Just replaced the keycaps on my M1 for the second time to make it feel new-ish again. Still a great machine, shame those keycaps wear so badly (developing shiny greasy-looking patches)
Some people can't even be convinced that 60fps is significantly better than 30fps for gaming. Convincing them they need more than 60hz is going to be a hard sell.
The difference is extremely noticable on a PC when you're dragging windows around with a mouse (or gaming of course). Especially if you have a dual-monitor setup and only one of them does the high refresh rate. Not sure…
AI inflated the price of everything with RAM in it.
It's a bit of a mess at the moment, with the ExBox and the PwnedStation.
No, there'll just be fewer big-budget games. Streaming is always going to be a sub-par experience (latency and video compression). And the mess that AI made of the hardware market has likely killed off (or at least…
They're averaging 2-3 Falcon 9 launches per week. That's not 'very very far away' from one per day. Nobody else comes close, whether considering individual companies or entire nations.
Custom flex PCBs designed to line up precisely on top of an existing PCB seems to be a fairly standard technique for games console mod chips (particularly Nintendo Switch) these days. But yeah, putting a cellular modem…
But why? What's the USP here? Maybe there's a demand for a more feature-rich mail client on iOS, perhaps syncing accounts and filters from the desktop app. But this doesn't seem to be that, at least not at this point.
The bottle caps have become a meme, but one that symbolises Europe strangling itself with overregulation.
A $2200 device and still limited to running dumbed-down touchscreen 'apps' from the App Store.
TV shows on the other hand, have suffered extreme shrinkflation. From 20+ episode seasons every year to maybe 8-10 episodes every 2-3 years. Yeah, budgets/production values are higher. But characters and storytelling…
Retro gaming is rising in popularity for good reasons. And it's not purely nostalgia. A lot of people aren't enjoying modern games (with modern monetization)
TV quality isn't what it used to be, though. Got a fairly expensive LG OLED and after 5 years it's developing clusters of dead pixels down one edge. And even if the hardware doesn't fail/degrade, the software is often…
There's also 'Drinkflation', the ABV of beers being reduced. (Maybe it's mostly a UK thing due to the tax system, weaker beer = less tax) Pretty sad state of things when simple pleasures like beer or chocolate are hit…
At this point, it’s the ExBox :(
Why are cold drinks with sugar and caffeine seen as problematic, while hot drinks with sugar and caffeine are seen as perfectly good?
What I liked about the older, simpler Arduino was that you could move an ATmega328p project from an Arduino board to a chip on a breadboard then to a custom PCB with minimal complexity - with just hobbyist-level skills.…
Aside from games, most software is available for both these days
The first one was 8 years ago, in the pre-Covid world.
But their timing was amazing, doing it just days before they announced that they were ending releases of games on physical media.
Retro gaming is an increasingly popular option, too. These days I have more fun messing with Amigas, C64s, and cheap emulation handhelds than big modern games. Retro hardware prices have been going up fairly…
PC gaming isn't exactly in a healthy place either (at least when it comes to hardware pricing/availability). Post-Covid GPU prices were bad enough even before the AI bubble ruined everything.
Taking metalworking tools to a very expensive machine with very limited spare parts availability seems rather extreme.
Bad experiences with heat, fan noise, and poor battery life on Windows laptops.
Just replaced the keycaps on my M1 for the second time to make it feel new-ish again. Still a great machine, shame those keycaps wear so badly (developing shiny greasy-looking patches)
Some people can't even be convinced that 60fps is significantly better than 30fps for gaming. Convincing them they need more than 60hz is going to be a hard sell.
The difference is extremely noticable on a PC when you're dragging windows around with a mouse (or gaming of course). Especially if you have a dual-monitor setup and only one of them does the high refresh rate. Not sure…
AI inflated the price of everything with RAM in it.
It's a bit of a mess at the moment, with the ExBox and the PwnedStation.
No, there'll just be fewer big-budget games. Streaming is always going to be a sub-par experience (latency and video compression). And the mess that AI made of the hardware market has likely killed off (or at least…
They're averaging 2-3 Falcon 9 launches per week. That's not 'very very far away' from one per day. Nobody else comes close, whether considering individual companies or entire nations.
Custom flex PCBs designed to line up precisely on top of an existing PCB seems to be a fairly standard technique for games console mod chips (particularly Nintendo Switch) these days. But yeah, putting a cellular modem…
But why? What's the USP here? Maybe there's a demand for a more feature-rich mail client on iOS, perhaps syncing accounts and filters from the desktop app. But this doesn't seem to be that, at least not at this point.
The bottle caps have become a meme, but one that symbolises Europe strangling itself with overregulation.
A $2200 device and still limited to running dumbed-down touchscreen 'apps' from the App Store.
TV shows on the other hand, have suffered extreme shrinkflation. From 20+ episode seasons every year to maybe 8-10 episodes every 2-3 years. Yeah, budgets/production values are higher. But characters and storytelling…
Retro gaming is rising in popularity for good reasons. And it's not purely nostalgia. A lot of people aren't enjoying modern games (with modern monetization)
TV quality isn't what it used to be, though. Got a fairly expensive LG OLED and after 5 years it's developing clusters of dead pixels down one edge. And even if the hardware doesn't fail/degrade, the software is often…
There's also 'Drinkflation', the ABV of beers being reduced. (Maybe it's mostly a UK thing due to the tax system, weaker beer = less tax) Pretty sad state of things when simple pleasures like beer or chocolate are hit…
At this point, it’s the ExBox :(
Why are cold drinks with sugar and caffeine seen as problematic, while hot drinks with sugar and caffeine are seen as perfectly good?
What I liked about the older, simpler Arduino was that you could move an ATmega328p project from an Arduino board to a chip on a breadboard then to a custom PCB with minimal complexity - with just hobbyist-level skills.…
Aside from games, most software is available for both these days
The first one was 8 years ago, in the pre-Covid world.
But their timing was amazing, doing it just days before they announced that they were ending releases of games on physical media.
Retro gaming is an increasingly popular option, too. These days I have more fun messing with Amigas, C64s, and cheap emulation handhelds than big modern games. Retro hardware prices have been going up fairly…
PC gaming isn't exactly in a healthy place either (at least when it comes to hardware pricing/availability). Post-Covid GPU prices were bad enough even before the AI bubble ruined everything.
Taking metalworking tools to a very expensive machine with very limited spare parts availability seems rather extreme.
Bad experiences with heat, fan noise, and poor battery life on Windows laptops.