Havent needed them in months, I’ve been at 30 days remaining in evaluation period for 3 months.

My Blu Ray player has never been connected to the web, its region free, but doesn’t do 4k-BD. My Linux HTPC is configured with an ASUS libredrive, and has MakeMKV installed. The Linux variant of MakeMKV is borked right now, in a good way! The 30 day trial period doesn’t expire!

If I wanna watch a 4k bluray I have to rip it and watch it on my PC, because I’d rather do that than get a BD player that needs internet

Sounds worth a watch, thanks friend!

YOO is that the one where one of the LLMs gets stuck in a loop of existential despair because it must complete its task but has literally none of the tools to do so?

Just an aside that it tangential related.

If you are one of those muppets (I was) I implore you to spend a couple hours learning to Roll out an llm on your own machine (not leveraging someone’s GPU farm, use your own hardware at home). It only takes a couple hours of fucking around with prompts to realize these things are dice rolls with heavy weights on what Rolls can come next. They’re dumb as rocks, don’t think at all, and even so called “reasoning” models can’t solve even the most basic logic puzzles.

I used Deepthink for an hour guiding it to proper solutions for logic puzzles and it consistently hallucinates new information to result in the puzzles being easy to solve.

LLMs are NOT intelligent, they’re (much like diffusion models for images) literally just making sense from random noise.

If you patch your homebrew ROMs with the 80minute cd patch you can load them in pcsx2. In this case I believe you’ll have full color regardless of if the ROMs are made for PAL or NTSC

Edit: I actually don’t think you have to do this since pcsx2 doesn’t do anticipate checks, though you’ll probably need access to a PAL bios, which is easy enough to install as a secondary bios in pcsx2

I’m most familiar with PS1 Homebrew, its almost all available under the “Net Yaroze” name.

Without a Net Yaroze ps1, you’ll need a TonyHAX/freePSXboot memory card to boot the games. TonyHAX unlocks the region by resetting the disc drive into an unlocked state after Boot. As a consequence, this also allows homebrew titles and less than legitimate copies of titles to boot. Don’t use this for piracy, that would be iLleGaL.

Archive.org has 3 Net yaroze game jams available, one of which has 83 titles but they usually render black and white. There is also Fromage, a ps1 demake for Minecraft (barely functional, but neat to show friends)

You can at least have the gaming!

IA has most games from that era archived and most consoles can be softmodded to play totally legally aquired backups that absolutely are not archived copies of games

While I don’t recommend it for a first watch, I have access to a copy of the fulcrum cut, a super-cut of the last three episodes of Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith.

You can DM me if you want it

I use the Kotatsu android app, available on f-droid (unless it got banned) and github.

Pulls from hundreds of providers. Some of the sites don’t work without captcha, so ymmv.

Also, turn off notifications for the app, lest you recieve a hundred notifications about a site needing a captcha.

Thank you for your reply, and an actual justification 🙏🙏

Why AI meme?

No hate to AI or image generation, they have their purposes, but why AI meme?

This is a 2 minute sketch, TBH I might be able to make this by hand faster than any of my locally deployed AI models.

“Sketch, Color, Snap, Crop, Add Text, Upload.”

Dont say its a skill thing, I’ve seen literal stick figure drawings on lined paper get upvoted to frontpage here on Lemmy.

Sim city 2000 running in DosBOX

Expiration dates are literally made up, very infrequently will any actual testing be done to see the exact time it takes for a food to decay enough to be either unenjoyable, unpalatable or inedible.

They’re usually 1 week from mfgr for unpreserved foods, 2 weeks to a month for soft foods like American sandwich bread, 3 months to a year for dry goods (depending on what it is) and up to several years for canned goods.

My salt has an expiration date. Salt is a rock, it is millions of years old (not sea salt, mined salt). It does not expire.

That’s an elegant way to describe the Rube Goldberg machine of bullshit that is life on Earth.

You can’t use the webapp?

I always just use the browser app and I don’t think I’ve given them my phone number… I should check that actually

Brilliant, you’re a saint!

Oh, no I play Tetris Rosy Retrospective on that. All the new amenities on classic GB tetris.

That’s exactly the handheld I was referring to, the anbernic rg35xxsp

Tetris effect connected.

It made game of the year for a reason.

I think I’ve sunk 200 hours into tetris this year alone, I have it on like 4 systems including my SP handheld clone

Edit: my phrasing here was unclear, there effect connected has not been ported to portmaster or the ports collection, I use Tetris RR, a custom patched og GB tetris to have all the same amenities (hold, hard drop) as modern tetris.

If you like tetris and want tetris RR, find a GB tetris ROM and patch it yourself

A link to the Romhack (for the mods, this is a link to the patch, not the rom, i know VL has pirate content but this aint it, it does however have a link to their archive, where the rom does exist) https://vimm.net/romhacking/hacks/5813

I rip all my vinyls to optical for backup purposes, so the last one I did was a few weeks ago.