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| tomman |
Posted on 22-11-12, 03:14 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1201 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Finally, my Redmi Note 11 got Downloading the update was painful - it took nearly a week of continuously botched attempts (dunno who to blame: Xiaomi for not properly implementing download resuming, CANTV for being CANTV, or the fact the update is a single big fat ZIP file), but installing it was surprisingly painless and FAST! (thanks for not sucking this time, Qualcomm!). No undesired bloatware came back this time, but Xiaomi tried to preload a new bit of junk ("Funmax", with a gamepad icon... at least it's user removable). So far nothing I routinely use has broke yet, and MIUI customizations conceal quite a lot of Android 12's UI elements. A few random bits from the update: - Accent color for this release is violet-ish. I miss the pastry codenames... Google are such a bunch of killjoys! - Now every app has a mandatory pointless splashscreen, despite being useless for most apps. By default it's just a scaled up app icon (which looks dumb), and there is no way to disable that shit, although app developers have the option of customizing that and bringing a proper splashscreen - from all of my apps, the only ones who are doing this are Telegram (animated icon!), Shazam (same), WhatsFuckingCrapp (the regular WhatsCrapp by Meth™ splash), MercadoLibre (just the regular static splash) and VLC (no splash at all!). Sadly many apps now have two splashscreens: the Android 12 enforced one, and the regular in-app one. - I now get a green icon on top of the status bar when apps are recording audio/video. If the app hides the status bar, the icon becomes a unremovable green dot overlaid at the top corner of the screen. You'll now know when you're being outright spied! - The navigation bar now defaults to eye-searing WHITE for most apps, instead of black! There seems to be no way to change this, and I don't know if it is a MIUI customization or Android 12 behavior. SUCK! - I'm pretty much sure Google killed yet another bunch of useful APIs in the name of Sekuritah™ and progressive dumbing down of the platform... - NATIVE ANDROID SCREENSHOTS BROKE. VolDown+Power no longer does squat! I had to reinstall Xiaomi's screenshot garbage as I routinely do screenshots here (mainly from banking apps when you pay people), but that means downgrading to JPEGs! WHAT THE FUCK XIAOMI!? Ah, those pigfuckers at Xiaomi HARDCODED the screenshot functionality to its shitty JPEG-loving crapp - there is no fallback anymore to Android's built in screenshoting feature. FUUUUUUUUCK! UPDATE: F-Droid has Screenshot Tile which can make screenshots in PNG (and then some!)... but the "native" method just invokes the original VolDown+Power shortcut, AKA Xiaomi's crapp. Instead I now need to get used to make screenshots from the shortcuts tray, which is annoying as fuck. Thaaaanks, Xinnie! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-11-12, 03:22 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1202 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
If you're using GDM as your logon manager on your To stop this madness for good: just purge nvidia-egl-common - this gets permanently rid of /usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json (which is useless on most Optimus systems, at least not without PRIME), instead of having to delete it each time the blob gets an update. This package is safe to remove and won't break anything else, except for GDM's nasty habit on trying to use a GPU it is not supposed to use! .... oh, and kernel 6.0 is now available via Backports, yay~! Except that us nvidia-legacy-390 users need the DKMS package from Testing because it brings the required build fixes for the noVideo kernel module. But watch out for the future: kernel 6.1 may break your laptop backlight controls! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-11-13, 23:29 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #1203 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
More cleanup and exploring of Android 12, MIUI 13 flavor: - Context menu now hides the Copy option by default (have to tap the 3-dot menu to open a secondary context menu so I can copy, while Cut is now the first top-level option!). Yay, more daily annoyances since I copy text like... several times a day! - More Xiaomi bloaty preloads: it reinstalled their crippled (and absolutely useless) version of WPS Office. Thanks but no thanks, I am not interested into another PDF reader that isn't Google's or another text editor that isn't the one I have from F-Droid. *uninstall~* - Some apps now ask for extra permissions on Android 12: to place a call via WhatsFuckingCrapp it now asks... to be able to monitor if a phone call is ongoing!? Ugh, Meth. Telegram doesn't pull the same shit, so I don't know what the fuck is going here. - There is now a "jelly-like" scrolling effect when you reach the top or the end of some widget contents. Stupid as hell, and no way to disable it, of course. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-11-20, 18:23 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1204 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
