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| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-06, 11:45 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #381 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by sureanem Actually 1/400th since April 15th (if you were to be paid with those, you would receive 4 wads). This lone note is not enough for paying the bus fare, but you could buy a lollipop with it. Posted by sureanem Since the Great Cash Shortage of 2017, banks stopped exchanging notes under any circumstances (they used to - now they will not do it AT ALL, no matter how you beg). At some point, the Central Bank and local governments even explicitly told banks and retailers to REFUSE damaged bills. I even doubt that the Central Bank itself would want to replace this one (notwithstanding the fact it would involve a very expensive trip to its only two branches in the entire country). (For future reference: if you have to ask, the answer usually is "that's now how things are done here, dude") And even in the unlikely event that they were to replace it, at most you would get a random new note - the average nobody can't just go and ask "hey, can you give me another bill with these specific numismatic specifications?". Sadly I'm not at that level of "collector with contacts" yet :/ (there is a separate tier for that, just like in any other country: those "SPECIMEN NO VALUE" sample notes are the proof - one of the many holy grails for collectors, unattainable for most unless you're flush in cash or with VERY good connections inside the banking system) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-07, 10:52 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #382 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
I'll just leave this here for you, for your future reference: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Salario_m%C3%ADnimo_en_Venezuela Also, it seems you don't even know collectors. Would you buy a SNES cart with a melted case and with a broken ROM? I thought so. This isn't Pawn Stars where someone will pay top money for 35% of a bill just because it came from a notable air hijacking (the $2 D.B. Cooper ransom bills), there isn't any historic context behind this burned bill beyond "Venezuelans are stupids", and in the specific scale for grading paper money, this is an automatic POOR due to the large missing chunk (The IBNS has a excellent free guide introducing people to paper money collecting, where they explain with pretty pictures the grading scales: it's VERY forgiving scale as there are only Fair and Poor at the tail end, but noone is looking for notes at those tiers unless for ancient issues where there are no surviving specimens otherwise) Collectors don't buy shit. Serious collectors won't even look at images of shit. As for the rest of my collection: it's not for sale - it's barely starting anyway! It's not at the "get rich and retire to a tropical island" point yet. It's not even at the "buy a new computer with the earnings" point. It's like trying to sell a SNES cart collection with only EA Sports games and a lone Final Fantasy cart. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-07, 17:03 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #383 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Music woes more or less solved after the switch to album directories (foobar2000 still complains, but meh, I'm not using it anyway). Now: tethering! Long short story: American Telephone & Telegraph is greedy as fuck, and this extends to every single handset sold by them. Tethering is tightly locked on my unlocked phone. Unfortunately I now need to use it because CANTV has been shitting its undies harder than hard this week (having Internet access for like HALF AN HOUR PER DAY is, like, communism), but the phone tries to ask permission from AT&T every single time I try to enable tethering. Since none of the T's in AT&T is for "Telefonica Movistar" (yet), it fails. I've studied several options, none of then useful: - Root the phone, so I can either modify build.prop or use a Magisk module to disable provisioning (net.tethering.noprovisioning=true). I've explained why I'm not pursuing that avenue on the Z835 (cannot afford the risk to erase my IMEI) - FoxFi (now part of PDANet): Payware. The free version limits your connection time. NO THANKS. - Tethr, which exploits an Android vulnerability to fool the phone to skip provisioning by cycling the modem radio off and on. Although my phone runs one of the oldest ROM versions for the Z835 (V1.0.0B13, from late '17), looks like it isn't vulnerable. Bummer :/ - Tether_entitlement_check_state: only works with LG phones so far (the pref does nothing and doesn't even exist on non-LG ROMs) - Flash a unbranded/generic ROM: Nobody cares about cheap Android phones, including the ZTE Maven family :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-08, 10:45 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #384 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
This program enables tethering (via USB) for "rooted" handsets running android (such as the Android DevPhone 1). A client (your laptop for example) can connect via usb and get access to the internet using the 3G, 2G mobile connection or the wifi connection which is established by the handset. So... not for me :/ Why phone makers always have to cave to the whims of USAian telcos is something beyond my understanding. Paying for FoxFi/PDANet is like paying for device drivers (remember Linuxant?) just to be able to use the hardware I've paid for, which is something I completely oppose to, as a matter of principle (it's my hardware, and I decide how to use it) I thought the era of crippling phones was left in the past when dumbphones "died", but looks like I was very wrong :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-10, 10:32 in GNOME: "Please don't theme our apps"
