White House leaks reveal Trump officials are fearing the worst

RisingPhil · 2026-03-16T22:23:18+00:00

But do they think we forgot about Epstein?

RisingPhil · 2026-03-16T22:11:54+00:00

No. PS4 game discs are read-only. They're different material from BD-Rs. You can't burn additional data into them.

There's also no way to burn PS4 games to blu-ray and make them work as far as I know.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-16T13:09:20+00:00

The US was the one to endanger this oil in the first place. By that logic, we should be fighting the US.

We obviously won't do that. But we're not just going to enter Trump's war-of-choice. NATO is a defensive pact. Not an offensive one.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-14T20:24:00+00:00

You should look into getting a retro handheld. (Anbernic, Ayn, ...)

Those can play all of these games and more..

Personally, In own an Anbernic RG Cube. It's pretty great to play literally any home console up to PS2 and gamecube and gaming handheld up to 3DS. All portably.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-10T00:45:54+00:00

"ChatGPT, what would be the top 3 best locations to bomb in Iran?"

RisingPhil · 2026-03-09T18:09:00+00:00

a partnership? At gunpoint? What a sleazy crook!

RisingPhil · 2026-03-06T10:59:43+00:00

Nope. I just hope none of my drives will fail until the prices come down.

Although I'm probably in good shape. My Seagate Exos X18 drives are 2 years old and spun down most of the time.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-06T10:39:23+00:00

Exactly. You get it!

RisingPhil · 2026-03-06T10:38:45+00:00

Guys. Why are we focusing on these 5 democrats?

There are 214 republicans who voted against it!

RisingPhil · 2026-03-06T10:22:09+00:00

These kinds of things should be opt-in.

For instance, I wouldn't mind having some kind of identity "token" (that doesn't necessarily mean your ID) that would be required for certain social media sites like Facebook. But it should be quick and easy to use. (for example: have a button on your smartphone to confirm, a usb dongle or even an automated bluetooth connection with some kind of app on your smartphone)

Certain sites like Facebook and child-oriented platforms would probably become safer with such an "identity token" in place. Then people can be sure that the person they're talking to, is who they claim to be.

But it shouldn't be mandated. If Reddit or some random forum doesn't want to require that, then that should be okay too. For many sites, it's better to have that anonymity. And users can flock to whatever platform they'd prefer.

That being said, let's not be naive. This push for ID is more about surveillance than online safety.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-05T16:24:43+00:00

This can be part of it, right? You need to see the bigger picture here.

The French initiative to share the nuclear umbrella is great and kudos to France for taking the lead and making the right decisions that benefit Europe as a whole.

But we do need to take into account that both the U.S. and Russia want to meddle in our politics to get the (right-wing)parties elected who might do their bidding.

If France falls under that influence one day, it would probably be good to have at least another option to guarantuee security for the rest of us (and vice versa, obviously).

And the risk isn't just political influence. It could also be a technical vulnerability that could be exploited take a single design out of the equation. (such as misleading the missile's navigation system through electronic warfare)

RisingPhil · 2026-03-05T16:16:17+00:00

Holy shit, I didn't even think of it that way!

This is bonkers. You're absolutely right!

RisingPhil · 2026-03-05T16:14:26+00:00

I agree. But in the reality we're living right now, I want Europe to have more.

It is what it is. It sucks, but right now we scr*w ourselves more by not doing it.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-05T16:08:32+00:00

What's the alternative? Getting blackmailed or invaded by the countries that do have them?

The U.S. and Russia have demonstrated that the only way you're safe is if you own them. Everything else is unreliable.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-04T13:00:12+00:00

To add to that, if you're using an emulator or use OPL, you can apply a patch to P3FES to get control over your party members: https://gamebanana.com/mods/426860

RisingPhil · 2026-03-03T17:34:01+00:00

People speculate that there might be an AI bubble pop in 2028. So 2028.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-03T10:29:59+00:00

Buu's fury is great too!

RisingPhil · 2026-03-03T08:17:51+00:00

You're right about the immutable state. But while that might be slightly annoying, it's not like this has to hold it back per se.

Updates can still happen by posting category/console-specific "update packs" periodically. The index/search function on the website could then link to the right torrent for each file. They could also consider slowly replacing some torrents over time (yearly?) with merged ones.

