Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?

Posted on Yesterday, 09:43

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I think that's the standard everywhere both on fiber and copper. Where I live it's the same for over 10 years by now. Though here it's not a problem to switch it into bridge mode, use it as a modem and log in with your own router through PPPoE. With some ISPs you can do it yourself, with others …

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Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?

Posted on 2021-07-22, 15:08

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What about Starlink? Is that available where you are yet? Really sounds like you mainly need a better connection to me. If anything I need better living conditions, but I'm trapped here with my "parents" and the COVID19 pandemic isn't helping. I'm not even sure if satellite internet can even …

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Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?

Posted on 2021-07-22, 13:14

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So it's it's copper wire? Then probably slightly older routers are good too. I'm using an ASUS RT-N18U, it's decent on stock firmware, but it works with Advanced Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT. My backup router is a really old TP-Link TL-WR841N with DD-WRT. Yeah, to make things even more insulting AT&T …

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Re: Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?

Posted on 2021-07-22, 06:11

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What exactly are you using this for? Do you not have any better ISP options available? What about ATT fibre? For a Linux box with multiple connections, you could use something as small as a laptop and an ExpressCard single or dual NIC card. No need for a "huge tower" to be a router box. I've played …

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Anyone have any recommendations for a replacement OpenWRT capable router?

Posted on 2021-07-21, 18:23

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I've been stuck living with belligerent parents, my father of which is completely oblivious to the concept of bufferbloat in addition to being behind a ISP (AT&T U-Verse DSL), that is also oblivious to the concept of bufferbloat as well, constantly shipping us only two kinds of gateway that have no …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)

Posted on 2021-07-21, 17:58

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To me, the Duke Nukem 3D music will always sound 'properly' in OPL3. :-) That's how I played it 25 years ago and that's how I will always remember it. Yes, Roland SC-55 sounds objectively better and it's very enjoyable, but whenever I want to have the 'true' (for me) experience... I will go with …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)

Posted on 2021-07-21, 16:10

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I'm pretty sure in regards to the music in Duke3D, it was all done on SC-88. Pay close attention to the BONUS.VOC and GRABBAG.VOC files and you can notice the instrumentation being identical to what you can find on the SC-88. I think perhaps the SC-88pro would be a good choice since that was out …

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:08

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Unterstate '76. (insert faux german here)

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Re: IRC activity since the freenode incident?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 00:31

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I'm on the Rizon and EsperNet networks, infact the most active place I'm in is EsperNet/#modarchive.

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Re: Different rendering methods for OpenGL: fixing compatibility issues with modern drivers (+ graphical enhancements)

Posted on 2021-06-24, 17:10

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A lot of problems with old OpenGL games is either drivers failing to provide emulation for legacy features, not limiting the GL_EXTENSIONS string and triggering buffer overflows, or erroneously reporting extensions that don't actually function properly that can result in undefined behaviour in the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-21, 08:51

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Well, I almost have every weapon unlocked in Cruelty Squad and I just need to finish the last non-secret mission and then I can get started on the two borderline unfair secret maps.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-06-18, 11:53

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I just started playing Cruelty Squad thanks to a generous friend. This game seriously isn't a joke even if it looks like one, though when you start speed running it becomes pretty ridiculous.

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 21:06

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I'm really upset because of undocumented but intentional modifications from updates that break software/hardware. Since you wanted some references here are some that heavily affected me and the VOGONS community: 1. Breaking changes in the method how user mode drivers should be installed: Affected …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 11:46

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I'm not turning this into a "Linux vs Windows" nor am I being a "fanboy", I'm just stating a observation I've noticed with resource usage with Windows, that's all... I doubt my father's PC's going to last long until the supposed 2025 EOL deadline for Windows 10, but I wouldn't be surprised if I wake …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 10:36

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In gaming sessions it automatically takes up 1gb of vram for itself and 3gb in no load. It's funny, even with how enormous the Linux kernel can get with all the modules piling up, when I boot this system and I actually get into a X session and check the RAM usage, it's only around 390~ MB in use …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 09:30

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Cruelty Squad OST. Some of the best music I've ever listened to in a FPS.

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 05:28

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Well, I'm on Linux 5.12.x and nothing's hopelessly broken other than Wine's threading deadlocking itself senselessly and VIRT exhausting itself really early (and really, really fast) even some of the oldest Linux ports still function if you LD_PRELOAD older libraries. Honestly, I'm glad I jumped …

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-13, 19:00

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As someone who's dealt with severe harassment before, I don't blame Sarah for taking down everything. I would have ended up doing the same thing. (Hell, I'm considering taking down all my archived streams that have my webcam in it because of something that recently had to happen to me that didn't …

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Re: WINE 6.0.1 released - Win64 applications support on Apple M1/macOS

Posted on 2021-06-08, 21:59

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I also set UseDirectDraw to false in Unreal.ini as well, but I still don't think it's a rendering path critical section deadlock, it literally happens as a result of loading and garbage collection can trigger it too.

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Re: WINE 6.0.1 released - Win64 applications support on Apple M1/macOS

Posted on 2021-06-08, 21:10

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Isn't that a rather old version of Wine? Hmmm 2015. What version of Linux Mint was it? Rosa. And yes it was a pretty old version of Wine, it even ran UnrealEd 1.x better than Wine even cares to now even with all the required VisualBasic native overrides. The only thing I noticed with Wine 6.x is …

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