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Lurking Star	Posted on 19-06-02, 15:11 in I still HATE smartdevices Hi.
Post: #1 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Have you tried setting the Album Artist tag on the songs to "Various Artists"? It clues in some players to group songs as part of a single album.

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Posted on 19-06-07, 21:24 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 5)

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If you didn't know, ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge, and it's intended as a debugging interface (over USB), but you can also implement application specific stuff (like highly detailed performance monitoring). That functionality can be used to tether probably by sending packets to an app/service, then having the service pass it on to the android networking stack.

EDIT: Typos squashed. Also forgot to mention it's USB based because I need more sleep.

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Posted on 19-06-07, 21:37 in I still HATE smartdevices

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Posted by Kawa
You'd really think someone who's been messing with phones that much mightn't know what ADB is?

I misremembered this bit:

Posted by Kawa
I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to card you. You really can't say "just" as if something is simple or straightforward and then include more than one TLA. The more of those you use, the less simple and straightforward it gets.

(In response to using tunnelling over ADB when this topic first came up)

*thud*

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-06-12, 11:02 in I still HATE smartdevices (revision 4) Hi.
Post: #4 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	It seems like the (cr)app requires wifi (puts up a dialog box on my Moto G5 with wifi/cell data disabled and then closes), so maybe it's a case where the reverse tethering app would be useful?

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-06-16, 19:36 in Blackouts Hi.
Post: #5 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Argentina and Uruguay scramble to restore power after massive outage Still better than Venezula, though. (outage getting fixed promptly)

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-08-17, 02:07 in I have yet to have never seen it all. Hi.
Post: #6 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	So... Smealum (of 3DS hacking fame) did a talk on IOT buttplug security at DEFCON, and hilarity ensues. Process execution on a computer communicating with the buttplug

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-09-04, 22:14 in bsnes v108 released Hi.
Post: #7 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Posted by tomman "emulating an emulator" Madness. <pendant>To be fair, it isn't emulating an emulator, just a platform as represented by a certain emulator</pendant> Yes, it's an imperfect solution, but when certain romhacking sites won't accept compatibility fixed vers. of patches not by the original author, what are you going to do? Tell people to emulate an emulator? ;)

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Posted on 19-09-05, 23:12 in bsnes v108 released

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Posted by sureanem

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Yes, it's an imperfect solution, but when certain romhacking sites won't accept compatibility fixed vers. of patches not by the original author, what are you going to do?
Tell people to emulate an emulator?

;)

What about using the "system for patching bugs in commercially-released games since some games did goofy things even on the original hardware"?

Because you don't know what weird translation patches will be reliant on ZSNES behavior. Besides, if you hard code behavior based on game data, you get the mess known as NES emulation.

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-09-09, 16:30 in I still HATE smartdevices Hi.
Post: #9 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Posted by wertigon Back on topic; would a Librem 5 help? I'd be surprised if he could even afford one without starving himself to death.

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-09-19, 13:09 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2) Hi.
Post: #10 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	HEART OF NEON: a documentary about a life in video games (Kickstarter by a guy who co-edited JODOROWSKY'S DUNE and other docs for a documentary on Jeff "Llamatron and Tempest 2000" Minter, link is a redirect to the kickstarter page)

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-09-22, 09:11 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2) Hi.
Post: #11 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	What is a Jeff Minter game?

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-10-05, 23:28 in I have yet to have never seen it all. Hi.
Post: #12 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Posted by tomman As a bonus, bluebomb also works on older, uncrippled Wiis (I guess this should be the way to go if somehow you don't have a <4GB SD card handy yet you own a Bluetooth-enabled laptop and an USB stick) Str2Hax exists if you don't have a SD handy, but it requires using a random DNS that may go down at any point. So this is handy for that future.

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Posted on 19-10-06, 02:05 in I have yet to have never seen it all.

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Posted by CaptainJistuce

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Str2Hax exists if you don't have a SD handy, but it requires using a random DNS that may go down at any point. So this is handy for that future.

https://github.com/Fullmetal5/str2hax You SHOULD be able to set this up on a local system and point the Wii towards it, removing a dependency on outside servers. That's workable until Microsoft shuts down Github(any day now, right?).

