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Why do gameboy emulators just randomly break over time?

I was using the bloated putrid retroarch to play gameboy color and nintendo 64 before it just broke (probably after an update or something who knows or cares). Then I moved over to project64 on windows and mgba on linux. Now mgba isn't working as it should, just showing a white screen right after the title screen, although clearly the invisible menu still works and I can load the game, but it will be too fucked to play due to graphical mess during fights.

Is....

Is Windows superior after all?

How to increase the mpv cache size? I want to preload a stream further than 10 seconds.

Last I looked at that it went down the rabbithole all the way down to the kernel. Just leave it.

Unlikely, unless it's a custom implemented feature. I wouldn't do it that way anyway. Repeaters suck as a general rule and routers aren't even built with that purpose in mind. Also it doesn't eliminate your congestion problems.

Anyone use this "windows subsystem for linux"? looks like it comes with bash and access to ubuntu repositories?
can i use this "subsystem" on windows 10 to make the installation/setup of something like python as simple as it is to install on linux?
last time i tried installing python on windows, i remember it being a hassle and i ended up installing linux instead.

I wouldn't go beyond using GNU core utils.

If you want a decent package manager, accept your fate or install leenux

that's what happens when you write shitty code

this one retard used my computer for 2 days and now whenever I try to open anything I get the message, "How do you want to open this file?" The only reason I'm in this thread is because I had an HTML file downloaded on my computer. Send help

>I wouldn't go beyond using GNU core utils
how come? whats bad about or not working with this "subsystem"?

reposting, theres no way my pc using 2.5g of ram at idle is normal

Defender, telemetry, and updates consume a good amount of background RAM.
Also you have Opera open, that is not Idle.
Windows 10 LTSB should use 1GB+- alone with no programs open.

My memory is hazy, but apparently that was a better solution for some reason.

First, I don't even know what this subsystem is. Second, even if I did, I'd have little faith in it's reliability or longevity, subject to affects of changes to closed source msft code. If a package manager (say) was easy, you'd think microsoft would have implemented it.

At some point, when you want windows to be like linux, you just have to stop wishing and accept linux.

>First, I don't even know what this subsystem is
stopped reading there

why do you care?
not flaming

what can i put in my pc's expansion bay besides another dvd drive?

Is there some way to wire a desktop and a few laptops together to use all of their hardware as one computer?

Just googled it and it does seem quite interesting. Microsoft has really surprised me lately.

I'm not sure how to answer your question, but I am interested in the answer.

More USB slots, fan controller, a small box.
More HDD slots, hotswap, etc.

I just assumed it was 3rd party, hence the lack of confidence

adding to my question, i just remembered you can add a small monitor but i can't find one anymore, do they still exist? don't care about the size or resolution
>more hdd slots/hotswap
that sounds most useful but i don't have any sata power cables left in my pc, any way to get more?

forgot about opera, but it was only using around 10% of ~40-45% when i took that pic, ive done my best to disable cortana, telemetry, and defender, but ive been fighting those fuckers for years. last time i tried i think disabling cortana fucked the search function up. its been a while but i disabled something for defender in the registry i think, so it cant even be turned on, and i used spybot antibeacon to disable telemetry.

because having 30% of my ram gone for no reason is annoying, and some games like WOW frequently maxed out my ram usage and/or my disk usage and take forever to do anything. i upgraded to an ssd so hopefully the disk usage problem is fixed, but my ram issue still remains

Where to get good HDDs for cheap?

trust me man i have tried and it is not easy and isn't worth it even if you get it to work

has a guide you stupid nigger

reading the docs, you would be able to use the subsystem to install packages like on ubuntu. I'm not sure if there is any difference at the end of the day of python being a "linux application" invoked on windows.

Beowulf clustering is really cool, but seldom worth it.

>good HDDs
wd
>cheap HDDs
seagate
>good HDDs for cheap
fuck off

Damn, thanks! I'll give it a shot, still, but thanks!

I'm interested enough that I'm going to try it out on a Windows 10 box I keep as a reference machine.

Let me know how it goes in the meantime.

Wow, it's absolutely nothing. Why would I go for anything else when mgba supposedly has everything? Besides, am I supposed to just burn through all of them?

Fuck off.

>that sounds most useful but i don't have any sata power cables left in my pc, any way to get more?
If you have a PCIe slot free, yes.

it's only a pcie x1, but i have 3 of them. still possible? if so, where?

