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Peffse

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  • What is the definitive way to play certain games?

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  • OpenRCT2 is 100% the definitive way to play Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & 2.

    But I would never recommend a new player try OpenRA. The game has stellar multiplayer support but they just can't figure out the campaign scripting at all. Go with the remaster collection instead.

  • Is it possible to have a full install of Windows 11 on thumb drive?

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  • I've always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don't know.

  • Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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  • wait wait... reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.

    Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

  • Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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  • That's wild!

    I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can't find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

    They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer's shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer's shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that's no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that's what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden "Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker" crap that HP did either.

    How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.

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  • Yeah, I found quite a few games that I had to go in and specify it re-download and use Proton because the Linux native build was borked.

  • Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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  • Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.

    What year did that flip?

  • ...is this retro?

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  • Playing old Windows games on Linux through Lutris is awesome!

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  • Game Gear cases

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  • I dug out mine out of the closet recently and was so confused when it didn't power on properly. Turns out, the .3v difference between a Duracell and an Eneloop really matter when you scale it to 6 cells!

  • How GOG fixed Cold Fear | GOG Tech Talk

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  • gog has a bunch of tweaks for the stuff they host. I'm guessing it's either a clause in the contract for their storefront, or this is a volunteer for the game preservation program.

  • Game Gear cases

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  • Upon second viewing, I highly suspect he glued that cover onto the case... which will warp/peel off SO FAST.

    There is a reason cases have a plastic shield and lips on the case to hold the cover in.

  • Game Gear cases

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  • Yeah, I share your pain. I think I ended up 3D printing something like this but the game density is very low for shelving. So I ended up putting most things into something more like this and throwing them all into a drawer.

    I'm not happy with either solution.

    Maybe if this were printed by a professional...

    EDIT: Ha, totally missed the sentence where you point directly to a professional who makes custom cases. Derp.

  • WHY! GOD! WHY!

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  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Yeah, I tried audacious. But I use a lot of plugins to run weird formats, so it doesn't cover my usage. Neither does VLC. I'm using Wine to listen to music for now... but not nearly as much as I used to on Windows.

    I've got a bug in Wine that the entire desktop UI locks up on first launch. Not to mention opening a second song opens a second Wine. Not optimal.

    I've searched through logs and journalctl to see if there is a reason for the lockup, but best I can find is that my Intel A580 GPU isn't playing nice. I'm using Mint (not Manjaro) and nothing in my logs indicates that Intel is the issue, though.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Switched Jan of 2025. Already used 99% open source stuff on Windows, so the conversion was nearly painless.

    I tried Debian at first, which didn't support my bleeding edge new hardware. So I tried LMDE... which also (unsurprisingly) didn't support new stuff either. It wasn't until I landed on regular Linux Mint that things hit a good stride.

    I still mourn the loss of Winamp though... :(

  • Why does Mint not auto update major versions?

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  • I'm a happy middleground. I've had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I've done.

    One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn't let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn't let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.

    The second failure was just... I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn't even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.

    Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha

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    WTF is this icon?

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  • I would have guessed a keycard inserted in a reader.

  • An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users

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  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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