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The ViRGE is notoriously slower than software rendering, but the Savage is merely "normally" slow in the way that most single-pipe single-TMU designs just... are. Anything using multitexturing tanks the framerate, you're pretty much capped at 640x480 if you want a playable framerate, etc etc...

I've decided the T20 will run Windows ME dual-booted with NetBSD i386 latest. If I'm gonna make a stupid waste of my time, I'm going to make THE stupid waste of my time. ME should be a supported platform for this, and there is some logic to it: - The sound is horrible in DOS, so I don't need to...

Momentum. It's still there because momentum. People don't really change thought patterns, it's why Microsoft is still so dominant in the first place. Your first option a normal person will think of when wanting an alternative is going to be a Mac or an iPad with a keyboard case, and the first...

The T23 wasn't available until mid-2001, and its max was 1GB. (The T20 through T22 had a max of 512MB.) 1GB or even 512MB was still gobs and heaps and tons of RAM in 2000-2001, so you very likely still had plenty of headroom with that. I would have killed for any kind of portable computing...

Considering the limited video chip and the fact that the fastest chip I'm likely to be able to run is a 1.0GHz (anything faster is a Tualatin and not directly compatible), I'm not too fussed. For what I'm going to do with it, 700MHz is plenty, given the rest of the hardware kneecapping it. I...

Friend of mine is ditching a ton of his e-waste, so now it gets to be my e-waste. At least his more or less works, and what may or may not will at least be useful for parts, unlike a lot of the junk that litters my home office that I haven't gotten around yet to recycling. Laptops. I'm getting...

In retro build news, my Pentium MMX is finally stable. Biostar MB-8500TTD paired with the custom J.3 patch to fix several bugs with the IDE controller -- and an EEPROM with an actually writable config memory portion -- has this thing rock solid, even at a 75MHz bus. 83 can boot into Windows and...

Sure starting to wish I had the hybrid. 😅

As much as I view AI as a copyright infringement machine, I do have Claude Pro (at least for the rest of the month, unsure if I'll renew) and I have used it for automating some stuff like writing out SQL to make new items on a batch basis (when I need lots of a similar thing, I'll make the first...

I used to use mRemoteNG for that, and it's a native Windows application. I'm not actually sure if that's still developed. On Linux I tend to gravitate toward Remmina -- it's maybe a little less fancy, but it works fine. It's good that something exists that's cross-platform and runs in a browser...

My 2018 RAV4 manages about 26mpg combined typically with my Florida Driving(tm). If I do a lot of highway running or absolutely utterly baby it to hypermile I can eke out about 30-33mpg, which for a car of that size with nothing special in the way of engineering is pretty okay. Mine is the last...

After using a 27 inch 1080p monitor (typically I top out at 22" for 1080p displays) and really enjoying it, I've come to the unfortunate conclusion that my vision must be degrading more quickly than I thought.

Think I ended up using a pair of Inspur cards using an Intel X540T2 or whatever. The stock cooling was pathetic so I slapped a fan meant for a 3D printer on them. Now I can't recall if the performance I got was less than expected due to talking to a 3-HDD RAID and it just couldn't saturate it...

Yeah, I myself run a Surface Laptop Go 2 as my personal portable computing device of choice -- much less fancy specs, only an 1135g7/16/512 and the cooling won't even let it scale the same as my old Elitebook 840G8 that had the same CPU -- but it has a 1536x1024 3:2 display and it is amazing to...

Got the dock in yesterday, although my MST DisplayPort hub isn't in just yet. I just about used up every single USB port on the damn thing getting my DAC/amp and XLR interface hooked up, but in actual use, it's definitely a bit speedier than the 3770K. Obviously for games the sheer power on tap...

Just a reminder written in blood that we're all supposed to be using AUR packages at our own risk and that we ought to be auditing everything we install from there. Arch/Cachy just plain has more in its repos than Debian does, as far as stuff I actually use, anyway -- and those, at least thus...

I plan to actually use it like a regular computer when it's not gaming, so I'm going to make more use of the AUR. I used it all the time in the past for installing certain games or source ports.

At present, the handheld is due back in sometime tomorrow. It's coming FedEx, which means I should actually probably expect it to be delayed another week and be smashed to bits when it gets here. ;) I think I massively overstated how limited the Deck was, actually -- yes, the Deck was kind of...

The Ally is on its way back as of today. It should hopefully make it back before the month's out.

There's a reason I flat out refuse to purchase anything but dumb displays. It means my 4K TV in my living room is a 43" Sceptre, but I'd prefer that to these kinds of abhominations. I've been interested and that may just have been the push I needed to go watch The Odyssey. I haven't gone to a...

It's probably about time I got my eyes examined again.

Wonder if Scott Jennings will be having any 20-minute in depth conversations about policy and senate history with the late Lindsey Graham. Didn't have on my bingo card for the year Graham going officially before McConnell, but here we are. We all know McConnell's at a minimum not in a fit state...

I did end up taking the discount. I really needed the impetus to get rid of a bunch of junk I'm never going to use again, anyway, and list it on eBay. Merc, you're more optimistic than I am, is all I'll say. I don't have any concrete ideas about how it'll happen yet simply because so many parts...

