fraggLe! / is on Nostr

I play #videogames and sometimes leave the house.

For work, I do security things for a WordPress host, which means I'm always busy.

Talk to me about #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #arcade games, and recreational #sysadmin.

Location: Jardwadjali Country
Web: https://www.fwaggle.org

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2024-08-29 00:49:18

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I used to feel that way, but then I figured I've only got so much energy to be angry at things, might as well spend it wisely.
My experience is probably more an indictment on Windows, but I don't think KDE makes me any more angry than it used to, and it sure as shit don't make me as angry as using Windows or even a Mac does.
I keep meaning to try getting Mate working as that's the UI I liked best but I've landed on KDE twice now. 🤷‍♀️

2024-08-29 00:43:36

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I disagree so hard, I run KDE and Wayland (and I'm not the world's biggest fan of either) and for the most part it's easy to forget I'm not running Windows a lot of the time. I would not go back to 2007 for all the marbles.
I guess it boils down to luck and how much "ordinary" stuff you're doing versus unordinary stuff.

2024-07-07 23:06:52

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IMHO you're paying for a snapshot, plus some term of support. Pay once, get updates forever for free is unreasonable (and one of several reasons the WordPress ecosystem is shit).
If you buy something and it runs on your Windows XP machine, and you're happy with that, you should be able to use it forever. If you want to run it on Windows 10, and it won't, then charging for an upgrade is fine, if you're not expected to pay for the support you didn't use in the middle.

2024-06-19 23:27:04

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Not to nerd-snipe but do you think it might be an opportunity to do something different than NULL-terminated strings? Or would that complicate things when you eventually want a compiler?
I honestly don't know whether there's anything better or what, but it seems like NULL-termination with static length chunks of memory cause no end of grief over the years.

2024-06-13 02:50:53

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I had one of these, accidentally took it to INS when I was late for an appointment (so I couldn't run back to the car and leave it there) and the security guy was okay with me just throwing away the blade to make it "not a knife".
YMMV if you're not a pasty-white Australian though, but I thought that was pretty neat.
I managed to lose it some years later, thought about buying another, but without a convincing reason carrying one in Australia is a weapons charge and I would forget.

2024-05-14 02:27:26

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Is it the camera or the screen geometry having a bit of pincushion? If it's the latter you can probably adjust it out, but great job on the photo... between the bezel and the image quality I thought this was a 4:3 LCD!

2024-05-13 04:51:41

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Yeah I have an el cheapo one from the local electronics place and it works fine, but won't do below 640x480 on my RTX 3080, and since my cabinet's chassis is 30kHz only, it doesn't like it.
The GBS thingo is supposed to prove it, but I've had dreadful luck getting a picture that doesn't look like arse on it.

2024-05-13 03:20:51

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Got a link to the dongle? What GPU driving it? I have a J-PAC and GBS thingo and I can't use my main desktop to drive my arcade cab no matter what I try.

2024-05-11 22:56:51

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If you're on Linux, and you have the correct drivers loaded, and your chipset is supported, it should show you counters, eg I think this is the right place:
```/sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0# cat ce_count
0
```
Hard to tell if it's actually working because mine's sitting at zero on both controllers since forever, but I'm pretty sure that's how.
This is on a very old Intel Xeon chipset, YMMV on something newer.

2024-05-09 03:10:24

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I actually strongly disagree with y'all here. Docker is a shit implementation of it, but the idea has merit.
I know a dude who is a UNIX greybeard from back in the days of drum memory and shit and the amount of drama he has upgrading packages on a FreeBSD desktop is bonkers. Upgrade something, oops it needs thislib upgraded, whoops that broke something else dependent on it.
If these are jailed, with their own copies of libs, the issues go away. Disk space is cheap.

2024-05-04 21:40:28

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Oh yeah that's the stuff, great job!

2024-05-04 21:26:23

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Nostalgia for breaking off the tabs in the corner of a cassette for copy protection, then taking back over them when you need to change something... assuming that was the aim?
Otherwise it seems like a zero ohm resistor or super bridge that you could desolder, and possibly replace with a switch if desired, seems more obvious to me.
But I dig it!

2024-05-01 22:35:37

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No, but if you buy one and it works out let us know - I should probably grab a spare while they're cheap.
I think if you have a supergun/cab, and you buy one of the single-slot JAMMA-ish units (JAMMA+ extra buttons, no stereo audio etc) and there's no visible battery damage, there's not a lot to them.
The NG-specific pinout with the stereo audio complicates things, and the multi-slot ones are often a pain, but otherwise they're pretty hardy I think?

2024-04-23 05:22:42

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Their short lives is the reason we don't keep rodents any more. Had an accidental breeding episode that resulted in us keeping a small horde, and when they all moved on in a fairly short timeframe a few years later it was devastating.
They make such great pets though!

2024-04-23 05:05:49

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If this thing works with minimal bodges, would you sell unpopulated boards? I'd be interested in one but only in a PTH as my hands are too shaky for surface mount stuff.