https://endoflife.date/nvidia "What do you mean the end is near?!" Ah yeah, I'm still using a Fermi If you still run an old desktop PC with a noVideo GPU: you can find used Radeon cards for cheap, people! But if you're stuck on a laptop (like me)... well, I share your pain. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-11-21, 15:39 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1205 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33673517 Lazy guy tries to cheat with Steam game 'cheevos, gets bitten by the Y2K38 issue. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-12-06, 23:18 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1206 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Cash, in Antarctica! - the legendary Wells Fargo ATMs Down Under on penguinland: https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-automated-teller-machines 1) Those ATMs don't have service fees (aside of any extra fee your bank decides to charge) 2) What would be the procedure if that ATM eats your money? You can't simply walk into a branch, as the next one is several thousand kilometers AND months away! 3) Eww, touchscreens! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-12-10, 22:25 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1207 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
PSA: If you're using Palefill on SeaMonkey and Giggityhub broke for you (AGAIN), do this: 1) Downgrade to Palefill 1.23 here 2) Disable addon autoupdates for Palefill 3) Pray ...this is because Palefill has never really supported any browser other than Pale Moon (and UXP-based web browsers up to some extent), and not anything else. Some changes the way it loads polyfills were introduced recently, leveraging on Pale Moon-isms (gross hacks gated behind PM-specific user prefs), breaking things on SeaMonkey because it doesn't implement said hacks: https://github.com/martok/palefill/issues/67 So... yeah, that renders Palefill unusable for us in the near future. And the progress for implementing the Chromeisms required for most of the modern web on SeaMonkey is marching slowly, so I guess the road has become bumpier than usual :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-12-12, 00:54 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1208 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Apparently enough stuff has been backported to make Giggityhub more-or-less "work" by just enabling dom.webcomponents.enabled on the latest betas, according to frg. I guess it's time to backup my profile and hop again onto the beta train, but at this stage I wish that a deadly pandemic just wipe webshits from the entire planet so the web standards can go back to being STANDARDS, and not a eternal moving target. Alas, that's not happening :/ If you work with/for the Google Chrome team: DIE. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-12-12, 03:06 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1209 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Debian Setup Of The Day: bringing sanity to one of the most insane platforms ever. In a rare dumpster pickup (for this country standards!), a couple days ago I salvaged a entire unsuspecting machine from its date with the dump truck: our HOA decided it was time to dispose of its ancient PC, an HP Brio (TIL that line existed). But when I took it apart at home, I found that the internals were not exactly your typical "big brand supermarket special"... but worse: - PCChips motherboard, a classic of doom: a M756LMRT with swollen G-Luxon crapacitors and its unlovely SiS 630E chipset (where the E is for "especially BAD chipet!"). The memories of that M755 with Windows Mistake Edition are a open wound that will never fully heal... - The lamest Socket 1 Pentium III CPU ever made: a 450MHz first-gen Katmai from late '99. - 512MB PC133 SDRAM, on 2x256MB DIMMs. Probably the only GOOD part of this thing - someone actually spent good cash feeding a normally RAM-starved PoS! - 40GB WD PATA HDD with an unbootable XP setup and about ~90 reallocations (couldn't found any dirt from its previous operators - just a bunch of useless documents and spreadsheets, too bad) - 56X Benq CDROM, meh. - Sony FDD, died after killing some test floppies. - Delta 85W HP OEM PSU. The good shit - Tier 1 Taiwanese OEM, fine Nichicon caps where you want 'em, and only a lone toasty area near from a couple diodes (likely product of poor cooling and years of accumulated crud). PCChips. A name many that have been in this industry for long enough will never forget, no matter how much beer or weed you do. Running Linux on those have always been a crapshoot, especially on non-Intel chipset boards. ESPECIALLY SiS-based boards! My M755 had this horrible IGP with meh VESA BIOS and subpar X11 drivers that were only good for 2D, and maybe watching videos. Combine that with PCChips legendary manufacturing quality (thin PCBs, crapacitors, the inventors of Fake Cache®, and its signature yellow-ish PCBs), and you've got a recipe for doom. And this M756LMRT is one of those cases: no Linux distro I tried would boot without panicking or freezing very early at boot! Tried several versions of Debian installer disc, and even my trusty