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Time Extension | RetroAchievements Come To Original Hardware Thanks To This PS2 Software Plug-In
1h ago · 1 min read
xeRAbora brings RetroAchievements to modded hardware for the first time. New homebrew software allows for RetroAchievements to be tracked and recorded from games played on original PS2 hardware, rather than through an emulator. Developed by modder "hacan 359", the xeRAbora program works in collaboration with another homebrew utility, Open PS2 Loader, to t...
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OSnews | Klassik brings KDE3’s look and feel to KDE Plasma 6
Thom Holwerda · 21h ago · 5 min read
The KDE project recently brought back its classic Oxygen and Air themes, but what if you prefer something… A little older? A modern recreation of the classic KDE 3 desktop experience for KDE Plasma 6, built entirely using Qt 6 and Qt Quick, with full support for Wayland and fractional scaling. ↫ Klassik GitHub page Neat.
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OSnews | Apple changes Full Disk Access permission in macOS
Thom Holwerda · 23h ago · 5 min read
Apple’s macOS has a Full Disk Access permission, designed to allow backup applications full access to, well, the disk, so they can perform their job properly. Apple posted a notice on its website that it’s going to further restrict this permission, because some applications were abusing this permission to gain access to users’ messages, emails, and so on,...
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OSnews | Windows’ legacy 8.3 filename support actually negatively affects performance
Thom Holwerda · 23h ago · 5 min read
To this day, Windows retains full support for the old MS-DOS 8.3 filename limitation, and it does this by creating 8.3 aliases for files with longer names. Apparently, this has a measurable effect on performance, so naturally, people are going to turn it off to make their Windows installations perform better. According to the user, this resulted in notice...
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OSnews | Microsoft claims it’s optimising Windows for 8GB of RAM
Thom Holwerda · 23h ago · 5 min read
Speaking of Windows and performance, how about that RAM crisis? Microsoft is feeling the squeeze too, and is apparently doing work up and down the Windows stack to improve its memory consumption. Microsoft’s Windows chief Pavan Davuluri has admitted that the rising cost of memory is pushing the company to make Windows 11 use less RAM. Microsoft is working...
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