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context: i was watching the latest veritasium video (youtube.com/watch?v=FU_YFpfDqq) and someone in it said something to the effect of "the advantage of having a processor that's a meter tall is that you can point to individual parts of the processor"

so my thought is, you could make a board that Looks Like a vacuum tube computer, for demonstration purposes, but which doesn't actually rely on power-hungry and failure-prone vacuum tube triodes to function

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I am $453 in debt due to money transferring improperly through my Paypal. I've been trying to help @Zenith become homed and stable, and though I had the money in my bank at the time of the transfer, I did not have it when Paypal attempted to take it out of my account. Any and all assistance clearing this debt would be appreciated.

#mutualaid

is it possible to buy individual transistors that are in a vacuum tube form factor

does anyone have recommendations for docks for the steam deck

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

Incidentally, another trick to finding the length of a vector (x,y) to within 12% is just:

if ( x > y )
return x+(y>>1);
else
return y+(x>>1);

(do you really need more than 12% precision in a 16-bit game?)

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Neat thing I discovered. If you have a sprite with 5 directions of animation - from going right to going down (make the rest by flips), you can figure out which sprite to use by testing against lines of slope 1:5, 2:3, 3:2 and 5:1, which is really elegant on an 8/16bit machine.

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

food 

i ordered chicken curry medium spicy. i think the restaurant may have missed one crucial word in that order

i will be strong

in need of some financial help 

thank u to everyone so far for sharing this! and, thank u to everyone who has donated!! we've reached $150 so far!! thanks to u all we're gonna be staying afloat for another month and hopefully by then we'll be all good on our own!

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one more network share related question for the nerds 

what's the most straightforward way to set up a client such that it automatically synchronizes the contents of a network share onto local storage?

example use case: i've got a steam deck and it's got some emulators on it. i'd like to put my roms and stuff in a network share and set up the steam deck to grab 'em (or a subset of 'em perhaps) on its own, so i don't have to manually copy them over myself and they're accessible when i'm traveling

i suppose i could just write some software to do this, but i figured i'd ask if anyone knew of a preexisting solution

re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

(while explaining what those other things are, i whisper "USB gadget mode" and am immediately attacked by wild dogs)

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re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

for a bit of extra explanation, i'm leaning toward having a separate machine as opposed to two samba daemons on the same machine because i want to use that in-between machine for a couple of other things at the same time, not just as a relay here

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No matter how many times an enthusiastic tech bro tells me that widespread AI use will be a positive for humanity, all I can hear is "capitalism go brrrr, income inequality go brrrr, structural inequities go brrr". It's strange how this happens every time. Must be something wrong with my hearing.

PS2 modding, piracy 

Did you know: nowadays you can actually run copies of games on any slimline PS2, even completely unmodded ones, without doing any sort of modifications to your console!

All you need is:
- A game/software ISO of your choice
- This patching tool: github.com/edo9300/esr-disc-pa (compiles cross-platform)
- This archive: ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.p (contains data files and an example batch script on how to use the tool, plus a pre-built binary of unknown legitimacy)
- A *slimline* PS2

This lets you basically 'prefix' any existing ISO with the FreeDVDBoot exploit (explained here: cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.ht), and so after burning it to DVD, any unmodded console boots straight into the game/software via a DVD player exploit.

these are the kinds of projects that would have people laughing at me if they saw the kinds of tabs i have open

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