fishtacos

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by fishtacos 4mo ago
I went with a TI-89 and had one good friend in HS that had one as well. This would have been late 99-00, I believe. Fondest memories were recreating my school C++ project in TI BASIC and showing it to my teacher, using utilities to restore
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by fishtacos 8mo ago
I recently reset a Dell laptop for a friend. Dual core, 8gb RAM, HDD (not SSD), can run Windows 11, so I ran the built-in recovery feature and it took almost 2 days to just get Windows 10 updated. When I saw it was still absolutely crap and
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by fishtacos 8mo ago
I wonder what the additional layer of virtualization changes with respect to this in a project like this one: https://github.com/dockur/macos The unattended setup is a large improvement, which also begs the question: M
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by fishtacos 8mo ago
On a similar note, Gemini told that I was born in 2025 when I did a cursory search for my real name. It's rather confident.
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by fishtacos 1y ago
In hindsight, I would have gone for an AMD deskop replacement laptop instead of the Dell Intel-based gaming laptop that I purchased last year. The CPU is the best the Raptor Lake line has to offer in mobile format (i7-13900hx) but there is
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by fishtacos 1y ago
>No privacy.com stuff. No virtual cards. I used a privacy.com Mastercard linked to my bank account for Oracle's payment method to upgrade to PAYG. It may have changed, this was a few months ago. Set limit to 100, they charged and re
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by fishtacos 2y ago
Sort of related, but in the two or three times I've lucid dreamt, one of them was flying and having relatively functional control of my direction. Not sure how/why my brain rendered this sensation having never experienced it in re
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by fishtacos 2y ago
I'm not well-versed enough on sci-fi to be able to connect more dots than this, but I am assuming these are common tropes. The Mass Effect series describes the Reapers as (copied from masseffect.fandom.com - I <3 this game's lo
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by fishtacos 2y ago
Whose plan was god?
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by fishtacos 2y ago
Windows has a Pictures folder. Before they started screwing with the OneDrive directories, it used to be in ONE location. Now it's in OneDrive\directory location, which works, even if it annoys me. The upside being automatic backup and
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by fishtacos 2y ago
Along these same lines, the tabletification of Mac OS is annoying. A friend asked me to help with importing photos from the Apple Photo app on his brand new desktop Mac. The sequence of events was: Lightroom Legacy needs photos imported bec
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by fishtacos 2y ago
What bothers me is not that it displays web results but that it forces Bing results and forces Edge to open said links despite it not being the default system wide web browser. Now that sucka.
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by fishtacos 2y ago
I can tell you that when I moved from a contract position to full time at Dell Services (now NTT Data Services), they had to review and possibly? interview 2 additional candidates despite hiring from within. We did have many work visa emplo
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Due to network limitations and contract budgeting, I never got the chance to upgrade them to 10 Gb, but can confirm I could hit 1000 Mbps (100+ MB/s) on certain files on RAID-6. It sadly averaged out to about 55-60 MB/s writes (HD
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by fishtacos 3y ago
>>The IT department decided they were done with their pets, moved everything to a big vSphere cluster, and backed it by a giant RAID-5 array. There was a disk failure, but that’s ok, RAID-5 can handle that. Precisely why, when I was c
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by fishtacos 3y ago
>For instance, per the article most of these "Nones" still believe in God or Gods but don't subscribe to a particular religion. They're definitely not atheists as you might expect from the label. As an atheist, not th
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by fishtacos 3y ago
As a previous resident of Southcentral US and currently Southeastern US, I concur. Organized religion is the most potent socio-cultural poison in modern times in the US. Sadder than that, what we're mentioning in tandem is but a small
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by fishtacos 3y ago
The revamped FFVII on PC (own it on Steam) and I believe on consoles (not the remake) has boosters and random-battle skipping, as well as other features (like fast forwarding, I think). It makes it more approachable and less time-consuming
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by fishtacos 3y ago
FFVII was the first RPG I ever played. As an immigrant from a poor Balkan country, I never had access to computers and the only console I had ever played until 1997 was Atari 2600, which was a clone with built-in games (although it did have
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Yes, momentum from a large metal object tends to run over squishy bags of meat, not the other way around.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Depends on how domesticated they are. My current ones are overinsured because the previous one died of being a bit too adventurous against cars. It's a fine line when it comes to pet independence.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
It certainly reads like it.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
The GBA micro was about as small as a usable console could get. The older I get, the less accepting of these limitations I've become. The Vita and PSP was a good median in twrms of practically.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
It's food, it's accessible, it's relatively affordable, you can have it served with veggies if you want a more complete meal. At the end of the day, a typical McD's burger consists of carbs (buns), 1 to 2 meat patties, s
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Windoze: 1.2 BILLION installs of Win 10 and nothing matching it. MS is doing something right.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
A downgrade from UMDs? Perhaps you're referring to the density of textures and newer, more demanding game engines, because the UMDs were such a pain. Trying hard not to get hyperbolic here.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
I wish the person I sold my fully-loaded 1/2 TB MicroSD Vita to a grand adventure with a pocketable gaming/homebrew/emulation/piracy machine. Nothing matches it in tis market given its capibilities. The Switch lite tried
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by fishtacos 3y ago
My laptop runs Kbby Lake and Intel HD 620 and can't match the Switch's 30 fps perf. It's incredible what it can do. The 3070 that runs 220+W on my desktop is hard to replace ore minituarize.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
There is nothing that can be encompassed by a 220-300+ power envelope into a handheld for the next several years. Still, downgrading visual FX is one doable. Steam Deck 2 and Switch 2 are in the horizon. AMD v. Intel, as far as I'm con
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by fishtacos 3y ago
The PS Vita predated the Switch by 6+ years... by the time emulation and CPU speed to match its requirements, it was already discontinued by Sony. It fulfilled its purpose.

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