I mean there was already a 360 emulator but a lot of stuff doesn't run great on there so if this method will run stuff better that's cool. Maybe it will give me an excuse to finally play Lost Odyssey. I think most good games of that gen I already played on PS3 and a lot have PC ports these days.

Ace Combat 6 is the only game on my list of 360 games to play when emulation gets better. I guess there's Nuts and Bolts if you still care after Tooie. The gritty brown FPS era may be better than what we get these days, but it still didn't produce much that calls to me years later.

It wasn't a console with lots of exclusives and the stuff it did have has mostly made its way to PC long ago.

>>2148
>something not working correctly in FF
>they could break media in firefox
I don't know why my fingers decided to go full retard in that post. Sorry

It's over.... my violentmonkey and ublock extensions are gone

How did they 'gone'?

>>2661
Can you still sideload them, or does Chrome not support that? (Haven't used it in years.)

>>2663
IIRC, the manifest V3 thing removes support entirely. Chromium forks should be fine though afaik.

>>2510
I'm getting in 4x48GB of RAM later this evening. I'll update with my results, but for now I can answer a few things:

>My choice of RAM is 2x32 or 2x48
I currently have 2x32GB with a 4090 and DeepSeek R1 671b-UD-IQ1_S ran at ~1 token/s (>>2445).

>with a $100 premium on the 48
If you're not too worried about the speed, these are the kits I'm ordering:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D286TQHV
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2888BLV

>Do you need like 200gb across GPU and RAM to load the great model?
It depends what you mean by "the great model". For the higher quantizations you only need ~88GB total between RAM and VRAM, if using llama.cpp. If you want to use Ollama, you need to merge the weights into a single file and then you need RAM + VRAM to be quite a bit more than the filesize of the model (>>2433). For lower quantizations, you need a lot more memory, and if you want to run the giant unquantized model, you need like >1TB of RAM.

I'll be trying 2x48GB and 4x48GB and seeing how much of a difference (if at all) they make towards generation speed. I kind of have a feeling that maybe when I was running DeepSeek R1 before, it was probably going out to a pagefile on my SSD since I had like 500MB of RAM leftover while running it.

>>2515
Maybe?... The people who made the quantized version of DeepSeek R1 provided an example in their blogpost showing that their highest quantized version was still capable of creating a flappy bird style game from scratch (>>2417).

>>2519
I ended up ordering a 2x48 thing, but I feel immensely ripped off by it. This is the computer I'm going to be using for the next 4 or so years so I justified the price premium to myself since I don't buy things like real clothes. The whole reason I'm doing the RAM thing is for local text gen so I'm eager to hear of your progress in it. (saw in IRC that you're having issues though...)

>It depends what you mean by "the great model".
The famous one that is a little bit below GTP4o or whatever. My assumption is that I can't run that one, but maybe the one under it? Slow 1 token/s generation is rough, but part of the appeal of all this VRAM and RAM stuff is multitasking.

The API is still fucked huh? I assume results are slightly worse than usual because of the DDoSing or whatever

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-share-some-ai-model-code-doubling-down-open-source-2025-02-21/
They say they're going to open source the code too this week.

I can't think of anywhere else to post this, but I finally found a blender script for retopology that clicks with me. It really takes the headache out of thinking of ways to patch holes while meeting the vert requirements. Manual touchups are still needed here or there and you really do need to know how to plan out topology, but this is making retopologizing a lot less painful for me. (It's kind of crazy it made a knee joint layout by chance) It feels closer to a creative process since you're drawing lines and letting the calculations be done by the script. If only AI stuff was actually going in this direction.

Anyway, it's called Easy Patch 2 and I actually spent the $15 to buy it just because I hate this whole process so much.

