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by opan 5d ago
If your CRT had Component or SCART (not sure this was a brand thing so much as model to model, like imagine your parents bought a Sony TV with no HDMI port in the current year and then insisted you told them Sony was good in their defense)
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by opan 5d ago
SNES 1chip using RGB/SCART is worthy of imitation. Don't bother recreating a crummy Composite signal.
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by opan 5d ago
I used to have a ViewSonic PC CRT that went up to 2048x1536. Sadly my family didn't realize the worth and tossed it out along with a bunch of other CRTs many years ago. In hindsight we should've tested them all and kept the nicest
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by opan 5d ago
Same thought here, GBA was the peak of mainstream 2D graphics for me. I look at games from that era and often times they have aged well, they still look ideal to me.
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by opan 6d ago
I've had this work for some items but not others when changing .com to .co.uk before sending a link to a friend across the pond.
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by opan 6d ago
The article's title kinda sounds like a light novel title.
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by opan 9d ago
The business/money and startup culture is only a part of HN. I'm here because computers are cool and news hits here fast (also the comments can be interesting). I don't care about IPOs, unicorns, celebrities, AI, etc. I like
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by opan 9d ago
Tax filing in the US being so deeply intertwined with proprietary software is extremely unfortunate. I actually emailed Richard Stallman the first time I had to file to see what he does. He basically recommended grabbing the forms as PDFs,
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by opan 9d ago
I've heard that a huge percentage of people on the Internet are lurkers and that those posting and commenting are in the minority. Not sure if that's still true in the age of smartphones. I'll often leave comments on YT vids
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by opan 13d ago
I was using Silence from F-Droid for a while back in the day because of these issues, but the lack of interop and needing to make everyone move again soured me on the whole thing. I would rather just get people on XMPP or Matrix and not use
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by opan 13d ago
In software [copyright] terms I think this would be like you both have a license to use those books but you don't own the copyright to that book as you are not the author, so you can't change its license and you are somewhat limit
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by opan 13d ago
I once saw a whole list of these like /j for joking and such, but they don't seem to be commonly used and it often feels forced when I do come across them. Maybe they're more common in certain communities.
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by opan 17d ago
Copyleft licenses like the GPL are doing the best they can in the current world. Abolishing copyright would not harm the free software movement. I wouldn't bother to treat music and art separately from software either. It's a sham
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by opan 17d ago
I'm not a fan of AI if that's what you're talking about, I still want copyright dead or drastically shortened. I'd say most people with an interest in free (as in freedom) software or computers in general should want sim
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by opan 17d ago
Checking my shell history on my PC, I have used adb sideload both with apk files and zips of custom ROMs and such.
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by opan 21d ago
Lots of good general soldering tips here. If the DualShock 4 PCB is half as complex as the DualSense PCB, good chance you scratched a trace whole removing the sticks. If you can locate the damaged area you can jump it with a bodge wire (thi
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by opan 22d ago
There's an `adb sideload` command for installing an app on your phone from your PC, with the file on your PC, it's like a remote install. For some reason some people also use the term to refer to installing stuff via apks in gener
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by opan 25d ago
>Mobile firefox is OK, it simply feels like it's designed for a different person. For example even Chrome has "force reader mode" button.. Firefox does not. I'm using Fennec from F-Droid, but I have a little document
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by opan 25d ago
RuneScape was very popular at my local public library, and as a kid I only played the F2P content. I knew maybe one or two people around that time that played WoW. The paid subscription made it not a realistic option for me at the time. Tho
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by opan 26d ago
Maybe they meant elementaryOS.
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by opan 26d ago
Spaces, voice and video calls, custom emoji or stickers. Basically the stuff people coming from Discord are used to but the people coming from IRC/XMPP aren't used to.
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by opan 26d ago
Is it still easy to get C cells? I probably would've used an 18650 or some AAs.
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by opan 28d ago
I don't think Steam being 64bit stops you launching 32bit games, just reduces the need for all the 32bit dependencies to use Steam at all.
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by opan 28d ago
Besides the TUI program itself, you also have your terminal emulator (unless in a TTY) and possibly a multiplexer like tmux. I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot and you can get pretty precise control with keyboard shortcuts that mak
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by opan 28d ago
That's a funny example, reminds me of how often fresh Windows 7 or older installs were missing the ethernet driver so you had to move stuff over on a flash drive to get started really setting stuff up. In your situation, a couple possi
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by opan 1mo ago
Seconding Conversations, though I wish it'd let me disable relative timestamps.
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by opan 1mo ago
I regularly use IRC, XMPP, and Matrix. I think your description fits IRC better. XMPP kinda has a Plan 9 or Amiga type of vibe, cult following "ahead of its time", but never took off totally how people hoped, or didn't stay r
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by opan 1mo ago
XMPP is somewhat popular on the fediverse, especially the Pleroma side. If you meet people there who want to chat elsewhere, they likely are on XMPP. Also if you have a Disroot account it comes with XMPP.
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by opan 1mo ago
I think GP was speaking hyperbolically, because most new features hit Element/Synapse first and other clients lag behind implementing them. If you care about more than the basics working, it's kind of just the illusion of choice.
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by opan 1mo ago
IRC and email worked out pretty well I think.

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