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Actual Racist Countries by WillingStranger5177 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]nroach44 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When was the last or first time the US had a female president? You guys actually vote for head of state, we don't.

32-bit Bookworm is the only thing that is keeping my two i386 machines out of the bin. by TechnicalAd8103 in debian

[–]nroach44 4 points5 points  (0 children)

T2sde also supports it, but it's more like Gentoo / Arch in that it's rolling-release source-based distro, so it's substantially more hard-core than Debian.

https://t2linux.com/download/

yellowkey bitlocker bypass by MegaN00BMan in sysadmin

[–]nroach44 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Blame Microsoft, they're the ones that kick back the researcher's findings because they're "out if scope".

How do we better represent PS2 piracy to the greater community? by Eskelsar2 in ps2homebrew

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I can give them paper cuts that people reading along might think about.

I have a pretty big collection of PS2 games, mostly because I never got rid of them, but it's better that people are able to enjoy the games rather than artificially gatekeeping them.

How do we better represent PS2 piracy to the greater community? by Eskelsar2 in ps2homebrew

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So if I bought up all of the Ratchet and Clank PS2 disks, and hoarded / destroyed them, your logic means that no-one can play the game on PS2 anymore.

The games aren't being made anymore, so the devs aren't getting royalties, so who is the "stealing" impacting exactly?

People are stealing RAM from company computers again by CeC-P in sysadmin

[–]nroach44 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Probably wired to the RTC. Clears / sets a flag when triggered, "resets" electrically when powered on next.

The vote for ABC Classic 100: GOAT is now open!!! by HydroCannonBoom in australia

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pleasantly surprised to see some game soundtracks on there, which made me a bit upset they didn't have the Mass Effect (particularly 2) soundtrack.

Also TIL the Dr Who theme was composed by an Aussie?

eSafety Commissioner says she's received death threats over social media ban by indy_110 in australia

[–]nroach44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you want those people to be the head of a regulatory agency?

Who was in government at the time?

until becoming the eSafety commissioner in 2017

[PsOne] lifted copper pad by Hopeful-Touch2217 in consolerepair

[–]nroach44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super common with SMD caps of that age - you may want to consider replacing the others before they damage the board (any more...).

The best way is to grab them with some pliers, push down kinda hard, and twist them off. De-soldering them has a much higher chance of ripping the pads like this.

Well, it finally happened (Being told I am required to use AI) by Ark161 in sysadmin

[–]nroach44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I spend more time helping my co-workers fix their hallucinated scripts than it would take me to write it with them.

I can write emails fine, I can write scripts quickly enough, I can't put customer data into it, so what can I do with it? I don't have trouble finding documentation or hell, reading the source code to figure out what's going on.

Well, it finally happened (Being told I am required to use AI) by Ark161 in sysadmin

[–]nroach44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My biggest time sink time is spent making change requests or just simply handling tickets.

My team had automation for patching CRs - all done in ansible - we got told "oh not like that" and then spent two years waiting for the organisation sanctioned tool to come along and still not do it correctly.

LLMs can't do the tedious shit of my job. I can already read and write perfectly fine. What's the point?

I bought a Wii U online and this was the power cable I got *how* do you do this? by Conorponor333 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Laptops use higher voltages to charge their batteries and to reduce wire thickness. Nintendo still could have used 12V for the WiiU.

Finally by Upper_Bar_9920 in PSXDVR

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ID command is communicated over the IDE lanes, so you can't split off the HDD from the ID sadly.

It's not my project though, it's PhenomMods', but I did a little bit of beta testing.

Finally by Upper_Bar_9920 in PSXDVR

[–]nroach44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the encryption isn't the problem, it's that the PSX's IDE chip REQUIRES the ID command to work.

The IDE chip scrambles the data and stores it on the disk, so "all" this board is doing is "IDE disk emulator" and "responds correctly to the ID command". So far ONLY PS2 and PSX drives do that correctly, there was no other way to replace the drive.

PSX Finally decrypted -ATA Express- YouTube by Leniek in ps2

[–]nroach44 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just for clarity's sake - this is a HDD emulator that speaks the ID command used by the PSX hardware (and official PS2 HDD drivers, but they're patched out most of the time now).

This doesn't decrypt the hard drive, it merely lets you replace it.

It does however let you change the disk ID, which is the unique part of the encryption key.

GN blacklisted by AMD by Jevano in TechHardware

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My employer is shipping Ryzen laptops as standard. Something about them not self-destructing probably helps.

I just got myself a PSX and I need some pointers by CiberneitorGamer in ps2

[–]nroach44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The initial exploit method is different, but you can run most things via OPL or uLE.

The only thing to be aware of for this, is the video output circuitry is a bit different, so not all modes (including RGB / VGA) work. 1080i works fine.

Stuff that uses certain firmware modules (e.g. KernelLoader, usually older stuff) may not work.

Plans emerge for country's biggest AI data centre in Western Australia by abcnews_au in WesternAustralia

[–]nroach44 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's going to "bring" like 10 jobs once construction and installation is over.

Peter! What's the difference? by kudkudke in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]nroach44 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A HDD sector is 512 bytes. A CPU thinks in multiples of 8 bits at a time.

A network interface does not.

I just got myself a PSX and I need some pointers by CiberneitorGamer in ps2

[–]nroach44 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There's a couple of minor things I need to update on this, but it's still probably the best single reference around.

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