The specialized rendering processors of the NES and SNES and Sega Genesis could push pixels without all the distractions a CPU has, in away they were the first GPUs (although modern GPUs do a much more generalized job).

…What?

The NES had a 6502, the SNES had what amounts to a 16-bit version of the 6502, the Genesis had two CPUs, a Zilog Z80 and a Motorola 68000. I will grant you, their video chips were a bit more specialized for playing games, with sprite generators and such, lacking text or bitmap modes. Consoles mostly dominated arcade action, PC games were often slower paced but in many ways technically superior. True 3D graphics happened on PC earlier, hardware 3D acceleration happened on PC earlier, it wasn’t until the Xbox One/PS4 era that game consoles pretty much became entry level worsened gaming PCs.

Consoles were cheaper, specialized computers made specifically for games, PCs were far more expensive but significantly more powerful. No console in 1995 would run Descent or Mechwarrior 2.

That stopped being the case some time around the Xbox 360 era; By then, it was fairly common to see console ports of PC games or vice versa; console versions might lack multiplayer or have reduced graphics or something, the PC has pretty much always been the home of nerdier shit like flight simulators, but by the PS3 and PS4 era consoles basically became entry level gaming PCs. Console prices increased to the point that, for the cost of a PS5 Pro, you could put together a reasonable gaming PC…then ChatGPT ate all the world’s semiconductors and the child rapist in chief bombed Iran apparently on a whim and that brings us to the present moment.

Oh man I miss old flash-based escape the room games. Remember the Crimson Room?

What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

The difference: We pretend to care about girls. We don’t pretend to care about boys.

That’s something I’ve noticed in the US as well; gas stations are all over creation, easily visible, they have giant signs along interstates. I’m familiar with several long stretches of major highways and interstates, I could not take you to a charging station off the top of my head, nor do I think I could find one by highway signage like I can a gas station. I’m sure they exist but they haven’t called my attention to themselves.

Or because he’s a cat that is near lemons. Citrus is very bad for cats and they HATE the smell.

I was actually aiming for “auk” but it was late and my linux brain took over.

awk

Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.

must be chewsday, eh bruv?

GPS itself is a one-way technology. On a basic level, the GPS satellites broadcast their precise location in space, and a very accurate timestamp from an onboard atomic clock. By comparing the difference in timestamps from a few satellites, you can determine how far away you are from each, thus deducing your own position. User devices only receive broadcasts from the GPS constellation; they don’t transmit. This is by design; GPS originated with the US military who wanted a navigation system usable anywhere in the world passively. You can use GPS without giving away your position by transmitting radio waves.

The privacy nightmare is when you mix a GPS receiver in with all the other sensors, storage and radios found in a smart phone. How many apps on your phone have GPS privileges? Why does it want that?

Are you replying to me?

Are they shipping Graphene for the 10 now?

They are no longer as open source as can be. The Buddy Board, Nextruder, their nozzles, all closed source.

That’s been around for a long time now. Remember Dollar Shave Club?

New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there’s ever been a news article for, isn’t real and will never enter production.

The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.

The poop deck wasn’t used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.

Okay, I could get in my car, spend $3 in gas driving to and back from a theater, $30 on a ticket, $40 on popcorn and a soda, to watch The Continuing Adventures Of Scarlett Johanson’s Very Tight Pants, once, for maybe 2 hours? Or spend $15 on Stardew Valley and receive over a decade of content.

Why’d we even bother manufacturing projectors after 1977?

When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.