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  • It’s worth it if you can get it for cheaper than an AYN Thor, and always worth it if you have anyone you know who also still uses a DS/3DS because of local wireless multiplayer.

    The tradeoff with a Thor (or the couple of other ds emulator handhelds) is that you lose out on local wireless multiplayer (emulators might eventually support this in the future, they only do WFC via WiFi at this time) and the specific hardware gimmicks of the 3DS (3D, stereo cameras, perfect input latency, etc.) but you get access to GC, Wii, WiiU, PS1/2, PSP, Switch 1, and Steam/PC games.

    What’s the reason behind its sudden resurgence despite it being an “old” console as the Switch lineup has replaced it?

    This is gonna sound like nostolgia glazing but really the DS era was Nintendo at their finest and the absolute gold standard of handheld gaming and a serious platform for handheld technology of the time. Stuff like streetpass could have easily been utilized for some amazing technology in other platforms like smartphones. The 3DS gets access to all of that + its own 3DS library of games, which is why its the most optimal console to buy.

    95% of that library will never see the light of day again because they relied on the specific hardware the DS/3DS offered, the main one being the two screens. It would be impractical/impossible to remaster most, and Nintendo is still wary of attempting to emulate even a handful for their virtual console due to the aforementioned hardware and a bunch of PITA development required to make it work well (see the MelonDS forums of how long its taken to get to a solid state).

    It’s been in high demand ever since they ended production because of that reason, and it continues to climb due to limited supply.

    Does it have to do with physical game ownership?

    No, you should homebrew your 3DS to make it incredibly more viable to use and everyone uses big SD cards to hold all of their game ROMs and data.



  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•A spectacle for fools
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    There’s a reason why soviet era technology was infamous for its use of plywood stalinium.

    There’s also a reason why post industrial american technology is infamous for its use of chinesium totally legit made in USA stickers.

    People are gonna hate this answer but the best products are made in a properly competitive market.

    The USSR had state owned OEMS that ultimately relied on deals with foreign manufacturers to jump start their success significantly later than their international counterparts.

    The big 3 US OEMs lobbied congress to block foreign imports to protect their inferior product in the home market (multiple times, notably against Japan and recently China).



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    Haha I remember watching independence day for the first time and thinking “oh damn they’re gonna infect the aliens with a disease” and then Jeff goes “computer virus” before tapping away with his laptop.

    tbf though I consider that movie the king of blockbusters for the absolute massive list of wacky tacky bs that occurs pretty much the entire runtime of the film lol.


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    I don’t know why people forget even the first moon missions had a quarentine trailer/chamber used by the astronauts for this exact reason.

    They were pretty sure they weren’t gonna find microbial life on the moon but they sure as hell weren’t gonna take the risk in case there actually was.


  • I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?

    You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group

    And how do peers know it comes from them?

    This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.

    PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.

    On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.

    The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.



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    Whenever evil antagonist broadcasts his evil message on every major advertisement screen and TV in the world (and PC/mobile device), with full audio.

    stupid rant
    1. Ad screens don’t have speakers you dolt

    2. No one in times square looks at the ad acreens except the tourists when taking a picture

    3. Not all ad screens can handle a live stream connection and you’d need to hack into each one to play your message.

    4. It is literally impossible for everyone to be conveniently watching the TV at the same time as everyone else across the globe

    5. Overriding every TV broadcast channel with your message requires an RF array an order of magnitude more powerful than Russia’s massive Murmansk-BN electronic warfare system.

    6. No one watches broadcast TV anymore in most developed countries

    7. The internet cannot handle a simultaneous stream of video to every digital device in the world without the use of multicast or broadcast, which means evil antangonist is either rolling in with hacking the entire internet backbone to enable multicast traffic or magically broadcasting a signal to devices that don’t support receiving a broadcast signal.

    8. Evil antagonist has to use multiple zero day CVEs just to force stream his evil message on PC/mobile devices for a whopping 30 seconds.




  • EDIT is this actually a service? If this exists I’ll fucking do it, I swear

    It technically is for a lot of PC repair shops that don’t otherwise advertise it, but I remember some ye olde Craigslist posts offering such a service back in the day lol.

    I’d honestly do it for free if I knew you in person lmao.



  • Uh no, most if not all of the paid indexers are not worth it compared to just waiting for an open invite from a quality one.

    Not even the gold tier quality ones allow paid entry AFAIK. They only allow people who are long time seeders and uploaders with reputation.

    The one thing you might have to pay for is a VPN in case you want to torrent on public indexers, which is often worth it because not everything will end up on private indexers, and you usually have to wait a couple of months before you can join a solid private indexer.




  • I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol.

    On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike.

    The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out.

    EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.