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PuDLeZ · November 2025

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@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?
LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.
My first console was a snes (was kind of the whole family) and first gaming system I bought myself (saved allowance, did extra chores, even did the rake leaves/mowed/shoveled snow in the neighborhood) was the first gameboy. I was super young at the time though. It's why I absolutely had to have the Analogue Pocket
https://analogue.co/pocket
The DMG/OG gameboy holds a special place in my heart and always will. The fpga is an awesome modern remake of it!
I still remember as a kid while travelling on a train, I met a foreigner who had a GBA. I was seeing it for the first time in my life and fell in love with it. I had played Max Payne on my PC by then, but, when the dude told me that the GBA could play Max Payne, I was dumbfounded! GOod old days. Nowadays, nothing surprises me

Hehe, the gameboy is actually why I love Tetris and I'm actually fairly decent at it. I eventually save enough for the gameboy and didn't have more $ for any games but tetris came with it so I had something to play until I eventually saved more money. My parents wouldn't buy a gameboy though, they saw how us siblings fought over the snes even with it being 2 players so they thought it would be worse with the gameboy. Though once the super gameboy (snes cart that allowed to play GB games on the TV) came out, they did get that and my siblings would "steal" games from me

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Neat321 · November 2025

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LETS-GET-TO-200!

Neat, ready for the challenge?

Yes!!!!

So, what are you looking to grab this BF from the RackNerd GA/flash sale?

I don't know, lol!

noob404 · November 2025

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@TrK said:

@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?
LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.
My first console was a snes (was kind of the whole family) and first gaming system I bought myself (saved allowance, did extra chores, even did the rake leaves/mowed/shoveled snow in the neighborhood) was the first gameboy. I was super young at the time though. It's why I absolutely had to have the Analogue Pocket
https://analogue.co/pocket
The DMG/OG gameboy holds a special place in my heart and always will. The fpga is an awesome modern remake of it!
I still remember as a kid while travelling on a train, I met a foreigner who had a GBA. I was seeing it for the first time in my life and fell in love with it. I had played Max Payne on my PC by then, but, when the dude told me that the GBA could play Max Payne, I was dumbfounded! GOod old days. Nowadays, nothing surprises me
Hehe, the gameboy is actually why I love Tetris and I'm actually fairly decent at it. I eventually save enough for the gameboy and didn't have more $ for any games but tetris came with it so I had something to play until I eventually saved more money. My parents wouldn't buy a gameboy though, they saw how us siblings fought over the snes even with it being 2 players so they thought it would be worse with the gameboy. Though once the super gameboy (snes cart that allowed to play GB games on the TV) came out, they did get that and my siblings would "steal" games from me

I guess, that's a universal occurrence in every home. The youngest gets the disconnected controller. It works for quite some time and then they catch on and go on a warpath until everyone's banned from playing video games. Good times though

bchot · November 2025

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@TrK said:

@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?
LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.
My first console was a snes (was kind of the whole family) and first gaming system I bought myself (saved allowance, did extra chores, even did the rake leaves/mowed/shoveled snow in the neighborhood) was the first gameboy. I was super young at the time though. It's why I absolutely had to have the Analogue Pocket
https://analogue.co/pocket
The DMG/OG gameboy holds a special place in my heart and always will. The fpga is an awesome modern remake of it!

my first was ZX Spectrum with tape cassettes for data storage.. was maybe 91-92... omg i've broken so may joysticks playing games, my father eventually had a coworker make inside part that always broke out of STEEL ... no problems, i found other parts of joystick to break... plastic.. SABOTEUR was the name of the game...

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Didn't even know of this series, esp. since I love Tim Robinson's content. He kinda gives an Andy Samberg-vibes, another comedian I am a huge fan of. I am gonna add this to my list.

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

PuDLeZ · November 2025

I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

I tried searching for it as well. Couldn't find any info. on it.

bchot · November 2025

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I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Oh, that's good. It depends on the region too, like in India, car tyres are more suited to withstand the torrential monsoon rains. That gains priority over anything else.

what do they do to help withstand those rains? put water skis under front tires?

LOL! No. I don't have the technical knowhow to explain or understand what goes into those tyres. But, aquaplaning is a real issue here with bad reoads where water logs and drivers driving in the dark of the night miss these water patches in the middle of the road, apply brakes and end up meeting with accidents.

then it's probably deep parallel threading and such.. they also do threads to spit out all the extra airplane-making water.. not on my summer threads.. those are almost bald.. but during no-rain times - super grip. especially after they warm up a little..

noob404 · November 2025

@PuDLeZ said:
I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

I guess what they say is true, old is gold. BTW, I have been trying to get my hand son the new-ish retro in the market called the R36S. It comes with an RK3326 and 1GB RAM. Devs were able to put Lineage OS on it - GTA SA runs!

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Didn't even know of this series, esp. since I love Tim Robinson's content. He kinda gives an Andy Samberg-vibes, another comedian I am a huge fan of. I am gonna add this to my list.

you will not be disappointed. watch that should leave one, it's freaking hilarious..

