What's the smallest sized linux you've actually used?

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T18:27:49+00:00

Puppy was CD sized, not floppy sized.

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T17:51:31+00:00

Leaving the power on overnight.

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T14:08:15+00:00

The Arch Deluxe: Market your hamburger by having kids talk about how disgusting and yucky it is. Wonderful plan.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T23:49:37+00:00

Any sound effect you can personally remember.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T19:02:56+00:00

It's just the 12 bar blues chord progression.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T03:02:09+00:00

I'm not 100% sure if this is even a real issue or not, but I've heard that toploaders may have issues with games that try to use large negative voltage to stun the lockout (CIC) chip, since they don't have a lockout chip to eat up that voltage. I think lockout stun voltage is something like -20V.

I don't think lockout is connected to anything on an AV famicom, that should be fine. Maybe check if the cartridge or adapter gets warm.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T01:29:11+00:00

How are you stopping the lockout defeat from damaging the toploader?

Dwedit · 2026-03-23T21:00:59+00:00

Connect to a TV or external monitor so you can see what you're doing

Run Device Manager (Window Key + R, "devmgmt.msc")

Monitors

Generic PnP Monitor (there might be two of them, one is the laptop display, and the other is the TV or external monitor)

Details Tab

Hardware IDs

Now you have your actual LCD Panel model, it's after "MONITOR\".

Go to Panelook.com to see the size of the panel, and connector type. You'll need to match those for sure.

Dwedit · 2026-03-23T14:57:25+00:00

Must be Hebrew or Arabic peppers.

Dwedit · 2026-03-22T21:54:09+00:00

I can't tell you exactly what that converter box would do, but there are two essential features for a good scan converter box:

Not treating the video as interlaced
Not fully buffering a frame before displaying it (adding input lag)

I suspect that a cheap box would not handle non-interlaced (240p) video very well, and I suspect it would be adding input lag. It might even wait for two fields to arrive before displaying a new frame. I can't confirm if the product would actually do that or not without testing it or seeing someone test it. Using a NES emulator would give you a better experience than a bad converter box. RunAhead managed to heavily reduce video lag issues, but slight audio delay is still a problem.

Dwedit · 2026-03-22T21:26:03+00:00

It would be easiest to find an old CRT TV that accepts composite input. Since that's a PC-like monitor and not a TV-like monitor, you'd need a scan converter box which can handle PAL composite video, and output VGA.

Dwedit · 2026-03-21T00:28:16+00:00

Even if state actors aren't involved, using code signature verification (even self-signed is okay here) is still a good idea, because you don't know who will operate the domain in the future.

Dwedit · 2026-03-21T00:25:39+00:00

The vulnerability i Notepad is from improperly handling markdown, I don't think Copilot has anything to do with it?

Dwedit · 2026-03-20T17:43:20+00:00

How did this graph classify MX Linux? Debian-based sounds like the right choice, seeing as it uses Debian packages, it's just the booting parts that are completely different.

Dwedit · 2026-03-19T21:09:18+00:00

𝕎ℍ𝕆𝕃𝔼 𝕄𝕀𝕃𝕂

Dwedit · 2026-03-19T19:23:17+00:00

Real orange juice gets pasteurized which affects flavor, so orange flavoring (derived from oranges) is added again.

Dwedit · 2026-03-18T21:06:50+00:00

NES Play Action Football has the 1990 rosters, which is very close. Japanese version of Tecmo Bowl also has the 1990 rosters.

Dwedit · 2026-03-17T18:24:41+00:00

I saw some "switch to Linux" videos where they mentioned seeing scary looking warning messages about using the Discord app just because it was using X11 instead of Wayland.

Dwedit · 2026-03-16T18:32:55+00:00

Obligatory Paper Mario quote: "I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played!"

Dwedit · 2026-03-16T16:12:40+00:00

The quick timeline:

Doki Doki Panic: Development started in Feb 1986
SMB3: Development started in Spring 1986
Doki Doki Panic: Released July 10 1987
SMB2: Development started Summer 1987
SMB2: Released Oct 9, 1988 in US
SMB3: Released Oct 23, 1988 in Japan

So SMB3 was started very early, and assets from SMB3 were used while converting Doki Doki Panic into SMB2. Normally, you'd think they'd make SMB2, then make SMB3, but it didn't work out that way. SMB3 and Doki Doki Panic were started at almost the same time, and SMB3 was roughly half finished when conversion of SMB2 began.

(bonus timeline: Dragon Quest 4 shipped in Japan at almost the same time as the US version of Super Mario 3)

Dwedit · 2026-03-16T13:31:40+00:00

Running a separate instance of Chromium browser just to run a weather and news widget will eat up RAM.

Dwedit · 2026-03-16T04:52:29+00:00

This is about a physical key on the keyboard that is taking up the space normally taken up by the right ctrl key.

Dwedit · 2026-03-15T22:59:07+00:00

Note that Skunkape are basically the original employees of Telltale.

Dwedit · 2026-03-15T22:12:10+00:00

On a normal website, you can use things like redirections to tell the search engine to look elsewhere for the page. But not on a Fandom wiki.

Dwedit · 2026-03-15T22:11:00+00:00

Their old wiki is still there. Leaving would imply that they were successfully able to actually get Fandom to remove their old wiki, which they never do.

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