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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn/status/1592871328444723201?s=20&t=a-m5oTv3CCA8Yxu2Eto_3w I don't know how common it is, but Steam keeps games saying they are running after I close them. I have a few games with absurd play time but that is just because Steam is still counting after I close the game.
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Fors Yard posted:I don't know how common it is, but Steam keeps games saying they are running after I close them. I have a few games with absurd play time but that is just because Steam is still counting after I close the game. this counts towards refund timers as well, btw
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So the first Zelda was released 36 years ago, and the other game... half that lifetime ago?
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Killingyouguy! posted:Do you have to take a test before you get a TV license no, but a friend pointed out that you had to "apply for a TV licence" which implies they could refuse to grant one.
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Fors Yard posted:I don't know how common it is, but Steam keeps games saying they are running after I close them. I have a few games with absurd play time but that is just because Steam is still counting after I close the game. Is one of them GTA 5/Online by any chance? And additionally do you have a Logitech Headset?
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn/status/1592871328444723201?s=20&t=a-m5oTv3CCA8Yxu2Eto_3w Your father is The One.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Oh dang, that dusty rear end LCD looked like a slot lol
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn/status/1592871328444723201?s=20&t=a-m5oTv3CCA8Yxu2Eto_3w that dude rules good for him out there owning people so relentlessly
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Look at this magnificent beast. https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1593244459827093512?s=20&t=HzwT1KlvaKtMZl-Ely90aA
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My best friend in high school (who also once showed me this cool website called SomethingAwful  ) had one of these.I managed to break it by throwing my backpack at him from a floor above, which nailed the hand he was holding it in. Still worked fine....after some tape was applied.
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When they came out I thought the previous Zen models where 75% of the body unplugged as a USB stick were SO cool. For content: I sold off a whole bunch of these I got buying some crypto jerk's hw off of him in bulk, but had to keep one as a keepsake
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shinmai posted:When they came out I thought the previous Zen models where 75% of the body unplugged as a USB stick were SO cool. the least trustworthy dongle
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It's just a GPU and a USB controller... and I just realized how much you can gently caress with a system with far less than that. Anyway is the GPU worth removing from the suspicious package and reselling?
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Fors Yard posted:I don't know how common it is, but Steam keeps games saying they are running after I close them. I have a few games with absurd play time but that is just because Steam is still counting after I close the game. Steam counts the number of hours between when it launches the program and when it gets notification that it's closed - it doesn't count actual interaction time or even time that the game was the focussed application. Don't beleive me? It's easy to test. Start up a game of e.g. Sonic, leave it on overnight with focus on another window and see the hours grow like grocery prices - google "Sonic inflation" to see screenshots etc. if you don't have the patience.
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thepopmonster posted:Steam counts the number of hours between when it launches the program and when it gets notification that it's closed - it doesn't count actual interaction time or even time that the game was the focussed application. Thanks bro, this caused me to lose computer time for a week.
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By popular demand posted:It's just a GPU and a USB controller... and I just realized how much you can gently caress with a system with far less than that. Actually it's even more obsolete than that; it's an ASIC and a USB<->serial adapter, and the circuit in the ASIC is so specific, it's literally only useful for mining BTC. These would've been barely profitable when they were announced, and already worthless (costing more to run even at scale than the 70kh/s they squeeze out could earn you) when they finally started shipping. So p much what youd expect from a crypto product for crypto jerks by crypto jerks 😅
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 I should find something similar as a gag gift to my brother. E: He's not a cryptbro, he actually just studied cryptography and information security.
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It is our duty to mother earth to destroy crypto hardware entirely.
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Yeah it's a common racket to take preorders for ASICS and when you have the hardware ready to go you mint a few coins with them for yourself then deliver the now useless ASICS because the requirements for a new coin get ever harder and your hw was barely useful before shipping, but by the time they reach the end consumer they're basically useless.
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That was Butterfly Labs' entire business model.
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shinmai posted:When they came out I thought the previous Zen models where 75% of the body unplugged as a USB stick were SO cool. Man, I used to sell those back when they were released. Made a small fortune from dumb miners blowing up their USB ports when they drew too much current.
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And that's another issue I didn't even consider, and wouldn't relying on a USB connection also significantly slow down the process?
