Getting a 5.25" floppy disk drive bracket 3D printed for mounting my floppy emulator thing (Gotek) in. This bracket has a spot for an LCD screen; I'm going to stick an amber-on-black "negated" display on there (one with black background, amber light) since I think that might look kind of good with the rest of the PC (AT&T 6300).
I should probably buy another gotek, since I use this thing in my Amiga as well. But I'm so fucking cheap that I'd rather just swap it when needed.
Also, apparently in the time between my last purchase and now, goteks changed their MCU last year from an STMicro STM32F105RBT6 to an artery AT32F415CBT7, which has about half of the RAM. I wonder how much that would matter.
Thought: I have no idea why anyone actually buys the HxC floppy emulator firmware in 2022 when flashfloppy exists and is actually properly free, instead of costing €10 on top of the cost of the Gotek (around $30-40 USD).
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 10 2022, 16:13
I found a place that Chrome renders my site incorrectly despite even dillo, netsurf, firefox, and MS IE 6 managing to not fuck it up.
Strongly considering just leaving it unfixed, even though it's just one or two more CSS lines, simply because everything else that supports CSS somehow manages to do it right.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 12 2022, 02:46
Are NFTs dead yet, StockX which was NFT x 'genuine' sneakers' is falling apart as people are getting more and more fakes or factory seconds when they redeem their NFT for real sneakers.
Hell might be freezing over. Will have to do a little more research to be sure of the extent to which this actually matters, because I know they had a non-free licensed component before that had available source code but had to be coupled with binaries. I also need to verify if firmware is free and whether it can be self-signed.
Hell might be freezing over. Will have to do a little more research to be sure of the extent to which this actually matters, because I know they had a non-free licensed component before that had available source code but had to be coupled with binaries. I also need to verify if firmware is free and whether it can be self-signed.
Looks like something to do with demands by steam? or maybe not, they have been dripping stuff out for a while. Looks like the guy went from a consultant to full time position though.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: May 12 2022, 06:56
Lol, it doesn't support Pascal or Maxwell cards, which are also basically useless under Nouveau because Nvidia went out of their way to sabotage them.
Nvidia: "Get bent, pay your tithes and buy our overvalued new cards if you want free software. BTW, no, we won't open source the userland code (libgl, X server) still."
Fuck Nvidia.
My card is still one of the only Maxwells to not need signed firmware, so maybe something here will be of help to the [nouveau.freedesktop.org] Nouveau people. That's the only good thing I can see coming of this for me.
Nvidia probably only did this under pressure from the linux kernel developers who keep trying to force nvidia to be a good citizen by changing API licensing restrictions.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 12 2022, 07:06
Are NFTs dead yet, StockX which was NFT x 'genuine' sneakers' is falling apart as people are getting more and more fakes or factory seconds when they redeem their NFT for real sneakers.
NFT sales overall have fallen 92%.
crypto and stocks in general arent doing great atm another 'if I had tethered before this and bought back now I couldve had gains' moment
that aside related to the gpu discussion. still pretty happy being out of the nvidia user camp. my only lingering issue is obs with vaapi support not compiling yet and it going all onto cpu isnt a fun time. (only does nvenc by default) the rest has all been great with how easily things work now on radeon drivers, including many of my browser issues and crashes disappearing
Recently, I was thinking a concept. It was already some time ago that some technology that one wear allowed to replicate movements of a person to animate a fictional character. I was wondering if this could be adapted to "clothes", to replicate more the movements of the clothes than the ones of the wearer. In other word, a technology that would allow anyone, regardless of gender or age or other details, to perform strip-tease through a virtual character, without involving themselves too much personally (they would be less involved into a sexy action than ecchi/hentai material seiyuu and maybe even less than artists), and it's even something that could be done from home. I wonder how that could/would turn out. ... And if parents worry, let's say the hardware is just another Nintendo evolution in controllers (IMG:https://forums.e-hentai.org/uploads/post-2051615-1433431238.gif)
So my laptop finally had a read error on my secondary 1TB HDD. Might actually get a (used, because I'm stupid) 2TB SSD to replace it. Too bad all 2.5" HDD's at that size are SMR because it's sooo unthinkable to make a 9.5mm 2.5" HDD in 2022 to add more platters.
Or even better 12.5mm. But those are ancient history.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 14 2022, 04:23
So my laptop finally had a read error on my secondary 1TB HDD. Might actually get a (used, because I'm stupid) 2TB SSD to replace it. Too bad all 2.5" HDD's at that size are SMR because it's sooo unthinkable to make a 9.5mm 2.5" HDD in 2022 to add more platters.
Or even better 12.5mm. But those are ancient history.
Yes, because people are stupid and prefer form over function.
Depends how thin I guess. Some thin-ish laptops are cool. Many have cooling issues. You just can't break the rules and have high heat but low thermal dissipation.
Work once gave me an ultra thin that was metal, but it would get hot enough to burn yourself.
Depends how thin I guess. Some thin-ish laptops are cool. Many have cooling issues. You just can't break the rules and have high heat but low thermal dissipation.
Work once gave me an ultra thin that was metal, but it would get hot enough to burn yourself.
Powerbook G4's weren't especially thin and they did that anyway.
Thin laptops are cool if you are okay with them breaking and don't care about maintaining them in the long term. And also if your standards for keyboards are low.
Running ddrescue on my laptop's secondary drive right now; twelve read errors so far at 63% through the first pass.
Most of this stuff got backed up about two months ago, so I probably didn't lose much. Also much of the stuff on my laptop is just media I borrow from my desktop so I can take it on the go.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 14 2022, 20:04
i'd prefer to be able to put the case back on it and not have the 3.5" gotek just flop around in the 5.25" bay.
BTW, mounting the 5.25" drives in this bay is a complete bitch. The case's frame that the 5.25" drives sit in uses the drives themselves as part of its structure (the drives hold the bracket together). And it uses flathead screws with washers on them.
If I had some kind of extender cable I could also mount the gotek in one of the card slots on the back of the case, and leave one of the FDD's up front disconnected internally. I think I see a corrosion spot on the board for the B drive, anyway.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 15 2022, 21:02
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