Is it worth switching from windows to Linux if I don't yet have any real NEED to switch? For gaming, are virtualization or gpu pass throughs going to get me a near-windows gaming experience?

>mgba isn't working
>why would i use anything besides mgba?

>am i supposed to just burn through all of them?

Fuck off.

Yes.
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is it worth what?
time? only takes like 10 minutes to download and test a live boot
money? just use a spare usb or blank dvd

What I mean is, are the security/customization/ whatever features worth switching and getting used to a new OS, if I'm not experiencing any obvious issues with windows

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So I got the ZTE blade, it was an 80 buck android, shoot me.

So it's got facebook preinstalled on it and you can only disable it but I actually use it for nerd news, aside from that, anyone here that uses facebook, does the app just freeze on you?

I've had to goto settings and force stop it over and over till it went away. Then reopen the app.

Why is that?

Treat it as a hobby at first, no use diving it trying to make it your daily OS, you'll just get frustrated and abandon it.
Debian win32-loader if you want to install without burning a disc, Wubi if you want to install Ubuntu without partitioning
Go slow

sure, there are lots of features that make it worthwhile.

it takes surprisingly little time to get used to, for day to day stuff. the biggest drawback for me is the libreoffice stuff not competing with MS office stuff.

Just make a bootable USB and try it out. No risk.

Is there any way to disable shared video memory on windows 7?
Google provides no answers "just works for me :^)".

and no there is no such setting in the bios this is an older rig.

Any decent Firefox add-ons that let me just hightlight a bunch of download links (pictures, videos, etc.) and download everything highlighted?

Used to use DownThemAll but it's not updated for newest Firefox yet. Specifically need this add-on to work with something like Volafile.

Would I be better off converting one of my old laptops from windows 10 to linux or should I just keep windows

Converting them from Windows 10 to Windows 10 LTSB with all the shit turned off.
Or Windows 7.

Or a light distro.

Will an escort come to my house or do I have to get a hotel room?

an "escort" should do outcalls.

a prostitute may only do incalls. incalls are a good way to get robbed/arrested.

depends the escort, but i think most career escorts will want to meet in a hotel first but after they get comfortable with you they'll be willing to come to your place

i'd imagine most smart escorts are afraid of their new clients being murderers or locking them in boxes, obviously you could still do that in a hotel but its less likely

why is there no 1080p anime streaming site?

i dont wanna torrent. seems weird that i can find 1080p porn videos easily but not anime ones. i thought weabs were good with computers?

On a fresh install of Arch, installed on
a Chromebook 14 CB3-431. The internal keyboard doesn't work. I've checked the wiki, which acknowledges these problems and more, and instructs to patch the kernel with the linux-galliumos-braswell package off of the AUR. However, when I try to access it on the AUR, I get a 404. I'd really like to be able to use my keyboard, so any help is appreciated

I'm pretty sure my wireless network card just died since it can't detect any wifi, ethernet works just fine, though. How do I confirm that the card is indeed broken without having to open my laptop? Are there any programs out there?

yeah, that repo doesn't exist

try "galliumos-braswell"

should do the trick

linux?

"iwconfig" output?

Because 95% of anime is made at 720p because Japanese TV standards.

Also
>Streaming

And only anime BDs are in 1080p.

unlike processor cycles, unused ram really is 'wasted', and filling it to capacity doesn't really cost much
it is a good thing for processes to spend your unused ram to cache something or other and do their jobs a little faster, as long as they give it up when you need it for something else
don't worry about ram usage unless you are actually maxing it out and running into the slowdowns from pagefile usage

Will try when I inevitably switch to it, thanks.

netsh interface show interface
or maybe
ipconfig /all

might yield something useful. good luck.

I have my PS3 outputting digital audio via Toslink cable into a DAC with my headphones plugged into the DAC but I have no volume control over any of it.
Wat do?

Select a default application for each extension?

You're probably SOL. Nicer DACs have volume control. Or headphones with volume control.

Or try the volume controls mentioned here
manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/basicoperations/index.html

Right now it is too loud and even at its lowest setting in this its a bit loud and I assume this wouldnt work in game either

I've installed it, however there's been no change. Is there something else i need to do?

