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Yes, it's fine. The mini-DIN PS/2 keyboard interface is electrically identical to the 5-pin DIN AT keyboard interface, so your results will be the same as if the keyboard had its own PS/2 connector.

PS/2-to-USB keyboard adapters vary widely in their behavior, regardless of whether an AT adapter is in play. I suggest looking for models with reviews confirming that they support n-key rollover and BIOS setup screens.

A Soarer's Converter is another option. These are more advanced AT-to-USB keyboard adapters, supporting programmable features like macros and layers. They were designed for an electronics hobbyist to build, but sometimes turn up pre-built in various places online.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=17458.0

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=2510

maybe don’t just assume all of us knows what ‘GPR’ is. For those maybe wondering, it stands for “General Purpose Registers”.

That is stated in lesson 1. It's in the first sentence that mentions "GPR" and in the heading directly above it.

(By the way, I'm not the author.)

John Crichton... are you still out there?

That build should handle 1440p gaming for more than a few years to come.

You might want to consider swapping out the Ryzen 7 7700X for an X3D model. Many games get a significant boost from the extra cache. It can also make game performance less dependent on your RAM speed.

Maybe wait until the upcoming hardware releases hit the market, because those can drive down the prices of the stuff you intend to buy.

I don't know of any generic controllers, and wouldn't trust them to have consistent hardware between production runs. All the worthwhile controllers I've used have brand names. Having said that...

Logitech makes decent, affordable, basic controllers. My only complaint about the F310 / F710 is that the analog stick dead zones are a little bigger than I like. (Maybe I'm just spoiled by Sony models, though.)

Sony's DualShock 4 v2 and DualSense are great in my experience, and not terribly expensive when they go on sale.

You might find it interesting to know that the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and Nintendo Entertainment System (aka Famicom) all used variants of the MOS Technology 6502 CPU. (The bottom of the Computers and games section on that page pictures more devices that used it.)

I expect this is part of why so many games were ported between those systems, even at a time when most games were written in (non-portable) assembly code. These machines all support the same CPU instructions.

I hope they manage to get it complete, and good. Giving Oblivion another try (this time exploring the rest of the world instead of focusing on the boring main quest) has been on my list for a while, and improved graphics would be welcome.

That font, though... not a good choice for quickly delivering information. Mods to the rescue?

Blizzard games have always run very well in Wine.

They run, but I wouldn't say very well. A few counterexamples off the top of my head:

• Wine raw input patches are required to avoid subtle mouse glitches in Overwatch.
• Saving Overwatch highlight videos doesn't work.
• Battlenet launcher changes have made it unusable in Wine more than once, leaving people suddenly unable to play for days or weeks even when the games themselves would run fine if they could be updated and launched.

You might not notice the problems (or not as often) if using Proton. That's because Proton includes a load of Wine patches for stuff like this.

It would be nice if Blizzard tested on Wine and worked with the maintainers to ensure things stayed smooth.

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https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700

The thumbnail reminds me of that Wheee! Internet Explorer vs Firefox video.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250221181422/https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/

https://archive.today/ohI5R

I avoid Apple devices, so I don't have a first-hand recommendation, but something like Nextcloud would seem to fit.

https://nextcloud.com/encryption/

Altice failed to terminate repeat infringers whose IP addresses were flagged in these copyright notices, the lawsuit said.

So the record label thinks it should have the power to cut off people's internet service, upon which most people depend for at least some basic essentials of living, by simply accusing them of copyright infringement.

I hope the record label is severely punished for this abuse of the (publicly funded) justice system.

I'm going as far back as the 1400s, and your 1810 usage doesn't match any common meaning of "snuff out", so I don't think it really applies here. But thanks for the interesting etymological diversion. :)

In any case, polygraphs still cannot put an end to leaks, so I stand by my original interpretation.

I see your line of thinking, but let's also remember that polygraphs wouldn't end leaks even if they really were lie detectors. The most they could do in that fictional scenario would be to reveal the leaks; to sniff them out. To snuff them out would require some additional, separate action.

Also snuff out applies to candles only because the snuff is literally part of a candle's wick. The phrase is not being used literally here, which leaves us with the common non-literal meaning: to murder.

I still think the most charitable interpretation is that author confused it with sniff out, and failed to consider the grisly meaning of what they wrote.

1. Is thedailybeastcom considered a reputable news source?
2. To snuff out is to kill; usually murder. Did the author mean sniff out?

I think you mean across the internet, but I get your point. You might want to state that in your post.

Its file sharing feature works between any supported devices, including phone-to-phone, and yes, it is intended for connections across a local network.

Why go through someone's service when you could go direct?

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html