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I fully understand iPad kids now. I picked up an onn Android tablet because somehow Wal-Mart of all places has actually reasonably specced tablets somehow for $200.
The Android apps that have a tablet layout are just legitimately better, there's just so much more you can do at once that it feels more like a PC. Emulation is better than my phone too, plus it just legitimately feels better for any kind of media content be it Twitch, social media, or streaming video.

Playing Void Strangers on my Void Linux PC.

Since Feb, my PC has been having issues that have proved difficult to nail down the root cause of. Now, at least partially as an "excuse" for why it's taken me till now to finally figure it out, we bought and moved into this fixer upper manufactured home in Feb. So I've been pressed for time.. fixing it up, heh. Also around the same time I finished putting in the "final" upgrade (what with PC part prices, it might really be the final one) with a 9800X3D.
So,…

For some while my ability to play records has been somewhat theoretical, with my turntable plugged into my PC for easy ripping, but not playing. Now fixed and I have the exquisite pleasure of: rain outside, record on loud, read a book.
And yes, getting it to work did somehow involve a Games Workshop carry case, what of it?

I like my physical PC release of GTA V, btw 😁🥰

This #Dreamcast project looks super cool https://bsky.app/profile/eliasdaler.bsky.social/post/3mu6awwwmoc26

BBC Master 512 in DOS Plus; GEM, Turbo Pascal ( the 6502 Welcome panel). The video on the Master 512 is a bit odd - it's not got enough VRAM to be able to do normal PC modes, and it's not got the character gen to do hardware text (except teletext which is no use to the PC side). It was DOS Plus not MSDOS so some stuff was touchy. Hmm only thing I'm missing is the mouse, it might be in the loft somewhere.
I also need to try a PI RGB thing, my LCD doesn't like some st…

Uh, #Linux #AMDGPU folks managed it. The 7.2.2 kernel somehow manages to break saturation control on my TV. I mean, the kernel on the connected PC, not the TV. I have no clue how or why it would be able to do that, but the TV is ignoring the saturation slider and running at full saturation, making my eyes bleed.

In 2024 I emailed my local MPP because I thought his hotel expenses were fishy. His office responded to me that I was "singling him out" and that all Toronto MPP were doing the same.
Today, my MPP is resigning from his Minister position
Good riddance Stan
https://www.…

idk why small backpacks are such a trend. look I don't care about looking "fashionable" I just want to fit all my crap on my back. once I discovered I can stick my NZXT H1 PC in my wenger bag I decided I'm never going for anything smaller. coward bags.

My friend now we are in business...
This IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 has been giving me fits. Specifically, the floppy drive.
* I broke the head off the original trying to clean it
* The replacement is for a different PS/2 model.
* The floppy adapter to allow "normal" PC drives didn't work
* I swapped the non-standard floppy cable
* It would read only 720K disks
* Found someone online with exactly the same issue. These machines need specific mod…

I installed Windows XP on my AMD Athlon X2 64 pc. I installed Windows Vista a few months ago (after trying other operating systems) because that is what it was on many years ago and what the oem os is. It is just too slow on Windows Vista to be usable. So I installed Windows XP. I had Windows XP on it before but I went to try Vista but Vista is too slow.
Now I am back on XP and it is perfect. Especially with the Zune theme it looks so nice.

Forgetting to update my bleeding edge linux distro in over 2 weeks feels like a death sentence for my PC.

after only 3.5 years after purchasing the parts and 9 months after assembling the pc, i've finally installed an os on my finely aged zen5

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/113626681357898120
Sadly I've only made 2 of them for the house (I need to buy more PC fans), but I still use these filters. Here's why.
Currently, the outside AQI in Forest Park near my house …

MrBeast is on LinkedIn, and I want to throw my PC into the sun. (I don't use it, but they keep spamming me)

My brand-new powerhouse: MSI Cubi NUC AI 3MG
Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, and much more.
What a beast!
My first Intel-based PC in many, many years. But the new Panther Lake generation is currently superior to AMD. I couldn’t care less about the “Copilot” feature—who needs that crap? I certainly don’t. But I wanted a new, up-to-date, and powerful computer again for the next 5 or 6 years. And even though it wasn’t cheap, if I spread the purchase p…

Я почему-то была уверена, что Debian поддерживает только SystemD. Но нет, я относительно легко смогла перейти на OpenRC, и даже ничего не сломалось.
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@millihertz/116531495206492092

Soooo .. I broke the Linux on my PC and you'd never guess how.
I added a line to .bash_profile to run zsh instead, for login shells (i.e. terminal), because I didn't feel like using chsh or configuring my terminal. APPARENTLY FUCKING SDDM INVOKES `bash -l`

Crazy that you can simulate DCF77 by inducing a signal into the receiver's antenna by playing back [some harmonic of(?)] the 77.5kHz signal with your phone's speaker. I now have my DCF77 clock showing the correct IST for Ireland!
Here's the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/det

#TIL that if I kill #PipeWire server that's automatically started with my desktop and it is restarted, it is used for bells in xfce4-terminal rather than PC speaker.

While testing around with SteamOS off the Live Installer (on a decade old standard size SD card and similarly "ancient" USB adapter) was fun and all, and quite snappy despite the media used.. You can definitely tell it's not ready for Prime Time in the "Gaming PC" space, yet. Very much built for bespoke devices like handhelds and the new Machine/micro PCs like that.
Hence, I fresh installed a clean image of Garuda, my OS of choice the last 3 years. (I also run M…

A quick update on the MSI Cubi AI : I returned the little box to the store the next day. Reason: an obvious motherboard defect.
Out of ten attempts to turn on the mini-PC, nine were unsuccessful. And even when it did finally turn on, most of the ports didn’t work; it wasn’t until I unplugged and replugged them several times that an image appeared on the monitor. The monitor is brand new, too, and works perfectly with my other computers, so that’s not the problem.
Bottom line: gre…

"But Macs are bad for gaming"
Me [playing a game on my Mac that won't run on my Windows gaming PC despite that it should]: "Aha"
(The game is Fez btw. And yes it works fine on Macs despite not even saying it was released on macOS on the Wikipedia page; maybe someone knows when it was released and could update that page.)

Power went out for a minute.
weirdly, my UPS kept my computer running but not the monitors/tv. I have my peripherals plugged into the ' follow master' outlet. (It's quite handy to just turn off/on the PC and everything else follows suit)
I assumed the UPS switching to battery would still keep those going but apparently not?

And no, I’m not going to set up the new mini-PC with Linux today—I’m just too worn out and have run out of patience for that right now. I’ll do it tomorrow when I’m calm and well-rested. But I’m already looking forward to this task—then I can finally put the new MSI Cubi to work as my new workhorse.

nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…

Long time no see.
Lots of things going on personal life as always.
Anyways, here's a small project I did these days.
I've been reprogramming BIOSes with `me_cleaner` to remove/disable the Intel Managament Engine from my homelab's motherboards.
#bios #intel

So I've been trying to figure out why #Bluetooth doesn't work on my PC, but works on my laptop. I was wondering if I have messed up the configuration or something.
Finally, it occurred to me that I can plug the same dongle into the laptop. Yep, the dongle's crap.
No clue where I got it from anyway. Probably some dismantled computer, or a family member buying crap.