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...and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn't hold CDPR as a high standard.

FPGA console gets announced, guy behind the project is kinda weird, multiple demonstration videos are cheaply faked, project scales back, guy is actually really weird, more fake demos, SEGA shuts down the project, people charge back their pre-orders, guy turns to alcohol and does a bunch of drunk interviews/voicemails, and then he doxes his supporters while trying to prove he didn't commit fraud.

I really suggest you watch it though.

The whole video is wild. I had a huge paragraph written, but decided to delete it because whatever I write doesn't do justice to how bizarre the whole interaction is/was.

Count me as one who was skeptical but otherwise onboard with buying a Dreamcast FPGA. Glad I didn't put money down.

I feel like there was an app from the ACLU or EFF that did exactly that. Locked the device and started recording on panic button combo, and if I am remembering correctly had the ability to auto-upload to a cloud in case of device seizure.

EDIT: Ah, ok I was confused. It was the ACLU Mobile Justice app which was cloud based, but it was shutdown just last month. They point to external entities having access to their database as the reason.

exactly. Thank you.

Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.

$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter

$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012... now, with $80 you get... 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649

Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can't get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I'm ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.

EDIT: For the sake of comparison outside my complaint of SSD sizing, spinning rust at $80 today is just 4TB at a lower 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm.

After the "We're going to delete any cloud captures older than 90 days... oopsie we deleted your local storage"

I'm going to delay updating as long as possible regardless.

fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.

One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?

I refuse to believe there isn't much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.

I just want bigger drives... I feel like we've been stuck at 1TB for at least a decade.

That reminds me, I still need to order a ModRetro Chromatic

How else can you pretend you are ordering the Hulk around?

apt update

apt upgrade

...actually, now I want to see if I can set up an alias like that.

hulk smash firefox

It doesn't even mention when Brave silently installed their VPN as a service on your system. Which doesn't get removed when you uninstall Brave. And if you do manually remove it, gets reinstalled on Brave silent automatic update, because that's also a background running service.

tl;dr:

He buys an official USB stick of it (unbranded), finds out it's an Ubuntu derivative now, with a mix of Gnome and KDE apps, and anything that was proprietary Linspire software on it hasn't been updated for a decade. Concludes it must be for schools and corporations wanting an official support team.

I'd take that deal. My touch screen died in my car and guess what can't control it? The steering wheel buttons, despite having full directional/enter/return.

Correct me if I'm wrong but- manually configuring your DNS in the OS would still enable traffic monitoring, wouldn't it? I always thought DNS traffic is not encrypted by default.

I made the mistake of trying Debian on a new system. While I will eventually transition to Debian for it's stability, it's glacial speed of change means that new hardware isn't very compatible. I tried the half-step that was LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and even that was missing some support for my hardware. Not until I moved to Ubuntu-based Linux Mint did I finally have everything working, after some poking and prodding. I'm guessing once Debian Trixie comes out, I can test again.

You have to have more mature hardware if you go Debian. It's not something I'd tell anyone to install on a new build.

There was one publication that I was subscribed to, which I cannot recall the name of now, that just heaped article after article about how great the PS5 Pro was, and how it was revolutionizing gaming, how much better it was than the PS5, and how it's sold out everywhere and the best console ever created. Every single game that had a single digit framerate improvement was a full article about how awesome the Pro was.

Some hyperbole on my part, of course, but I did get sick of them praising the PS5 Pro, and the comments section following lock-step, so I ditched it. I just couldn't understand the dissonance in the communities, especially since neither produced numbers to back up claims.

I bet if I dug around my archived bookmark backups I could find it, and I bet they are still singing praises about the thing.

I thought I was losing my mind after seeing all the PS5 Pro praise. Glad to see that the numbers matched what my expectations were.

I do wonder if Sony bought out some influencers or something, because it was oddly counterintuitive amounts of praise.

All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I have had two enterprise issued Lenovo laptops, which are/were rock solid for 11/6 years now. Both times I had to replace the battery were easy to do, with rock solid documentation and demonstration videos.

The Dell on the other hand, corrupted it's UEFI bitlocker key causing complete data loss, BSOD for no reason (and happens to my coworkers too) and overall has a shabbier feeling build quality. It's not even been 2 years and the keys are peeling off. I've not really had to delve into repair documentation, but I don't think it'd beat what Lenovo offered.

But that still beats dealing with HP. HP had the worst reliability and documentation, providing stuff that looked like an 11th generation fax scan. I ended up buying the wrong parts simply because their diagrams were so ambiguous.