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  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game ConsolesEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I do think software piracy also was a large success factor. When I was 13 there was one major spot in my city where consoles and computers were sold (within a department store!), and people where “swapping” games even before they bought the hardware. I remember at least one of the store clerks having a small side business providing access to disks and tapes you could copy - right on the machines that were shown in store.

    And I learned how to copy the C64’s basic rom to ram and mod small things even before I had the machine myself.

    All the kids were gathering round the computers, the consoles were less attractive.

    When I got my own C64 in 1983, my first game was Fort Apocalypse. It was not an original. You needed a boom box with dual tape decks to copy these.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessionsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.

    I’m using FF as my daily driver, but I feel my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.

    I do wonder (just in my head, there’s no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.

    I’m not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.

    It’s still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result…). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.

    Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I’m at http://weirdkinkyporn.com/, please just store it for a few hours). A single keyword for history search IS NOT ENOUGH. I need to isolate things by adding a number of things, because if I knew the word I’m searching for, I’d just google it anyways.

    Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).

    But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There’s no money for experimental stuff.

    About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.

    I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.

    That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.

    Fuck Mozilla.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoCoffee@lemmy.world•Espresso shot pullers: How long does your method take?
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    6 months ago

    Espresso does not mean fast but is from “cafe espresso” - pressed out coffee.

    It’s not the coffee express.

    Btw, in the morning I get up go to the coffee machine, turn it on, take my meds, sit on the sofa while the coffee makee heats up.

    I start browsing lemmy, forget the coffee maker, the timer turns it off again, while I answer to some posts.

    I get up, turn it back on, sigh and wait until it is heated up (which is quicker the second time)

    So my morning cup espresso takes about 30-45 minutes to make.

    Oh wait, let me check for my coffee.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Is a Voron 3D printer worth it??English
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    6 months ago

    Look on github for Rappetor’s SV08 mainline repository. You’ll need a new mmc or sd card (both are ok) and a “five bucks” STLink programmer, but then it is quite easy to put mainline klipper on your sv08. The mainboard is a cb1 clone with the “main” ST microcontroller for driving the steppers on the same board (for cost reduction, probably)

    That’s the prerequisite for using a probe. like a btt eddy on a SV08, for example.

    Other than the SV08 has a few issues like super noisy board fan which can be very easily be taken care of. (Funnily software control of the fan is possible, but just not done in the default firmware)

    My mods are mainline klipper, btt eddy, new (printed) extruder shroud with better airflow, a microswiss hotend and a second camera (USB webcam for second viewing angle and better resolution).

    Out of the box the SV08 has a bit of problems keeping a consistent Z offset due to missing temperature calibration for the probe. More reliable solutions (ported from voron) like klicky are available. I chose eddy - but haven’t perfectly tuned it in, either. I’ll try the eddy-ng firmware (github) next week.

  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English
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    7 months ago

    Haha, already there. I canceled my Netflix a year ago or so after the amount of cheap self produced stuff got too much and they removed more and more older quality content.

    Now, whenever I want to stream I sign up for a single streaming service for a month or two - but the time where I was just subscribed all the time is over.

    Ah one reason also was the sharing crackdown, I had kept the subscription long term as my kids used it when they were at my place or my ex-wife’s. Nowadays it doesn’t work anymore as (for example) the TV my son has at the ex-wife’s place never is connected via my internet.

    With added commercials, less quality etc streaming got less attractive. Hey, nowadays I regularly go to movie theaters, again.

    And if things get worse, somewhere I still have my captain’s hat and the wooden leg for sailing the seven seas…