Exactement!

Binary patching has been a thing in the emulator/rom scene for as long as I can remember precisely because it’s a means to distribute mods without distributing IP the modder doesn’t own. Some of the takes here are absolutely wacko.

What are you on about?

Jesus I thought I was flush spending £40 on Russell Hobbs quiet one to match the toaster.

Just plug in an ISA card, duh.

Seriously though you’ve sent me down a rabbit hole that doesn’t have a satisfactory ending (yet). Some kind of LPC to FDC adapter seems to be potentially possible on some motherboards, but haven’t found any concrete evidence of someone having done that yet.

Most practical solution is to use an external USB drive, strip the casing, print a plate and wire the cable to the onboard USB header on the mobo.

This may get further research 😂

I’m aware, sometimes they also provide funding for FOSS projects. Funding seems to be the option FFmpeg would prefer based on the title (though I’ve not explicitly seen a quote that says this).

If it’s a specialty codebase written entirely in assembly, as this seems to be, sometimes it just makes sense to pay someone else to do it rather than spending 3x as long getting someone in house to do because the expertise isn’t there. Or just put a bounty on it, another common way to provide funding in FOSS.

If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here’s 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don’t have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.

Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.

It’s not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.

Only gamers get that joke

Why is anyone even buying this paste? Artic and Thermal Grizzly are both well under £10 for a syringe.

Ah man, I used to buy whole magazine because of the shovelware CDs on the front. Countless hours were spent installing credit card validators and odd scientific calculators.

It’s mostly German to be fair.

That is some top tier wordplay. Can’t argue with that.

Unfortunate choice of initialisation there.

The older editions are lot more encyclopaedia like too, some super detailed descriptions of things like cars - right down to the gear ratios.

No, half left

Could do with a bit more explanation on this one.

Most of this was happening or initially attempted long before the current Gaza situation, so it’s not that.

For now…

I feel the same horror reading this. You animal.