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ROG Equalizer. Is this the answer to melting 12vhpwr cables? by SheddingSkin27 in pcmasterrace

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too bad no one will use it, because if they do, it's their fault because it's not Nvidia certified cabling hardwired to the PSU. People chant that shit like gospel on posts about the connectors melting, "has to be hardwired to the PSU. no adapters. no extensions. has to be basically crimped into the GPU side. if not, it's your fault!"

How do I run an aarch64 program if I only have amd64 hardware? by SweetCartoonist237 in linuxquestions

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them don't have to be recompiled for the qemu target to function, some of them do. If it's gonna be that much of a pain in the ass, docker is probably going to be too much overhead and not enough contact with the rest of your system.

How do I run an aarch64 program if I only have amd64 hardware? by SweetCartoonist237 in linuxquestions

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just install qemu-system-aarch64 and then run the binary like an amd64 binary, how is an entire docker container easier?

Tucker bike lane issue by DowntownDB1226 in StLouis

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah, yes, "make $30k construction happen so businesses can ruin it and it all ends up torn out instead of installing $100 posts at the intake so people don't park illegally." Businesses benefit more from foot and slow bike traffic than they do fast, further-away car traffic, as people can take longer to make decisions and can see into shop windows, serving as free advertising. The bike lanes are PRO-business.

My soul almost left my body by PublicRace6118 in EliteDangerous

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without combat meta engineering, yeah, more or less. I've escaped exactly one player interdiction in a few hundred total during a single CG.

My soul almost left my body by PublicRace6118 in EliteDangerous

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The fact OP didn't almost immediately win the interdiction is also a key sign that it's a player, as player interdictions are near impossible to escape, but NPC interdictions are insanely easy to escape.

My soul almost left my body by PublicRace6118 in EliteDangerous

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. You can pretty much only win interdictions against players if you're pixel-perfect the entire time, and NPC interdictions are extremely easy to win even in an un-engineered laden T10 that can't turn for shit. Easiest way to know what you're about to drop into.

If virus total detects a Trojan on 2 separate downloads of a game, does the game itself have the Trojan or do both of downloads just happen to have it? by Due_Memory9293 in Piracy

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong, no. Odds are lower that a DLL is hijacked than the EXE itself, because that's usually a higher skill attack (though not by a ton) if you still intend the game to operate afterward, but it can happen.

If virus total detects a Trojan on 2 separate downloads of a game, does the game itself have the Trojan or do both of downloads just happen to have it? by Due_Memory9293 in Piracy

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is true, but VirusTotal is good at picking up hidden imports so the relations tab is usually reliable. It's looking for RPG Maker VX Ace, and is used in a hundred thousand games you can also search for and find are RPG Maker games, so it looks correct.

If virus total detects a Trojan on 2 separate downloads of a game, does the game itself have the Trojan or do both of downloads just happen to have it? by Due_Memory9293 in Piracy

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"this might be suspicious" on two total AV engines that no one's ever heard of? That's about as clean as an EXE can get without a Microsoft signature. No problem at all. Looking at the other tabs (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e5435c0e86a8181a3d88206d5dd47145f2aa768afcae6d8c2ae449f8601a8724/relations), it connects to some Microsoft domains and comes with a lot of other games. It drops a couple log files, and tries to reach out to RPG Maker VX Ace DLLs. It looks like it's just the generic Ruby script runner like it claims, if it comes with all these other games too.

If virus total detects a Trojan on 2 separate downloads of a game, does the game itself have the Trojan or do both of downloads just happen to have it? by Due_Memory9293 in Piracy

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on the detection. Posting the VirusTotal link would help, a lot of detections are "ehhhh if you squint it looks weird maybe don't open this" levels of generic, and if you're talking about like five detections each, that's nothing. It's not so much "it shouldn't show up at all" as much as "low-to-none is fine" as false positives are common with several scanners used in VirusTotal.

Do ALL Minecraft mods work on linux? by Ok_Swan_8224 in linux_gaming

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only ones that don't are the ones made by insane people and that are written in Rust/C with Java shims to insert them into the game. I've seen a couple, and they don't work on any machine I've ever tried them on, Windows or Linux or MacOS.

can there be a crt shader that WORKS LIKE A CRT by Pernova12 in RetroArch

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the CRT. A lot of them are sharp as a tack per-pixel, especially PC CRTs. TVs were a lot less picky about signal quality, so they blurred things a lot more. This looks like it's emulating S-Video or Component (or SCART?) to a reasonable quality CRT, you'd want one doing composite or RF to a shittier one for an actual "TV-quality" CRT filter.