Parted Magic stick (via Plop Boot Manager bootdisk). Tried tweaking every single BIOS feature I could find (there are not many tunables on this thing). Tried switching between APM, ACPI, or nothing at all. Even tried with a different CPU (have another dumpster salvage, a Coppermine Celery 600MHz), but nope, they would either hang or panic. Debian installer would consistently halt at the same point: shortly after detecting the ATA/USB controllers, but before enumerating devices attached to them. A memtest came up clear always, and swapping RAM modules didn't helped anyway. Sometimes I would get a panic stackdump (more on this later), so tried also messing with kernel commandline params: acpi=off, noacpi, nosmp, biosirq... until I found a pattern on the few readable stackdumps and panic messages: all of them mentioned the following: 1) Fatal error inside a interrupt handler 2) The words "idle" and "<IRQ>" on many of the function names on the stacktraces. Turns out something really fucky was going on this BIOS/mobo: while the CPU "idles" for saving power, Linux usually does it in a way that would piss off this mobo and thus it hangs. The solution was idle=poll, which means the CPU will waste its "doing nothing" cycles... doing something that looks like it's doing nothing. This is bad for power saving and thermals, except that on a desktop Pentium III that turns to be quite irrelevant anyway. On to the setup! - Switched the lamest P3 ever for.. a slightly less lame Socket 1 Katmai of unknown origins, a 550MHz part. Really, I never had that much interest into Slot 1/Socket 370 platforms for retrocomputing purposes until this year, I guess, so my inventory of parts of that vintage is VERY limited. Despite the slow external cache, it's still faster than my 600MHz Celery solely due to the faster 100MHz FSB. - Ethernet jack (driven by the built-in SiS 900 NIC on the 630E die) was dead (link light came up, but blinked even without traffic), so I had to jam it in a random NIC on the scarce PCI slots of this thing. - I/O performance of the 630E PATA controller is sucky, despite claiming UDMA support. It's at the same level of the venerable PIIX3 (Triton) Intel Socket 7 southbridges. - Onboard audio (C-Media CMI8738) works fine. This chip was used by PCChips on many of its M7xx/8xx mobos, while others based on SiS chipsets resorted on its internal 7018 audio (plus an AC'97 codec chip). Will play your FLACs like a pro player! - No firmware blobs required! - For hi-rez framebuffer, you want sisfb. But since Lennart has a hateboner on old-skool framebuffer drivers, you'll have to remind Debian, systemd and udev who's the boss here. - There is a SiS 950 chip near to the bottom of the board. That's NOT an Ethernet chip - instead, it's a rebadged ITE SuperIO/sensors chip, fully supported by the it87 kernel module (but many of the voltage readings are bogus) ...and that's all? Really, once you figure how to boot up this thing, this turns out to be a rather unremarkable Linux board choice. Might make a fine routerbox, if you replace the fake caps first and get a multiport NIC and a CF-to-IDE adapter. I have no plans for this mobo yet (bad caps, ugh!), but it was still worth the test. 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| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-05, 23:59 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1210 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
A GNOME justifies why GNOME sucks: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023/01/05/on-the-gnome-project-and-my-way-or-the-highway.html Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-16, 02:02 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1211 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
It's that time of the year again, when emulators try to use the latest shinies and break on my Debian setups! Today's answer is NOT "update your distro, buddy~" thankfully, but it involves some annoyances anyway. No, I'm not trying to build Dolphin and dying in the way (Dolphin fortunately still builds OK on current Debian stable as of January 7, 2023), but a close friend: meet Duckstation, the hottest PSX emulator in the 'hood, and whose Qt-based UI formed the basis for many of Dolphin's GUI improvements. First things first: Duckstation requires Qt 6, which is only available on backports for Bullseye (qtbase6-dev, qtbase6-private-dev, qtbase6-dev-tools - ignore qttools6-dev). It also requires a relatively new version of SDL2 solely for SDL_HINT_JOYSTICK_HIDAPI_PS5_RUMBLE, despite the fact that 98% of the potential userbase for Duckstation won't have a PS5 gamepad. You won't find that one on backports (and I'm not even sure if that's coming for Bookworm either), but I was able to workaround that by abusing CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS: And then, once the thing was up and running (sans icons for whatever reason, and the "make install" target is BROKEN), I was in front of whatever default theme that Qt 6 ships. Ugh. Yes, it's the qt5ct saga all over again. There IS a qt6ct (and it will even ship with Bookworm!), but for now, you want this, and remember to set QPA_QTPLATFORMTHEME to gtk2 every time you need to run a Qt 6 app to have that