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Dinosaur
Post: #385 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
The usual excuses to switching to GTK3 are: 1) No longer maintained upstream / deprecated 2) Wayland (which GTK2 does not support) 1) can be solved with a fork (which noone seems willing to do, unlike what was done with MATE). As for 2), well, I have no interest in Wayland but I can somehow understand that it is "the future". Still, how difficult would be to add Wayland support to GTK2? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-11, 16:14 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #387 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
The highly awaited, fan-funded (mostly) Shenmue 3 PC version is now an Epic Games Store exclusive: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/posts/2532170 We don't know yet if Sweeney opened his mighty Fortnite checkbook to sweep out another game out of the reach of Valve's hands, but what we do know is that this comes out from its publisher, Deep Silver. Needless to say, some backers are VERY pissed off with this move. Not because they can no longer get the game from Steam (noone would be complaining if they decided to take it to GOG, for one), but because noone likes what's Epic is doing with their store, their awful launcher, or the fact PC gamers don't want more fragmentation in the market. Unfortunately, Deep Silver is not giving refunds due to this reason. And before you dare complaining about me complaining on games I'm not going to play on stores I'm not going to be purchasing content: While certainly I have no horse in this race, and I consider Valve to be awful on its own merits (censorship of sexual content being the one that bugs me off the most), but they aren't pulling the same "buying exclusives" stunt on Steam - most games are Steam-exclusive solely because their publishers want it that way, they fear "piracy" if they go DRM-free on GOG, or they're simply lazy and keep fueling the "network effect", not because Uncle Gaben is giving away free money just to kill their competition. (And their CEO isn't comparing people that want to play their games on the OS of their choice with "those that voted for 'other parties' just because they didn't liked A Certain Candidate", which is a easy way to burn quite some bridges with the gaming community, no matter how niche are certain segments of it) Once the "battle royale" fad wears off and Fortnite joins the junkyard of deceased online games noone plays anymore, it would be interesting to see what happens to the Epic Games Store. Unless they reach feature parity with Steam or they adopt a GOG-esque model, I forecast nothing but dark clouds on their future. Ah well, I guess Yu Suzuki won't be getting that new Ferrari anytime soon... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-11, 17:24 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #388 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Firefox "Premium" coming Soon™: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/10/057231/a-premium-firefox-is-coming-this-fall Mozilla has officially lost its way. What's "premium" for that product? There are talks of a VPN service (which you could sold separately, or even better, source it from any other provider than the same one that also provides your web browser), among other (unspecified as of today) services. Come on Mozilla, I know that the Googlebux teat is gonna run dry sooner than later, but this is NOT how you win users back. People left your FREE product because they couldn't stand your boneheaded antiuser design decisions, what the hell have gotten in your minds that lead you guys to believe that they're coming back, but this time as a paying customers?! ...not to be outdone by stupids, Opera is jumping on the "PRO GEAR SPEC" gaming solutions... with a "gaming grade" browser: https://games.slashdot.org/story/19/06/11/1524206/opera-launches-opera-gx-worlds-first-gaming-browser The solution to lost performance on your games? - - - - - TYPE GT-RSX TURBO HEXANITROHEXAAZAISOWURTZITANE WEB BROWSER (with extra NITRO buttonzzzz!). Yeah, that really hits the spot! I can already feel my precious frames per second coming back! UPDATE: Their hideous website is unusable on my pleb 768p panel, because I'm not a hardcore gamer, I guess? Scrolling is fixed to a screen a time, and the feature descriptions are cropped on my display because who needs to know the actual features of the product you're promoting/selling? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-11, 20:31 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #389 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Let's review what are the selling points of Opera GX: - GX Control (RAM/CPU control): With this, you supposedly can limit browser RAM/CPU usage. IMO I would achieve better results by just installing a script blocker, since most bloat comes from all those Javashits and the like. Also: how would this impact regular browsing? (say, will it kill all Javashits that go over the CPU threshold, or will refuse to open more tabs if the RAM usage goes past the RAM threshold). I'm on the fence on this one - Twitch Integration: Dude, you're already running a WEB BROWSER - why don't you simply open the Twitch website and do your stuff there?! Even an addon is overkill for this. - GX Corner: Cool, a "game deals of the day" section. Except that IS a task for a 3rd-party website! (which can easily adapt to changes across retail places, and you have to visit one anyway). I see no room for this as a "core web browser feature", it is like asking Seamonkey to add a window where I can check the balances of all of my bank accounts. Find a good deal tracker site, and LEARN HOW