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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by 0xedd on Sunday January 23, 2022 @07:36PM (#30052227)
Disagree. Didn't have YouTube, Google, etc and still cracked video game protections when i was 10.
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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by JohnBooty on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:53AM (#30057558)
Nobody is saying that Youtube/Google/etc are necessary. Clearly people managed to do cool and clever things before those resources were available.

It's beyond obvious, though, that having good resources is helpful and opens this kind of thing up to a larger number of participants.

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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by quickthrower2 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @08:08PM (#30052442)
What were your resources to learn this?
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Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage by bradlys on Sunday January 23, 2022 @09:36PM (#30053057)
"Unzip rar file, copy, paste."

Probably just used warez from torrents like everyone else did when they were that age.

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