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Re:Diablo II: Resurrected in 3D on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:23AM (#49891998)
00:00 -- Diablo in 3D

00:50 -- Diablo as a first-person shooter

01:36 -- How?

02:23 -- Lore-accurate isometric projection

03:00 -- First attempt (terrible)

03:54 -- Second attempt (usable)

04:08 -- Rendering distance

04:36 -- Mouse targeting

05:28 -- Remaining bugs

06:00 -- How to run it

GitHub: https://github.com/emmericp/D2R-3D

PSA: check drawer with old devices regularly. Found a swollen battery in my PSP, after not touching it 7-8 years. Same with an old motorola A920 (quite old). Who knows how many years both had swollen batteries but, then again, newer batteries have much more power to contain.
Re:The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:59AM (#48538519)
There’s also the Audi R8
Terrifying. I know that Japan is earthquake-proofing its architecture but how about the underground infra? Do they have to dig and redo the pipes? The cables seem to be mostly overground (at least in this video) and are probably easier to repair (oldschool infra ftw).
Re:I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:59AM (#46004070)
> Since I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the phone, I didn’t want to remove these tabs, or to solder anything onto them. I just wanted to connect a cable to them in the easiest way possible.

Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….

Re:Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:26AM (#44795609)
OpenVINO might be a good alternative, as many Intel-based mini pc’s support it. Or a decent desktop with an Intel CPU. Or maybe something with an Arc GPU (integrated or dedicated).

Disclaimer: I didn’t try it yet but the last rabbit hole regarding OpenVINO comparisons looked too good to be true and it seems Frigate supports it too. Win-win.

Mandatory recommendation of the Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [1] video/version. Especially with this particular song(!), as the 8K version [2] has a different one which doesn't really give the chills... Although, 60fps makes the image much better. Maybe combine the song from [1] with the video from [2]...

The source picture is the 1.5 gigapixels version (69.536 x 22.230 pixels).

Fun fact: watching the video on certain TV's makes them flicker wildly. Probably because they struggle with many dots in motion. On a monitor it works flawlessly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8

Re:US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:33AM (#42684526)
The interference wars commence!
Re:Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant on Sunday January 12, 2025 @04:58PM (#42677365)
I though that Tabby, the ssh client [1], got AI capabilities...

[1] https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby

Re:Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @07:46PM (#42651376)
> once people (i.e. grandma) changed the input to the streaming device, they couldn’t figure out how to get back to the cable box

Unless you have a remote with the magical "TV" button and you only have to teach (i.e. grandma) to press that one when the TV channels don't appear.

Not sure if this would work with cable boxes though, as they might get separated from the default TV input (as in, scanned channels) but THIS is something they should make smarter (learning the default input and assigning it to the TV button)

Re:Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:58AM (#42304572)
GMKtec Mini PC N97 [1] is 160 EUR on amazon.de (with the 70 EURO voucher that is). Got mine with free shipping to Romania, as the purchase was over 50 EUR.

Also, the N97 has better performance than the N100, but the power consumption is higher. For me its a plus as it's more powerful than the usual N100 mini PC's while much smaller and fan noise is quite low (for now at least...). Not really intended for high workloads and 24/7 anyway. More like a backpack PC.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/G5-Computer-Generation-12GB-256GB...

Re:Notepad++ is 21 years old on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:55PM (#42020323)
You could try the portable version [1]. Not so easy to update afterwards, of course, and plugin installations and updates might need some extra steps [2] but having a zipped backup / ready-to-go package, with everything configured as desired, can come in handy.

[1] https://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Office/Suite...

[2] https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/86702

In 8+16 years from now we can celebrate 2048 the whole year. Still time for the author to implement an Easter egg until then.
Re:Solving Sudoku in Python Packaging on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:58AM (#41923179)
Using the simonw resolver is took under 3600s *
Re:Incredibly Ambitious SMB 3 Hack Released After 12 Years on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:26PM (#41619781)
She does have multiple videos on that channel [1] tough, including development videos [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DahrkDaiz/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7HQ6jSCf0

Re:A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:01PM (#41374190)
isprimeapi.xyz would be helpful.
The perfect laptop for interviews and 1:1 meetings!

- Just look at the back of my laptop instead of the projection/TV.

- You want to see more? Sure, let me tilt it. Now I see less. Perfection!

Re:Bitcoin Investors Buy Puts Aggressively on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:25AM (#41179625)
Fun fact: in that Big Bang Theory episode, they were hipped about BTC @ 5K [1], while the episode aired Nov 30 2017 and the closing price was already 10K [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc-Hbklizzk

[2] https://www.statmuse.com/money/ask/bitcoin-price-november-20...

They recorded that episode probably between March and April 2017 or end of February (?)

Re:Minecraft (2014) on Saturday July 27, 2024 @03:57PM (#41088927)
How else would you find the knowledge if not through separate websites, when using the Web Displays Mod [1] in game? /s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-m2dH4LEw

Sharknarco
Or something with an N97, which performs better but is less power efficient. e.g. the new Odroid H4's
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:58AM (#41003806)
Until the VPN is affected by the Domain Controller that is on Windows.
Re:Booting Linux Off of Google Drive on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:09AM (#40856283)
Reminds me of the credit card sized (literally [1]) USB stick I still have somewhere but it was too annoying to carry around and hope that next time that cheap stick still works...

Using the phone directly still seems the cleanest and most reliable way. Or maybe a combination of both, like those magnetic plugs [2] but with an integrated USB stick. Bonus points if you don't have to take it out at all (until needed) by either connecting the other magnetic part for data transfer and charging or data through USB OTG and wireless charging. One can dream... but the technology will shrink even further so who knows.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Enfain-Flash-Drives-Memory-Credit/dp/...

2. https://www.adafruit.com/product/5524

Re:Booting Linux Off of Google Drive on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @04:12AM (#40854566)
The USB stick will be forgotten or lost much quicker than the phone.
Re:Software galaxies on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:26AM (#40818737)
Can be seen here (@8.02): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PP--lVTPCQ&t=482s

(A $36,000 Graphical Workstation from 1993 | SGI Indigo 2)

And through some earthquakes too, although such large heavy vases would probably survive 4/5-ish quakes with little movement. Maybe even a 6 (?)
Re:Just How Much Faster Are the Gnome 46 Terminals? on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:43AM (#39968692)
Tabby [1][2] has "Restore terminal tabs on app start" under Settings > Terminal > Startup.

[1] https://tabby.sh/

[2] https://github.com/eugeny/tabby

Re:Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:56AM (#39535622)
hopefully a lot of that money was already put aside for upcoming lawsuits

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