Here are some essential programs i have saved in a notepad for redownloading purposes.
>exactaudiocopy
I used it once for ripping a cd and it worked great.
>icaros
I dont know whats wrong with windows but multiple times when reinstalling my pc i would have issues with thumbnails. It just didnt work on most files and would sometimes lag when loading it all. Icaros did fix that very annoying problem but caused another. The thumbnails werent the same as usual so you would need to tinker it to your liking. Still a good alternative if your windows thumbnails are fucked.
>keepass
One of those password managers. Nothing more to say
>mediainfo
I usually use this to check bitrate of videos or music. It basically shows you every piece of information of a video file. Its pretty useful when you torrent something to verify that the file matches whatever it said and for making your own torrents and copy and pasting the information seen there. Im not sure about music files though. I can see bitrate of music files but i havent really checked beyond that.
>sumatrapdf
A pdf reader that works. I throw a epub or a pdf at it and it works. Doesnt feel like bloatware at all like what i would expect of a pdf reader.
>goldberg emulator
A steam emulator that is useful for when people share steam game folders. Does not work for games with DRM.
>ruffle
A swf flash player. I've only used it a couple of times but it seems to work well enough.
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>revo uninstaller
This is good if you somehow installed a kuso program that wont go away.
>rufus
This is very good for formatting usbs and hard drive. I use this to format my big hard drives to fat32 for use with the wii for example.
>wii backup manager
Just a simple thing to use to transfer games to your hard drive. You can do it manually but i prefer it this way.
>dban
Must have hdd wipe tool. Always use this on a hdd if you're going to sell it/throw it away. Do not use on a ssd.
>subtitle edit
I dont really make my own subtitles. I find it useful for the batch convert option it has. Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs, hi meaning hearing impaired. These subs are really annoying because sound effects are shown in the subs or the name of the person speaking is also shown in the subs which can cause spoiler issues. Its just annoying because i only want subs. Im not fucking deaf. So what i do is just download the subs and then use the batch convert option and then tick the option to remove the hearing impaired parts from the subs.
>xdvdmulleter
Old software for creating hdd ready folders from iso rips of original xbox games. I find it pretty useful but newer software might do it better.
>fatxplorer
For formatting hard drives for use with the original xbox. I've also used it for unlocking a few drives. Sometimes its just simpler than using something like the chimp app on your softmodded xbox. I just dont want to do the whole process again. If you've nulled your eeprom on the xbox then you can just lock the new hard drive with your current drives eeprom. Then you can copy every of the old drives folders to the new one one by one. Its a good program.
>chocolate doom
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>>2538
>Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs
With the correct regex you can remove all these bracketed SDH.
MPV and MPV-based video players has some functions function for this.
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-sub-filter-sdh
If you set this up it should save you the hassle.

>>2539
Oh cool. I will test that out later.

ts has been engaging in self-deprecating humor on xitter as a form of advertising

Ahem. kissu is a proud ventrilo site.
I can't imagine anything being a discord killer, it's just too big. Specialization is what's needed, and I don't think privacy is enough on its own. It's kind of the problem of discord in that it tries to be everything, as true of most tech companies these days.

I assume anyone strongly against Discord simply never migrated over from IRC in the first place. Discord has been around about a decade now, anyone who has been using it begrudgingly all that time can't actually mind it that much.

People don't just switch what they've been using daily, simple as that. I still have a Facebook Messenger because my family wont(cant) switch to anything else.
>privacy
Has there been any discord server of the piracy kind being raided/banned? I don't know of any incentive from discords side to move to teamspeak.

>>2530
I'm pretty sure Discord deleted a few Switch freeshop and emulator servers when Nintendo got bloodthirsty a while back.

Wait a minute... 512 is even more than SHA256... How long would it take a bitcoin miner to crack that...

what are you trying to get me to do here? There's no way I can get some sort of pattern out of a salted hash.

>>2517
If you do though, you'll become a billionaire.

Thank you for the replies. I am happy to see that the program is working. In case you were curious, The answer is
QAXM-GVTG-EAOK-NKOK-DJES-JKPG
Have a nice day.

>>2521
/maho/ just got played in some way and we shall never know

Looks like it has seen years of solid use.

those must be some rude letters to require censoring

best keyboard

>>2154
I let my dad trick me into getting some $100 dollar "running shoes" because he believed they'd be better for my feet and they fell apart within a year or two, so I'm hesitant to spend anything beyond the bare minimum on shoes now.

>>2157
well this advice obviously applies to things that aren't manufactured as "made in <your country>" when really they're cardboard crap assembled in China then sent over to be boxed up by locals before being put on the market to trick unsuspecting customers.

I recently had to stop buying boots from a company I've bought from for years because they're now selling $50 quality boots at $300+ coasting by on a reputation the company had built up for over 100 years before being bought out by a new parent company a few years ago.

Man, I need a 3090. I wonder if people will throw some up on ebay or something when the 50xx series is revealed in January for what will surely be a ludicrous price. I'm not sure how many people would be jumping from 30xx to 50xx, though, but it's probably not many. The prices are just so damn absurd, and the 5080 will only have 16GB of VRAM and will probably be like $1700.
Come to think of it, if I get a 3090 doesn't that mean I could have my 3080 and 3090 in it together for 36GB of VRAM? I should look that up, but I'm sure I'd need a new motherboard.

>>2075
Any reason to get 2 M2 SSDs, or is the one good enough?