sane Speaking of things that suck: LENNART!!!! Right now, I'm taking a trip to Nostalgia Planet with that PCShits mobo from the dumpster, with a install of good ole' Wintendo Mistake Edition (spoilers: I finally got it to not BSOD every 5 minutes!), but since I don't have a set of spare speakers, I need to pipe audio from this mobo into any of my other computers. How to listen to a input? - Windows: Plug cables, open Volume control, find the proper input and unmute it, adjust volumes, DONE. It has been this way since WINDOWS 95! (Dunno if MS fucked it post-W7?) - Linux/ALSA: Plug cables, run alsamixer, find the proper input and unmute it, adjust volumes, DONE. (Things could get messy with a Real Soundcard™ like Soundblasters, but that's more or less the way to do it) - Linux/PulseAudio: Plug cables, run pavucontrol, notice that on Input Devices audio volume is being monitored but there is no way to listen to it, dick around, find nothing, check everything twice, open web browser, google for the first Stack Overflow result, find that the magic enchantment is "pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1", run that, dick around pavucontrol even more, adjust volumes, rant over IRC, get a "butbutbut someone would rant if that were setup as the default because BLOAT!!!" non-answer, lose all remaining faith in mankind, remember you have to redo all that on the next reboot. Hope Pipewire doesn't commit the same mistakes, but I'm not hopeful as all software is doomed to suck nowadays :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-20, 18:43 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1212 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by tomman GET #6M: a girl with a dinosaur cat and a octopus in a flooded... thing?! - January 20th, 2023 >6 years -> <4 years -> <3 years -> >2 years -> 17 months -> 13 months Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-21, 18:05 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1213 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.15/ GO! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-23, 20:23 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #1214 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
2.53.15 broke good ol' Flashblock. Yes, Flash is dead. But Flashblock can also block HTML5 video, which is highly needed nowadays in the era of poor bandwidth and metered fake 4G cellphone networks. Adblockers can achieve the same, but I don't need full-fat uBlock as my current adblocking solution is perfect for my needs. Turns out Flashblock was using some long, LONG deprecated Mozilla-proprietary JS feature: getPreventDefault(): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691151 But then, Flashblock has been dead for pretty much almost the same time, so noone bothered checking... until today! Simple fix: replace all instances of getPreventDefault() with the standards-compliant defaultPrevented on flashblock.xml/videoblock.xml (inside $ADDON_ROOT/chrome/flashblock.jar!/content/flashblock/). Repack, reinstall, done. Or just use my fixed XPI: https://we.tl/t-uNjyaVA2l9 (link expires in one week - please rehost!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-01-31, 21:15 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1215 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
My current stay at Vintage Windows 9x™ has led me to do weird experiments, and to cry about the pathetic state of preservation of software updates/patches, especially for non-English locales. Yes, I know, - Microsoft is always killing their update services for older products as soon as they enter EOL. My WSUS Offline for Spanish WinXP/Office 2003 DVDs soon will be worth its weight in gold. Patches for Win9x were pretty much deleted around 2009, including their respective MSKB articles. - English patches are easy to find around, thanks to community efforts to preserve them (places like MSFN and MDGx are gold mines for the retro enthusiasts), and in some cases, improve them (like backporting Me patches for 98/SE, or even XP drivers for 9x!). As long as your locale is English, or if you want a mixed-language hodgepodge. In particular, Spanish is one of the LEAST preserved locales, with most patches lost forever. And forget about those custom patchpacks - the only surviving one in Spanish is a hard-to-find build of the popular NUSB patch for W98SE. I guess that comes with the "it's oooold, therefore to the trash it goes!" culture we have in Latam and Spain :/ - The Internet Archive once again is an invaluable tool for sourcing broken links, even for raw executables. Sadly it's no silver bullet, but it's a godsend anyway. - And that only covers Microsoft software - for anything made by everybody else, you're pretty much doomed. If it didn't came on a multilanguage installer with single multilanguage patches, just forget it! Bonus chapter: how to patch Paint Shop Pro 7 in Spanish to retail 7.04. Just discovered that not only my trusty PSP7 install (the last true and good PSP release for many, before the UI fuckage and later assimilation by Corel) I still use from time to time on XP not only is missing patches (it's 7.02), it's not even a proper retail version! (the "try & buy" Animation Shop 3 executable