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Took a risk and repasted my PS3 slim. It was thankfully the revised model with allegedly better cooling, easier to work on, but it was absolutely dusty inside. Good lord. How did this thing not catch on fire earlier?
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wizardperspective
3 days ago
Agree. I give the 3DS remakes a pass just for that, even if they did change a few things.
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ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT U.S. DOLLARS for a MID-RANGE (debatable) Mini PC, also known as the STEAM Machine. Gaming is dead.
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wizardperspective
4 days ago
Also doesn't come with a controller unless you pay $100 more and only 512GB of storage!
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didntask
5 days ago
"Playing online should be a basic human right" so true also i hate that the 360 started achievements, they ruined video games by turning them into checklists.
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wizardperspective
5 days ago
Also forgot to mention how wonderful Halo's OST really is. I would love to play Halo 3: ODST someday just for the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk
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imperialxtal
5 days ago
When the Xbox One was in development it was announced that it would have always-online DRM. Even though they ended up reversing this I decided to never buy one of their consoles again.
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RIP Arch, I'm on Devuan now. Just have to configure I3 but I'm messing with XFCE once again. It's alright.
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I'm debating if I should risk it and repaste my PS3 Slim's CPU and GPU. Seems like a good preventative maintenance considering this console is more than a decade old (The fat models are going to be 20 years old this year) but Sony's hardware is a nightmare with all the different screws you have to keep track of.
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Don't use arch btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxR7fGl4CI just another meme I fell for again
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wizardperspective
1 week ago
Using pacman -Qm to check my foreign packages. None of them appear to be the ones that were compromised followed by this script from catchy OS thread: bash <(curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh) it appears none of my packages are compromised (at least that's what I hope).
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wizardperspective
1 week ago
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-almost-2000-packages-affected-20260611/31040 and https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/chaotic-aur-packages-requests-recompilation-reports/26/1238?u=sunda-spirit for more info
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wizardperspective
1 week ago
Also reports on: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/
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wizardperspective
1 week ago
I am safu. Everything is fire. There's a better overview and update here: https://thecybersecguru.com/news/atomic-arch-aur-supply-chain-attack-ebpf-rootkit/ But suffice to say, I probably won't be updating for the time being. I got a Devuan iso so now I have to mentally debate myself if I should make the switch back to Debian based distros (For my X230T specifically, I run Mint on my desktop).
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didntask
1 week ago
im safe ๐ช we cant let windows users know that this happened, we'll never hear the end of it
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foxtrotalpha
1 week ago
I've been tempted to try something besides mint for a long time but I just cant justify that
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wizardperspective
1 week ago
Mint is fine. Just werks for the most part. But on my laptop, I stride towards minimalist i3wm setups. I like having the ability to switch workspaces with bindings and use less than 4GB of ram on the daily.
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As if my Vinyl and Vidya list weren't bad enough, I had compiled a list of random misc CDs and DVDs computer software unrelated to gaming. Posting them to my Techblog page right now.
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Put it all back together and stress tested the console using Uncharted 2 because that's a graphically challenging game for the system. Played for an hour and only noticed a strange smell (Not sure if it's something burning or maybe it's the new thermal paste or perhaps I'm very close to burning my house down).
Played a couple of minutes later and didn't have any abrupt shutdowns, cmos battery seems fine, and I guess the fan is working because I can hear it and warm air is coming out from the vents. I guess I succeed? It was a pain in the ass with all the different non-standardized screws.
Something I noticed about Uncharted 2 as I started from the beginning is that yellow paint meme. I had no idea it was abundant in this generation too. When you're aware of it, it's blatantly obtrusive.