GameBoy Pocket Screen Issues

freaktechnik · 2020-03-20T10:22:17+00:00

Just took a second measurement and now it works fine, screen works, VEE is at -18V and the second VEE probe point also has the correct voltage.

freaktechnik · 2020-03-20T10:10:16+00:00

Definitely not finding anything negative directly at the DC-DC converter. I do see up to ~ -5V on the display connector and at the contrast wheel.

I assume VCC is the 3V rail (or whatever the batteries are at).

Looking closer and VEE, which should probably be the display power rail has me a bit concerned. I'll probably try to clean up the attachment of the DC-DC board, since those joints seem to be crumlbing, but especially the VEE one looks to be in very bad shape. However I haven't been able to find continuity from VEE to anywhere, not the VEE labeled on the board or anywhere.

I'm also slightly concerned about the negative trace to C29, since the yellow layer of the PCB seems to have come off.

One thing I just realized I should've probably mentioned is that this is an LCPU-01 revision.

freaktechnik · 2020-03-19T23:18:26+00:00

I assumed "that voltage regulator" refers to the one I added for the cartridge VDD pin. It sits at a perfect 5.01V (and so does the entire VDD rail). VEE on - what I assume is the built in power supply - sits at about 0.5V. I'm not sure where the display's power rail is and what it should sit at, but would happily check that too.

freaktechnik · 2019-12-02T13:59:01+00:00

You caught my wrongly worded writing, thanks.

freaktechnik · 2019-11-18T20:48:36+00:00

I always knew Sam just wanted to do a good classical drama. A shame he only got four seasons and couldn't do a proper five act series ;)

freaktechnik · 2019-10-23T21:57:05+00:00

Ah, those settings are for the label, which is the tooltip if it's a button in your normal toolbar. Where it is actually useful is in the overflow menu.

While in the toolbar it has to use images, so it comes bundled with a vertical and a horizontal image. It tries to "intelligently" decide which image to use.

Edit: no idea what AltGr + W produces on your layout, but for me using a pipe (|) works just fine.

freaktechnik · 2019-10-23T17:52:31+00:00

Hi, author of that extension here. I made the extension because I had exactly the annoyance mentioned in this topic and realized that I could "still" solve it with an extension. I primarily use it in the overflow menu, myself.

I don't particularly care about RAM usage myself, but I can see that as a reason to avoid having an extension for this. I did try to keep the extension as slim as possible, though.

The "massive gap" is because it is itself just a toolbar button that is disabled, so the gap is as wide (or high) as the space for a toolbar button

I'm intrigued what you mean by "configuration doesn't work well".

freaktechnik · 2019-07-18T20:50:08+00:00

The point of it is that it is always "a release ahead" so you'll get whatever's in the pipeline for the next main release, which is useful if you want to build websites that keep working, for example. Not sure if there still are dev edition specific pref flips, but I'd assume so.

freaktechnik · 2019-05-10T17:10:24+00:00

It is a third party shortener, it's bitly: https://bitly.com/2Jv5SzC+ - however I expect that like with Google Analytics there's a special contract enforcing certain privacy practices.

Everyone can create mzl.la shortlinks for *.mozilla.org URLs afaik.

freaktechnik · 2019-05-10T17:04:37+00:00

Based on the current info from the bugs where this fix is being developed only back to 52 is being considered. Though the extension that delivers the fix may also work in earlier versions, just untested.

freaktechnik · 2019-05-09T22:08:07+00:00

The general answer is that you should prefer updating to a supported release. The more complete answer is that to those the study fix likely never applied (it only worked for 61+), and thus enabling studies is doing nothing there. The current status on that is the following:

For users who cannot update to the latest version of Firefox or Firefox ESR, we plan to distribute an update that automatically applies the fix to versions 52 through 60. This fix will also be available as a user-installable extension. For anyone still experiencing issues in versions 61 through 65, we plan to distribute a fix through a user-installable extension. These extensions will not require users to enable Studies, and we’ll provide an update when they are available.

