billwashere

Which machines are people getting these days? I have a Dell Optiplex 3070 I’ve added a WiFi antenna to. It’s pretty small.

Jesus who is spending $200+ on a raspberry pi?

Or fireworks.

Glow sticks were invented in the early 70s and were pretty available in the mid 80s. But I don’t remember them either (high school in the late 80s).

This is amazing.

I won’t.

Your view is quite amazing btw.

I missed my opportunity to be a whore. I’m too old and married now.

There was one week about 15 years I was able to fulfill this dream. I remember it fondly.

I will not pay $1000 for a console alone. I would buy a gaming PC for 4x that first. And I’m exactly their target market.

It’s been a long time ago….

For a console: probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

For a computer: for my C64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_IV%3A_Quest_of_the_Avatar

Yeah they overlap quite a bit.

Ouch… 18/20

Edit: They forgot the mandatory clicking of the tongs after picking them up.

Well aren’t you a bundle of joy.

But do they? It seems like most are very short sighted and opt for immediate gains as opposed to any long term growth.

I like it it’s just too damned expensive for what seems to be a minor upgrade from the switch. I mean the main differences are power, storage, display, and controller design and since my switch sits in the docking station and we use external controllers most of those are negated.

I haven’t seen a game that would justify it at this point.

This is like an oil company saying you will need more oil.

AI coded slop as a patch?

I did read the article. This was a branding by the USB-IF for previous generation meant to be an example of the lunacy that is this group. Meant for engineers or not it was still dumb. The new standards are no better with passives vs active, asymmetric transmissions, etc. and then on top of all this is the thunderbolt designations that I’m still not sure what they all mean with respect to the USB standards.

Just last week I was trying to hook two Mac studios together using the new RDMA features in 26.4 and had to special order cables because none of the ones I had worked (well they “worked” … just not as fast as they should have)

Edit: Most end users don’t care. If they plug in a cable and it “works” that’s good enough. Only nerds like us care if it’s as fast as it can go.

USB 3.2 doubles down on this confusion. 5Gb/s devices are now “USB 3.2 Gen 1.” 10Gb/s devices become “USB 3.2 Gen 2.” And 20Gb/s devices will be… “USB 3.2 Gen 2×2.”

No idea why…

I played the hell out of this game on my commodore.