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Oh, that's good. It depends on the region too, like in India, car tyres are more suited to withstand the torrential monsoon rains. That gains priority over anything else.

what do they do to help withstand those rains? put water skis under front tires?

LOL! No. I don't have the technical knowhow to explain or understand what goes into those tyres. But, aquaplaning is a real issue here with bad reoads where water logs and drivers driving in the dark of the night miss these water patches in the middle of the road, apply brakes and end up meeting with accidents.

then it's probably deep parallel threading and such.. they also do threads to spit out all the extra airplane-making water.. not on my summer threads.. those are almost bald.. but during no-rain times - super grip. especially after they warm up a little..

Yah, it probably has to do with the way the tyres are treaded to give it some extra grip.

bchot · November 2025

@PuDLeZ said:
I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

i think i am getting an 20 system gaming emulator from Amazon. you can buy with those old consoles emulated plus up to 100k games preloaded.. cheap too, like under $100 some of them.. HDMI 4k connection, joysticks, all included, crazy how they are not illegal or at least not banned..

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Didn't even know of this series, esp. since I love Tim Robinson's content. He kinda gives an Andy Samberg-vibes, another comedian I am a huge fan of. I am gonna add this to my list.

you will not be disappointed. watch that should leave one, it's freaking hilarious..

I assume you have already seen this one - I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10050772/?ref_=nm_knf_c_2)

This is the series that got me into his brand of comedy and I love it! IF the chair company is anything like it, I will love it too.

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

I tried searching for it as well. Couldn't find any info. on it.

quote: Turkey throttles internet access, particularly by slowing down social media platforms and messaging apps during political events, protests, or other critical moments. This throttling is often implemented with little explanation and is frequently combined with website and VPN blocking, making it difficult for users to get reliable information.

but this also happens on daily basis too..

bchot · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

I tried searching for it as well. Couldn't find any info. on it.

quote: Turkey throttles internet access, particularly by slowing down social media platforms and messaging apps during political events, protests, or other critical moments. This throttling is often implemented with little explanation and is frequently combined with website and VPN blocking, making it difficult for users to get reliable information.

but this also happens on daily basis too..

Turkey's "Internet Law" allows the government to order a bandwidth reduction of up to 90% for social media platforms that fail to comply with local regulations.

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

I tried searching for it as well. Couldn't find any info. on it.

quote: Turkey throttles internet access, particularly by slowing down social media platforms and messaging apps during political events, protests, or other critical moments. This throttling is often implemented with little explanation and is frequently combined with website and VPN blocking, making it difficult for users to get reliable information.

but this also happens on daily basis too..

Oh, you didn't mention a political unrest. Yah, you can expect that from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian Governments now. SOcial media is a powerful tool and they know that as well.

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Didn't even know of this series, esp. since I love Tim Robinson's content. He kinda gives an Andy Samberg-vibes, another comedian I am a huge fan of. I am gonna add this to my list.

you will not be disappointed. watch that should leave one, it's freaking hilarious..

I assume you have already seen this one - I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10050772/?ref_=nm_knf_c_2)

This is the series that got me into his brand of comedy and I love it! IF the chair company is anything like it, I will love it too.

i literally wrote twice about that show already here... check the quotes on this post. but thanks for the rec.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@PuDLeZ said:
I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

I guess what they say is true, old is gold. BTW, I have been trying to get my hand son the new-ish retro in the market called the R36S. It comes with an RK3326 and 1GB RAM. Devs were able to put Lineage OS on it - GTA SA runs!

Nice! Yeah, those emulation devices are fun but a lot of them sometime suffer with certain games and consoles. Also, if you played a game a lot on original hardware (like me with snes and gb), you do notice a difference. That's actually why my pocket gets more gameplay than everything else since fpga emulates the hardware so it's like using the original thing. Though it does cost much more than the software emulation options.

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

beats me..

I tried searching for it as well. Couldn't find any info. on it.

quote: Turkey throttles internet access, particularly by slowing down social media platforms and messaging apps during political events, protests, or other critical moments. This throttling is often implemented with little explanation and is frequently combined with website and VPN blocking, making it difficult for users to get reliable information.

but this also happens on daily basis too..

Turkey's "Internet Law" allows the government to order a bandwidth reduction of up to 90% for social media platforms that fail to comply with local regulations.

90%!! They should just shutdown the internet at that point. SHutting down or throttling internet due to security issues is one thing, but, this is bad.

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

THE CHAIR COMPANY is something i kinda enjoyed.. I like the main actor after his "I think you should leave" series, was very unorthodox but super funny and extensively CRINGING show.. i recommend.. "cringe" is the latest iteration of "awkward"...

Didn't even know of this series, esp. since I love Tim Robinson's content. He kinda gives an Andy Samberg-vibes, another comedian I am a huge fan of. I am gonna add this to my list.

you will not be disappointed. watch that should leave one, it's freaking hilarious..

