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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Ads are one of the biggest vectors for malware. Even if the main reason you’re blocking them is just because they’re annoying, it’s one of the best things you can do for online safety. Also, the reason tech companies are collecting every single piece of data they can about you is to serve you more targeted ads - if every ad was blocked, data brokers would have no reason to exist.

    If you’re running an OPNSense or PFSense router, put Adguard on it. If you’ve got a Raspberry Pi lying around, install Pihole on it. Stop using Chrome and install UBlock Origin on your new browser. Do your small part to make the internet a safer place, and get shown less advertising to boot.


  • Component is probably 99.99% of the way there. Colours are technically more accurate with RGB (whether through SCART or VGA), but the difference between TV sets is going to be far bigger than the difference between component and RGB.

    The biggest quality difference isn’t about the cables - it’s finding a CRT that can handle 480p. The most prevalent of these would be CRT PC monitors, which is why VGA tends to be the recommended choice as far as Dreamcast is concerned.



  • Iso wouldn’t be good for things like thermal pads or thermal paste. You could probably dunk most other things in it (though I wouldn’t put fan motors in it).

    If you know how to disassemble the graphics card, you could probably do that, save the thermal pads/note where the thermal paste goes and then submerge it. Though the best option for everything is probably a squirtbottle and a tooth/nailbrush. Just give it a day or two before powering it on to make certain that all of it has evaporated.