should be a dead giveaway... and so is the main PSP7 .EXE which clearly says "Try & Buy" on the VERSIONINFO resource, despite the splashscreen being the retail one!). Jasc did released standalone patchers for 7.04 (and the Spanish one is thankfully one of the rare exceptions saved by the Archive), but unsurprisingly it will refuse to patch my "dodgy" install. Unfortunately the only surviving installers for Spanish PSP7 are the trial version (psp704ev.exe) and that seedy one I have (which was either some OEM version bundled with some device, or a half-assed crack job). Anyway, after researching, here is how I achieved a clean update from 7.02 "try but not really buy" to retail 7.04: What you will need? - A Spanish install of that 7.02 seedy version (Didn't tried with the try'n'buy one as I wasn't trying to defeat the trial period) - The ISO from the 7.04 English "Anniversary Edition" release disc (it's widely available on many places, including the Archive). We'll use the two main executables from it to fool the PSP 7.04 updater that we indeed have a retail version (it doesn't care about WHICH version you have, as long as it validates the PSP/AS3 executables as "legit retail") - The Spanish retail updater for 7.04 (psp704ep.exe) - also available at the Archive. How to patch: - Backup your original psp.exe/anim.exe executables. - Replace them with the ones on the Anniversary Edition disc (the base EXEs are the same for all the locales, the localizations ship on separate DLLs) - they're on [PSP 7.04 ISO]\PSP\Data.Cab: F5189_psp.exe and F5190_anim.exe. Extract, rename and overwrite as required. - Run the 7.04 updater (psp704ep.exe). It will check psp.exe, give it a pass, and update your dodgy PSP 7.02 to 7.04 Spanish Retail. - Optional: to save disk space, once you've ensured everything is working as intended, delete the files INSTALL.LOG, UNWISE.EXE, UNWISE.INI, and the UNPATCH directory. (Yes, the main trial/retail installer is a .MSI package, but the updater is... a good ol' Wise installer package, modified enough by Jasc so you can't unpack it with any of the unpackers available online) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-02-05, 20:28 in Internet numbers bragging thread (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1216 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
CANTV DSL has been ridiculously unstable since late December in this city. Phone Mafia™ blames "fiber cuts", but how many times you can cut the same cable? (also phone NEVER goes down during said outages). My best guess is some core router at the main exchange that it's finally giving up the ghost, but as expected noone cares at Commie Telephones Of Soviet Venezuela - after all, outages are the best friend of the regime! Right now I'm on 4G, and apparently someone at Digitel has been listening:  ...yes, that's 3G/HSDPA-like performance. But we're coming from subpar 2G speeds to something actually USABLE. Progress at last? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-02-18, 01:39 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #1217 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
When the battery on your Blu Zoey Smart turns into a "spicy pillow": 1) If it hasn't cracked the battery cover yet, REMOVE IT ASAP! 2) STOP USING THAT BATTERY, FFS!!! 3) Don't bother looking for the original Blu battery online, the specific model used on the Zoey Smart is unobtanium... 4) ...because it's actually a Nokia BL-5C knockoff! So go and buy one of those, they're readily available for $5 or less. Sellers online are mostly unaware of that (and will reasonably claim that it won't work/fit), but the Chinesium phone parts store on next corner won't even blink an eye and will just come up with another BL-5C knockoff that will Just Work™. Old popular Nokia batteries (mainly the BL-4C and BL-5C) have become a de facto standard format for many shit-tier cellphones and portable emuconsoles, and even hobbyist projects for which a readily available Li-ion battery format is desirable, so that means Chinesium sweatshops will keep making those 'till the cold death of the universe. Next time take a look at your battery: if it looks like a Nokia battery... it's because it IS a Nokia battery in disguise :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-02-24, 15:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1218 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by creaothceann To put things in context, let's make up some numbers: Venezuela can't vote at the UN because they owe them $76.244.991. At today's official exchange rate of USD 1 = VES 24,3708 (valid until 16:00 VET), that's Bs. 1.858.151.426,66. That's equivalent to: - 14.293.473 minimum wages! - 10.892.141 cartons of 30 eggs each (assuming a national average price of ~$7/carton, it's cheaper on some places and way more expensive at the big cities) - 18.581.515 100-bolivar banknotes... basically the entirety of Series D (~19 million pieces issued so far), with change to spare! - One new baseball stadium (according to unofficial figures so far) Of course not that neither Maduro not Put-it-In cares. And it isn't like the UN is actually worth a damn, to be fair :P Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 23-02-25, 04:56 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1219 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