TO USE BOOKMARKS, people! - GX Sound: Sound effects for GUI actions were a silly idea back when Microsoft introduced them with Windows 95, nearly 25 years ago. They're still a silly idea, maybe even a stupid one that only 6yo kids would find "cool". Sure, they're fun when Hollyweird does it on their TV/cinema junk, but that shit gets boring real quick, and you end switching to blissful silence in a snap. I don't care if the Yuzo Koshiro himself came with a really cool tune that plays each time a tab is closed, a silly feature is that, not a selling point! - GX design / GX Themes: Adwaita is the one and only theme you will need™. Well, at least you are still allowed to change colors and backgrounds, and maybe other UI bits. Enjoy it while it lasts! (Also: why all "gamer grade" gear has to feature hideous techno-esque dark designs with loads of neon lights?! It's like the entire industry assumes that gamers have shit taste. But then, people still pay for Call of Duty and FIFA games religiously every year...) - Integrated Messengers: Once again, something that does NOT belong to a web browser (not even as an addon!), but to a suitable external application (preferably one which is allowed to connect to 3rd-party networks without getting your account banhammered). Also: I'm not going to install a freakin' web browser just to use Whatsapp (not that I'm actually getting an account anytime soon, despite the futile efforts of everybody and his dog to get me to join that cesspool of gossip and deception. Send me a email instead, your newfangled smarttoys have been capable of that since the Windows CE era!) - Video pop out: OK, I DO see utility for this one (I would have really appreciated it 7 years ago when Nico Nico Douga streamed Fate/Zero worldwide, for one... but then I found that video ripping addons were a far better choice for my specific needs, but I digress). While I still consider that videos do not belong to web browsers (and that content providers should just let users Bring Your Own Player, but then MUH PIRACY because I'm a TERRIRIST), this is the next best thing, I guess? Maybe this would be more practical as an addon, given the constant changes on streaming places just for the sake of change. - Ad blocker: Sadly we're at the stage where this should be a core feature of ANY device or application interacting with the Wide Open Web. No surprises there, Opera got you covered there since ads steal precious GHz and MBs from your gaming! - Free browser VPN: Paranoid people are the last one that would be playing videogames online, so why bother? NEXT! - Extensions: Crippled Chrome junk. *yawn* NEXT! - Video over game (Soon™): I'm also on the fence with this one. I see genuine usefulness for this (watch a tutorial while you game? I'm on!), but I'm unsure of where it belongs: the web browser? the launcher from the store where you bought your game? the game itself? a 3rd-party application? the underlying OS? Veredict: A bunch of gimmicks that would be far better on addons or separate applications, some really stupid features targeting people too lazy to use basic browser features (like bookmarks), and a couple of genuine useful features, all of that wrapped on a really horrible user interface don't really make the case for a product that noone was really wanting. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-12, 03:29 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 5)
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Dinosaur
Post: #390 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
"Reverse tethering". For the rare times when your WiFi box is busted and you need to get your smartdevice online by any means, even if it implies going back to cables. Interesting, for sure... and this also meant s two things: 1) Won't work as-is for my purposes. I need data OUT of the device, not INTO it 2) Required modifications for "reversing" the reversal (what we are, an amanojaku?!) are anything but trivial. Aaaand it would require root anyway: https://github.com/vvviperrr/SimpleRT/issues/14 I would not mind using the ADB way... if anyone could point me to a decent guide that works with Nougat devices. All I can find are reverse tethering guides, or commands to turn on USB tethering that require root. In other news, I'm aware of the fact Sega made Puyo Puyo ports for cellphones. I know, I have the 2-pack Puyo Pop/Columns J2ME version on my V9x. Gotta have my puyo fix while waiting at some place, or during blackouts, y'know? It seems that both Puyo Puyo and cellphones are big in Japan, and the tradition also extended to smartdevices, as Sega not only released a couple versions of Puyo Puyo Fever for iOS/Android, they also brought a weird bunch of Puyo-themed apps through their PuyoSega service. Fuck, they even had a "lite" version of Fever, which went for the low price of $FREE. Unfortunately for all us filthy gaijins, Sega pulled all their Puyo Puyo apps from mobile stores years ago, and it seems noone bothered archiving them. All I can find is APKs for Puyo Puyo Touch, which was a much later pay2win junk (and it no longer works anyway since Sega pulled the plug on it). Soo... HALP? Relevant app IDs: - jp.co.sega.PuyoFeverT (full version) - jp.co.sega.PuyoFeverT_exp (free "lite" version) I don't mind sticking to the Lite version to keep things legit. But then, those were released in 2010-11, maybe they don't work with modern Android versions? It looks like they're lost forever anyway :/ EDIT: The service still lives, and has more Puyo Puyo goodies... but naturally it requires a Japanese phone (Docomo/au/SoftBank), even for the free apps! Fuck you very much, Sega. EDIT 2: Ah, it costs ¥300/mo? Nevermind then. EDIT 3: The 15th Anniversary version also has an Android port, which goes under the highly generic "Puyo Puyo!" name. The free demo is here. A single game mode is better than nothing (and once again, I'm not in the mood of pirating cellphone games out of shady Chinese places, much less SMARTdevice games!), so I'll take it, thanks. (And it was last updated this year, so I'm sure it should work on my phone) EDIT 4: Installed APK, loaded it and... the crapp just gets stuck forever on a loading screen. Fuuuuuuuuck you very much, Sega! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-12, 13:16 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #391 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
