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Do you use a USB switch (to use a keyboard/mouse/whatever on multiple PCs)? Do you find your devices stop working on one #Windows10 PC after switching away and back to it?
Your PC is probably turning off that USB port for nonsense power-saving reasons. You'll want to dig deep into your power settings and disable "USB selective suspend setting".
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The amount of people that look at me as if I lost my mind when I launch in essentially the same rant is astounding. Don’t people think anymore or have they just given up.
Most tech companies getting rid of their ethics departments (if they had one) doesn’t help as well.
#tech #entshittification #ethics #badtech
From: @timixretroplays
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I'm not sure what's sadder about this symptom of the rampant speculative nonsense that's infected the #retrogaming scene in the last couple of years - that someone bothered to get this last-gasp, "we might still sell this old stock to someone!", Walmart-exclusive, CD-only bundle of #UltimaUnderworld 1 and 2 professionally graded, or that they've only listed it for US$110. That's like whacking a strength testing machine with all you've got and having it just make a sad trombone noise in return.
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I'm not sure what's sadder about this symptom of the rampant speculative nonsense that's infected the #retrogaming scene in the last couple of years - that someone bothered to get this last-gasp, "we might still sell this old stock to someone!", Walmart-exclusive, CD-only bundle of #UltimaUnderworld 1 and 2 professionally graded, or that they've only listed it for US$110. That's like whacking a strength testing machine with all you've got and having it just make a sad trombone noise in return.
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I'm not sure what's sadder about this symptom of the rampant speculative nonsense that's infected the #retrogaming scene in the last couple of years - that someone bothered to get this last-gasp, "we might still sell this old stock to someone!", Walmart-exclusive, CD-only bundle of #UltimaUnderworld 1 and 2 professionally graded, or that they've only listed it for US$110. That's like whacking a strength testing machine with all you've got and having it just make a sad trombone noise in return.
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I'm not sure what's sadder about this symptom of the rampant speculative nonsense that's infected the #retrogaming scene in the last couple of years - that someone bothered to get this last-gasp, "we might still sell this old stock to someone!", Walmart-exclusive, CD-only bundle of #UltimaUnderworld 1 and 2 professionally graded, or that they've only listed it for US$110. That's like whacking a strength testing machine with all you've got and having it just make a sad trombone noise in return.
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In case any other fans of #UltimaUnderworld follow me here, the world record time for beating the game was brought down to just over 16 and a half minutes a few months ago in this fantastic speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzrD_AdeCA
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In case any other fans of #UltimaUnderworld follow me here, the world record time for beating the game was brought down to just over 16 and a half minutes a few months ago in this fantastic speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzrD_AdeCA
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In case any other fans of #UltimaUnderworld follow me here, the world record time for beating the game was brought down to just over 16 and a half minutes a few months ago in this fantastic speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzrD_AdeCA
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In case any other fans of #UltimaUnderworld follow me here, the world record time for beating the game was brought down to just over 16 and a half minutes a few months ago in this fantastic speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzrD_AdeCA
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Lol I managed to softlock Sonic 3. Turns out if you fly into the first Marble Garden boss battle as Super Sonic on one of those spinning tops, you just fly off the screen and disappear. #retrogaming #Sonic3 #SEGA
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If you start reading enough about #AQI, you will start to see some rigorously scientificised recipes - this article, for example, suggests ensuring your steak (230g) and asparagus (217g) ingredients are within one standard deviation of their specified weights. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8224830/
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RE: https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116400799417215833
#Scammers who #scam retirees and the vulnerable of their lifesavings deserve capital punishment to the fullest extent of the #law!
#zerotolerance
#fediverse #beware 👇⚠️ -
@timixretroplays would #Syncthing be an option for you?
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Uh, I was expecting to spend all night writing a thread about the trials and tribulations of getting my #Surface Pro 6's touchscreen working under #Linux, but the steps I took can be summarised as 1. Install #LinuxMint, 2. Copy and paste a few lines from here into the terminal: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup 3. Reboot, type "surface" to enroll the touch-enabled kernel in secure boot (or something), and it just magically works. Less than 30 minutes from Windows 11 to touchy-feely Linux.
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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#Electronics fedi, what make and model are these tactile switches? They don't match anything I'm seeing when searching for "slim round smd tactile" and the like - everything has too big a base and often the wrong colour. Is it possible they've just rolled their own mechanism to make it super tiny? They snap satisfyingly in and out but take a surprising amount of force.
