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Cake day: June 3rd, 2026

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  • “GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the mail command and on others you have to install s-nail, after which you can do mail -f {path to mbox} to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so: cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.

    Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.

    Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.


  • Well, someone did exactly that with Sonic Unleashed (XBox 360) IIRC. And a few select N64 titles.

    The produced code is complete garbage, it’s basically the machine code disassembled, but instead of assembly it’s some technically valid C that can be forcefully shoved back up a compiler. Due to register sizes and calling conventions being different across architectures, there was zero chance of making the giant blob cooperate with native builds of the libraries it used, so some poor people had to pick out everything machine specific in the giant pile of shit that came out of the disassembler and fake it. That took forever.


  • The PS3 runs on an ancient fork of the FreeBSD kernel. We don’t even know which version. No compatibility even on syscall level.

    Now, I remember that some random person added Nintendo Switch syscalls to Linux aarch64 then took GPU emulation from Yuzu. They stopped when it ran some Tetris. Now, that was relatively easy given the Switch doesn’t have too much of special hardware. Also, the CPU there only has the base instruction set + md5 extension, basically every aarch64 chip has that.

    Now, the PS3 is full of random DSPs (basically coprocessors that are shit at everything except some specific tasks). And even if you get a PowerPC machine powerful enough (like some decommissioned server), it still probably won’t match all of the instructions. Catching SIGILL to emulate them… meh, you are basically writing an emulator. Which I bet would be slower than just emulating the whole thing at once.



    • Write down GUID for sda6
    • copy sda5 contents somewhere
    • dd sda6 to sda2
    • delete sda6
    • change the GUID for sda2 to the one written down
    • fsck sda2 to fix size
    • make sda1’s type EFI
    • copy sda5 contents to sda1
    • delete sda5
    • you can now resize whatever is left (if your partition tool doesn’t have resize, just delete and recreate with the same starting sector, again you have to keep GUID for root and fsck it to fix size)


  • I don’t know how your monitor is this efficient, mine consumes around that exact amount (40 watts) according to “displayspecifications.com”.

    Anyways, with my laptop eDP panel instead (driven by sway), external keyboard, external mouse, I have running:

    • systemd, glibc, NetworkManager, all that evil ass background crap
    • mpv playing a .ogg to headphones
    • Firefox with this website, typing rn
    • weechat connected to 3 servers
    • toxic
    • claws mail
    • Tor daemon
    • Wi-Fi through 2 walls

    Let’s look at upower -d:

    energy:              35,926 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         35,926 Wh
    energy-full-design:  53,049 Wh
    (...)
    energy-rate:         5,64 W
    time to empty:       6,3 hours
    (...)
    capacity:            67,7223%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    

    roflmao (no, I don’t know why my battery is already this dead, or at least is counted as such)

    EDIT: before anyone mentions how a laptop is cheating, mini PCs all have laptop CPUs/APUs anyway