Nod. AQ2 was so damn fun!!
qpong, generations mod, catch the chicken, red rover, weapons of mass destruction, 4 way ctf, freeze tag....so many good mods
Readit Newshypercube33 commented on Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 fabiensanglard.net/compil... · Posted by u/birdculture
Opus 4.5 is more creative and better at making UIs
Unless it's scroll bar theming then my God it's bad. it told me it gives up. Gemini 3 got stuck but the right prompt it did work.
90-98% of the time I want the LLM to only have the knowledge I gave it in the prompt. I'm actually kind of scared that I'll wake up one day and the web interface for ChatGPT/Opus/Gemini will pull information from my prior chats.
I'm fairly sure OpenAI/GPT does pull prior information in the form of its memories
hypercube33 commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw
At a time where games have shit like always online DRM, it's a bit reassuring to remember that software developers making the experience worse for their customers isn't new.
You pay for software? You need to keep that big dongle plugged in your computer all the time! You pirate the same software? No need for any dongle!
Type the first word on page 28 of the manual.
Use the decoder wheel (hopefully you didn't lose it) and put the code in to start the game.
Copy protection always punishes the customer and not the pirate.
hypercube33 commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw
back in the mid to late 90s, I got a trial for compuserve that was a free 2 month trial. I liked it as as they provided dialup PPP access so was able to use it as full time internet access. It wasn't quite "2 months" of access though. It was 1500 hours of access (which in practice > 24*62).
However, their usage accounting software wasn't great. I had it setup to reconnect if the connection dropped, and they didn't do a great job seeing this, so they accused me of using 2-3k hours during those 2 months (should be impossible if always coming from the same #) and sent me a large bill (for the hours used over 1500). They eventually gave in when I showed them it was impossible and they could validate that the calls were coming from the same line due to the connection dropping and being simple reconnections.
Heh there was some ad supported dial up Internet I found. you were supposed to download their browser and it'd dial in and work normal enough.
I noticed it created a windows dial up connection. When you launched the browser the login info worked on this. I could just dial their server and save the username and password and use any browser or game normally.
hypercube33 commented on My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) jaisenmathai.com/articles... · Posted by u/jmathai
Lovely idea. You got a photo printer model you like? I've been meaning to get a photo printer, but I'm scarred by experiences with inkjets back in the day.
If they are printing 100 or more prints a month even they are probably absolutely fine - inkjets die when not used because ink dries on the jets or other places.
I'm with Google on this one. Idiots and old people (the public) use these devices daily. These are the very same people that send money to Nigerian royalty and expect to hear back about a great reward. This is mostly a CYA move with hard data behind it. If they completely removed side load, that would be a different story.
The old saying goes a fool and their money is soon departed.
Why should the rest of us be punished?
hypercube33 commented on Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison the-diy-life.com/raspberr... · Posted by u/verginer
I finally found a job for my Raspberry Pi 1 Model B from 2012. It’s been sitting in a drawer for years, but about a 2 years ago added it to my Tailscale network as an exit node.
It’s a single-core 700MHz ARMv6 chip with 512MB of RAM. It's a fossil—a Pi 5 is 600x faster (according to the video). But for the 'low-bandwidth' task of routing some banking traffic or running a few changedetection watches via a Hetzner VPS (where the actual docker image runs), it’s rock solid. There’s something deeply satisfying about giving 'e-waste' a second life as a weekend project.
I mean in theory and practice a Pentium 2 300 could do full 1gpbs routing with Vyatta and I used that and other distros to do that for years
Yes, exactly my point - thanks for elaborating on it.
Why not use Linux with WINE and that Chicago95 theme and call it a day?
hypercube33 commented on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready waymo.com/blog/2026/01/mi... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
I’m going to Miami next week. Time for my first WayMo ride.
Weirdly (well not for me it's a charter metal festival cruise) I am too and interested in doing the same. Typically we use Uber and it's been a not great experience.