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By popular demand posted:And that's another issue I didn't even consider, and wouldn't relying on a USB connection also significantly slow down the process? As I understand it the process requires very little communication so it doesn't matter that it has a slow link
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BattleMaster posted:As I understand it the process requires very little communication so it doesn't matter that it has a slow link yeah the way mining works, super oversimplified, is the network is like "alright, gimme a value that when SHA-256 hashed gives a hash that starts w/ these 16 bytes, and the rest are all zeroes" (or the other way around, I forget and nobody should care) then everyone just basically generates random values to hash until someone gets one that matches the target, and they get 6.25BTC. These ASICs just wait for a byte on the serial line and spit back a value and it's SHA-256 hash (in raw bytes), so it's fairly efficient in that regard. (but like Humphreys said they suck a shitton of power for a teeny tiny USB device and people would buy these by the dozen and hook them all into one massive USB hub)
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Humphreys posted:Man, I used to sell those back when they were released. Made a small fortune from dumb miners blowing up their USB ports when they drew too much current. You were doing God's work.
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Unperson_47 posted:You were doing God's work. I really miss those days to be honest. Like all gold rushes, the way to win is to sell pickaxes.
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I have a feeling that inventing a sturdy new type of pants was even more profitable, Jeans were in demand right from the start and only got more in style as time went on. So obviously the way to capitalise on the cryptobros is a light and breathable suit of clothes for that overheated basement they have at their parents. Also I hear that Wearable Technology and Smart Fabrics are good buzzwords to attract investor money!
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By popular demand posted:I have a feeling that inventing a sturdy new type of pants was even more profitable, Jeans were in demand right from the start and only got more in style as time went on. With the way things are going, selling nooses to cryptobros would be more profitible.
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Never underestimate the gullibility of these guys, we've went through several generations of cryptocurrency markets and somehow idiots are still pumping money into this. It's like all the trouble of heroin addiction without any of the fun.
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shinmai posted:
Now I remember these. People were buying 20 port powered USB hubs to mine their butts.
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I still have a few different types of miners that slipped through the cracks and I forgot I had from trades back in the day if anyone was interested in photos of them and some info just for the educational merits.
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Any chance I could purchase one from you? It can be faulty as I only mean to give it as a gag gift. I'm sure that eBay got some but I loving despise that site.
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Humphreys posted:I still have a few different types of miners that slipped through the cracks and I forgot I had from trades back in the day if anyone was interested in photos of them and some info just for the educational merits. 
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By popular demand posted:Any chance I could purchase one from you? It can be faulty as I only mean to give it as a gag gift. Sure! I'm in Australia though (sorry, I can't recall where you are) I will, gimme a few days to find them. I know of 3 off the top of my head: One is a USB stick type, one's a desktop one like a coke can, then the first Antminer that I use as a doorstop.
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Well I found three, and I'm pretty sure everything went as ewaste. The family of butts! Presented in no particular order and just random specs I found, can't be arsed looking more into them anymore:  BitMain Antminer S1 quote:180Gh/s  Previous owner was too cheap to buy the wifi antenna kit for it officially and used a Laptop wifi speaker...I mean, if it works it works...also judging it was hidden somewhere out of eyes due to the dust and rust.  Gridseed Mini: quote:Chips: 5 x GC3355  Someone was feeding power in at some stage instead of a barrel jack... cos yeah let's use speaker cables and raw dog it! Or externally powering a fan that was originally attacked to the bottom of the miner:  NanoFury Moonlight Miner: quote:Each miner contains TWO Bitfury (Rev.1) ASIC Chips  These were HOTBOIS and could burn you 
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Mister Kingdom posted:I had a co-worker who had one of these. I offered him my copy of Pulp Fiction to see what would happen. He declined. Just came across this one: after getting nerd sniped by TC, the mad lad goes through the effort of extracting naughty_words.txt from the device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EWIh2D1NQ
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Jerk Van Gay* should be a username here. What the device would have turned Dick Van Dyke to if it wasn't on the whitelist
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Trabant posted:Just came across this one: after getting nerd sniped by TC, the mad lad goes through the effort of extracting naughty_words.txt from the device: That was hilarious.
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