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ThatPlayer··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
Once you had a modified battery, it was pretty easy to do more PSPs. I was able to purchase the battery later and just carry around the software on a memory card. Sold that as a service for a bit.
ThatPlayer··on An ad-free Android TV
> just a TV working

I think to be considered a television, you still need to be able to receive OTA broadcasts. With modern digital television, that now means you need a H264 (H265, soon maybe) decoder.

I don't know if you can do that cheaper than a SoC, which makes adding "smartness" (even if it's bad) not that much more expensive.

ThatPlayer··on I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets
In context, I think that's a valid response to:

> please let us know so we can uninstall and fork.

So he's letting them know

ThatPlayer··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Pangolin VPS for forwarding and auth to stuff on my mini PCs. And then just a bunch of random vibe coded web UIs so I can access on my phone and such.

Host bitwarden and gitea which are useful too.

ThatPlayer··on AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
Basically all fighting game competitions are done on consoles
ThatPlayer··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
Why not both?

If engineers are abandoning IDEs then shouldn't they be following the engineers?

ThatPlayer··on Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI
Is anthropic allowing 3rd party harnesses like that?
ThatPlayer··on Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
I think Bluetooth keyboards work fine? https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/keyboard-...

Original article does complain about headphones, but I don't think Sony uses Bluetooth for their Playstation 5 headphones either, just their Playstation Link ones that are custom USB 2.4Ghz like most other gaming headsets

ThatPlayer··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
The part replacement isn't being blocked? The OP's CM5 with replaced RAM is still a working CM5 according to him. And fully functional compared to before the replacement.
ThatPlayer··on The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)
The N64 goes back to requiring mods for RGB SCART though. The later SNES models removed RGB support too.

Similarly later GameCube models removed support for component cables.

ThatPlayer··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Similarly USB cables that do not carry data lines
ThatPlayer··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Is that just with software encoding? Or did hardware encoding get fixed?
ThatPlayer··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
I think the problem with his ask in that initial picture is mentioning Pi, which doesn't do headless CLI, but does do the OAuth that the TOS specifically mentions.

It doesn't seem like T3 Code ever implemented antigravity at the time of the post. Now they've added it via ACP: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/pull/9348

ThatPlayer··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
I've had Codex use antigravity for subagents with 'agy -p'. Is that considered 3rd party usage?
ThatPlayer··on Linux 7.2
Also interesting is the Steam Machine with its AMD RX 7000 series GPU only has DP1.4 even though those GPUs should be able to do DP2.1
ThatPlayer··on Linux 7.2
I can tell you mine does: a Corsair XENEON 27QHD240. Or the somewhat popular and badly named Acer Nitro XV275K P5biipruzx

I'd say it's usual for displays released in the 2-5 years old range. HDMI 2.1 got somewhat quick monitor support for consoles, but search for "first DP2.1 monitor" gets results from 2024

ThatPlayer··on Linux 7.2
That doesn't help when the monitors don't have DP2.1 support.
ThatPlayer··on Linux 7.2
HDMI 2.1 carries more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4. Plenty of GPU/monitors have that port arrangement, as recent as Nvidia's RTX 40 Series.
ThatPlayer··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Steam should support SInput which would give you more Steam Input remappable buttons: https://docs.handheldlegend.com/s/sinput/doc/buttons-format-...

I've been going a step further and trying to get AI to decompile the firmware to a different controller to add native SInput support. Hasn't been going well.

ThatPlayer··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Generators don't ramp up/down immediately. Especially when peak power usage is 4-5pm, people getting off work, but also closer to sunset. That's a lot of power that needs to be generated immediately for stability.

More solar (without batteries) makes that worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

ThatPlayer··on ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
Recent development has 2 / 8 of the CPU cores able to be unlocked too. Originally shipped with 6 CPU cores enabled.
ThatPlayer··on ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
It has no HDMI port. Some DP > HDMI adapters do CEC.
ThatPlayer··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Console releases were done by a different studio originally, 4J Studios. Bedrock spawned from the mobile ports, and eventually replaced the console editions and had different features.
ThatPlayer··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
I think their use of 3rd party libraries could prevent them from releasing it as open source without rewriting a bit. This even happened to the original DOOM 1 where they used a sound library so didn't release the original DOS source code. Rather they released the Linux port which used a different sound engine that had different features/bugs.

Looking at the start-up of Doom Dark Ages (with new expansion today), they list Havok, Oodle, Bink, and SpeedTree. According to Havoc's website, that already starts at 50k$ alone. Oodle/Bink don't list prices.

ThatPlayer··on Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach
You might not have noticed, but that's also where anti-cheats started. All 3rd party anti-cheats started on community servers because well you aren't getting them into official servers easily. And then game developers saw that and integrated it for the users. Quake 3 even had Punkbuster added at some point for example.

Plenty of modern community servers still do the same. Face-it servers for Counter-Strike 2 will have additional anticheat, not less. Modded Grand Theft Auto V servers, FiveM, built their own anticheat they call adhesive before RockStar ever added anticheat to the full game, and this prevents it from running on Linux to this day.

ThatPlayer··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Ten year old desktop users aren't exactly known for buying new games, especially at full price.

The average spending gaming hardware are the consoles. No one is going to start building a game targeting a Playstation 4 today, they'll target the 5 year old PS5.

ThatPlayer··on CS2 Fog Of War: Server-sided anti-wallhack occlusion culling for CS2 servers
That would have to include your own position on your own client. Adding a delay of the RTT of the worst latency in the server to your inputs

Some games still do this. RTS games notably, but hide it with mouse and sound effects. If anyone remembers the Starcraft 1 option of "extra high latency", it would work by increasing the delay.

ThatPlayer··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
Sure, but it's also running on a GPU that's almost 10 years old and wasn't even high end at release. So I think it's fine performance for the hardware.
ThatPlayer··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
Not disagreeing with you about lighting, but there is a differnce in older games that make RT optional. They use RT as a "ultra high quality" shadows/reflection graphical option. So there's no point of having a high performant, low quality RT option.

This isn't the case with games that require RT. Doom Dark Ages can even run the RT entirely in software, implemented in AMD's Linux drivers: https://youtu.be/R5G2bYiA1hk

So I think it's fine to ignore benchmarks that mention RT, meaning it's basically testing the game at "ultra quality" settings.

ThatPlayer··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
My reading habits are similar, and yeah I fell out of using my einks for similar reasons.

Even with a web browser, einkbro for Android eink devices, it just never felt as good as epubs or just my phone somehow.

Well ordered the X4 to try anyways.

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