WiFi is ON (mobile data is off because that's expensive, yo), but the app never gets past the Loading (?) screen on my phone. Tried with APKs for 1.1.0 (2016, supposedly compatible with Android 7 according to Sega) and 1.1.3 (released in February 2019). Actually, the older one opened a web browser at its first launch to a defunct Japanese URL. Anyway, I guess there will be no Puyos for me on this thing. I ended trying the Solitaire Deluxe 2 version for Android. The design is... something. Matching/discarding cards with a single tap is handy... except when there are two (or even three) possible moves and the crapp decides to execute the worst possible one! (you're supposed to DRAG the card instead over its destination, not to rely on this shortcut). Internet access is required so you can get winnable deals (IIRC the BREW version was the same) because you would need some sophisticated algorithms to analyze each possible deal (which are not feasible on a dinky cellphone CPU)... and even then you're likely to lose 'em. App has no exit command (!!!), so you have to rely on your phone task manager for that. As for ads, the one ads I get are generic ads by Mobile Deluxe ("I WANT YOU TO RATE MY APP"), which are preloaded with the app. But at least it doesn't ask for permissions to take over my camera, microphone, GPS, address book, or everything else, which is nice. They're tracking me somehow, but since data access is often shut down on this phone (and I still prefer playing the BREW version on a device that actually has a PHYSICAL keypad), they won't be earning more than a couple cents from me (thankfully the app doesn't demand to be online just to play!) Veredict: Get it, install an adblocker just to be safe. It's still good ol' Solitaire, and those guys do know how to make a fun timesinking game. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-12, 14:45 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #392 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Nope, sorry. That's not an avenue worth pursuing to me. Emulation is something I do on my PCs, not on cellphones. In this particular case, there are proper versions of the game designed for touchscreen devices, but if I can't get them, I'll move on. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-12, 22:31 in Blackouts
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Dinosaur
Post: #393 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
http://bcv.org.ve/notas-de-prensa/tres-nuevos-billetes-se-incorporan-al-cono-monetario-vigente GO HOME CENTRAL BANK, YOU'RE DRUNK. (and that's assuming armored trucks can actually deliver, given the current mass fuel shortages and rationing. No, sadly people is not rioting because Venezuelans are sadomasochist to the extreme) Suddenly the bunch of VES 500 banknotes I have on my bag are worth shit. I guess I'll need a bigger box for my collection.... (that's "how not to control a hyperinflation FOR DUMMIES" grade material) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-12, 23:31 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #394 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by sureanem What the hell... I highly doubt that's an official localization, considering how old is the original version. But then, Sega has done weirder stuff in the past (Surgical Strike 32XCD as a Brazilian-exclusive release, the Saturn VCD card being a PAL-exclusive accessory for overseas releases). I'll look it up this carefully, thanks for the link. UPDATE: Here is the decompressed AndroidManifest.xml for this chinese APK:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:versionCode="5" android:versionName="1.0.5" package="jp.co.sega.PuyoFeverT"> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_APN_SETTINGS"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS"/> <application android:label="type1/2131165184" android:icon="type1/2130837559"> <receiver android:name="cn.dena.mobage.android.InstallReferrerReceiver" android:exported="true"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER"/> </intent-filter> </receiver> <activity android:theme="type1/16973834" android:label="type1/2131165184" android:name="cn.dena.mobage.android.MobageActivity" android:launchMode="3" android:screenOrientation="1" android:configChanges="0xa0" android:windowSoftInputMode="0x20"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/> </intent-filter> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/> <data android:scheme="mobage-cn-12000101"/> </intent-filter> <meta-data android:name="settings_class" android:value="jp.co.sega.PuyoFeverT.MyGameSetting"/> <meta-data android:name="activity_class" android:value="jp.co.sega.PuyoFeverT.PuyoFeverT"/> <meta-data android:name="navibar_bg_color" android:value="4282269246"/> </activity> <activity android:name="PuyoFeverT" android:debuggable="true" android:screenOrientation="0" android:configChanges="0x1b0"/> <activity android:theme="type1/16973839" android:name="MenuInfo"/> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7"/> </manifest> Why in the HELL a Puyo Puyo game needs to send text messages or mess with my APNs!? Also looks like it's actually a legit release by DeNA on their Mobage platform. DeNA actually has a Chinese subsidiary since at least 2012 (if not earlier), although it's unknown if they have a Chinese portal (there was an English portal, but that one was closed in late '18 for "unknown reasons") If this thing turns out to be 100% legit, congratulations, you've found a rare release. Now it's time to test this thing on an actual handset, hopefully without sending my dick pics to Chairman Jinping (and causing 'murica to ban Sega just because EEEEEEVIL CHINAMANZ!!!) UPDATE 2:  ...and it dies there. (Disabling WiFi just causes the app to fail faster with the same message; I guess it's a network error of some sort) Welp, no dick pics for Chairman Jinping, and no chinese puyos for me :/ Choke on a broken Dreamcast, Sega! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-13, 00:42 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #395 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
