol.
- Comment on Boycott Starbucks 2 months ago:
You hate starbucks because of their unjust hiring practices
I hate starbucks because they were always a shit coffee spot to get shit coffee
We are not the same
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
Don’t worry this isn’t reddit where people scream about reposts despite the entire site being reposts of content from other sources.
I’m just keeping count because it flew over people’s head the last two times too lol.
- Comment on culture 2 months ago:
This is the 3rd time this has been posted this year and the comments section is still clueless even with a caption hint
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
This community doesn’t contain any actual shitposts, it’s just a crosspost target for the 10 other linked communities in the rules, which means it’s just another c/memes clone.
- Comment on Housing prices 2 months ago:
This is technically backwards. It should be if income growth had followed inflation, the average income should hsve been ~$300,000 by now.
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 months ago:
Yes, they come from the same mine in Pakistan. They process it into lamps, animal licks, rock salt, fine salt, etc from the same source.
Just clean the surface with a wet cloth to ensure there’s no residual dust/debris and you can shave away. It probably won’t yield even size grains, but you can use it for whatever you like.
it’s more for a joke example though, much easier to just buy the salt.
That all being said, the ones from Pakistan are not coated in anything, so if its from an unknown source, you might want to check if the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that.
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And don’t buy any pink salt that says “made in India”. That money essentially funds some PMLN crooks who thought it would be funny to kneecap Pakistan’s agriculture export market by banning sales to any broker except themselves, of which they heavily undersell to India who then makes profit and shares it back only with them.
- Comment on Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed? 2 months ago:
Really depends on the director and how they adapt it.
Despite Hollywood’s horrendous reputation around recycled IPs, their adaptations of foreign media have actually turned out quite good for several films, although arguably nothing compares to the original.
The Departed was a remake of Infernal Affairs and there are still mile long threads to this day arguing about which one you should watch.
tbf though I wouldn’t keep my hopes too high because there is a ocean full of poor adaptations and sequels, regardless of the quality of the original media or even when reusing the exact same film team.
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 2 months ago:
Maybe we should do a capture-able reward for anyone who can bypass Anubis lmao
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 2 months ago:
I’ve actually wanted to deploy this with some absurdly difficult challenge as a troll but I don’t know what’s worth putting behind a webpage with effectively a client side loading bar lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m Pakistani
PTSD from reddit larpers made me vibe check your account lmao.
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You passed
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 2 months ago:
It’s multiplied and accelerated, so yeah.
History always had power struggles, empire exploitation, death disasters, etc. but the modern era has significantly expanded on that with the boom in technology and the global population.
Add to the fact that we are digging our own grave in several forthcoming critical problems that the world is already starting to see the effects of.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 2 months ago:
Ah the good ol days of cisco packet tracer.
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Screw that noise lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Least insane egocentric frontend dev lmao
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Anyone have that post of one of the lemmy devs reviewing a PR during his HS prom lol?
- Comment on A box of buttholes 3 months ago:
There’s probably a docker joke in here but thanks for the whale deepseek
- Comment on The forever war for your FACE 3 months ago:
but when I walk into a room shirtless, covered in honey, people notice.
Soldier is that you?
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 3 months ago:
RT lost its credibility a long time ago and IMDB just results in the bell curve effect where most things end up at 3.5/5 which is too accurate/condensed for most people.
You need to follow a couple or even just one film critic who makes quality reviews on their own if you want good information.
