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i'm glad arcade machines are somebody else's problem

Thu 2025 Mar 27

One time in my life I had an arcade machine in the house. It was a video arcade game, Mortal Kombat 3. I think I had it for a year or maybe slightly longer, then sold it. I've no regrets about that whatsoever.

Once or twice a year I'll go play some arcade machines. I enjoy the games, but I am VERY glad I don't have to maintain these things.

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how to get a super short physical address
Tue 2025 Mar 25

Navigation is wrong, and often. This is how to make it right, and also make it very easy to store locations for retrieval later.

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when 512GB is actually 476
Thu 2025 Mar 20

To this day I see negative Amazon reviews from people who bought computer media storage and believe they got scammed - except they didn't.

One of the more common ones are people who buy a 512GB flash drive, plug it in to their computer or phone, see a total storage limit of 476, and immediately think they got ripped off. Wrong. The number is accurate.

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working with DVD data storage in 2025
Thu 2025 Mar 13

Since I started using DVD again for long term data storage, I've had ups and downs with this. Things were off to a rocky start at first, and it took me a few tries (along with several discs that ended up being nothing but "coasters" due to bad writes) before I found out what worked.

I figured I might as well document all this here since a lot of this is sprawled across the internet in hard-to-find places. I've mentioned some of what's below before but will also put it here to keep all the info in one spot.

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i bought a yamaha pacifica
Tue 2025 Mar 11

If you took a Fender Stratocaster and tastefully modified it for modern play, what you would end up with is the Pacifica. This is the guitar Yamaha can build that Fender can't because they're not "allowed" to.

I'll explain.

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