These are in a weirdo gamepad I want to write about this week.
EDIT: solved, they're not off-the-shelf tactiles at all! Read ⬇️
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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So here's where the project sits at the end of day 1 - It's a #Blackberry Q10 keyboard working through a #PiPico #RP2350 controller. I'm making a physical keyboard case for my phone because I'm outrageously tired of virtual keyboards.
That's a PMOD implementation of the Q10 keyboard by Solder Party (shout-out to @arturo182) - I don't think you can buy these anymore but I bought two of them years ago and squirreled them away for the day I'd have a suitable microcontroller for the project.
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For the ~3 other #Arduino folks on the planet trying to solve the same problem I am: if you're desperately trying to find a 3.3V version of a #ProMicro with USB type C, Sparkfun make one with a Raspberry #PiPico RP2350 on board - much faster chip than an Atmel 32U4, runs at 3.3 volts, and no more expensive, plus there's the usual exciting range of faithful and creative clones on AliExpress.
The RP2040 also runs at 3V3 but is tolerant of 5V, for those weird in-between projects. #electronics
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Today was going too smoothly, so I managed to *burn glass* in a microwave.
The handle of this pyrex jug (almost certainly not "real" pyrex) touched the... grille? emitter? of the magnetron and stopped turning, and there was a loud buzzing sound and bright sparks for a couple of seconds before I flew across the kitchen and hit the open button.
WTF just happened? Why did glass do this? My first thought was "oh fuck did I leave metal in there" but I absolutely didn't.
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Right, that's done enough for now. The #FractalDesign Ridge is a phenomenal #ITX case with almost as much configurability as the Core V1 I just pulled this machine from, but with some major issues. My NH-L12S is on the CPU cooler compatibility list, but my motherboard puts it higher than expected, so it fouls the internal power cord; that's okay though because my PSU's socket is placed so it can't work with it either. My PC thus sits open upside down until I find a right-angled cable that fits.
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@timixretroplays #darkforestinternet too, or #enshittification is one aspect of the dark forest. Just as #pigbutchering #crytoscam #silos #ebay becoming the largest and apparently legalized fence of #porchpirate stolen and shoplifted goods, #facebook and #instagram murdering teen girls, #monopolies and all of it. Let's not even #genai #llm telling us roaches are normal in our penis holes and pregnants should smoke. It is becoming a horror show of actual death.
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Competitive #TrackMania is more exciting than Formula 1 IMHO and doesn't come with a rusted-on fanbase that'll bite your head off for having an opinion. If you need an hour of background noise (or foreground entertainment) tonight, you could do worse than Norwegian caster and pro player Wirtual talking you through the first Elite Cup - you don't have to know anything at all about the game to get into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IIDbmVKow4
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@timixretroplays NCE billing finally reaches the consumer space.
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@timixretroplays I sadly had a different version, which was less epic.
The #Civ3 box is also pretty nice. The #Civ4 has more of what you criticize, but still some epic-ness. -
Are you in the UK or the US? Do you prefer Playstation controllers over Xbox, but wish the D-pad didn't have that gap in the middle?
Get yourself a Google #Stadia controller. The platform itself is long gone now, so there's millions of very lightly-used pads (and plenty new-in-box) on eBay and likely other places for not a ton of cash.
They're re-flashable to be plain Bluetooth gamepads using this tool, runnable on the web and locally: https://github.com/luigimannoni/stadia-controller-flasher
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I have been fortunate enough to collect two amazing bits of rare, unusual and near-mint #Sega #MegaDrive / #MegaCD hardware this week. The first is the "Team Player", which let you use up to four controllers on a single system.
Of the six positions on that slide switch, A B C and D picked which of the four controllers would be passed through to the console, so you could flip seamlessly between a 3- or 6-button controller, or a mouse.
Mouse? Yeah, hang on - I'll get to that. 🧵
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Starting to properly look into an alternative to #Dropbox or #OneDrive. I'm currently paying AU$109/year ($9/month) for my home Office subscription which includes a terabyte of OD space. Dropbox is $184/year ($15/mo) for 2TB of space. I currently have about 100GB of data to house.
Looks like it costs about AU$80/month to put 100GB of data on a webhost in Australia.
Can anyone suggest somewhere priced in between that'd let me use NextCloud or similar? Boosts and suggestions welcome. #AskFedi