This one is the real deal: http://www.mdpda.com/app/apk4886382.html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0.0" android:installLocation="2" package="jp.co.sega.puyofevert.google.monthly.sum"> <application android:label="type1/2131034113" android:icon="type1/2130837550"> <activity android:label="type1/2131034113" android:name=".monthly_sum_au_smp" android:launchMode="2" android:configChanges="0xa0"/> <activity android:label="type1/2131034113" android:name=".monthly_sum_au_smp2" android:exported="true" android:launchMode="2" android:configChanges="0xa0"/> <activity android:label="type1/2131034113" android:name="PuyoFeverTBU" android:exported="true" android:launchMode="2" android:screenOrientation="0" android:configChanges="0xa0"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/> </intent-filter> </activity> <service android:name="com.android.vending.billing.BillingService"/> <receiver android:name="com.android.vending.billing.BillingReceiver"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="com.android.vending.billing.IN_APP_NOTIFY"/> <action android:name="com.android.vending.billing.RESPONSE_CODE"/> <action android:name="com.android.vending.billing.PURCHASE_STATE_CHANGED"/> </intent-filter> </receiver> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"/> <uses-permission android:name="com.kddi.market.permission.USE_ALML"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> <uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING"/> </manifest> jp.co.sega.puyofevert.google.monthly.sum is another ID for a "freemium" version of Fever Lite, that is, you can pay (monthly?!) to unlock the complete game. This also comes with an annoying side effect: the application will nag you (with an English dialog, no less!) on each startup that it can't connect to Google Play and therefore I can't give the money I don't have to Sega and Google with in-app purchases. This happens on my device because I refuse from using a Google account with it, but aside of that, puyos at last~! If anyone wants to get rid of this nonsense and free the puyos, be my guest. Hi Amitie~! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-13, 18:16 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #396 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Posted by sureanem Root required for that, sadly. Too bad, as its feature set looks pretty useful for purposes other than copyright infringement (for example: killing ads) :/ This also explains why the whole story around the app is sketchy as fuck, full of scams, DMCA takedowns, and no official sources for it. ...maybe I could install it on another rooted device, patch the target app there, and generate a patched APK that can be extracted and installed on another device? But then, I have a Real Computer™, might as well look for other options that don't involve sketchy-as-fuck .APKs (I'm already risking myself by looking into Chinese websites) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-13, 18:18 in Computer Technology News/Discussion (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #386 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
As you already know, I've been using a ol' repurposed PC as a makeshift TV since late 2015. Nothing weird about this - thousands of randoms around the world do the same (we've been in this "smart TV" biz well before Samsung and friends started brainwashing the masses with their anything-but-smart panels). What is weird is my specific setup and its... oddities. My specific box is a IBM Thinkcentre M50 (Type 8188, variant -KS5 which seems to be a Latam-specific build), and those are from a era back when IBM actually assembled Real Computers Built Tough™®. Seriously, those office pizzaboxes were designed to last anything short of a nuclear/EMP blast. Servicing those is a joy: no screws on the most commonly replaced parts (drives, top cover), BIOS and device driver updates for up to 4 years after the machine hit the streets, and they're pretty much unbrickable. Mine was assembled in Mexico, with a motherboard also assembled in Mexico (with a bunch of Foxconn parts from China), and with the finest Japanese capacitors that money can buy - every single cap inside is the good stuff: Nichicon, Rubycon and Sanyo. My specimen came to life in Tijuana in late '03, and originally belonged to my cousin since January 2004 - he mistreated this machine so badly I'm actually surprised it still survives to this date (has been in my hands since 2014 or so). Even the original Predesktop Area (including the Windows restore partition as those machines never shipped with CDs of any kind) is intact! (there is a neat tool called fiesta which can be used to backup and restore the HPA contents; I've successfully moved mine to a 250GB HDD from its long-failed stock 80GB WD drive). Hell, these even shipped with first-gen SATA ports! (a rarity in 2003, where PATA was still king, unwilling to leave the throne for 3 more years to come) Troubleshooting those, on the