Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • Brute Forcing Cheat Codes

    Tony Hawk's Underground 2 sent me down a pretty unexpected rabbit hole this last weekend.

    I had just beaten the main game on PSP and unlocked a bunch of stuff, including one of the levels from Pro Skater 3 I had really enjoyed as a kid. But there were a lot more levels still locked and I realized that the game expected me to complete all the other difficulties to fully unlock everything.

    I didn't think this was much of a problem, I'd just look up cheat codes (remember those?) and check out all the locked levels that way. But for reasons that only the game devs will ever know, it wouldn't be that simple.

  • Adding a fan to my OrangePi 5+

    I wasn't expecting this to be so hard. I ordered an RK3588 based Orange Pi 5+ a while back as a development platform. It's great. A good combination CPU and GPU power. As well as a very competitive price to performance ratio. I also bought a large heat sink for it. However it kept hitting thermal limit under heavy use. Yet, I wasn't able to find a 5V fan that would fit on top of the heat sink. Even more so, I can't find any documentation about the GPIO pins.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • TIL Bad Habits Can Create Unforeseen Insights

      I have the bad habit to many tabs open in my browsers, on the Web and on Gemini. And by many I mean hundreds. Yes, seriously.

      I think I started this habit in the late 1990s while still being on dial-up. Pages loaded slowly and I rather clicked one promising link after the other on a SERP to load in a new tab in the background than to follow a link, navigate back, and follow another link.

      For various reasons, every once in a while I have to save all those tabs in bookmark folders to be able to close them and open them later again. Sometimes I forget to delete those bookmark folders and save the tabs again after a couple of weeks or months, depending on the circumstances.

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