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I have a similar issue with Genshin on PS5 when using the headphone jack in the controller with IEMs (didn't happen with a headset). It starts buzzing in my left ear when I open the game menu or open the map. On the map it only buzzes when I move the cursor, interestingly enough. I later noticed that the PSU coil whine coincided with the same events. Still no idea why it's like that

Thankfully doesn't happen with an external DAC.


> On the map it only buzzes when I move the cursor, interestingly enough

Sounds like the game is doing more when the cursor moves around, they're probably checking for where the cursor is, and something is making the CPU/GPU do a bunch of extra work, which finally triggers the coil whine when the PSU is more heavily used.

I've basically had the same issue with Nvidia cards since the 2080ti started doing coil whine as soon as I opened Unreal Engine. Some programs trigger different sounds, depending on how much/well they use the GPU, and I've had the literal same experience with "hovering with my mouse over element X triggers coil whine" multiple times before.


They connected the headphones to a wireless controller. The wireless controller doesn't have a GPU.

yeah but the noise coincides with when coil whine happens so i think that's still a solid guess

I grew up in russia and every localized game always had godawful ugly thin fonts. I would always watch foreign gameplay videos with jealousy cause they had beautiful latin fonts.

Now it's been years since I played a game in russian (almost a decade at this point I think) and I am so glad I don't have to put up with that anymore. Once in a while I see a screenshot from a cyrillic-using language translated game and probably half of the time the fonts are still bad.


It's the same for some non-Japanese games who don't take the time to think it through, worse case scenario is when they use Chinese fonts.

Because Japanese and Chinese characters are slightly different, but Unicode decided to unify them under the same codes....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs


The same happens in reverse sometimes, e.g. the super skinny font in final fantasy pixel remasters:

https://images.rpgsite.net/image/da49c9a1/102696/original/FF...

Ironically, they had a better Latin font _in the Japanese language version_ for all the genre loan abbreviations like MP/HP/LV etc., (https://terimaland.com/Memory/Steam_FinalFantasyPixelRemaste...) so that image is comparing the modded in Japanese Latin font vs the font the game includes by default.

(They also have a retro blocky "pixellated" font option iirc, which doesn't have the super narrow widths)


They look like half-width characters. This is a historical issue, not a font style issue. You can check:

https://mailmate.jp/blog/half-width-full-width-hankaku-zenka...


Standard Latin characters are half width. Full width latin characters do exist, but that’s not the difference we’re seeing here, if anything that would make the Latin font in the English release “quarter width” except that’s not a real thing that exists. It’s just an ultra condensed font, and the fix is replacing the font files with more standard fonts, not some kind of special font to treat half width as full width.

Realistically it’s only katakana that you can make this mixup on. My desktop IME will let me type カタカナ or (reluctantly) カタカナ, though it turns out iOS doesn’t have a way to type the half width kana, and IMEs have differing opinions on if they prefer full width digits, so you might see full width numbers like 5000。


I remember that PES6 was the only PES to get Polish translation. The start screen wouldn't render correctly because the font was missing the glyph Ś.

it's because whatever font stack to directx renderer middleware game engines were using was usually only developed for the latin script, probably the lowest common denominator of no diacritics either.

If I am not scared for my life going over 120 km/h in a car, I don't want it

I love lightweight cars. They are harder and harder to make due to regulations so the options are older vehicles. Or motorcycles, but that's too scary.

I recently had the pleasure of finally driving a car on a track and it was so insanely fun even if I was driving a FWD hatchback with like 70 or 80 horsepower and a worn out shifter


not a sysadmin here. why wouldn't this be behind a VPN or some kind of whitelist where only confirmed IPs from the offices / gas stations have access to the infrastructure?


In practice, many gas stations have VPNs to various services, typically via multiple VPN links for redundancy. There’s no reason why this couldn’t be yet another service going over a VPN.

Gas stations didn’t stop selling gas during this outage. They have planned for a high degree of network availability for their core services. My guess is this particular station is an independent or the air pumping solution not on anyone’s high risk list.


seeing Windows 8 called old really did some psychic damage to me. If it's not a secret, what kind of customers do you have? Is it some industrial stuff as usual?


Medicine. I'm living in third world country and probably they don't have enough money to upgrade often, they just install something and work with it for many years. Works for them, I guess, I often see computers with 2-4 GB RAM and some ancient Celeron.


My dentist had a system running Windows XP for X-rays until 2 years ago.

The vendor stopped supporting it (they technically still did, but would dodge replacing parts, etc.) so I eventually fixed some minor issues for her which turned out to just be software related.

A key thing is that the machine was not network attached.


Not to be glib, but medical equipment in the first world is the same.


Surely it uses MSVCRT though.


I can't speak for medical equipment, but lab equipment in testing labs (including the ones in hospitals) needs to be calibrated correctly and run exactly to the vendor's specifications. They will continue to sign off on old hardware they continue to support, even if it's actually a Pentium 3 running Windows 95 with the expensive lab device attached via the parallel port.

If you try and switch out the host computer to something newer, the software may or may not work, but you will definitely fail your audits for changing software without the vendor's approval.

For their part, the vendor supports you buying the new version of their device for a few million quid and it now runs via USB attached to a Windows 10 computer running their proprietary software.


Since it took me a minute to realise... glib vs MSVCRT are the keywords to the joke.


Isn't Windows 8 even the same major version/generation of the OS, as the current versions?


https://scorley.com

really love Scott's website. what a time capsule. Wish the visitor counter still worked. I hope he's doing alright nowadays


That's incredible, great find.


What was the most fun and least fun you had while learning Swift for this project?

I remember having trouble making a Swift UI for my C app because I forgot to disable sandboxing in Xcode project settings. Spent a frustrating two hours debugging


now that i think about it, hobbies are also deculture. Unless I guessed the origin of your username wrongly :)


Mildly amusing story, but I am a Robotech enthusiast, but didnt realise the connection until after. It was just something I developed in a business naming discussion when I was in high school, and I sat on it. The spelling is slightly different, trying to emphasise "Protocol".


huh I guess movies got that part right. I wonder what was the first movie with a scene like this


There's many more of those than mentioned in the OP README

for example, https://github.com/vkoskiv/ruoste or https://github.com/vojd/rost.

Excerpt from the last one lists around 30.


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