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Fun Fact:

You can still buy PSP games Digitally.

Recently, I purchased Persona 3 Portable digitally for PSP.

And I really think more people should do this. The process is a bit more complicated than I think it should be, but I think it's really cool that Sony still enables users to do this, unlike a certain Nintendo.

The Process is as follows:

Obtain a PS3/PSVita. I had a PS3, so that's what I used, but I've heard a Vita works just as well. The reason for this is that the PSP store itself is down, Sony just didn't want to maintain that. And also you can't purchase PSP/PS3/PSVita games on the webstore anymore.

Go to the PlayStation Store on your PC to add adequate funds to your PSN account. The reason for this is Sony disallows direct card usage on PS3/Vita for security reasons.

Navigate to the PlayStation Store on your PS3/PSVita, and purchase the game of your choosing. Feel Free to skip the download to your PS3, Sony seems to have discontinued the option to transfer games from PS3 to PSP awhile ago.

Connect to a compatible Wi-Fi Network on your PSP, and head to the Downloads section in the PS Store. There, you will find the game you purchased, and you can then download and play it.

As an alternative to step 4, in case you have a PSP Street or don't have a Wi-Fi connection compatible with your PSP, you could just morally pirate the game at that point. You've done your part, you legally bought a game for a 20-year old console, and didn't pay scalpers a billion dollars for it, you now own that game, just download it to your console and play it, don't fret over what you had to do to get it there.

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Fun Fact:

My Intel Arc A770 is perfect with no flaws.

Weirdly enough, I have exactly zero issues while gaming, it's only in web apps like Firefox, Discord, and Steam. Although mostly Firefox.

At first I thought it was a driver issue, and rolling back my driver seemed to help for awhile, but it's been a few months with my card occasionally doing things like this. Most of the time it's text disappearing though, I don't think I've seen texture corruption like this before.

While typing this post my GPU reset itself and the issue has been fixed.

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Fun Fact:

For some unknown reason, the PS4's internal hard drive is connected to the system over usb.

You could probably tell this by looking at the board, but you could also check this using PS4 Linux.

While booted into Linux you can open a terminal and type the command lspci the result should look something like this:

[noob404@winesapos ~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor Root Complex 00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool I/O Memory Management Unit 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Starsha2 [Kingston/Clayton] 00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Liverpool HDMI/DP Audio Controller 00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool UMI PCIe Dummy Host Bridge 00:14.0 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize ACPI 00:14.1 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize Ethernet Controller 00:14.2 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize SATA AHCI Controller 00:14.3 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize SD/MMC Host Controller 00:14.4 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize PCI Express Glue and Miscellaneous Devices 00:14.5 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize DMA Controller 00:14.6 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize Memory (DDR3/SPM) 00:14.7 System peripheral: Sony Corporation Belize USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor HT configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor Address Maps 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor DRAM configuration 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor Misc configuration 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor PM configuration 00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor NB Performance Monitor 00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Liverpool Processor SPLL Configuration

Your results may vary, depending on the how you set up PS4 Linux and which specific PS4 model you have. What we're interested in here are the devices are 00:14:2, and 00:14:7, The SATA AHCI Controller, and the USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller (once again, your addresses may vary). Keep note of those addresses.

Now you can type in ls -l /sys/block to find where your system's storage devices are attached. Here are my results:

[noob404@winesapos ~]$ ls -la /sys/block total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 18 2022 . dr-xr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:56 dm-0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop1 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop2 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop3 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop4 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop5 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop6 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:53 loop7 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:56 ram0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 18 2022 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.7/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 26 23:56 sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

If you look at the bottom of the list, you'll find a file titled "sda", this is usually your hard drive. Some PS4 Linux distributions don't support the internal hard drive, and in that case sda may be your USB drive instead. You also see here a file titled "sr0", this is your PS4's Blu-ray drive. You may note that the path shown for the hard drive includes a 00:14.7, this indicates that the hard drive is attached to the PS4's USB controller, which is a really weird thing to do. Especially considering the Blu-ray drive is attached to 00:14.2, the SATA AHCI Controller.

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Fun Fact:

Sony is watching.

According to Sony, I have to update my PS5 in order to use network features. However they are perfectly willing to continue using network features on my behalf.

I just checked my PS App, and all the games I've played in the last month (I haven't updated since May last year) show up perfectly fine in my Recently Played.

That is at least a little crazy, I think.