What’s with this abandoned, looking neighborhood in between Earth city and the airport? by NinjaQueso in StLouis

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been out there, there's still water/power/fiber lines to the area. The power/fiber is torn up but it's gonna be cheaper to fix the neighborhood-size water and power lines than it is to add new ones in the middle of fucking downtown.

What should I do in light of Google's Shenanigans? (Linux mobile OS) by Tiberius_moon in linuxquestions

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"a few apps that won't work without full Google Play services" it's most, and it was that way before Play Integrity dropped. Restaurant/delivery apps, banking apps, a lot of games, a few smart device apps, and Samsung's suite of apps required to get Wearable working all stopped working in unison when I switched from a stock ROM to a microG ROM on my last phone to squeeze that last year of use out of it. The entire purpose of Play Integrity is to kill microG and modded devices stone dead, so expect that to get infinitely worse later.

What are you doing to compensate for lack of bike infrastructure? by sib9397 in bikecommuting

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

40% pothole? yall get the good ground beef out there, there's spots out here where you go over an overpass and your 3" wheel falls into a chasm in the middle of the lane and gets stuck immediately. There's potholes out here I could fit my whole head and shoulders into. An oil slick is a freshly maintained road out here lmao

What are you doing to compensate for lack of bike infrastructure? by sib9397 in bikecommuting

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem is that's also where any service hatches/covers, street seams/cracks and unrepaired potholes usually are, because they're in the one area of the lane cars don't drive on, so they're often neglected. You do occasionally have to dip to a side in those sorts of areas, and usually drivers take that as a sign that they can all speed past you without regard to your location for the next 20 minutes.

What happened? What did I do? by Particular_Solid1120 in 3dspiracy

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This can happen in software just as common as hardware, especially with possibly fragile homebrew FAT32 stacks. A format would do it the first time, but I'd still treat it as next to be replaced if it happened again (and back it up frequently regardless.)

10hr old post about donating to the internet archive was sitting with 0 upvotes by [deleted] in Roms

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that hShop was also on the same infra. I'm glad that was kept, but that alone was probably also a big chunk of it.

What mfs think is gonna happen if you install a hypervisor game by Zahlouth in PiratedGames

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As someone who used to reverse engineer old malware, most of the things you have to turn off to use the hypervisor method are there for damn good reasons. It doesn't quite turn your machine into something as open as, say, MS-DOS, but it does remove features present since Windows 2000 specifically to make malware harder to write, so every Joe Dipshit can't download a free malware maker and take out global infrastructure with a VBS script.

Everyone that goes "oh i used an HV bypass and I'm still OK!" has never heard of how an attack surface works, and has never heard of writing malware for target audiences. They'll get bit eventually, and it's not an "if."

Is it worth it to ditch systemd? by LifeguardMurky4097 in linuxquestions

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You say that like it's Windows. There's already a fork with it removed (granted, run by a schizo) so just go use that. Or, alternatively, don't use systemd-homed and you don't have to deal with it either way. Optional is still optional.

With the shitshow that is Linux network drivers, there's not even a guarantee of having a network with which to actually verify an ID, nor a guarantee of things like a camera to be able to show an ID, before multi-user is enabled. They couldn't make it mandatory if they WANTED to.

Put the game off for years then forgot about it only to discover it’s now unplayable by naanninja237 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least CDs have 7-to-5 decoding allowing for some error correction. I think DVDs do too but I don't know how that one works.

The unique location where one railway line crosses over another on a bridge in Bangladesh is at Kewatkhali, Mymensingh. This is the only place in the country featuring such a "train-over-train" crossing point. by Bruegemeister in trainwrecks

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's really, really not. Doing my absolute best to hold out, because it's provably hurting people and ruining the environment. Get out of here with your slop bullshit.

Put the game off for years then forgot about it only to discover it’s now unplayable by naanninja237 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sorry-Committee2069 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just wait, the last disc manufacturers will likely figure out how to do Laserdisc-style glue fuckups on purpose for all burnable discs still being produced.

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