I was going to mention that in my post, but it slipped my mind. Curse you, ADHD.

Lurking Star	Posted on 19-10-27, 19:43 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1) Hi.
Post: #14 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	Posted by Kawa Strike three, you're out. Is this an appropriate time to bust out that clip from The Critic?

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Posted on 20-01-25, 16:32 in I have yet to have never seen it all.

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Posted by tomman
This is what happens when Epic Games buy your studio: a big FUCK YOU to all non-Windows gamers, particularly Linux ones:
https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and-linux/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133431

This is sad and yet outrageous, considering that it comes from the same game company whose asshole CEO is willing to buy exclusives with his allmighty checkbook, and who compares Linux gamers to people opposing certain controversial politicians.

Fuck Tim Sweeney, this guy deserves nothing but shit on his face for what he is doing with Epic Games Store.
No, you don't buy goodwill with libraries full of free games noone is going to play anyway.

Psyonix revealed why they did it: Because they are upgrading the graphics backend (from DX9 to DX11) and don't feel that upgrading the OpenGL wrapper/backend for feature parity is worth it for a small part of their customer base). Still a bit dumb, but at least you can vaguely understand it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/etiih3/update_on_refunds_for_macos_and_linux_players/

Speaking of wrappers:

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Yet I still religiously tune in for my Free Gaems, which go in my collection. They even mostly run OK on Linux, thanks to Lutris, and about a Bajillion hacks. Of course, I'm not playing any of the anti-cheat-packed ones.

Epic actually gave $25,000 to the Lutris project (from their MegaGrants program for funding projects that are useful to game devs/gamers) proving that Tim Sweeney doesn't hate Linux users (he's just extremely ambivalent about them).

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Posted on 20-01-25, 18:21 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)

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Posted by tomman
So the future of Linux gaming is compatibility layers and emulation, instead of native binaries taking full advantage of the host platform? That's horrible, to say it politely - sounds a lot like the "let's write everything in Javascript because native is TOO EXPENSIVE!!!" we get on desktop/mobile nowadays.

...guess it's time to give up gaming for good :/

To be fair: I do understand the small market share, developer resources, the fact Linux is a very heterogeneous/fragmented platform, and ROI considerations, but still I really hate being swept under the rug because it happens that I'm a rounding error since I chose to "think different" - it's a matter of principle.

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Speaking of wrappers:

Posted by kode54
Yet I still religiously tune in for my Free Gaems, which go in my collection. They even mostly run OK on Linux, thanks to Lutris, and about a Bajillion hacks. Of course, I'm not playing any of the anti-cheat-packed ones.

Epic actually gave $25,000 to the Lutris project (from their MegaGrants program for funding projects that are useful to game devs/gamers) proving that Tim Sweeney doesn't hate Linux users (he's just extremely ambivalent about them).

Sorry but Tim already burned that bridge with his prior remarks on the Linux gaming public (seriously, mixing POLITICS with videogames?!?!?!), badly.

IIRC, that quote was in the context of someone suggesting "use linux" in response to him griping about Microsoft and their store/Windows 10 S (which only let you run apps from the store) potentially enabling locking out Windows as a "open" software platform. Of course, this ignores the fact that earlier version(s) of windows without support for existing, non walled-garden apps (Windows RT, the aforementioned Windows 10 S [which backpedaled to a "S Mode" in regular Windows 10 after it flopped]) have failed miserably. (count the number of canceled Windows RT devices!)

Edited for some minor grammar and readability issues.

Lurking Star	Posted on 20-04-04, 15:26 in I have yet to have never seen it all. Hi.
Post: #17 of 17 Since: 06-02-19 Last post: 1692 days Last view: 1690 days	https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52151951 (For the people with poor internet connections that can't stand semi-decently optimized modern websites; Venezuelan Navy patrol ship rams Arctic cruise ship going in port and sinks itself) Just when you think Venezuela has reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of idiocy, they keep going lower.

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