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> They were definitely developed for Xbox, that version was kept secret and only the PS3 version was published due to Sony bribes. Funnily enough the opposite of this did actually happen at least once: https://archive.org/
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Nightmarish Surveillance Tech – ButterflyMX for the Fail (2021)
(cynar.medium.com)
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2y ago
> Kingdom of Loathing, one of my favorite games growing up, has nightly maintenance windows - short daily ones, and a longer weekly one. And... that's about all that I found. So does KONAMI's e-amusement service, affecting arca
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2y ago
It's Mac OS 9, title cased with a space between the words https://i1.wp.com/lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/about-mac... Extremely cool project!
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2y ago
Relevant: Compiled HTML Help (1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
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2y ago
According to my Kagi usage stats I have made 8907 searches and 9 AI interactions since June last year.
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2y ago
There were a couple of (iirc read-only) beta ZFS PKGs from Apple in the 10.5 era: https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/looking-zfs-beta-seeds-ye-...
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2y ago
Am I missing something? I turned off Dark Reader and uBlock and this site still looks totally fine — great even. I love the colors. There are like seven example banners on the entire page, three icons for navigation, and mostly text. Or a
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2y ago
> The initial idea (2004-2005) was to build a Mac tablet computer based on touch screens. There was lots of speculation about this starting in 2002 when “Inkwell” handwriting recognition showed up in Mac OS X Jagwire: https://
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2y ago
Check your drive anyway. Purchased after that date does not necessarily mean manufactured after that date :) It sucks that firmware updates used to be a thing to look forward to but now are something to be avoided at all cost. I'd rath
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2y ago
Yes, and even then only for Ultra HD Blu-ray. Regular BDs should still usually work unless they're uncommon enough to not have a title key known to MakeMKV. “A LibreDrive is a mode of operation of an optical disc drive (DVD, Blu-ray or
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2y ago
In this case you need a drive with firmware older than February 2023's v1.03 which disabled MakeMKV's LibreDrive. Mine is v1.01. See here: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30383
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2y ago
Fun fact: in the G4/G5 era, the SuperDrive was a Pioneer DVR-1xx rebadged. That's how I got into them in the first place :) This is also why the Pioneer-branded models work just perfectly in Mac OS 9 and every version of Mac OS
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2y ago
Drat, I didn't realize the six-letter people had gotten to optical drives. The cheapest (materially and monetarily) I'd previously encountered was like a very very cost-reduced LG SATA drive which was $20 but still worked perfectl
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2y ago
If you just want to rip audio CDs, pretty much any USB drive ever made will be fine. If you want a drive that can do everything up to and including UHD BD, try a Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD if you like slot loading or a Pioneer BDR-XD07B if you nee
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2y ago
2004–2011 actually :) https://ala42.cdfreaks.com/MCSE/changelog.txt > 1.1.0.8 14 Oct 2007 — added read speed patch for PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111/112/212 drives, increasing +/-R read speed from 12x to 16x
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2y ago
Great choice with the Pioneer DVR-111. They're my favorite series of drives ever. NEC ND-3500 chipset; Pioneer mechanism. Pioneer publish the approved media list for their drives but it's not really detailed enough since it only l
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2y ago
> For those that truly care to use a local account, there’s a SKU for that. Curious if you mean LTSC or Enterprise or something else? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.power... The pro
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2y ago
I assume this is being posted/upvoted in terms of “workaround for Microsoft Account requirement”. I actually mostly like Windows, but that particular thing they're pushing is more infuriating than any other, and there have been lo
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2y ago
You could achieve this with the “Run Custom Scripts” option and the appropriate Registry values: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys\Flags="506" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\MouseKe
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2y ago
It was common in the Windows 9x days for the two Registry Hives (SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT) to get corrupted leading to an unbootable system or to get fragmented and/or full of disused values from poorly-uninstalled software leading to i
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2y ago
Modern arcade machines are mostly Windows Embedded. There are cracking scenes for many popular niches/franchises.
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2y ago
Fuck telemetry. Don't spy on me while telling me it's in my best interest. Don't spy on me at all.
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I've always wondered that about these passive USB to FireWire adapters: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=firewire+to+usb+adapter Is there something out there doing the same sort of trick as the mouse? I can't find any r
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They purge the actual images after some time period but keep the metadata (OCRed plate, other identifying features) I assume forever. From a Flock privacy policy: > Video Clips captured by the LPR system will automatically be deleted aft
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2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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Macintosh Magazine Media: 1 million files
(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
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Fuck 'em — pirate that shit with a clean conscience https://massgrave.dev/office_for_mac#office-activation
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I wonder what it could have been like if we got the 1990s vision of the future where one could have ClarisWorks 5 anywhere they want as an OpenDoc Part: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/clarisworks-5-opendoc
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2y ago
Neat: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
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