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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • As a relatively new father (my daughter is around 2.5 years old), you have plenty of time. They’ll be a loving little lump for a while.

    What she has loved so far:

    • Bluey (a beautiful show about parenting in disguise as a kids show)
    • Mister Roger’s Neighborhood (all episodes available on archive.org, but they have to be reorganized/renamed at least for Kodi tagging)
    • The Mhppets Show (and anything else muppets)
    • (Modern) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (cg show, and Clubhouse+, the short renewal)
    • Dragon Prince
    • Sesame Street
    • Moana (2 to a lesser extent)
    • Finding Nemo/Dory
    • Lion King
    • Little Mermaid
    • Bedknobs and Broomsticks
    • Mary Poppins
    • Aladin
    • Frozen (and all the spinoff stuff)
    • Mickey Donald and Goofy: Three Musketeers (this is her current obsession, probably watched it 10 times in the last week)

    I’ll come back and edit this with my own shows later.


  • They took the completed game and worked backwards to the underlying code that makes all of it work. They confirm it’s an exact match by using the code they worked backwards towards to make the game again and confirm they have an exact match to the orginal game file(s).

    Once this is done, it is possible to change literally anything about the game, as you have access to the code that makes it work. One of the most popular things to do is to replace the parts of the code that are specific to the console it was originally made for with code that can run on PC. This results in an accurate PC version of the original game. After that, other coders usually dig into the PC “version” to add all sorts of easy modding support.

    This has already been done with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Fox 64, and they all have easily moddable PC versions now. This has resulted in things like Render96 and Ray Tracing support for SM64, a bunch of bug fixes and an insanely deep randomizer for OoT, and discovery of cut levels and entire game modes partially left in the game code that had only been mentioned in interviews in Star Fox 64.

    It’s also worth noting that similar projects exist for a whole bunch of other games. The Pokemon Emerald Reverse Engineering project has allowed all the absurd new romhacks with new features like Mariomon and Too Many Types 2, with Pokemon having 3 types and a total of like 70 types in game. Similar (but technically different under the hood) projects for Sonic Unleashed and the Jak series on PS2 have resulted in great moddable PC versions of those as well.





  • If I’m editing more than one object in AD I almost always use Powershell. It was one of the main motivations for me to learn it in the first place.

    It’s so obvious it was a GUI made for what was once a back end tool that wasn’t meant to be fussed with all the time, but then had more and more features slapped on top over time. And don’t get me started on the integration between AD and On-Premises Exchange Server. I don’t think I have much more than a 3 hour long exasperated scream in me about that bundle of fuck.



  • Does he really, or does he employ people who have this knowledge?

    Even giving him the biggest possible benefit of the doubt, ignoring his politics, and ignoring just about everything else negative about him… so many of his projects miss their announced release dates with little to no technical discussion/disclosure on why.

    On top of that, we only need to look at his short lived attempt to style himself as a particularly skilled gamer. If he was so clearly lying and cheating (by using an account built by someone else) on something that inconsequential, it should cast significant doubt on his other claimed skills and accomplishments (if none of his other shit caused that doubt for you yet).




  • I’m kind of shocked that you feel like you can confidently claim you know this guy’s condition and the cause of him not receiving proper care when you had to be told to call 911 for someone fucking convulsing on the ground.

    You really tried to sneak that past by front loading with that tangent, lol.

    There’s a decent handful of conditions beyond brain trauma that can lead to convulsions. Unmedicated epilepsy is a pretty obvious one. Supposedly withdrawals from certain illegal substances as well. Hope the guy is getting help now.

    And ask any hospital worker, one of the most frustrating parts of care is that people can and do just walk the fuck out.



  • You can upload content to Archive.org yourself rather than mega and get an extra layer of defense against legal trouble, as you wouldn’t be directly responsible for hosting the content. They would take the uploaded item down if they got a DMCA, but mega is more likely to take down the whole folder.

    Would also keep the content more accessible long term. Tons of dead mega links all over the internet.



  • Oh god, you don’t have any reading comprehension either.

    Edit: I told you to read the room in another comment, not the one you responded to here.

    “Reading the room” has nothing to do with “laws”, lmao. Neither does suggesting better places to post your drivel. You can’t possibly be this stupid.

    You’re free to ignore people telling you to fuck off and post dumb shit like this. We’re free to continue to tell you to fuck off.

    You’re also free to be a drooling idiot trying to claim that the group that doesn’t want this shit here is somehow “crying” about it or whatever the fuck you’re trying to use as an insult. I see a bunch of people coming together to post the type of shit they want to see, downvoting what they don’t, and telling people why.

    You’re welcome to leave the comm, or create your own one if this space is no longer what you want out of it.

    I’m done here. I’ve got an actual toddler to deal with instead of your concentrated attempts to be one.




  • Look, if you want some place to post politics, there are countless spaces on lemmy for it.

    If you want some place to post nearly anything, 4chan’s /b/ could use some more content than endless “share images from social media you wank to” threads. They’d also be far more receptive to your shitty attitude too. But considering you couldn’t figure out how to post this without downloading an app, you might just be too stupid to figure it out.



  • Some of the many ways to bypass making a Microsoft account required hitting the shell in the installer for a moment, but the example screenshot looks more like someone removing shit post-install.

    The short guide to not performing CBT with Windows is:

    • Grab install media for Pro or LTSC (Pro is better if you aren’t a turbo-nerd willing to troubleshoot more)
    • Strip out the versions you aren’t installing from the install media (forget the tool for this, probably dism)
    • Install updates to the install media so you aren’t stuck with it updating for a day post-install (forget the tool for this part too, sorry)
    • Strip out bloat and unneeded shit (such as onedrive) using DISM
    • Install using whatever the current workaround is to not have to make a Microsoft account
    • Keep the damn thing offline, adjust settings, configure GPO, use powershell to remove anything more you want out, etc to your desires
    • Notably: Disable “reccomendations” in the various spots, those are ads. Set updates to be delayed considerably and to not force restart until a week after first notification (you can no longer disable this entirely). Disable web search from the start menu/search bar.
    • Maybe move a few “cleaning/configuring” tools over via USB and run them
    • Use MASgrave to spoof a license you horrible degenerate
    • Keep detailed notes of every step you do, as sometimes games amd shit will have dumbass dependencies on system parts that they don’t expect you to remove