RuggedPineapple

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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Exactly this. Most consoles of the era were set up fundamentally to work with tightly defined graphical regimes. For the NES as an example, has almost zero ability to work with pixels or bits. It fundamentally at a hardware level deals with
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Musk literally just started bribing right wing activist accounts with Twitter cash. He is absolutely not wanting to disenfranchise activists, he's wanting to target them at people he doesn't like.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
When I discovered there's a live mirror of Wikipedia on the Gopher protocol I discovered I prefer reading it that way.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I got a link celebrating Uncle Tom's Cabin. Although to be fair to the page, it does feature an 'African-American Responses' section, right next to the 'Pro-Slavery Responses'.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Lycoris didn't become Lindows, those were two separate products from two different companies. Lycoris/Redmond Linux was bought out by Mandrake/Mandriva, Lindows went on to be bought by Ximian. Same end goal though, make a bla
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Are you old enough to remember Lindows? in like 2000/2001 it was a straight Windows ripoff, even used the old Win 9x/2k theme iirc, and had WINE built in, preconfigured and would intercept windows programs automatically and run th
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
For the aftermarket firmware that allows non-ChromeOS OSs, theres a compatibility list at https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices that will show you if full UEFI firmware is available, and the write-protect method you need to dis
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I've actually gone even farther. The last 4 laptops I've bought have all been 50 dollar used Chromebooks. Pull out the write-protect screw, flash new firmware and install linux. If it's got enough eMMC space Windows 10 LTSC r
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
An aspect of fair use is that it doesn't interfere with the actual market for the thing. A movie analysis, even one that heavily uses the work its analyzing to illustrate its points, is not usable as a substitute for watching the film
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
I can assure you that the real world does in fact care about plagiarism.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
By the time my family got a home computer it was a 120 Mhz Pentium system, but I spent basically all of elementary, middle and high school using m68k and PPC macs at school. During the pandemic i picked up two m68k Macs and 2 PPC Macs to sa
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Near as I can tell the POWER9 chips (at least the IBM ones) only have backwards compatibility through POWER7 from 2010. The last PPC chip Apple used, the G5, implemented the POWER4 ISA, so that's pretty far back.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
>But this requires a PowerPC processor under BeOS so you can’t use this with Haiku at the moment. Bold of you to assume a forum full of tech enthusiasts don't have PPC machines sitting around.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
It can run up to OS 9, not just OS 9. It'll run any classic Mac OS that supports PPC, so I think that takes you back to the 7.5 line.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
That tool says it does for 4k for HBO Max. All the other platforms (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+) are 720 or 1080 though. Wonder whats going on there.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
I strongly suspect that number is smaller then imagined. Like, a non-ironic use of the 'There are dozens of us!' line from Arrested Development.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
When it's collateralized with crypto it's uncollateralized. 3AC learned this. Like half the exchanges have learned this over the last year. There is no inherent value in any of them, there is no hard floor of assets, as the market
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
I know you said this as a joke, but I think you underestimate the convenience draw of that. Already if I have to sign up for something on not-my-primary-computer I'm annoyed because I can't use the Chrome autofill to take care of
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
>Personally, all I see are a string of obvious scams collapsing. I think you and rational people agree, it's just the rational people see the whole space as a scam, and they're not wrong. It's been, from it's very sta
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Black Isle is another great example. Interplay was going under and selling off any IP of value to get some cash out of the end of the road. The staff, seeing the writing on the wall, quit more or less en masse and started Obsidian together.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
This isn't really how it works though. It READS epub3, but only data that are valid epub2 structures is rendered. To get a subset (not even all) of epub3 formatting it needs to be built as a Kepub. You may be able to trick it with the
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
My biggest issue is Kobo doesn't actually support epub, or at least the modern incarnation. Their reader software is woefully out of date and has terrible epub handling, so to get the features you expect you're back to the Calibre
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Read the article I linked yourself, no misinformation. Quoting: The contest is entering a pivotal phase as EU regulators look to hammer out the world's first laws for the ballooning industry around web-enabled vehicles, pitting carmake
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
People tend to VASTLY overstate what sort of protections you get under the GPDR, to the point that I tend to assume nobody has actually read the regulations built off it. In this case, there is no protection for data from your car, beyond t
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
The original soundtrack for Lemmings was a bunch of midi remakes of pop songs. With a few weeks til release they realized what the composer had turned in and the legal issues behind it and turned the project over to a different composer and
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Legally that's a very similar argument, yes. You act like that's some sort of 'gotcha' but that's actually a perfect example. I'd be hard pressed to find precedent for any award that wasn't limited to the
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
How? The client paid for the ability to play the game. They can still play the game.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
If you tried to argue emotional damages over a lost save game in terms of compensation I'd say you were proceeding pro se at that point, because no lawyer is going to risk the court sanctions and harm to their professional reputation.
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
I'm having a hard time trying to tell if this comment is sarcastic or not, so at the risk of Poeing myself, of course they wouldn't pay them 10k dollars. The client has lost nothing. They still got the gameplay hours. They still h
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by RuggedPineapple 4y ago
Actually, the fact that Bitcoin can't inflate is the biggest tell it will never work as a currency. There are a set number of bitcoins that can be mined and no more after that. It's fundamentally incapable of inflating. And that&#

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