pezezin

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by pezezin 8mo ago
Last week a couple of colleagues and I opened an old VGA CRT monitor to try to fix the broken front control buttons. One of my colleagues started his career as a TV repair technician, so he knows how to do it safely, but even then running a
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by pezezin 8mo ago
True, but I want the numbers assigned to it to have a sensible meaning for us humans. Even if dealing with time zones is annoying, we must remember that computers should serve humans, not the other way around.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Good for you. I am currently living in Japan, and I don't want sunrise to happen at 21:00, noon at 3:00, and sunset at 9:00.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Nah, it also sounds terrible on paper.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Syggelekokle?
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Most computer PSUs have a fuse inside, and it is quite easy to replace them. I know because many moons ago I blew one, in the era when PSUs had a toggle between 120V and 230V, and I set it to 120V in a country that runs at 230V...
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by pezezin 8mo ago
> The plugs also prevent mixing voltage and amperage. The typical two vertical blades (5-15) are for 15 amp circuits. 20 amp circuits (5-20) have one horizontal + one vertical blade. The receptacle has a T shaped slot to match - that way
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Oh god... My company uses Teams and it is one of the main reasons why I installed so much RAM on my workstation. Part of me wishes that the recent increase in RAM prices will force companies to reduce the ridiculous memory footprint of thei
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by pezezin 8mo ago
The point is to have so much RAM that you don't need to offload anything.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
What kind of workload do you run that consumes 20 GB of swap???
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Zero. My office workstation has 48 GB of RAM, my home computer has 64 (I went a bit overboard). I have very bad memories of swap thrashing and the computer becoming totally unresponsive until I forced a reset; if I manage to fill up so much
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by pezezin 8mo ago
I read a description somewhere that I loved: the Japanese have a very refined sense of beauty, but no sense of ugliness.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
I live in Japan and every time I go through the airport I refuse to use the QR code customs forms, the old paper based form is so much easier...
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Do you actually use Japanese websites on frequently? Because I do live in Japan, and I hate their websites with a passion. Go use any Japanese online shop; the purchase flows are usually absurdly convoluted, and they are so information dens
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by pezezin 8mo ago
I don't know about the USA, but such an arrangement is extremely common in Europe thanks to the Schengen area.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
The fan is a bit loud, but it seems to work correctly, so I don't plan to touch it. However, the GC has a CR2032 battery to save the time and a few settings, and that battery was dead. But in Nintendo's infinite wisdom, the batter
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by pezezin 8mo ago
I recently restored my old GameCube. Back in the day I installed a ViperGC (the first modchip for the GameCube) to play "backups", but the optical drive has died. But thanks to the community, after reflashing it with Gekkoboot it
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by pezezin 8mo ago
If my memory is correct, they have OutRun, Rad Mobile, Sega Rally, and a few other classic racing games.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Yes, that list is quite old and lists some games that are not available anymore, while missing some others like the retro floor of Gigo 3 in Akihabara. Anyway, Mikado in Ikebukuro has the standard F-Zero AX cabinet, and it is great. I have
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by pezezin 8mo ago
There is one Xen episode close to the end that is indeed way too big for its own good and quite boring, I will give you that, but otherwise I found the new Xen levels very well made and fleshed out. Lets be honest, the original Xen was quit
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Free cellphone roaming is a big plus.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
IMHO, if you want to play Half-Life today, go get Black Mesa, an absolutely fantastic fan-made remake with Valve's blessing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/
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by pezezin 8mo ago
I know, but I think that a simple 8-channel ADPCM mixer would not have taken a lot of power, and would have resulted in much better sound.
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by pezezin 8mo ago
Does it? It has some very high pitched hiss that I find physically painful, I very much prefer the filtered version.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
I strongly disagree here. I was so hyped for the GBA that I bought it on release day, only to be disappointed later. One of reasons is the lackluster sound; seriously, Nintendo had already built an impressive sound system for the SNES, and
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by pezezin 9mo ago
You think that is bad? Some of the major promoters of 8k TV are Japanese broadcasters like the NHK. If you have ever watched Japanese TV, you will notice how they love covering half the screen in bright text. So what do they need 8k for, so
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by pezezin 9mo ago
The article doesn't mention what games they are actually running on the arcade machine. They mentioned the 18-bit DAC being a limitation, but most 2D arcade games only output 15-bit color. I don't know, as impressive as this is, I
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by pezezin 9mo ago
Yes, the Wii is essentially an overclocked GameCube with a bit more RAM and as you mentioned, a weird controller.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
To be fair, only Sony follows a consistent naming convention. Nintendo's console names also defy any logic, as did Sega back in the day.
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by pezezin 9mo ago
For me the 00's were the real deal, that decade when Internet at home finally became affordable but before the arrival of smartphones, social networks, and 24/7 connectivity. But they were also my high school and university years,

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