>>2449
Depends on the OS. I know the default QNAP OS, I believe unRAID, have tiered storage, so more frequently used files will be moved -- not copied -- from the hard drives to the SSDs. In that case, you would probably want two and set them to RAID1, so if one dies, you don't lose files that got moved to the SSDs. If you use TrueNAS, there's not really much benefit other than extra redundancy. TrueNAS doesn't have tiered storage. Instead, it tries to put files into RAM (ARC), and files that don't fit in RAM can go to the SSDs temporarily before being written to disk (L2ARC); these can be removed from a pool, or die without data loss, but their benefit is subjective.

If you want, you could also just install an OS to an M.2 drive instead of using USB.

wow.. that's so weird... in his 1.0 version he's directly calling the windows API to generate windows. I have no idea how this sort of thing even works... I guess this is how C# does it's UI builder or something...

What does taiga have that trackma doesn't?
https://github.com/z411/trackma

>>2434
Uh, hm. I'm not sure actually. Didn't really know of its existence, but it tracks manga/vns as well? That's pretty neat.

>>2434
>trackma
trackma nuts

>>2420
>Win 11 or the subscription-based 12 in the future.
omfg what

>>16
Blogs are probably the 'old web' thing to have survived the longest, still being relatively mainstream to this day, especially among more bookish crowds. I think a lot of it comes down to their standalone nature and emphasis on individual opinion. It's a format that lends itself well to being linked on social media sites like Reddit.

joelonsoftware
codinghorror
krebsonsecurity
handprint
jwz
qntm

sorry for not linking, my post gets flagged as spam otherwise

>>2330
It would be the last two that trigger it. It's extremely rare for short URLs (URL shorteners) to be legit and not spam so kissu blocks them.

still missing old man murray sigh

You'd do it with your smart phone. Have a vendor with w pub key as a qr code and you'd have someone scan it and then they authorize the app to send to it. I think the major exchanges have these sorts of things already.

The problem is verification is slow.

Ignoring the fact that crypto is highly violate and not at all usable as an actual medium of exchange for everyday goods because of that fact... Crypto transactions are just really slow. When you go to a store and use your credit card or debit card, those transactions are real-time, and were verified by some mainframe that's sole job is to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, from hundreds of thousands of banks and individual retailers, all while also providing suspicious transaction monitoring in that 3-5 second timeframe it takes for the card reader to say "Approved".

Blockchain transactions can take literal hours to verify, which for a vendor, you can understand would be completely unworkable. That's not to mention with cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, there are additional fees to merely have transactions be processed, which for low amount transactions could be equal to the initial purchase price itself. Suddenly a $1.29 pack of gum actually costs you $2 because of network fees -- scaled across any number of daily transactions...

These issues are why there are crypto exchanges -- cryptocurrency as a decentralized blockchain with third-party verification makes it incredibly useless in reality -- crypto exchanges act as a third-party with liquidity to side-step blockchain verification and instantly deposit the amount transacted into the wallet of other exchange members. And, naturally, on top of whatever transaction fees the cryptocurrency itself might impose, there are then also fees that the exchanges impose for their their services. Which, if you put any thought into for more than a few seconds, you will realize completely negates any of the supposed virtues of cryptocurrencies; Chain of trust? Nope, you're transacting between ephemeral virtual wallets. Decentralized ownership? Nope, all your funds exist with the pseudo-bank that is the exchange -- you do not control your wallet. Insulation from market volatility vis-a-vis the '08 financial crisis? Obviously, laughably not, crypto is extremely volatile and value is more or less directly tied to stock market performance.

If you want to use crypto for day-to-day usage, there are a million disincentives, and many more reasons to just use a debit card or credit card. To my knowledge, the only places that have seen any modicum of crypto uptake for daily usage, are countries that have such unstable currencies that the volatility of crypto isn't as bad in compariPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I'm stupid, so for other stupid people like me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale

>>2324
I forgot to mention one last big issue. I touched on it by describing cryptocurrencies volatility, but forgot to go into more detail. That being: convertibility. I think this comes as something of an oversight when discussing cryptocurrency, given it's nature, but when it comes to currencies and the acceptance of foreign currency for international exchanges there is ZERO question that you can reliably use a credit or debit card in any country or when making online purchases. Occasionally there are fees imposed, particularly with in-person transactions, or with ATM foreign currency exchanges, but often international purchases have no additional fees. Again, this may come as something of an oversight, but when it comes to the ability to use an ATM, even in other countries, it's a mostly painless process to get local physical currency. ATMs are extremely numerous, and especially at international travel destinations, and airports, physical foreign currency exchanges are also very common.