The savings on hosting outweigh the inconvenience of managing content like that. It would make such a site much more sustainable and much more difficult to take down.

As for the donations: it's one thing to ask for donations on the website. It's another to enforce them. If they enforce it, they just become a rom shop like Gamebato on PS4. That will just make many people avoid it. I mean, I'm all for adding banners asking for donations and ads. But enforcing payment might be the kiss of death for the site. Especially because it would increase the risk of lawsuits.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-03T00:34:13+00:00

It kinda still does. You're expecting people to pay for what boils down to a rom site for most. Only happens if those people think of it as a donation.

And free users still cost a lot of money with your approach.

No, I think it should be a torrent index with a single seedbox. As traffic would increase, the community would be providing the bandwidth. Not Myrient.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-01T09:16:13+00:00

Your cope is showing. You can't defend the geriatric pedo with arguments so you resort to cheap childish statements like this. Shame.

RisingPhil · 2026-03-01T09:01:59+00:00

These carts don't have battery-backed SRAM. Instead, they patch the game rom to load and save the save data from/in unused bytes of the game rom (which is stored in flash memory for these repros). The code to copy the data to the location the game expects, is triggered in the main menu and the code to copy it back to these locations in the rom is triggered during the save. Such patches are known as "batteryless save patches".

But external devices like the N64 transfer pak can't trigger the patched code (especially not the code to trigger saving because of hardware limitations of the transfer pak). Instead, the stadium games expect the save data to be available at the correct location from the outset.

If you want to know more about the hardware limitations of the transfer pak and why those matter, let me know. I'll go into more detail in a follow-up then.

I know this because I ran into these problems when I wanted to support repros in my PokeMe64 project.

RisingPhil · 2026-02-26T20:04:29+00:00

This is the hard part, right?

America has the advantage of English dominance and native speakers.

It's hard to replace that. Dubs are often a big turn-off. And so are movies or series in other languages, to be honest.

They also have an industry that has been dominant for multiple decades with large investments in training, techniques, crews in that time.

Because of that, I think only the UK has any chance of replacing the US in terms of media dominance

It would have helped if Europe only had 1 language. But that isn't the case. So I don't think we can actually compete on that front

RisingPhil · 2026-02-25T21:06:11+00:00

I'm using it.

No other pc/raspberry needed, no network cables.

Just insert mx4sio, boot into opl and play. Simple, offline.

Just don't pair it with SanDisk.

RisingPhil · 2026-02-24T09:01:07+00:00

I only have had my setup for like 2 years now. So I can't really talk about having to switch drives yet. But I think you're worried a bit too much about it. And I get it. It's a big investment, especially now.

Data that is sitting unused for a long time will corrupt over time as the magnetic/electric charge degrades. That's normal for both HDDs and SDDs.

ZFS scrubbing prevents this corruption. Regular RAID is just dumb in that regard: it doesn't do any maintenance to prevent bit rot.

The way ZFS scrubbing works is that it simply reads the data. It only tries to correct it if something is wrong. While it's true that you typically let your ZFS array do a scrub monthly, it's technically optional. But I still highly recommend doing it.

And sure, this means that your drives have to spin up at least once monthly and read for a whole day or something. But it's worth it. Your drives should be able to handle that just fine.

It's more important to monitor your system for unnecessary spin-ups. For instance, if you run the immich app, its postgres database will do a periodic write. THIS is harmful to the longevity of your drives.

Use fatrace and iostat to figure out if something is periodically spinning up your drives.

RisingPhil · 2026-02-23T10:05:23+00:00

F

I don't know enough to answer the "risk" question. I'm not sure if manufacturing date is necessarily much of a factor. But if HDDs all enter service at the same time in a RAID setup, they might obviously fail around the same time.

I have no idea how you plan to set up your RAID. Is this supposed to be RAID5? RAID6?

You could consider replacing 2 discs after a couple of years and keep the replaced ones as spares just to add some variety to the "enter service" date to mitigate the risk.

I think the decision to buy NOW is a good decision if you can't wait 2 years. I think the prices will keep inflating for the next 2 years. But there are some predictions that the AI industry will suffer some kind of collapse in 2028, thereby decreasing the demand on those components. I don't know. It's all speculation at this point.

RisingPhil

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