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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    4 days ago

    I have an HP iPAQ PDA that also has dome buttons and can emulate the Game Boy or NES, as well as play native games (Chuzzle, Bejeweled, Solitaire, Freecell, Kevtris, SimCity 2000). Mine just barely lacks the RAM to allocate a 4MB block for a WAD (supplying a smaller WAD doesn’t help) so I can’t play Chocolate DOOM. Maybe a repartitioning hack (allowing installation to SD) or one that deletes system programs (such as Calculator, Pocket Word or IE) could help? (The “storage” is a flexible RAMdisk, and running the battery down or just unplugging the charger when a key is pressed down erases everything in it, the system then reinstalls from ROM and all but the SD contents is lost. At least with a third-party registry editor, I can restore settings in minutes. So yeah, freeing some of the 16MB storage could yield enough RAM.)

    Anyways, as LGR says about his (pretty much the same as mine but with built-in Wi-Fi that doesn’t need an SDIO card), the buttons just suck. But it’s mostly due to poor layout (thumbs too close, OK key protruding from the D-pad) and lack of rollover (only pressing the leftmost and rightmost keys has an action: on battery power, it clears RAM and disables all functionality until the charger is connected: does it short the battery??), I suppose the N-Gage solved both issues and dome buttons aren’t inherently bad.



  • So much “nerd” paraphernalia is BS… This one is ridiculous (one doesn’t get to “be a programmer” by sorting and collecting 10 personality traits as if they’re goals or achievements) but at least it shows varied syntax in the C language: the number of unique keywords is very high.

    To show you’re a nerd, don’t go with obvious “look, this is what I am” but use dogwhistles (Conway’s Game of Life or fractals can look like knitting patterns) or to be obvious, some things you personally like or made. Badge with your distro’s logo or mascot, code you actually wrote or its output, wearable blinkenlights project… Just be more focused on your interests than yourself.











  • Tracker? No, this is a copy of MATLAB '96 + Signal Processing Toolbox. It’s a bit of a waste to use the N64’sGPU for a CLI though. The PS3 version that came out a few years later was better: you could connect a 1080p monitor and the GPU was tailor-made for scientific calculations, processing 200 MiB (most of its VRAM) of samples in seconds.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devDIY
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    18 days ago

    You can stick wires with mains voltage into any two pins of any motherboard connector but there’s a reason they’re not shaped like an AC receptacle 💥. Unless it’s a ZX Spectrum, that cheap thing used the most basic connector (3.5mm jack) for everything: cassette I/O, video output and, unregulated 9V DC power input from the transformer brick, and people would often fry it.