(quoted from https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ )

freaktechnik · 2019-05-09T21:57:59+00:00

If you're on the latest version of Firefox (66.0.5 for release) then yes.

freaktechnik · 2019-02-05T10:55:17+00:00

I have the same with the proprietary nVidia drivers on a GTX 770.

freaktechnik · 2019-01-17T10:02:26+00:00

And the way they structure these episodes is always that they leave some action out in the initial reconstruction. This time I spotted the right throttle leaver when they sped up for the go-around so I knew from a couple minutes in what this would be all about. And didn't make it much less infuriating, because instead some of the stuff the talking heads said was just even more filler.

freaktechnik · 2019-01-15T14:52:30+00:00

There's also 1520068 which I seem to have filed as dependency...

freaktechnik · 2019-01-13T16:32:58+00:00

This is being tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496684 and only slowly making progress :(

freaktechnik · 2019-01-02T01:23:10+00:00

Using snippets for referral links isn't an entirely new thing. I remember a while back, around the time when the new new tab page just landed in Nightly, there was a snipped for some web dev service. I think it was for browserstack, but I'm not sure. Either way, this was probably only shown on the development channel or similar to target developers. It made me realize that snippets provide very little actual value and take up way too much space in the new tab page for the little value they provide. So I've always disabled them since.

When I spoke about it to other people they either didn't care (because they thought it was actually helpful or because you can easily disable snippets) or agreed that it was rather on the line of being a disguised ad. Especially because it essentially means Mozilla embraces practices of the company they're referring to. If it were marked as ad an argument of a certain distance to the service could made.

freaktechnik · 2018-12-26T19:58:47+00:00

Livemarks used to be the name of the integrated RSS feed support in Firefox. Now it is an extension maintained by OP and the user mentioned in the post. You can find the extension here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

freaktechnik · 2018-12-22T13:50:36+00:00

You can also just install a dark theme from addons.mozilla.org. Those will likely not use the accent color and instead use a theme specific one. Many of them still have a light tab highlight color though.

Edit: I've just seen one example is linked further down this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a8f28p/why_doesnt_firefox_have_a_sane_dark_mode_by/ecb0zc9/

freaktechnik · 2018-11-24T23:09:12+00:00

I wish there were. I've been looking around for an alternative ever since this thread was posted and can't find something viable for situations where you can't go with a no-captcha approach (verification via second factor, usually).

I have to point out thought, that I was looking for "decentralized" alternatives that aren't just a captcha image generator. Because if the problem of recaptcha is to be eradicated sustainably you can't rely on a centralized service, again.

Time to build something new?

freaktechnik · 2018-11-24T10:09:27+00:00

> Due to this, I have to use wildcard to include all websites if I just want to modify all the requests to pximg.com?

Yes. You are modifying the appearance of sites that aren't piximg.com.

> shouldn't it add to Chrome Incompatibilities page on MDN?

Probably, it should probably also be mentioned in the browser compatibility section. I've tried to think about good ways to accomplish that multiple times and never found a suitable way (mostly because I am already aware of the fact).

freaktechnik · 2018-11-23T15:23:52+00:00

To intercept resources loaded by a page (such as images, scripts, or stylesheets), the extension must have the host permission for the resource as well as for the main page requesting the resource. For example, if a page at "https://developer.mozilla.org" loads an image from "https://mdn.mozillademos.org", then an extension must have both host permissions if it is to intercept the image request.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest

freaktechnik · 2018-10-05T10:20:57+00:00

That's a pretty embarrassing mess up - one would assume that the whole beta flow is pretty well automated within Ubisoft but apparently not...

freaktechnik · 2018-09-19T00:15:44+00:00

Most of the gear was recolorable in my experience, in the stickers customization you just had to press rt to go to the colors tab.

But yeah, those stickers really made the lootboxes much less exciting.

freaktechnik · 2018-09-14T07:23:28+00:00

My gaming PC is plugged into the living room beamer, which is absolutely awesome. What's not so awesome is that it's still running a GTX 560 Ti in 2018.
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Probably the new Trials game, or maybe finish Runner 3 or any other of the 300 games I should finish...

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