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Comment on PSP: The rise and fall of Sony's first portable in ~games
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Comment on PSP: The rise and fall of Sony's first portable in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentI have two PSPs actually, my OG PS Slim (2000) and my brother's Slim (3000). I don'ŧ play on them anymore, as I have many more options to play even PSP games. Fun fact - I finished GTA San Andreas...I have two PSPs actually, my OG PS Slim (2000) and my brother's Slim (3000). I don'ŧ play on them anymore, as I have many more options to play even PSP games.
Fun fact - I finished GTA San Andreas for my first and (so far) only time on my PS Vita. The best game you can play on Vita in my opinion. When I first played the game on PS2 when it came out, I didn't even dream about playing it on a portable/pocketable device with actual analog controls. And here we are :-)
Speaking about GTA San Andreas and portable device - I have my near future set for me. Steam Deck is wonderful thing, it actually is something I dreamed about and thanks to Valve and their pricing scheme, I could afford one. Best buy in my PC life so far - I have finished more games in last three years than I did in my whole life before I got Steam Deck.
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Comment on PSP: The rise and fall of Sony's first portable in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentPSP was the best handheld at its time. Nintendo probably had majority with their Gameboys, but still PSP was superior in some ways - display, proceasing power, size of cartridge (available size...PSP was the best handheld at its time. Nintendo probably had majority with their Gameboys, but still PSP was superior in some ways - display, proceasing power, size of cartridge (available size for game on UMD), MP3 player, video player, ...
PS Vita - I consider it predecessor of Nintendo Switch. It kinda had everything in place plus even more, lacking the one crucial thing - marketing. Sony itself is responsible for Vita's death. The console was once again very innovative with capacitive acreen, capacitive back, two cameras, once again processing power, dual analogs... Sony had Nintendo Switch in their hands yet they didn't know it, didn't understand it.
I still have both of these in my drawer, played hundreds of hour on each of them. Great portable consoles!
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Comment on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking in ~tech
Pavouk106 Link ParentMy domain is pavoukovo.cz which translates to English as "Pavouk's". I used subdomains for thinks like blog.pavoukovo.cz (Pavouk's blog) or sklad.pavoukovo.cz (Pavouk's storage; for sharing files)...My domain is pavoukovo.cz which translates to English as "Pavouk's". I used subdomains for thinks like blog.pavoukovo.cz (Pavouk's blog) or sklad.pavoukovo.cz (Pavouk's storage; for sharing files) etc.
I will likely try to use the e-mail in similar way - having addresses for eshops, forums, throwaways/non-important and such.
I still have to jump the ship. Christmas around the corner and a lit of stuff to do right now. But I'm determined to do it and I will. Probably by the end of winter. I still have to look into various service providers that got recommended.
Thabks for coming back and letting me know!
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Comment on That new hit song on Spotify? It was made by AI. in ~music
Pavouk106 LinkIf the AI made song is popular, who is getting money from it? If AI makes somebody murder someone or drives them to suicide, who is going jail? My guess is that if it's the former then "Gimme,...If the AI made song is popular, who is getting money from it?
If AI makes somebody murder someone or drives them to suicide, who is going jail?
My guess is that if it's the former then "Gimme, gimme" and if the latter then "AI can't be responsible for such acts". And this is all I need to know about AI and people who run it.
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Comment on Twenty-five movies, many stars, zero hits: Hollywood falls to new lows in ~movies
Pavouk106 Link ParentI have just returned from the first movie I've been on in theatre this year. No surprises, it was Back to the future as I wasn't around when it hit cinemas back in the day. Being there, I checked...I have just returned from the first movie I've been on in theatre this year. No surprises, it was Back to the future as I wasn't around when it hit cinemas back in the day.
Being there, I checked what other movies are screening and none catched my interest. I think it comes to less than one interesting movie for me per year. I was on Ferrari and Dune part 2, which are also a bit dated today... Nothing for me to go watch in between.
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Comment on Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules in ~tech
Pavouk106 Link ParentBecause it is kinda video aggregator, not just Youtube. It is offline (data storage) and able to run on dwsktop and sync between phone and PC. Desktop version is a bit behind with Youtube support...Because it is kinda video aggregator, not just Youtube. It is offline (data storage) and able to run on dwsktop and sync between phone and PC. Desktop version is a bit behind with Youtube support though (sometimes doean't work for a day or two). It is completely user oriented.
I especially like that Louis Rossmann stands behind it and he is the right guy in my eyes. Also he said a few times that Google can't shut them down as they don't violate the terms of service (as they don't use Youtube API if I understand it right).
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Comment on Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules in ~tech
Pavouk106 Link ParentYes, I do know, actually. Install Grayjay, it is available even in Google Play.Yes, I do know, actually. Install Grayjay, it is available even in Google Play.
