2025-01-20T19:19:47.355Z
test
2025-01-20T19:40:21.357Z
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/android-not-connecting-via-usb-3-0-but-usb-2-working-fine.3155237/

"Iv got 2 LG devices the G5 and G6 both will not connect to my PC via USB 3.0 I plug them in and they just charge no option for USB on the phone and not showing up on my PC at all not even in device manager[.]
But if I plug the phones in to a USB 2 port it will work fine every time"

classic. niche issue thread that got closed as "solved" due to inactivity. this is an issue for me btw.
2025-01-22T23:50:40.726Z
gaming
2025-01-24T02:44:31.387Z
i think i have a good intuition for taking a close look at things, poking around and dissecting, then spotting things and saying "this looks important" or "this looks interesting"

my weakness is that i never have enough knowledge of the subject (like any specific assembly language, win32 APIs, C# in general, etc.) but my strength is in being able to loosely connect the dots despite that lack of knowledge
2025-01-28T20:50:00.024Z
random potential project idea of the day:
i wonder what sort of hacks it takes to get Steam fully (or almost fully) working on Windows 7 and Windows 8 these days.

i'm almost certain that you could get any installed game to run, without needing the main Steam program fully 100% working. maybe via certain trickery using an older version of Steam (or the Steam DLL in the game files). or maybe by using one of those Steam DLL emulators / replacements that people use to bypass Steam's regular DRM that a lot of games use.

(note: plenty of games don't use Steam's DRM at all. for example, the Steam releases of main-series touhou games, allegedly, last i heard. literally just run the EXE on any computer, no need to be logged-in to Steam.)

as much as i respect it, doing so for the purpose of bypassing DRM is a different question that i personally don't care about. i'd be more interested in getting the main Steam client application (and Steam DLL, if necessary) working as well as possible on Win 7 / 8 / 8.1. and reverse engineering the client, perhaps patching it to bring it up to date with the still-supported Windows 10/11 version, maybe patching it to use Supermium (https://github.com/win32ss/supermium) instead of Chromium, etc.

as always, a lot easier said than done. i might never decide to work on that, which is common. just a random spitball idea i could theoretically do.
2025-02-08T05:52:42.422Z
I plan on doing a little bit of datamining of Pokemon TCG Pocket
2025-02-08T05:58:33.200Z
(both the android and the iOS version)
2025-02-08T06:03:36.289Z
I'm not gonna do an exhaustive analysis, I'm mainly just interested in trying to dump some textures
2025-02-08T18:45:45.864Z

y'know, there's something to be said about the way Windows does so much baseless fearmongering that it actually backfires and trains its users to ignore *real* security concerns.
2025-02-08T18:53:46.486Z
*security concerns as well as other concerns. obviously that image isn't related to cybersecurity, it's a matter of potential data corruption, but it's the same principle. Every time I remove a USB drive without going into the badly designed UI to click "Eject", the "dirty" flag of the drive's filesystem is set, and Windows will display this notification when the drive is next plugged in. But 99.98% of the time, the data on the drive is literally completely fine (except perhaps if you were using ExFat, because that filesystem sucks balls and is super prone to mass data corruption...). So I completely ignore that notification every time it pops up, and sometimes I even make fun of it. 10 years of false flags of "WARNING!! WARNING!! DRIVE CORRUPTION!! CLICK HERE TO SCAN NOW!!" have trained me to completely ignore such warnings. This is an example of a broader issue with software (and UI) design.
2025-02-08T20:53:36.941Z
in the next hour i'll hopefully fuckin *finally* get around to dumping my friend's CD-ROM/DVD-ROM(?) copy of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Academic Edition
2025-02-08T20:56:11.129Z
*it is in fact a CD-ROM