I agree, but I also think this is the best I'm likely to get in These Current Times(tm). It's not an amazing deal but considering they could have just told me it was their way or the highway, any discount at all seems like more than I should have reasonably expected. Yeah, ID software is just...

They sent a fairly generous 35% off offer which just barely brings it back into the range where I'm considering paying what they're asking. I was expecting them to come back with a pithy 5 or 10% figure. Maybe they know their initial quote was off-base.

It's sad because Kentucky is a beautiful state and I grew up there and wouldn't trade it for anything, but they make some awfully questionable decisions up there. I say. From Florida.

It got "escalated" over the weekend, and yeah, now they want me to pay for a replacement board. Basically as much as if I were to go and buy another handheld entirely. I get that I'm the one who messed it up, and I understand the supply crunch we're in, but I'm simply not paying that much for...

Nothing more US-american than celebrity marriages and blowing off your fingers with pretty explosives while you eat your weight in various meats. I stayed home and played a video game. Been getting pretty into Project Diablo 2, got a Vengeance Paladin build going. Very squishy in Hell, I need...

I've been running one of those cheap switches with dual 10Gbit RJ45 transceivers for well over a year, feeding both my server and my desktop. The 10Gbit link is only useful for local transfers between them, but it's been going strong for all that time, 24/7 aside from the odd power outage. One...

They seem to have just silently moved onto the "repair" part of the RMA. No update email, nothing asking for payment, they say it'll be done on the 8th. Interesting.

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic today, actually. I've had friends who've apparently managed to get away with low-key kind of scamming new monitors out of them in exchange for some pretty heavily-used ones they bought off ebay one time that apparently still had a scrap, a crumb of warranty time...

Ally's due to arrive at the ASUS shop today. Bracing for whatever I may end up being told. What I imagine is most likely is being told that they'll fix it, but that I'll have to pay for the motherboard out-of-pocket.

Pretty sure that's running Rhythmbox with root permissions since you'd have to call the script with sudo or what-have-you. Not good practice by a long shot but also unlikely to be something that gets you pwned from within your LAN. I also wonder if that's effectively just turning off the...

Well, thanks for that nice dose of dread. Now I guess I really do have to hope for a miracle.

I, um. Actually did buy one of those open-box ROG Ally Xboxes. I got it yesterday. I figured if I sold my Retroid Pocket and some of my hoard of DDR4 it'd just about cover it, and my birthday is next month... I immediately ripped the battery connector off the board disconnecting it to get the...

My guess is that it'll be adequate, but not perfect on up to Half Life Alyx, but anything after, who knows.You have to push two fairly high-res displays at a high enough framerate to not make people sick, after all.

I agree with you that GoG is much closer to ideal, but I frankly don't think it's realistic to expect corporate publishers to ever go to a no-DRM world unless they're dragged kicking and screaming the entire way by some governing body or other. Pandora's box is already open on that front. I'm...

A socketed CPU and PCI-E slot would have made it a fundamentally different sort of machine though, one that'd need adequate cooling and power for the stronger hardware it'd support. It'd nix the form factor and silence of the machine. Maybe that'd be for the best, but it'd be a different sort of...

I don't disagree with that interpretation. It seems a lot of people are taking this as a betrayal. I honestly didn't realize it performed that badly until I saw GN's review with benchmarks, and boy, is this just embarrassing. This loses to a stock PS5. The CPU loses to an R5 3600. The GPU is...

On one hand, I get it, but I personally see the last no-bullshit version of Windows as 2000. And even that had SOME bullshit, i.e. the integration of Internet Explorer.

I was f*cking kidding. Holy crap. It really didn't even make it to Friday.

Yeah, at these prices it's DOA, but when they jacked the Deck to $790 base I honestly figured base model of the Machine would be anywhere from $1250 to $1500. It could have been a lot worse. On the one hand, am I buying it at this price? No. Was I ever going to? Probably not. But especially not...

That's probably what the community installers do, word-for-word. More effort than I want to go to for Windows 7, though.

The reason it wouldn't work is because the official drivers now won't install on 7 out of the box. ;) But yeah, like I said, the retro community (and Windows 7 diehards in general) don't really like taking 'no' for an answer from manufacturers/software devs.

Yes, that would allow access within your LAN. Access from outside the network SHOULD be being blocked by your edge router's firewall. Whether that's acceptable depends how much you trust the devices in your local network, and if you want every single one of them to be able to look at it. It's...

I've got a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro that's basically been just an emulation handheld since Steam Remote Play is, for some reason, really finicky and unfun for me -- and also if I have to run it on my PC anyway, I'd rather just play it on my PC on the bigger screen most of the time. For the games I...

Huh. I either use Jellyfin or just access everything via SMB or NFS. So there WAS once upon a time a reason to have UPnP enabled that wasn't just opening holes in your firewall for funsies.

Actually, 7 can run more-or-less unmodified on up to Skylake, and I think, first-gen Ryzen. You may have to enable legacy boot -- 7's UEFI support is in most situations practically broken as I understand it. The folks in the retro community can basically stuff 7 onto whatever hardware you want...

Doing some research, this is apparently because these are the base models trying to drive 1080p panels with APUs on par with the Deck. For which its own 800p screen was already a challenge.

Have you bought one? I'm wondering what the catch is. I could swing one of these if I sold a couple other things I've got hanging around and I'm honestly tempted to do just that.