This comes in contrast to cryptocurrencies because the medium is the asset. Whether it's converting between USD and CNY, or CAD and JPY, or EUR and SEK, or CHF to WON, etc. there's very little volatility in exchanges rates because on-balance, currency exchange rates are determined by international trade expenditures and revenue, foreign currency reserves, and above-all exchange rate to the US Dollar as the world reserve currency. Generally speaking, the biggest source of volatility in exchange rates tends to be as a result of domestic inflation; ergo, if your country's currency has inflation, your currency will be weaker in relation to other currencies, and thus the price of foreign goods will become more expensive, however, if you have an export-oriented economy this devaluation can make the price of domestic goods artificially cheaper for foreign buyers. So, to give an example, if Brazil has high inflation, importing foreign goods may become more expensive, but for other countries the price of agricultural products out of Brazil, such as soy beans, will decrease relative to their previous price. In the long run, these trends are generally self-stabilizing absent dramatic economic intervention by governments so that prices and exchange rates remain relatively stable. This is largely why Neoliberal economists advocate for free tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2302
Yeah but now I just want to do it for fun

Well... If you do it, you should see if you can launch your scam coin on Coinbase somehow. Every now and then they do "learn and earn" things where, for completing simple quizzes about the coin, they'll give people some of that coin for free. Could give temporary liquidity and convince retards to buy it and then you can rug pull and cash out.

>>2304
>launch your scam coin on Coinbase
Exchanges are pay to play. It costs millions.

or at least a market cap of a million. the initial holders have to put in a lot of initial money to make it seem like a real hype coin.

Idk how to make a shitcoin, but that sounds very similar to crash gambling

>>2263
if you're brave enough to walk around with your laptop in your hands while playing a game, why not lmao

There must be something we're missing. It's such an oversight that it must be more sturdy than expected... somehow. Or maybe it's uhh... actually I don't know.
I hope it's backwards compatible with switch and someone is able to crack it. Oh, and somehow Nintendo stops allowing the mountains of shovelware released to its digital store every day.

>>2265
>it's backwards compatible with switch
It is *with exceptions.

>crack it
Probably, the rumors that Nintendo has been on a suing spree shutting all the Switch stuff down lately because the Switch 2 will be super similar are looking true right now. If this really is just a Switch with a bigger screen and better resolution/fps, then they're competing directly with emulators.

>>2263
>handheld
>hand
>held
Think about this for a bit

i am

>>2292
I don't have enough accounts to need more than one page, but I know which accounts are newer which means they're further down on the page. If you have a lot of passwords you can also just get a password booklet that's alphabetically sorted if you need it.

used to store all my passwords alphabetically in my phone notes, now I use keypass

maybe a collection of cut-up index cards

You'd have to write down each password twice in case you lost your wallet.

>>2284
That's probably at the core of why everyone wants 2FA these days. People have a limited capacity for good password creation so all the long-term ones are strong but used for a bunch of accounts and all the short-term ones are super weak shit at the top of any brute force list.

I need a laptop like that

>These are also decade-plus-year old panels and CCFL. Their already low brightness and kuso color is much more degraded years later.
I've got some nearly 2 decade old Dell CCFL IPS LCDs. Love them and they work great. Their only issue is there's some small flakes of dust that have managed to get between the LCD and CCFL backlight, but it's only visible on completely white backgrounds. That and early IPS panels have some minor image retention when you leave a high contrast static image up for a white, but it goes away after a few minutes of changing screens. Mostly just an issue I notice when leaving stuff like Discord open and images are on the screen for a while.

Lovely 4:3 monitor, not a stinky 5:4. Still holds up at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz. They make for excellent side monitors.

I really wish some random boutique Chinese monitor manufacturer would make new OLED 4:3 monitors. I don't wanna have to use 16:9 monitors vertically, and 16:9 is way too wide for side monitors unless you're like a sim racer or turbo FPS gamer dork or something.

>>2111
Hm, square monitors do make more sense when it comes to the side monitor. I really like my ultrawide, though. I have two of them on an L-shaped desk and it seems to work decent enough, although it feels wasteful because it hurts my neck to actually use the far side of the side one. Square screens would feel more like a natural extension, so maybe I could look into that next time in a few years...

i have few eizo monitors....

>>2111
I have been hunting down one of these Dell 2007fp monitors for a while now. I really like the aspect ratio, but have only been able to come across 19" square monitors, no larger.

There are tons available online for ludicrous prices, but I really can't justify spending any more than $30 for a decade year old monitor, especially when I've gotten every other monitor I own for free.

Did some googling and it turns out some assholes on YouTube branded it a "retro gaming" monitor (despite its considerable video delay), which likely jacked up the prices. As was the case with kuso tube televisions that were being dumped at the curb only a decade ago, but at least those don't have awful delay.