I assume you have already seen this one - I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10050772/?ref_=nm_knf_c_2)

This is the series that got me into his brand of comedy and I love it! IF the chair company is anything like it, I will love it too.

i literally wrote twice about that show already here... check the quotes on this post. but thanks for the rec.

I might have missed it. My favourite skit from the show was the drive through. What's yours? BTW, these guys too are into a similar brand of comedy:-

Heard of them?

PuDLeZ · November 2025

I'm actually waiting for my analogue 3d to arrive, just checked and I guess it should be here tonight! Originally it said tomorrow but I guess shipping went a little faster than hey originally estimated. It's basically a modern fpga remake of the Nintendo 64. I definetly played it a lot as a kid too (friends owned it back then) so I figured I would get it to play some of the stuff I know and some of the things I missed out on.

noob404 · November 2025

@PuDLeZ said:

@noob404 said:

@PuDLeZ said:
I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

I guess what they say is true, old is gold. BTW, I have been trying to get my hand son the new-ish retro in the market called the R36S. It comes with an RK3326 and 1GB RAM. Devs were able to put Lineage OS on it - GTA SA runs!

Nice! Yeah, those emulation devices are fun but a lot of them sometime suffer with certain games and consoles. Also, if you played a game a lot on original hardware (like me with snes and gb), you do notice a difference. That's actually why my pocket gets more gameplay than everything else since fpga emulates the hardware so it's like using the original thing. Though it does cost much more than the software emulation options.

Oh ya, that's true. FOr example, n64 is a mess on the R36S, from what I have heard. But, yes, what you said is true. Nothing beats the OGs, in most cases.

noob404 · November 2025

@PuDLeZ said:
I'm actually waiting for my analogue 3d to arrive, just checked and I guess it should be here tonight! Originally it said tomorrow but I guess shipping went a little faster than hey originally estimated. It's basically a modern fpga remake of the Nintendo 64. I definetly played it a lot as a kid too (friends owned it back then) so I figured I would get it to play some of the stuff I know and some of the things I missed out on.

This is the first I am hearing of this. How did they manage to get Nintendo's licence to manufacture this, given Nintendo goes crazy over their IP/.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

@bchot said:

@PuDLeZ said:
I do find it funny: I have a steam deck, a switch (oled), and some little handheld emulation device but my pocket gets the most gameplay in bed and on the go. Though you can load cores on it so it opens up many more systems and I don't even need to use a flash cart or my original carts (do have a decent collection but they're all boxed up since I have flash carts)

i think i am getting an 20 system gaming emulator from Amazon. you can buy with those old consoles emulated plus up to 100k games preloaded.. cheap too, like under $100 some of them.. HDMI 4k connection, joysticks, all included, crazy how they are not illegal or at least not banned..

Most are illegal, well, the roms they include with it are illegal, the devices themselves are basically little PCs or Android systems. Without them roms, they're 100% legal. The premade things are nice since you don't have to source your own rom, I mean rip your original games, and set things up yourself.

bchot · November 2025

I might have missed it. My favourite skit from the show was the drive through. What's yours? BTW, these guys too are into a similar brand of comedy:-

Heard of them?

haha a funny one.. situational word play comedy.. =]
never seen before

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

I might have missed it. My favourite skit from the show was the drive through. What's yours? BTW, these guys too are into a similar brand of comedy:-

Heard of them?

haha a funny one.. situational word play comedy.. =]
never seen before

I discovered them accidentally and hooked since then.

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@PuDLeZ said:
I'm actually waiting for my analogue 3d to arrive, just checked and I guess it should be here tonight! Originally it said tomorrow but I guess shipping went a little faster than hey originally estimated. It's basically a modern fpga remake of the Nintendo 64. I definetly played it a lot as a kid too (friends owned it back then) so I figured I would get it to play some of the stuff I know and some of the things I missed out on.

This is the first I am hearing of this. How did they manage to get Nintendo's licence to manufacture this, given Nintendo goes crazy over their IP/.

yeah, that's why Nintendo is suing virtually everyone and everything that would touch their games.. cracks, mods or just reselling.. thus i am perplexed why those devices are sold, including nintendo stuff on them..

PuDLeZ · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@PuDLeZ said:
I'm actually waiting for my analogue 3d to arrive, just checked and I guess it should be here tonight! Originally it said tomorrow but I guess shipping went a little faster than hey originally estimated. It's basically a modern fpga remake of the Nintendo 64. I definetly played it a lot as a kid too (friends owned it back then) so I figured I would get it to play some of the stuff I know and some of the things I missed out on.

This is the first I am hearing of this. How did they manage to get Nintendo's licence to manufacture this, given Nintendo goes crazy over their IP/.

They didn't, they don't contain any nintendo thing and they actually prevent loading roms on the devices. Though there's usually a "jailbreak" that's release after a little while that enables it (pretty sure the company/devs release it themselves but keep the hardware they sell 100% legit so nintendo can't really do anything).

They also have other systems too. I was originally introduced to analogue with their Super NT (same thing, modern fpga remake of the snes). They also did a few other systems too

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