My fuzzy memory says this is super accurate to SLP mode… but I’ve been too far removed from that old analog video standard to actually remember the quality. I know for sure it’s better than most plugins I’ve tried at least.

Coming in at a 45 rating on Metacritic: Hyperdimension Neptunia.

Is it a bad game? Yes. It’s really bad. It’s an ugly game for PS3 standards, and the battle mechanics are borderline insane. It’s a JRPG where you can’t manually heal, but instead set a % chance to heal automatically in battles… which means sometimes you game over because RNG wasn’t going to let you heal. But regardless it’s one of my favorites. I’m a sucker for the core concept of the schoolyard console wars, with little gaming references everywhere and silly humor. I also love the theme songs for each console nation. It really drives home how different the console cultures are supposed to be as you are traveling around solving their problems.

And I mean, come on… When you first start the game and you are in the tutorial dungeon it plays this song during exploration and this song during battles. Games today would never do something that silly.

The later games polished the gameplay, expanded the character rosters, gave more depth to the story, and dealt with some very dark topics (Gehaburn trauma)… but to me none of them captured the lightning that the first one had.

the article is about all the information being harvested (and sent to private companies) from people visiting the .gov sites. It’s got detailed receipts on who the info is going to as well.

wait is that why DNT was removed from browsers??? I always thought the “nobody respected it anyway” reason was stupid.

Nah, this wasn’t an issue with gaming. This was just that the parts were new. The motherboard I chose used a 2024 chipset that Debian didn’t recognize. Basic stuff like detecting drives and outputting video beyond VESA standards was busted because of it. It took around 6 more months until Trixie came out with support.

I tried Debian when I built my PC back in 2025. It didn’t have any support for the bleeding edge parts I chose.

I then tried LMDE as a compromise. It also didn’t have the support I needed.

It’s a little too stable for my use-case… but runs well on my older laptops.

Neat. Thank you for the explanation.

Yeah, I guess I was fundamentally misunderstanding OPFS. I was thinking it was just resident in memory as a process of the browser. What exactly does this line mean, though?

The file must exceed the system’s available RAM so that every random 4 KB read hits the SSD rather than the OS’s page cache.

but in order for the file to use all available RAM, other processes that still need memory will eventually trigger the out of memory warning… no?

unless I’m completely misunderstanding and OPFS has a set limit of RAM usage before it automatically starts writing to drives.

Ah that makes more sense. Seems like something easy to detect at least.

It’s been a while but doesn’t Windows let you know when you exceed RAM usage and hit paging file?

So the file has to exceed available RAM to benchmark the SSD performance? How viable is that at all? You’d be downloading gigabytes.

If you want to learn about software development version control, I’ve heard good things about ohmygit.

I’d like to add Tribes 2 and Battlefield 1942.

a very good way to get your opinion thrown out as automated spam.

The only problem I see with public wifi is the peer-to-peer nature of it. You no longer have the protection of a gateway if somebody is trying to be nefarious. They won’t sniff https traffic, but might attempt to connect to open services like an unsecured listener for the cat feeder.

In that instance, locking down the internet connection with a VPN would prevent an attack.

This confused my parents too. They saw a sponsorship for some no-name VPN, with a bunch of scare tactics, and were afraid they would get hacked without a VPN. I had to explain that the VPN was only the entrance to the internet. We already have plenty of encryption in place with https. Only time I really “need” a VPN is for hotel/airport/mall public Wifi.

All-New IP PRAGMATA Surpasses One Million Units Sold in Two Days!

Every single executive on hearing the news:

full vim. It always messes with my muscle memory when vim-tiny is installed as a replacement.

so some terrible mobile adaptations with energy meters and diamond currencies, with everything ever so slightly out of reach… unless you pay an extra $5 right now.