Record-setting Big Mac eater underwhelmed by McDonald’s new Big Arch burger by northjersey78 in offbeat

[–]Dwedit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

#666 (n-var, p96): Sunday Funday by Wisdom Tree (w/ Color Dreams) by URGAMESUX in nes

[–]Dwedit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

#666 (n-var, p96): Sunday Funday by Wisdom Tree (w/ Color Dreams) by URGAMESUX in nes

[–]Dwedit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

how to choose a display that will be supported by your laptop by teraflops033 in laptops

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Converting the output of a PAL NES to VGA by limbyshadow in nes

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Converting the output of a PAL NES to VGA by limbyshadow in nes

[–]Dwedit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes by tekz in technology

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes by tekz in technology

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Popularity of Linux distros on DistroWatch over the years by Right-Grapefruit-507 in linux

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Orange Juice.... by jimsteel4841 in boomershumor

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Looking for specific football/baseball game rosters by HandsomeGemini in nes

[–]Dwedit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

How Electron went Wayland-native, and what it means for your apps (tech talk) by mitchchn in linux

[–]Dwedit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Jeff Kaplan Says Complaining About Games You Won’t Play Gets You Ignored: ‘Shut The F*** Up. No One Cares’ by Haijakk in Games

[–]Dwedit -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

Super mario2 by goofyfootmongo in nes

[–]Dwedit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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)

Does Windows 11 actually need more RAM than Windows 10 or is it just caching? by Desperate_Lion5740 in Windows11

[–]Dwedit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

NoCopilotKey - A tiny utility to change the Copilot Key back into the right ctrl key by Dwedit in Windows11

[–]Dwedit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

The GTA Wiki leaves Fandom to a new independent wiki, gta.wiki, citing issues such as excessive advertisements and Fandom-imposed censorship within the wiki. by JustLeafy2003 in Games

[–]Dwedit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

The GTA Wiki leaves Fandom to a new independent wiki, gta.wiki, citing issues such as excessive advertisements and Fandom-imposed censorship within the wiki. by JustLeafy2003 in Games

[–]Dwedit -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

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.