other side, is a PITA. I stopped using mine as a TV tuner unit after the cableco fried anything that resembled a TV (and this included my TV tuner card), leaving me with CANTV-tier sat service. But I ended ditching that too after the Arduous March Everlasting Blackouts, so the machine has sat there idle, unplugged, devoid of any activity whatsoever. Even playing Sonic ROM hacks and refurbishing old WD Crapiar HDDs came to a screeching halt, as I couldn't afford to sacrifice yet another PC to the weaksauce of our memetic power grid, where words like "uptime" and "continuous service" are now officially verboten. Anyway, two days ago I plugged it to perform the HDD 2000-hour SMART selftest (long due!), and was greeted with a hang, then "PCI parity errors" from the (remnants of) TV tuner card. Cracked open the case, whack the card, bootingness restored, the Samsung HDD is still healthy, so off you go again. Fast forward to the next blackout. I had forgot to unplug the PC, so when the power restored, so did the machine. There goes the first oddity of these IBM boxes: when you plug them to the wall power, the PSU will kick on -full blast- after a few seconds, long enough to let the HDD(s) spin up, then shutdown again, waiting for someone to actually turn then on again. I've never understood the why of this (maybe it's a sort of self test on standby/cold power up?), but this is normal on all those boxes I've seen so far (and those IBMs were sold by the truckload over here - chances are your nearest bank branch or public office are still using a few of those!). Here is the key: the machine should shutdown after a few seconds of this! Except that... mine just stuck there. No video, no beeps, no nada! Tried all the following... - Unplug power, then replug: nothing. - Remove the CMOS battery: nothing. - Clear the CMOS using the jumper: the machine beeps several times when the jumper is set, but it just sits there with it removed - Remove all expansion cards: nothing. - Reseat the RAM: nothing (Trying to boot without RAM does cause the machine to beep endlessly, just as expected... but as soon as ONE DIMM is set... well, nothing!) - Unplug EVERYTHING (drives, cards) except for the PSU, some RAM, and the front panel button/LED board: NO-THING! Long short story: I ended taking apart the machine down to the frame for a good cleanup. And oh boy, that thing was DIRTY! Tons of dust (including the PSU, which has never been opened since it came out of the factory in November 2003, and was a totally disgusting mess, maybe even a fire hazard!). After painstakingly cleaning every single piece, replacing caked thermal paste, brushing every corner of the case, and reassembling everything, the machine came back to life at the first try! (Just to rule out any failed component, I reassembled and tested in stages: first motherboard+RAM, then AGP video card, the HDD+FDD cage, and finally everything else). So yeah, there is it: another good reminder that a straight cleanup every now and then can actually fix (and even prevent) boot issues. This is not the first time that dust bunnies prevent any of my machines to boot, but this IBM is particularly annoying with it. If you ever have to service any of these puppies (they make great retroboxes for W98/2K/XP stuff, and they run Linux rather well), here are some useful tips: - Inner plastic pieces are very brittle and thus prone to break after withstanding years of heat inside the case: this includes the PCI/AGP card lock handle thingy and the HDD tray. For the former, IBM engineers were ahead of you, and knew that their zero-tool solution would cause problems down the road, so they left conventional screw holes on the expansion bays - just get some loose screws from your - Watch out when removing the motherboard from the case! The correct way is to slide it towards the front of the system, then lift it up. This is due to another interesting design choice by IBM: they use a proprietary Socket 478 heatsink/fan mount (it uses a couple of screws to fasten a couple of "wings" that secure the heatsink unit in place). As you know, since the Socket 478 era the heatsink/fan mounts are separate from the socket, and (usually) user-replaceable. But what makes this IBM design really special is that not only they made custom-shaped pieces to leave space to some parts in the PCB, they also placed a "clamp" at the lower case to secure the entire assembly to the PC chassis! (this is why you can't simply lift the mobo from the case - trying it will end severely damaging everything: case, motherboard, humans). I haven't tested if this motherboard can accept stock Intel (or 3rd-party) heatsink mounts. - The motherboard is standard ATX fare, there is nothing proprietary there, except for the front panel connectors (power button, LEDs, USB ports, speaker). If you're planning to use one of those cases for a Frankenstein box (why not? They're far better than your generic Chinese junk, if you can withstand living with ONE HDD bay), get ready to rewire everything inside. IIRC IBM has all relevant pinouts documented on the Hardware Maintenance Manual for these. The speaker connector is 2-pin, but of a smaller pitch so you will need to solder a new connector, rather than just replacing the plastic jacket. - As for PSUs... getting modern replacements for these ATX units (which were state-of-the-art in 2003: SATA power plugs, elaborate input filters, passive PFC coils heavy as hell... y'know, the basic stuff that you would expect from any half-decent PSU nowadays) can be very tricky. These came with 230W units, which is not a lot of power, and even less if you're considering to pimp your rig (Prescotts, fancy AGP video cards, DVD burners, and high-performance SATA drives can easily overload your PSU). While these are standard ATX units (down to the pinouts and screw