8 GB RAM MacBooks have died — long live 8 GB VRAM Nvidia GPUs
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8 GB RAM MacBooks have died — long live 8 GB VRAM Nvidia GPUs
Oh, that was also surely a 'fun' bit to translate to a Russian dub of the movie. (In Russian, the word is spelled and vocalized with an I.)
Of all things that happen in the new Indiana Jones game, it's the anachronistic use of the term "abjad"—introduced in the 1990s—which threw my suspension of disbelief out of the window.
Most interesting find in Windows XP is resources for the OLD Windows Setup GUI from Windows NT 3.51 in the setupdll.dll file located in System32 folder!
Bitmaps, dialogs even string tables from Windows NT 3.51 are surprisingly intact!
Sadly, this file got removed in Server 2003. :(
I admit, I did get a chuckle from some of them! Anyway, it's fascinating how such a representative selection of 1980s UK microcomputer literature ended up in a library of a remote Russian city.
Genuine.
If a buyer and a seller have built a mutual experience of unauthorized and ethically dubious deals, and both of the know that Apple isn't able to do anything on the buyer's side, why not? Especially since Russian distributors had been casually breaking global release dates already.
The action hasn't led to any notable changes on the battlefield or the field of diplomacy. But hey, I can't update my Intel Wi-Fi card drivers for some reason.
Companies queueing to an exit from Russia in 2022 led it to legalize unauthorized imports, mandate exit taxes & gov't approval for notable deals, and triggered an enormous reallocation of assets while empowering local and Chinese companies.
Also, it's not March 2022 anymore and wars are clearly not won by consumer goods companies abandoning ship.
People who react to M4 MacBook Pro leaks by saying Apple should halt its business in Russia (however limited) are being ridiculous. It's a problem created by the _lack_ of corporate oversight. What would having _less_ of it lead to?
Wrote about this one a bit back and was genuinely surprised how charming and nice it is. There's not much more to it than the combo of classical music, classical poetry, and cute cats, but do you *need* anything else?
cdrom.ca/games/2023/1...
Funny thing is: if you're playing on the original hardware without owning it in its prime time, curiousity is the only thing which feeds your urge to play with remastered visuals. ("Gee, it's nice to see such a pretty picture on a 19-year-old hardware.")
Playing Halo: CE Anniversary—first time I'm playing any Halo, in fact—and wow, you don't need to have any preestablished perception to understand that authors of the remaster did the lighting dirty. Indoor environments are so moodier with the original graphics.
Мне кажется, — но точно не скажу, потому что в какой-то момент перестал фиксировать, — что в WordGrinder все так же, но поломаны _не все_ шорткаты, и это, наверное, даже хуже.
То чувство, когда у разработчиков есть тонна консольных редакторов на любой вкус и цвет, а у тех, кто пишет слова и предложения, — один WordGrinder и то чудом. (Варианты им. Дж. Дж. Р. Мартина не предлагать, мне б нормальную поддержку кириллицы.)
Last page of a stockbook filled with "dunes" stamps, issued in the name of Manama and the State of Oman, as well as stamps of a fictious Principality of Thomond.
Building a page of shame. My father sure was duped a few times when he was building the collection...
A pair of white Samung Galaxy Buds Live and a pair of black Buds FE.
Highlight of the day: found my favorite earbuds, long presumed lost 🫘 Not in the mood to get rid of the in-ear ones—guess I can now choose them depending on the mood.
A top-left corner of a TV, with a current time and the time of a next alarm displayed on a vaguely three-dimensional pill-shaped box.
After an update, my fairly modern smart TV got this gracious gradient behind a clock. I guess we're really hitting the new design trend cycle—this visual element looks like it came from 2011 and 2025 simultaneously
A café in Moscow's commercial district offers takeout Aperol spritz as a weekday morning special. Sure, why not
I searched YouTube for some book reviews and, in a "recommended" section of said search results, got a video titled "I want to s**k your d**k" with 20+ million views. Great platform you've got here
I've been gifted a bottle of popcorn syrup this Christmas, and I still don't have a clue where I could apply it. Any ideas?
Smells of popcorn, tastes like hazelnut, but the latter gets lost in any hot liquid. "Coffee smelling of popcorn" is not as vile as it sounds, but it does feel like a waste.
I continue to adore strangers I see in public transit with some kick-ass old phones. Props to you, a grandpa with a gold Galaxy S7 Edge.
A badly-damaged packaging of Painter 3 by Fractal Design, a graphic software from the 1990s famously shipped in a paint can.
There was some sort of paint can, which I kept ignoring for months, tucked away in a kitchen drawer by my rented flat's landlords. Today, I've decided to throw it away, but
I've spent two days explaining to a lot of people, many of them professionals in consumer electronics, a difference between Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, and a 6 GHz band.
A datasheet for Transcend CF220I industrial Compact Flash card which says: "True IDE Mode supports Ultra DMA Mode 0 to 5 (Ultra DMA mode 5 must supply with 3.3V)"
As for the second part, that's on me and my desire to run one of few cards which explicitly runs as a fixed disk in a UDMA-5 mode. Unfortunately, most CF-to-IDE adapters do not include voltage selectors anymore.
CompactFlash cards can be configured to use Fixed Disk mode, as this is defined by the CompactFlash specification. However, SanDisk does not support its implementation with our consumer or professional-level cards, as it is outside of the scope of their intended use. Thus, all of our consumer and professional cards are shipped, by default, in Removable mode.
The first part is because most CF cards report themselves to the system as removable disks, and that confuses operating systems that expect to be run on a fixed one.
Check out this aggressively-worded support page from SanDisk: support-en.wd.com/app/answers/...
It's funny that CF-to-IDE adapters were initially pitched within the retrocomputing circles as a cheap and easy storage solution.
Now, from what I'm getting, trying to make them work as intended means digging for specific "industrial" CF cards and specific adapters with 3.3V support.
A photo of a PCIe 2x card with a Sony floppy drive mounted on it, and the floppy insert slot mounted on the external facing panel of the card, complete with eject button and LED.
PC Cases without 3.5" drive bays may have been an inconvenience, but no longer.