>update Arch Linux
>network manager stops working when I suspend my session to RAM and resume so much as a few minutes later
Do I have any recourse to fix this other than booting into a live environment to reinstall network manager?
Also, KDE Plasma starts up to a blank screen ever since an update to the AMD drivers and Mesa. I think it has something to do with video compositing because that's what KDE's settings claim, no idea how to fix this either.
I've also been having trouble installing Apparmor.

should I just use something else?

yeah, for whatever reason the settings seem specific to music/video, not games and not interface-wide

No, you shouldn't need to. try "galliumos-laptop" (I think that's the right one) or something else on github.com/GalliumOS

I been emailining my parents a lot more recently because of some of my info was messed up at my college, now in my spam I get spam with their names tied to it like it will be addressed to them. Is this connected?

It wouldn't be related to frequency, it likely signals that their account (or computer) has been compromised.

Why would that be the case and what should I do in response to this?

youtube.com/watch?v=X9ctLFYSDfQ

Where can I get that JRPG turtleneck?

other candidates:
aur-linux-galliumos
xkeyboard-config

If you're getting emails from them that they aren't sending, their account or computer has been compromised. They need to check their computer for viruses and/or change their email password

fuck off kyoppi

I've cloned from git and installed it via the sh file included. Still nothing

Is it a good idea to put oil in computer fans?

I'm kind of feeling around in the dark. Try the two other candidates mentioned in
Best I can do to try to help you. Keep me posted.

It's not from their email, it's like spam emails sent to my spam folder where they will say for example usually:

"Look at this great AMAZON gift card deal (My email or name)"

But now sometimes i get emails spam emails in my spam folder also saying:

"Look at these GREAT deals click this link (Father/mother's name)"

Is there an instagram reverse search engine? Don't need it to be an official one. It's just that I recognize the filenames now, but can't do anything with that context as far as I can tell.

Post the email headers.

I just deleted them but the headers are like the examples I gave

you don't have to be so mean I really don't know how to fix these issues.

Not the subject, the headers. The meta information of the email itself. Should look like:

Return-Path:
X-SpamCatcher-Score: 1 [X]
Received: from [136.167.40.119] (HELO dc.edu)
by fe3.dc.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8)
with ESMTP-TLS id 61258719 for [email protected]; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:40:10 -0400
Message-ID:
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2005 11:40:36 -0400
From: Taylor Evans
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jon Smith
Subject: Business Development Meeting
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I will see if I get some, probably wont get any until tomorrow. What should I look for?

no there isnt, and the file-names are either randomly generated or encrypted. there was a time when you could find someones account via filenames but that was changed long ago to prevent cyberstalking.

Compare and contrast them to legitimate emails from your parents. Specifically, the Received value, to determine if it's actually being sent from their account or if it's being spoofed.

A friend just broke his laptop's power supply. It's a mid-end MSI charger, 19V 180W, but replacements are quite expensive. Would it be fine to get an universal power supply or is he fucked?

Why would I assume it if being sent from them? It clearly isn't. Like the sender would say "AMAZON" or "Datehookups" or something of the like.

*Power supply's tip. Forgot to add it, oops.

All the way down to the kernel? LOL what are you on?

You wouldn't *assume* that is the case, it's just most likely the case.

The point is to identify the source. That's the first step.

Yet they aren't the ones sending it because they aren't listed as sender so clearly it isn't them though.

The point is that the first step is identifying the actual source of the email, not just what the from header says.

Can I connect an Android phone to the internet/LAN through wire (USB, ethernet, etc.)? If so, how?

depending on your android version, it could be supported out of the box.

check "Settings > Wireless & networks > USB Internet"

>incalls are a good way to get robbed/arrested
>see prostitute has setup literally 5 minutes from me
>address is an unironic closed down car garage in some totally suspect back lane
>instantly remember pic related
>go home and jerk off

One of my more productive evenings nonetheless.

Fuck, thanks user. I guess insta photos aren't treated the same as deviantart pics, since those filenames give full credit and everything.

Is there a twitter reverse image search engine? While we're at it, anything but a reddit one and what saucenao/ yandex/ google covers would help me.

Please explain stacks to me

Plates at a buffet.

First in, first out. If I put (push) a new plate on the stack, it's the first one the next customer will get (pop).

My tablet keeps crashing if I try to open any app unless I remove the SD card. How can I figure out what's causing it to crash?

>First in, first out.
that's a queue

When I go to the Nvidia Control Panel to add custom settings for a program, the Recent Programs option shows a huge list of programs, some of which I've since uninstalled, and some are porn games I really don't want people seeing. How can I clear this?