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Comment on Pennies are being canceled and the US Mint won't make any more. What does that mean? in ~finance
Pavouk106 Link ParentYou are kinda the problem, but please continue doing it this way. People are dumb, they see smaller number on the first digit, they are pleased. You will lose jobs over those 5 bucks because of...You are kinda the problem, but please continue doing it this way.
People are dumb, they see smaller number on the first digit, they are pleased. You will lose jobs over those 5 bucks because of that.
To sum it up - the main problem is not you, it's how people perceive the price and are unable to see that the the difference is negligible. Especially in pricing something 0,99 or 1.
The same people often fall for fake sales. I say let them have it, if they really want it that way.
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Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentI own Steam Deck and OG controller. They are great. I will likely be seriously thinking about buying Frame, but I ahve yet to see the lrice and hatdware requirements for games, as I have old and...I own Steam Deck and OG controller. They are great. I will likely be seriously thinking about buying Frame, but I ahve yet to see the lrice and hatdware requirements for games, as I have old and even at the time not decent computer.
But I was thinking about going VR for a long long time and I was thinking specifically Index. Well, seems I may be getting its successor in the future.
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Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo
Pavouk106 Link ParentI had my PC in HTPC Lian-Li PC-C37B case, which was in a front open TV stand around 30cm above ground. It got dusty as hell, if I was doing maintenance as I should, I would be disconnecting...I had my PC in HTPC Lian-Li PC-C37B case, which was in a front open TV stand around 30cm above ground. It got dusty as hell, if I was doing maintenance as I should, I would be disconnecting everything each 3 monhts. The case was kinda easy to work in, but it has low clearance in the TV stand and getting to the cables was real PIA.
This PC stand make this much easier. But I also fear even more frequent to clean. Especially leading edges on (GPU) fan blades are getting dusty quite fast as the dust falls on them and they keep to be on the whole time (which is like 10-12 hours a day for me). Dust build-up on them seems you have to at least blow on them once a month. The heatsink seems ok though.
I use Scythe Shuriken 4 on CPU and I have my fan oriented backwards = it sucks through the heatsink instead of blowing into it. This makes CPU run at 60 Celsius under full load (i5-4690 with 84W real TDP). The fan is Noctua NF-F12 running at 500 rpm (no typo, five hundred). I don't know how it would perform with normal facing fan, but this temperature is very ok for the circumstances. At idle, while writing this comment, it sits at 28 Celsius. Being in the open certainly helps with cooling.
The heat of other components was brought up here on Tildes. RAM (DDR3) isn't even warm on touch, my motherboard doesn't even have heatsink on VRM (MOSFETs) and they are not getting hot. The "southbridge" (or what is it called nowadays) heatsink is only a bit warm on touch. My setup doesn't have any problem running on this stand. I don't have more power hungry components though, so I can imagine it may have problems with some configurations.
The PC also is very serviceable, as you can easily reach all the components. The same goes for getting rid of the dust - you just disconnect everything and take it outside and use compressor or blower, you don't even have to go deeper like unmounting cooler or getting out your GPU.
I'm still thinking about additional cooling. I imagine there could be 8 or 12cm fan angled on the lower side of the stand blowing across the motherboard (from the edge across VRMs, RAM towards back of the GPU). I even have an idea on how to mount it but it may need changes to the main and end structure thus reprinting those. We'll see how it goes.
It was my intention from the start to share the files. I'm FOSS kind of guy, I take from the system thus I want to return back in some way and as I'm not a programmer, I have to do it other ways. This (and other models) is my contribution. I don't want to keep them for myself, that would be a lot of lost time on designing and printing it, and I don't want to sell it, because I guess not many people would buy it and there are other great models for free printing out there anyway. I will polish the FCstd (FreeCAD) file of the Open PC stand and upload it to Printables soon (in a few days, this month surely) so that others can modify it as they see fit. This is part of my open mind approach.
I also had another PC case (closed this time) in my mind, fully modular, fully printed. But it got suspended by me to likely not ever seeing the light of day. It was not practical and the design still has many flaws. It would have been like a frame covered with tiles of various sizes depending on how big you needed it and where you wanted your cooling (fans) to be. It would have been highly customizable using various colors on tiles. But as I said - many flaws in design to solve and I don't see it being practical in the end. Here's a sneak peek on how it would look and be screwed together.
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Comment on Timasomo 2025: The Showcase in ~creative.timasomo
Pavouk106 LinkI have uploaded last STL model file for my Open PC stand. There is kinda everything written on the Printables, so I will make it shorter here. I wanted my PC on my table, like Open benchtable,...- Exemplary
I have uploaded last STL model file for my Open PC stand. There is kinda everything written on the Printables, so I will make it shorter here.
I wanted my PC on my table, like Open benchtable, which looks really great but also costs quite some money. And then I thought "You have 3D printer, why not print something like that?" Next few days I spent on Printables looking on various models and weighing their pros and cons to no avail - I didn't find single one that would be just for me, some were too big to fit, some had aluminium bars as part of construction, some were meant for watercooling, some for mITX, some for ATX (me having mATX) and so on...
