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#3389120 2-Jul-2025 16:41

xpd:

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Welcome to the dark side. This is what got me off Windows permanently in 2017.

I've seen bazzite being mentioned on quite a few forums etc lately... might be time for the gamer in me to take a look :)

If you've got a decent amount of room on your boot drive it's a no brainer to install and give it a go dual booting. There are a number of guides, including on the bazzite website.

It's all very slick these days.

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#3389381 3-Jul-2025 09:16

Last night, I was very nearly beaten in Squash by a guy 29 years my senior. I am not a young man, so to see this guy running around like he was, really made me smile. If I am still moving around 29 years from now like that I will be exceptionally happy.

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#3389400 3-Jul-2025 10:43

I had a similar experience on the golf course recently. One week I was the elder giving the youngsters in my group a royal dusting. Two weeks later I was given a lesson in humility when my 74yr old playing partner came very close to beating his age and got me by 3 shots despite having a good round myself. It has given me something to aim for at his age.

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#3389402 3-Jul-2025 10:53

Even more impressive, he was a physics teacher and decided he wanted a break, so he built him and his wife a new house, a number years ago, in 3 months, on time and on budget and sold it 2 years later for 3 years salary as a teacher. He had no real experience in house building.

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#3389542 4-Jul-2025 03:14

Farrell Derangement Syndrome is back! There really is nothing more consistently entertaining.

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#3389562 4-Jul-2025 08:48

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Farrell Derangement Syndrome is back! There really is nothing more consistently entertaining.

IYKYK

Along with the Farrell Defender Syndrome.

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#3389658 4-Jul-2025 13:00

I was trying to set up emulation of a retro machine via MAME. However, I needed the system's ROM*. Do you think I could find it anywhere? I can barely find any mention of it, let alone a download of it! But what I did find, by looking at MAME's source code, is the fact that it's 256 bytes, along with its CRC and SHA-1 checksums.

"256 bytes is tiny", I think to myself. 256 bytes, with 256 possible values in each byte, that's only 256*256 possible combinations. I'm sure some of you have already noticed the error, but I'm still blissfully ignorant so I spend a few minutes making a program that simply tries every combination and sees whether the SHA-1 matches. I kick it off and go and make dinner.

40 minutes later I return to the computer and am surprised that it hasn't finished yet. I mention this to another friend and he informs me that it's 256^256, not 256*256! He then points out that I'm essentially trying to brute-force 2048-bit encryption on a home computer.

I couldn't help but laugh after I realised what an idiot I'd been :)

*Technically it's the NVRAM. I found that making a 256-byte file full of zeros was sufficient to make the emulation work, but there might be problems further down the line. If anyone knows where to obtain (or dump: I do actually own some hardware) the cuda_nvram.bin file from a classic Mac then I'm all ears!

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#3389681 4-Jul-2025 16:23

Behodar:

I was trying to set up emulation of a retro machine via MAME. However, I needed the system's ROM*. Do you think I could find it anywhere? I can barely find any mention of it, let alone a download of it! But what I did find, by looking at MAME's source code, is the fact that it's 256 bytes, along with its CRC and SHA-1 checksums.

What was the game? Ive found everything I have needed in some of the rom packs from shadier torrent sites.

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#3390085 5-Jul-2025 18:20

Rolling my massive assembled BBQ back to Costco got me quite a few strange enquiring looks. My response, 'its a nice day, I thought I'd take my pet BBQ for a walk'. At least it made a few other people smile.

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#3390090 5-Jul-2025 19:03

networkn:

Rolling my massive assembled BBQ back to Costco got me quite a few strange enquiring looks. My response, 'its a nice day, I thought I'd take my pet BBQ for a walk'. At least it made a few other people smile.

I suspect that if they'd given you a new regulator that worked properly it would have solved the problem.

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#3390097 5-Jul-2025 20:03

Saw this store called geekzona (or zonageek) on a facebook post and got a bit of a lol. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14ESJGS6xWS/

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#3390101 5-Jul-2025 20:18

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Rolling my massive assembled BBQ back to Costco got me quite a few strange enquiring looks. My response, 'its a nice day, I thought I'd take my pet BBQ for a walk'. At least it made a few other people smile.

I suspect that if they'd given you a new regulator that worked properly it would have solved the problem.

I think it’s a master built gravity so there’s no regulator

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#3390116 5-Jul-2025 21:30

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I suspect that if they'd given you a new regulator that worked properly it would have solved the problem.

Given it's not a gas BBQ I seriously doubt it

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#3390143 6-Jul-2025 08:00

richms:

What was the game? Ive found everything I have needed in some of the rom packs from shadier torrent sites.

There's no game involved at this stage as I'm just trying to get the system (macqd630) up and running. I've been through some ROM packs and many have a cuda.zip, but it only contains the various Cuda ROMs (which I already have) and not the NVRAM. The ROM dumping utility succeeds on my real machine, but it only dumps the ROM and not the NVRAM. While typing this I've wondered whether there might be any documentation sitting in the Git commit comments...

Edit: I ended up asking on Reddit and now have the file. Of course, Reddit being Reddit they refuse to give a straight answer and instead make you work for it with a healthy amount of psychic power also required (apparently I should "just know" that it's in a file called cuda.zip and that it can be downloaded from somewhere - it took six attempts to find a cuda.zip with the right file inside it). But working now.

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#3391375 6-Jul-2025 22:03

I ordered a Core Ultra 7-265K and a AMD Radeon Pulse RX 9060 XT 16GB for a PC setup for a customer for the first time. I'm curious to see what this cost-effective combination will deliver in terms of performance for his specific application. 😎

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