holes), if you ever see one in the flesh you will notice its funky shape (the "hump" is to house a bigass 10cm fan). The hump is not of concern, but the depth is: this one is no more than 10~12cm deep, while the standard ATX PSU is easily twice that. The case is simply too small for it! You WILL run into clearance issues with the ODD drive cage (also, modular PSUs are right out of the question). These are your options: + Get rid of the ODD drive cage, which means giving up CD/DVD drives. This may or may not be a big deal to you, depending on what uses you have planned for your rig (in my case, while I have went disc-less, I actually replaced it with a removable PATA bay, which takes one of the 5.25" slots, so clearly that's not an option). + Use "short-loader" ODDs (Lite-On made plenty of those). This may buy you like 5cm or so, which is not enough for most PSUs out there. + Find a "short-sized" ATX PSU. They DO exist, but they're usually gutless wonders. Don't waste your time. + Consider switching to a SFX PSU. They're small enough to fit within the depth restrictions, and if there are ATX-to-SFX mounting plates available (if you get your PSU from a reputable brand instead of buying a gasoline-soaked rag, chances are they will throw one for free in the box). This limits your power budget to <700W, but that's more than enough for an - Cooling is a serious issue with those boxes, particularly around the FDD/HDD cage, which runs VERY HOT due to the cabling mess underneath (the ATX power harness, PATA/FDD ribbons, drive cage power cables, and SATA cables run under it, and with the RAM slots on bottom of THAT, this leaves no room for cooling there). While IBM provided the motherboard with 3 fan connectors, these were most likely intended for the tower systems, not for the desktop ones as these boxes have ZERO mounts for additional fans (WTF IBM!?!?!?!). This leaves HDDs very vulnerable to extreme heat (I've measured 65°C temps there, and that's on a room with plenty of air conditioning!), and it's THE most popular part to find failed on those. You need to get very creative to work around these constraints (hint: plastic and duct tape are your best friends... and of your HDD too!) - Speaking about cooling and monitoring, don't expect to control your fans from Linux anytime soon: the specific SMSC SuperI/O chip on this board will never be supported by lm-sensors, despite being similar to other chips from the same manufacturer and vintage. You will have to survive with the three fan settings on the IBM BIOS (Normal, Quiet, Jet Engine). FWIW, this chip IS supported by SpeedFan under Windows. - You can easily flash a new bootscreen using the official IBM/Phoenix BIOS update packages (it's all documented there). But the bootscreen will stop working for unknown reasons (instead all you get is the standard text mode boot messages). It certainly did stop working last time I switched video cards. You may try a reflash if this happens, but considering how long my IBM T120 panel takes to wake up over DVI (by the time it wakes after powering the PC, it's already on the GRUB boot menu), I didn't bother. - There is no room for a secondary HDD! Ditch the floppy, get a 5.25" adapter bracket, or even better, install hotswap bays in the ODD slots (for whatever reason you get two of them on the desktop chassis) - The AGP 8X slot in this thing only takes 1.5V cards. Universal cards will fit, but if it is a oldass 3.3V card, it will NOT work! Thankfully you can install HD3000/4000 cards on this thing (your PSU power budget allowing), assuming you're willing to endure ATi driver hell. The HD2000 series will work fine as long as you don't want to decode HD video on those because these first-gen UVD cards were garbage. Don't make the same mistake I made :/ - This thing will gladly take up to 4x1GB DDR400 DIMMs. But not only there are no 64-bit Socket 478 CPUs (barring a couple of very specific OEM-only CPUs for IBM servers that you won't be finding outside eBay scalpers, and that most likely will never work on this BIOS due to missing microcode), the 865G chipset has a 4GB ceiling. Remember: you also have to factor in all other devices in your system eating some of that memory address space, including your video card (if you have one). My recommendation? 4x512MB or 2x1GB sticks (so you can take advantage of Dual Channel modes) and you're golden, but NO MORE. XP will scream on such a setup, and even Debian will run with a more than modest performance. Just don't ever try running a web browser on it... - If you add a sound card (highly recommended for any serious multimedia usage; the good ol' SB Live! is still a fine choice for these machines), don't forget to disable the built-in Analog Devices integrated audio codec. - This machine will run Windows 7 (I've tried it), but you may have troubles getting the video card drivers to work (at least in the case of a GeForce 6200; I'm not willing to endure more stages of the ATi driver hell so I haven't tried with the HD2600). You will want a video card inside anyway no matter the OS, as the integrated i865 video is nothing short of utter rotten garbage. Stick to XP+Linux (or your favorite *BSD). - If you ever have to get into the PSU, be aware that those are quality designs (no joking: for a measly 230W design they're HEAVY, which is often a good sign) which means that they're a PAIN to crack open! Mine came with a Hipro (now Chicony) PSU (which is considered among some PSU gurus by "almost God tier"), but these also shipped with ACBel and Lite-On PSUs), and tearing it apart is... well, not a joy: + Remove 5 screws: two at the bottom, and three at the front (two at the DC cables exit, one at the other side). Don't forget to break the cable tie holding the cable maze to the case (don't undo any of the other zip ties holding the maze together) + CAREFULLY