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Booting the Final GameCube Game

Every single GameCube game can at least boot in Dolphin 5.0. Except one. Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its complex way of using the PowerPC Memory Management Unit rendered it unplayable in Dolphin up to this day. But finally as of Dolphin 5.0-540, this challenge has come and gone: Dolphin can finally boot every single…

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Disappearing messages for Signal

The latest Signal release for iPhone, Android, and Desktop now includes support for disappearing messages. The timer has come With this update, any conversation can be configured to delete sent and received messages after a specified interval. The configuration applies to all parties of a convers...