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YOUR PHONE IS NOT WATERPROOF

Hi everyone I'm about to go crazy at work with the 8th water damaged phone at my desk this week and it's only Wednesday

"But they said it was waterproof-" No, companies say it's "water resistant***" to trick you into equating the two things it is NOT WATERPROOF

(*resistant up to a certain depth, **in specific water conditions, ***only for a certain amount of years after manufacturing)

Also rice doesn't do anything stop wasting your rice

"But I put my smartphone in rice and it fixed it-" The rice literally does nothing at all, the only way it would EVER appear to "work" is because you left the device alone and off power for a few days.

So then what are you supposed to do?

Full disclosure: the best thing you can do is take it into a phone repair shop that can properly open the device and dry it out. It really has to be open in some way for the water to get out. Regardless, you should do these things first:

(Note: if it's salt water you may be screwed already, try to take it in asap)

Turn off and keep off of power

Remove the SIM tray (if yours is removable)

Heat up the device to a moderately high degree using a hairdryer, or leave it in the sun. The water can't escape as a liquid, needs to be a vapor. But even then, without opening it is very difficult for the water to get out.

LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A WHILE- DO NOT PLUG IT IN. The most damaging thing the water is going to do in the first few hours is short out the chips on the board or the screen. Leave it alone overnight if you can.

As you leave it alone, try to lean the device on its side to avoid water corroding the board. To know what side to lean it on you'll have to look up a guide to find which side the board is on. (If in doubt, lean it so it's standing up. This may lead the water to the port or daughter board but it's better than the main board)

Try heating it up again the next day, if the lenses fog up from the inside that means there is still standing water. TAKE IT INTO A SHOP BEFORE THE WATER CORRODES THE BOARD. If not, there's a good chance there's no more water in the device and you can try to use it again.

I can go more painfully in depth about all the nuance of water damage on mobile devices but I will leave it there for now.

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Fun Fact:

Accidentally updated my quest 2 headset today.

I haven't updated in forever, so now everything is different. And as a bonus, I'm missing half my inputs. I'll press down on the trigger, and the little beam from my controller will turn blue indicating I hit something, but for whatever reason, that input just won't be passed to the app I'm using.

They also moved a bunch of stuff around. Probably something I could get used to, but why?

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IMPORTANT FACT:

Click this switch here, you'll find it in your blog settings. My steps were to click settings on the left, then my blog on the right, then scroll all the way down to the bottom, but I'm on desktop, so your steps may vary. I feel like someone else told me to do this once, but I must've forgor, because I was scrolling through settings today and found the switch un-flipped.

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Fun Fact: While I wouldn't recommend it unless you can get a good deal (Got mine for free from the recycle bin) in a pinch the Smart Slate WS200 works just fine as a super simple drawing tablet. The hardest part is finding drivers.

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Fun Fact:

I love the USPS, but sometimes they route my packages through the backrooms.

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Everyone keeps abbreviating Mario Kart World as mkw. My old head keeps thinking Mario Kart Wii is relevant again. I don't have any solutions. These are indeed confusing times.

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Fun Fact:

Many Philips TVs have Magnavox counterparts. They are so similar, in fact, that by changing one bit in memory using one of the TVs service modes, you can change the displayed branding in the menus.

This would have to be done if the mainboard was replaced in this model, as the bit for marking this TV as Philips is turned off by default.

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Update:

Found my sim card tray, it was on the ground.

Still could be a $9 mistake if my order cancelation doesn't go through.

Fun Fact:

I've just made a $9 mistake. While upgrading my phone, I placed my sim card into another phone, so if someone needed to contact me while my main phone was out of commission, I could still receive messages.

The problem is, I apparently misplaced my main phone's sim card tray, didn't store it empty in my phone, and it will cost me $9 to replace it.

Word to the wise: learn from my mistake, $9 isn't going to break me, but it was extremely preventable.

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Fun Fact:

I've just made a $9 mistake. While upgrading my phone, I placed my sim card into another phone, so if someone needed to contact me while my main phone was out of commission, I could still receive messages.

The problem is, I apparently misplaced my main phone's sim card tray, didn't store it empty in my phone, and it will cost me $9 to replace it.

Word to the wise: learn from my mistake, $9 isn't going to break me, but it was extremely preventable.

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hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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After three undecillion years, I finally beat Persona 4

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Fun Fact:

Pillow folded in half > two pillows

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Fun Fact:

JEDEC papers are locked behind an account for seemingly no reason. It makes sense for the paid papers to be locked behind an account, but there are also some specs that are free to download but only if you have an account.

Their password requirements are really funny too, only needing six characters with one capital, one lowercase, one number, and one special character.

So you could use the password W0rds! And that'd be valid.