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  1. PityOnU

    Tutorial PSA: Check your data!!!

    Well, as soon as you start referencing standards specifications you're really opening a whole other can of worms. You can immediately see right from that page that there are at least 3 layers of abstraction between the actual memory and whatever you're using to try and interface with it, and...
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    Tutorial PSA: Check your data!!!

    What @ghjfdtg is suggesting here is that, during the process of accessing the data you have stored, the controller for whatever storage medium you are using may go through the trouble of correcting and re-writing potentially problematic data chunks. I say may here because there is no guarantee...
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    Tutorial PSA: Check your data!!!

    Before anyone gets too freaked out here, let's just refocus the conversation from "regularly perform labor intensive and high-wear maintenance on your hardware" to just "don't trust SD cards." -------------------------------------------------- Here is just a brief aside to frame the context of...
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    Alternative to iTunes?

    As others have said, use MusicBrainz Picard for getting track metadata, it is by far the best solution. It will embed all of the metadata into the music file itself, so that it will show up correctly no matter what device and playback software you end up deciding to use later. For playback...
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    Post a picture of your desktop!

    Wow, that's a pretty cool photo. Very nice!
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    Windows 7 in 2023 with SharpEnviro shell.

    Lol, I've had this same conversation on repeat like a million times with a thousand people over my adult life, and I know beat for beat how this going to play out, so we'll just call it here. That's not me being passive-aggressive, just old and tired. But yeah, totally fair. I'm happy it works...
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    Windows 7 in 2023 with SharpEnviro shell.

    I mean honestly if you're skilled/familiar enough with Linux and FOSS to go from zero to hero with Arch, then yeah you're pretty dumb if you use Windows. That's a lot of expertise that is not transferable AT ALL. However, I think you can also recognize that you are definitely a very small part...
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    Windows 7 in 2023 with SharpEnviro shell.

    Mm. TBF I turn off Windows Updates after getting everything set up how I want it. The way the completely reinstall the OS twice a year these days (what used to be called "Service Packs") is a little much. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But hey, it could be worse, I suppose. At least they're continually adding new...
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    Windows 7 in 2023 with SharpEnviro shell.

    Very cool! Good on you for keeping that ancient-ass hardware alive and kicking! This is a very generalized statement, so I'm not going to question it too much. That being said, the NT kernel really hasn't changed that much since, like, Vista, so actual performance on any kind of relatively...
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    Weird noise when connecting PS5's external HDD to extension cord

    Geez, some of the replies in this thread... Anyway, what's causing this is most likely "dirty" 120/240V AC coming from your mains. This can be caused by a number of things (including not-so-great generation facilities/transformers in your area), but is usually a result of other devices...
  11. PityOnU

    $1000 Dolphin UWP Bounty

    Not trying to piss in your Cheerios or anything, but just a heads up that UWP is effectively a dead API at this point. Y'all should be using Gamecore (GDK) instead. Will run on console and PC.
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    PS4 Pro in 2022?

    There are probably 3 factors you should consider: 1. Your level of disposable income 2. The titles (software) you actually want to play 3. The expected time you'll spend using it All the above are determined exclusively by you - nobody else can tell you what is "best." This thread currently...
  13. PityOnU

    So about Dark Brandon's speech last night...

    im not really sure what i expected from the politics section on a site originally dedicated to hacking gameboys, but here we are i guess i want my 5 minutes and mutilated braincells back how i imagine everyone typing in this thread: jfc go and touch grass people you dont need to be...
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    Tool to Generate WiiU .tik/.cert Files On Demand?

    Just had a look through your Github for the project, and yep, there's all the code in there to generate .tik's/.cert's from the ground up. Very cool! I don't see an immediately, obviously packaged version as a Windows tool. If I'm feeling particularly full of piss and vinegar one evening soon...
  15. PityOnU

    Tool to Generate WiiU .tik/.cert Files On Demand?

    Thanks for the replies all, but neither of those would seem to do what would be needed. Just figured I'd poke this thread again as, a day or two after I posted this, Nintendo announced that the Wii U eShop will be closing next year. Having a tool that would generate .cert's/.tik's for game...
  16. PityOnU

    Tool to Generate WiiU .tik/.cert Files On Demand?

    I maintain personal backups of game sets from across a number of platforms - 1000's of titles across 10's of TB. In order to maintain and organize all the games, I rely on No-Intro hash/naming information and a handful of ROM management applications. A problem I have come up against is that the...
  17. PityOnU

    Leana Wen: The CCP Within American Media

    I used to get angry at these threads, but anymore I can't help but just chuckle and shake my head. If it wasn't so funny, I would actually pity the OP, because the world they live in seems terrifying and exhausting, what with everyone (the other! the enemy!) eternally, actively scheming to "get...
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    US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan

    Good on you, mods. I am a member of a handful of other forums, and there seems to be a pattern of them all sliding downhill into toxic, politically fuelled messes like this over the past year or so. Just as was done here now, most of them have had to put in place rules/restrictions to get...
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    US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan

    I'm not sure that what is happening in Afghanistan is the fault of any specific administration. There's a lot of historical context as to why the USA went into the region in the first place that is difficult to summarize in a single outrage-inducing headline. There are similar complexities and...
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    Whistleblower leaks Hasbro's CRT agenda, "2 y/o's are racist"

    I miss the simple times, a decade ago, when trolls knew they were trolls and huge media corporations didn't thoroughly exploit clickbait and outrage in order to generate revenue. :yay:
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