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Anyone know where I can find LR1 N-size (E90 in energizer nomenclature) NiMH rechargeable batteries of reputable make?

That or another way to get approximately 4.5 volts into an HP-28S. The diameter of a cell of around that voltage would have to be about the width of an AAA battery, with a length of around an AAA plus at most half a centimeter.

I'm thinking I'll try some [www.digikey.com] flat-topped 2/3 AAA batteries and pad them if necessary. Charging them will be annoying since I'll need to make or get some slugs to space them out for my chargers. Or make a new charger, but I don't think I will.

Maybe I'll make a lego thing wrapped in foil to wedge in there.

I think i randomly found you making comments about epyc processors costing 3-5k on another site.

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Mar 10 2021, 15:44

I think i randomly found you making comments about epyc processors costing 3-5k on another site.

I doubt it; I had no idea what they cost and no interest in buying one.
But PM me a link if you want confirmation.

Oh sweet, banking app works on my new phone. I have no idea what the error about 'OS10' is supposed to mean on my old one.
It's annoying loging back in to everything, and being assaulted by prompts and and dumb 'LOOK AT THIS' popups when setting stuff up.

Noticed a weird thing, the resolution of the screen changes between perforance settings. Annoyingly, it doesn't have a locked down ultra-low power mode, just 'normal', high performance and a couple specialty things. No tick box on brightness to toggle full bright on and off for 'outdoors' mode either.

'OS10'

It made sense to that one developer who wrote the original library in 2011. He forgot 3 months after that. And it was kept in by everyone else in order to not break shit.

In summary - only god knows,

For greater context, it was an app that stopped working in android 6, via a time bomb in a mandatory update. It works fine in android 8.

It made sense to that one developer who wrote the original library in 2011. He forgot 3 months after that. And it was kept in by everyone else in order to not break shit.

In summary - only god knows,

I had a fight with IBM over this exact problem. To them it is just an opportunity to sell more hardware / software.

It made sense to that one developer who wrote the original library in 2011. He forgot 3 months after that. And it was kept in by everyone else in order to not break shit.

In summary - only god knows,

chriseras looks side to side shiftily before documenting small but important stuff while no one noticed that he was slacking off too busy to make documentation before.

Had to get another keyboard for my laptop since I broke the old one worse while I was trying to fix the tab key which kept popping off of it. The one I got appears to be from Chicony, unlike my old NMB one. It's not bad at all; maybe a bit louder but that doesn't bother me; the feel might actually be a little snappier than the old NMB board I had.
What does bother me is that the trackpoint buttons are creaking slightly when pressed off-center. I also had to adjust the trackpoint sensitivity slightly, since it feels like it might be a little less sensitive than the NMB one was.

I tried switching the buttons off the NMB one already; they're almost compatible but not quite.

Still, the typing experience is quite pleasant and I think this board is flexing a lot less than the old one did when I hit certain keys near the corners of it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 14 2021, 09:44

A few days back one filesystem I sometimes use had it's 15th anniversary. Surprisingly fsck had not found any issues with it - old seagates were indeed good.

A few days back one filesystem I sometimes use had it's 15th anniversary. Surprisingly fsck had not found any issues with it - old seagates were indeed good.

I think I've said at least a dozen times, but yeah; I also have a roughly 15 year old seagate HDD that I boot from still with no errors. The filesystem is younger than that though since I'm the drive's second owner.

ignore invalid addr: 192.168.20.1:50000

I wonder how this can happen to the torrent client of my internet box.
I thought the 192.168.x.x range could not be used by external (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

I wonder how this can happen to the torrent client of my internet box.
I thought the 192.168.x.x range could not be used by external (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

depends on your mask

A few days back one filesystem I sometimes use had it's 15th anniversary. Surprisingly fsck had not found any issues with it - old seagates were indeed good.

I liked <1tb seagates. Their fail rate went through the roof as soon as they moved production.

Psvita finally got ports of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas.

Everyone is a bit confused why that wasn't done originally lol?

Its like Sony didn't want to make money.

Psvita finally got ports of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas.

Everyone is a bit confused why that wasn't done originally lol?

Its like Sony didn't want to make money.

Uh, isn't the Vita dead? Hasn't it been dead for like a year now? Is this a "fan-made" port?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 19 2021, 11:39

Uh, isn't the Vita dead? Hasn't it been dead for like a year now? Is this a "fan-made" port?

Yeah, the homebrew scene has resurrected the vita. They are enabling more features and realizing some of the dumb decisions that Sony made. Like it has the hardware for HDMI out but they did not include the connector, video out via USB to computer is now possible.

Its not quite fully jail broken but they have a lot more access and you can put a permanent cfw on now.

The homebrew teams are also porting a lot of old games to the system as they unlock more capabilities. A vita implementation of OpenGL was ported, so that means more games can be ported unofficially.

The biggest thing is probably being able to use SD cards now. As the Sony memory cards were stupid expensive.


Offically:
Indie games were still releasing on Psvita even in 2021 and limited run carts are still being released.

The store stopping being updated in 2020, so when new games are released you have to manually search for them rather than them being advertised.

The dev kit made it easy to port games from PS4 to vita for indie developers so they could still make money doing so.

Good info. Thanks. I hacked a vita for someone once, but never owned one myself.

I miss my PSP; I suspect it's in my parents' house, unless they threw it out at some point.

The scene is better than I thought, they have a pirate PSN network where you can just download all the games... the NoPaystationNetwork...

Dang.. they have around 60% of the PlayStation library available (PSX, PSP, PSvita). Actually it could be higher for complete games, as they count all PSN media...

In my region for some reason Sony decided to release only a fraction of the games, and also only release a fraction of the older games.

They also just found a softmod for the PSX XD after 27 years.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Mar 22 2021, 15:19

They also just found a softmod for the PSX XD after 27 years.

Do you mean "Tonyhax?" Nice. Looks like it requires having a way to write your own data to a PSX memory card, though, which basically necessitates owning a hacked PS2 already.

There's a pretty neat/simple softmod for PS2 as well ([cturt.github.io] FreeDVDBoot - [github.com] source), but it requires a lot of legwork unless you own the same revision of playstation firmware as the guy who made the mod, since each version has the code you need to exploit at a different address.

I've installed modchips in all my systems; i still have a couple extra ATTiny85's left over for any future PSX's I get. There's an open-sourced modchip now (PSNee) which works very nicely for most systems. All of them, technically, in that it can unlock the "mechacon" (drive controller) in any system – but most Japanese systems produced after probably 1995 or 1996 have a secondary software lock done in the BIOS, separate from the mechacon check, so burned discs have to be changed to match the region code first. The last revision of the PSOne in europe also has a similar lock, but PSNee has a way to patch that one out.

PSX modchips aren't very hard at all, compared to later systems. It's pretty nice.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 22 2021, 23:21

There is also the 8bitmods memcard pro.

I got rid of my modded playstations and just kept a vanilla psone.