Today's stupid bug of the day: ever tried to run a random executable from your favorite file manager (something Windows and Mac users do every day without blinking an eye, but a concept completely foreign to Unix users), just to be cockblocked by your own computer... but not always? If that's you, you might be a victim of this: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=276003 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45329372/ubuntu-recognizes-executable-as-shared-library-and-wont-run-it-by-clicking Long short story: most modern executables are compiled these days with -fPIE, which is good for security as it allows devs to use countermeasures like ASLR to keep exploits away, and suddenly this fools most file managers into thinking that suddenly every ELF file compiled that way has to be a DLL and not necessarily an executable, leading to a completely bogus (and unhelpful) error message, while leading former Windows users over IRC to rethink their decisions to migrate away from the sinking boat that is Windows, or the perfection that is Mac. Of course, some desktop environments whose names I am not going to mention here claim that running executables from a file manager is silly and why would you want to use your own computer in non-sanctioned ways? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737849 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/443 "Every executable should ship with a .desktop launcher, otherwise it's broken." - Official GNOME® Policy™ But the real culprit here is Freedesktop.org's MIME type database: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97226 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/issues/11 Fixes! We want fixes! Fortunately we're not doomed. This time. - EASY MODO: convince your file manager that those "DLLs" are actually executables, and that they should run through bash or something, by applying the Windows-esque concept of creating a file association. Here is how to do it under Caja (MATE) - for other DEs the idea is similar. Of course only schoolkids play in EASY MODO, and we want a proper fix so the penguinistas don't laugh at us, right? (Spoilers: they will still laugh at us, but they will be *ehem* climaxing themselves hard at their pimped out xterms) - The Actual And Proper Fix: This bug was finally squashed upstream two years ago, so all you need is to update shared-mime-info in your distro to version 2.1 at least. And indeed Debian picked that update... on Bookworm(testing) only! And you can't just use the .DEB due to the presence of a binary (update-mime-database) that relies on a newer libc in Bookworm (really Debian? This should be split in TWO packages, the tools and the database itself, IMHO). But fear not - you only need the actual database file itself, /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml - the format hasn't changed in years, so just take the one from the Bookworm .DEB, replace it, and run update-mime-database /usr/share/mime as root. There, you can now eat your PIE, like a Windows peasant! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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Posted on 23-03-19, 02:38 in 32X CRAShTEST: the mushroom of doom strikes back!
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Dinosaur
Post: #1220 of 1286 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 12 hours Last view: 3 hours |
[insert here Spongebob-themed "4 YEARS LATER" titlecard] Somehow I ended looking at a PicoDrive fork that really impressed me: https://github.com/irixxxx/picodrive Looks like someone WAS reading my crashtest results and decided to do Something™. And oh well, Something™ was done, and done well! All the problem games on my test now run flawlessly on irixxxx's PicoDrive 1.99, technically bringing PicoDrive to a perfect 10 (at least on the 32X section) - not only matching Fusion but even surpassing it (as it doesn't have the DMA PWM audio issues on Linux, and it can boot ALL retail games... including the infamous Surgical Strike 32X CD, which Fusion can't). This is nothing short of impressive - hell, even the Mars Check Program passes ALL tests with flying colors! (and to make things more incredible, irixxxx just wanted to learn about recompilers... and ended deep into the rabbit hole fixing countless bugs on PicoDrive's SH-2 cores!) Too bad the rest of PicoDrive is basically "well, we need something fast for ARM toys", so there are still unaddressed problems with its Genesis underpinnings (run the Overdrive demos for a example) and you should stick to the good stuff (BlastEm, Genesis Plus) for your base Genesis needs, but if you need a multiplatform 32X emulator that can run on modern computers, this is it, look no more because you have no other options. As a bonus, there are now recompiler cores for ARM64 and even RISC-V! Forget about MAME (it's still unusable dogshit). Forget about Gens too (it's deader than Yuyuko). And now it's time to send off Fusion on a well deserved farewell too. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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