So I went on a main quest to design my own. And here it is.
Known issues - no dust filtering, no watercooling (or rather no mounts for radiators), may not hold really big GPUs well. The dust is part of it being open, nothing to do about it, really - at least disassembly of the PC for cleaning is kinda easy or you can take the whole thing outside and use compressed air or blower to get rid of the dust. Watercooling is impossible to make since I don't have any watercooling parts at hand to measure and test - but you can make your own parts for it if you want. Heavy GPUs could be kinda mitigated, but the PCI bracket is made to fit next to motherboard IO ports if the GPU is in the first slot (think mITX), which limits the dimensions and thus strength of the printed bracket. I could make the bracket wider (thus stronger) but it may not be compatible with each motherboard. Since I don't have heavy GPU, I don't have means to test it and hence why I didn't make even stronger bracket.
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Comment on Humble Bundle vets launch new game discovery platform Digiphile in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentI also have many keys left and I even participadet in one giveaway here. I will list the games again, as I know I will never play them. I have to look into this new project, seems interesting.I also have many keys left and I even participadet in one giveaway here. I will list the games again, as I know I will never play them.
I have to look into this new project, seems interesting.
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Comment on November 2025 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentWhen I first played it, I thought how is it even possible to finish the game. Then I read a bit about how it actually works. Basically each item has some kind of points value and there are...When I first played it, I thought how is it even possible to finish the game. Then I read a bit about how it actually works. Basically each item has some kind of points value and there are thresholds to cross which spawn another wave. If you pick up everything, you can end up with multiple waves at once, I believe.
I haven't played multiplayer (yet), but if you keep track of what item and where it is located (for later pick up), you can manage even just on your own pretty well.
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Comment on November 2025 Backlog Burner: Week 1 Discussion in ~games
Pavouk106 Link ParentI just want to react on UNLOVED. If somebody wants to try it, don't pick up everything you find! Every item adds up to background counter that spawns new enemies, thus more you pick up, faster...I just want to react on UNLOVED.
If somebody wants to try it, don't pick up everything you find! Every item adds up to background counter that spawns new enemies, thus more you pick up, faster enemy spawn and faster enemy progression (to harder enemies). I usually go fornjust two weapons and pickup ammo and armor as I need it. That way you can actually get through the game.
I suppose more players = more picking up = harder game. You may want to maybe pick up even less if you ay multiplayer then.
It is strange concept, one I don't know from any other game. But in Unloved, you can actually run around empty map. Or get overwhelmed easily. It all depends on how you play it.
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Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music
Pavouk106 Link ParentMoney for nothing -Dire Straits It's literally all said in that song.Money for nothing -Dire Straits
It's literally all said in that song.
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Comment on Advice on poor Linux performance vs Windows in ~tech
Pavouk106 Link ParentI'd try looking if you actually run Nvidia proprietary drivers. I think glxinfo (command) can tell you more - if you don't have it, don't install it. Or if you have Steam installed, you can find...I'd try looking if you actually run Nvidia proprietary drivers. I think glxinfo (command) can tell you more - if you don't have it, don't install it. Or if you have Steam installed, you can find infk about your hardware there - if the driver is MESA, you are not running Nvidia proprietary drivers and that could mean you are not decoding on GPU but actually on CPU. Or you can try command nvidia-smi, which will tell you some basic info about Nvidia GPU (or end up with an error if you don't run proprietary driver).
You can find more information about your video files by using command ffprobe (from ffmpeg package), that way you can narrow down the differences between videos that play alright and the ones that don't.
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Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech
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Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show in ~tech
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Comment on Tilderinos in ~talk
Pavouk106 LinkTL;DR: The.chosen ones. Everyone on this website was chosen by someone else to be here, there is no doubt about that. Thanks, @OBLIVIATERTL;DR: The.chosen ones. Everyone on this website was chosen by someone else to be here, there is no doubt about that.
Thanks, @OBLIVIATER
The second paragraph there is written like I wrote it personally. I do the same, I play whenever it is possible. I play daily. Sometimes for a few minutes, other days doing 2-4 hours a day.
I don't have gaming PC and now I know I don't need one. Steam Deck can't run some new games but I already have queue so long I would need two lives to make it through, so its performance doesn't limit me at all.
And I'm really cueious about Steam Frame - new VR from Valve. It seems like another step for me. I played PS VR2 at my friend's house and I know I have games I'd like to play in VR but didn't buy one yet. This might make me do it. And then I may actually need some powerful (enough) PC to go along with it... My i5-4790 with GTX 1650 grand-dad of a PC won't cope well with VR.
Anyway - Steam Deck FTW! I love to be able to play PC games on the go. And not only those, but also all the Gameboy, PSP and also some Switch games! I still have to play BotW on my Steam Deck (finished on Switch Lite a few years back).