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asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator

I remember the headaches I used to get after long sessions of God of War on PCSX2 v0.9.6 at 5-10 fps on a pentium dual core. Can't believe it's been over a decade.

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does the HN point system penalize comments that elicit good debate?

This is cool. Has it been documented somewhere?

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?

I'm using Google Keep for actionable checklists, and obsidian as a knowledge-base (consisting long-term goals, notes, resources, links, etc).

For the longest time, I had been looking for something that offered offline support and was lightweight, my use case being limited to text content. The combination of these two has been super effective for me. In the long run, I'll probably migrate the checklists to Obsidian too, but Keep is relatively easier to quickly add stuff to.

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”

> quite reasonable

Maybe. I'd use the word 'compensatory'.

Using two apps to access half of my media each renders either one useless.

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”

Google pulled off a similar thing with their photos app. Offered "unlimited" storage in 2016, improved the AI leveraging all our data, discontinued in 2021.

Never using cloud again.

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you build your own antivirus?

You can turn off background scans in your group settings without getting rid of the entire thing.

1. Run gpedit.msc

2. Navigate to administrative templates -> windows components -> Microsoft defender antivirus -> real-time protection -> turn off real-time protection

3. Set 'enabled'

asynchronyse | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best casual, non-committal online games?

2048(https://play2048.co/) is low-commitment and resumable, but highly addictive.

asynchronyse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

Chrome bookmark export has a bug, so watch out in case you're using it. It doesn't export unnamed links.

asynchronyse | 3 years ago | on: AMD releases a new flagship CPU for consumer market with 128M of L3 Cache

I'm wondering how much clock speed you gave up to achieve stability at -30.

I could barely be stable at -15 all core on a 5900X at zero clock offset.

asynchronyse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What decade or older games surprise you with how well they have held up?

Resident Evil 4, Prototype and Deus Ex: Human Revolution immediately came to mind. Massive replay value.

asynchronyse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to regain focus when you feel overwhelmed?

Looks like you're trying to get all of these done at the same time. Choose one task that you feel like working on the most.

Now keep taking baby-steps to gradually build momentum.

Try not to worry about the completion. keep switching tasks whenever you feel overwhelmed.

asynchronyse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which subredits do you follow?

It's almost funny how both sides of the political spectrum think their voices are being suppressed