and SLOWLY pry apart the two halves of the PSU case. The metal sheet is thick, but you can still get very hurt! Plus the fan (which is held with rubber posts instead of screws to minimize vibration) is SOLDERED to one of the many sub-PCBs inside the case. If you're feeling masochist you can cut the fan cables, but I strongly recommend to refrain from doing so. + Once the two case halves are separated, set the fan half aside. Now you will see a white plastic sheet (that's the isolator that any PSU should have, bar some gutless wonders). Under it, it's the main PCB, secured with 4 screws, one at each screw. The plastic sheet is affixed with the two screws towards the rear of the case. There is a corner cutout on the sheet exposing the 3rd screw, and the 4th and final one is UNDER the sheet. Remove those now. + With your third hand, try to unplug the power input cable that comes from the AC input filter board (which is right in front of the AC power socket). There is next to no room for your fingers in that highly crammed corner of the PCB, so be gentle! (Oh, if this is your first time, there is another cable tie that you must break) Even after unplugging it, you can't simply pull the main PCB as there is another wire coming from the PFC choke (?) SOLDERED to the PCB (WTF HIPRO, WHY?!?!??!). The best you can do is to carefully bend the case while wriggling the PCB until it sets free from the case. Take your time, as this is the single most frustrating step of the dissasembly! + Take your brush and evict all the dust bunnies! All 15 years of 'em! There is no need to remove the PFC choke or the input filter board, unless you really hate yourself or have a fourth and fifth hand. + To reassemble, do all steps in reverse. Reseating the plastic isolator sheet is the second next difficult step here: just push the goddamned thing HARD! Also, a helpful thing: you've noticed that the sheet has a screw hole for the 4th screw (the one you had to remove UNDER the sheet). The Hipro slaves at the China factory weren't lazy: leaving this hole alone and only screwing the PCB to the case on this point is intentional. DO NOT SCREW THE ISOLATOR SHEET HERE, otherwise you will NEVER be able to close the case as the fan goes here and will NEVER fit! The isolator needs to be free to slide under the fan (a long and thin plastic spudger may come helpful here). 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| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-14, 16:49 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #397 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Oh, a GitHub repo with sources and shit. OK, I can trust that. The "choke on a broken Dreamcast" offer is still standing, Sega. UPDATE: It did the trick (generate a patched APK, uninstall then reinstall app, and from the main menu, tap the Play Store button -it's the one in English-. Confirm you want to PIRATE -yes, the dialog says that!-, and you're done, you can uninstall Lucky Patcher afterwards), and my phone is not sending dick pics to random Soviet haxors! Thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep this APK in a safe place for future reference, not that I'm interested into pirating cellphone games. With Solitaire Deluxe 2 and Puyo Puyo Fever, I'm pretty much set, as I'm not using this thing to play videogames (once again, I have a Real Computer™, and no time for gaming nowadays) except during extreme emergencies. A English translation would be the icing on the cake, but I can't be TOO ambitious :) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-14, 20:54 in Web Browser Discussion
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Dinosaur
Post: #398 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Speaking about MS, they're still thinking about releasing https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/06/14/142256/microsoft-edge-might-come-to-linux ...why?! At this stage, I would actually want a native MSIE port (yes, that's real evil, but then so is Chrome). Trident and Presto need urgently to come back from the dead, evolve, and give some serious fight to the Webkit/Blink hegemony (since Mozilla is too busy with their art school dropout designers to actually care about Making Gecko Great Again) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-15, 02:17 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #399 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
Just for lulz, I tried Lucky Patcher with Puyo Puyo! Touch... and failed miserably: - With the latest 1.1.3 APK, all I got was a corrupted APK that the phone refused to install - With the older 1.1.0 APK, patching was "successful", the modified APK installed fine... but couldn't get past the loading screen anyway. Tried both the "remove license check" and "emulate Play store stuff", but no dice. It is like Sega actually wanted people to NOT play the game! (Also, the mere idea of charging a monthly fee for a Tetris knockoff is... evil, to say the least) Moving to another topic, looks like leaving some Google Play bits intact still allow the phone to autoupdate some of the Google apps, including tricky ones like Maps (which insist into running in English if you dare sideloading the APK or installing outside Play, but once updated through Play, it localizes properly). "Intuitive" my ass. But then I've had nothing but headaches since owning this device, which was exactly what I was expecting. Maybe I'm at risk of becoming clinically insane too :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-06-15, 18:54 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #400 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 23 days Last view: 1 hour |
More like Analog Rights Management then :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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