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  • lwiz
    Mildly tempted @work - PS4 Pro with possibly shot HDD at OFW 9.00

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    lwiz
    Easily - and despite warnings my PS4 phat and PS3's with SSD's have been etremely stable, load time savings are minimal though. The TRIM bit isn't turned on by default - but I'm almost certain it would be honoured by the underlying OS if set. PS3+ uses so much of FBSD UFS2 code, I'd say Sony hadn't bothered to take TRIM off.

    Just need some time at some point to do some testing on PS3 (format the drive in console, mount it in FBSD, turn TRIM bit on and do some testing if TRIM is honoured.)
    lwiz
    lwiz
    Due SSD prices atm I'll go the spinner route anyway if I buy the sucker. I should have 1 TB drive stashed away.
    K3Nv4
    K3Nv4
    It's not a mod it's literally just one screw and sliding it in.
    lwiz
    Missing the olden times when GBATemp was actual gaming/hacking/modding forum instead of one more platform for pointless political debate.
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    DragonMals
    we need to have more people who would want ro get rid of it. But who?
    lwiz
    lwiz
    Apparently several pages of political back and forth without any real discussion or progress bring in better money than gamers and gaming.
    lwiz
    I just decommissioned my HTPC after 17 years of active service 24/7 either on or sleeping. Went through 2 powers and maybe 4 gfx cards, but the original HDD is (was?) still chugging along happily like the mobo. Updates all the way from Win7 to the latest 10. I guess not a bad service record as such.
    lwiz
    Won't mind being a patron for a good gaming site. Being a patron for site wanting to meddle in politics - not so sure anymore.
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    lwiz
    I happen to admin a forum where we put the lid on politics before the present atmosphere managed to set in. First warnings on political content, then limited ban and finally permaban. We lost some members, but in the end the discussion cleaned up and some valuable members who had left due toxicness returned. So win-win for that forum at least.
    lwiz
    lwiz
    To me GBATemp has been a valuable resource and a rare one nowadays as forums are more or less a dying breed due Twatter, AdLube etc. This forum isn't as dead as say psx-place is these days, but the trend seems to be on downward slope as active members and amount of discussion goes, which in the end would be a shame. And for one part I blame letting the politics creep in, overtly or covertly.
    Xdqwerty
    Xdqwerty
    Observing the level of political "debate" in this age makes me wonder if IQ equalling your shoesize makes you "smart" nowadays. Or just having the loudest voice.
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    Idk I just think almost everyone here is better than me
    lwiz
    "Sorry, but I can't generate an image of Jar-Jar Binks, as he's a copyrighted character. Let me know if you'd like me to create something similar with a different approach! 😊"

    Dall-E/Copilot after creating an image of Jar-Jar Jar
    lwiz
    Beware the Ides of March!
    Xdqwerty
    Xdqwerty
    I don't get it
    x65943
    x65943
    Try googling it mate, it's a very famous reference
    Xdqwerty
    Xdqwerty
    "Ides of March, day in the ancient Roman calendar that falls on March 15 and is associated with misfortune and doom. It became renowned as the date on which Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 bce and was further immortalized in the tragedy Julius Caesar by English dramatist William Shakespeare."
    lwiz
    I you are a gamer, exclusives are actually bad for you, as the studios developing the games won't reach the maximum target audience, thus reducing funding for future projects.

    Gamers should fund studios, not manufacturers.
    lwiz
    Feeling like a proper GBA member now, owning one GBA.
    lwiz
    //rant

    Bad day @work. Rarely angry, but in lieu of our lovely usual customers, one fuckface managed to raise my ire considerably - probably to the level my sacking is considered. Oh well, he doesn't get his gear anyway. (I'm rarely angered, but... go over the certain point and I'm really not the usual nice guy anymore, sarcastic though)
    lwiz
    Todays musing: As youtube is monetised, tubers are liable on the damages, despite any claims for not being responsible.
    CoolMe
    Oh no, bring back the old pfp this new one kinda sux!
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    lwiz
    Oh, btw, talking about pfp's - love your GD theme :)
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    I don't remember what site i used but i thought it came out pretty well. It's basically down to just prompts and "luck"
    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    I quite like the old one from 2012 as to what he's using atm.
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    Some experiments on setting the t-bit on SSD installed in PS3 might prove interesting. Time for system transfer and playing around in OtherOS soon I guess.
    lwiz
    Regular fooling around, trying to get one Rpi Zero working for both PS4 JB and Lego Dimensions emulation
    lwiz
    There's only one command needing sudo: "su -" everything else is just huge bother and nuisance with needless extra typing
    lwiz
    I just don't get Loonixes. Badly written and designed (hack upon hack upon hack, with nobody really on the know how the kernel works anymore.) Documentation - in the rare cases written one exists - is rubbish or even misleading. Ubuntu seems to be worst offender.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    This description pretty much fits on all operating systems. The software has become so huge complex that nobody is remotely able to understand it anymore.
    I have to say that I prefer free/open source over commercial/proprietary garbage with questionable EULA and 10000 integrated anti-features (like spyware) of the kind "No problem, you can turn this off."
    lwiz
    lwiz
    I do love open source, but generally not GPL as better quality stuff tends to have more permissive licences and someone actually bothered with documentation; BSD's, Postgres, LLVM...
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