Yeah, I mean, if they’re not into doing something a little out of the ordinary, how can you be compatible?

54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

Here’s a great example of how that compares to other adjacent grades.

FYI, the stop killing games creators knew this would happen from a leaked article months ago, and instead shifted to work with EU Parliament, where they have majority support.

The EU commission just outed themselves as corrupt corporate cronies for nothing, as Stop Killing Games continues.

There’s nothing on their site that indicates it’s not being produced in China. Their Commodore 64 Ultimate is produced in China, so I assume the phone is as well.

Tbh I wouldn’t have known your avatar was from that if you hadn’t said anything, as I only played Chronotrigger for maybe an hour or so at a friend’s house when I was a kid and don’t really remember much except for the time traveling machine they had from my friend’s save game, and the girl at the start of the game at the fair :p

It’s using an FPGA for hardware accurate emulation which costs more than the ARM chips in retro handheld emulators, and is a bespoke fairly large product made in relatively small batches. For what if is, it’s somewhat reasonably priced compared to its manufacturing costs.

I can’t argue that for most people the value prospect isn’t worth it, since the C64 itself isn’t really a compelling platform except to specific retro PC enthusiasts, but for those who want a proper modern C64 for nostalgia sake, it’s a fair deal.

The C64 Ultimate is actually pretty legit, and the price isn’t too outrageous for the base model. It’s essentially combining a bunch of really quite polished community projects for the C64 together to create a finished product.

The new owner of Commodore, Peri Fractic of Retro Recipes fame, is truly a super fan of retro computers, and has made content about them on his YouTube for a decade. However, he stubbornly continues to use AI despite some backlash.

This new phone is massively overpriced, but I suspect those who buy one will receive it eventually.

I like that they opted for Sailfish instead of Android (despite having my own qualms about Sailfish), but $500 for what is likely just a customized OEM phone is excessive. This really needs to be $200 at most, IMO.

Have to agree. Windows 10 LTSC was tolerable, but it still was pretty batshit with how they designed the settings menus. So many things were now tucked away and hidden, with the real settings you often needed being in Windows 7 settings windows that carried over, but virtually always hidden as normal hypertext links below a much larger windows 10 button that didn’t actually do the thing you needed. The only real advantage of 10 was the inclusion of many drivers out of the box, updating a bit faster, and being able to swap the SSD between completely different computers without it freaking out and bluescreening.

Windows 7 was just an advanced Windows XP/2000, and for the most part was still very intuitive to use, with logically laid out settings menus.

Nowadays Linux has far surpassed Windows in ease of use and UX for normal settings with the mainstream desktop enviornments.

Ah, I didn’t realize the Voyager app worked that way when using it to share links, which is really weird and awkward. I edited my comment to a direct lemmy link now that I’m on a PC. Thanks for the heads up.

And for others reading, I linked to my older comment since I briefly explained how I used blocktube to be effective, but I’ll add it here as well:

At some point she had an appointment to go somewhere and I happened to have an opportunity to access her computer for an extended amount of time.

What I did was subscribe her youtube account to a bunch of left-wing news sources, and more critically, I installed the browser addon BlockTube, which allows you to create a blacklist that seamlessly prevents videos or channels matching any keywords you choose from displaying on youtube. I added words like Trump, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Fox News, Sean Hannity, etc.

Fox news is specifically designed to target the elderly as their critical thinking skills are fading, targeting their most triggerable fears. Fox Brain is a known phenomena, one which can usually be reversed if easy access to Fox News is removed, as seen in this documentary.

I myself was able to stop my mother from going down that path with the help of a browser add-on that let me block right-wing rage bait news from showing up in her YouTube feed, which had an almost immediate and lasting effect.

The first game is glacial, but I found the 2nd game moved along pretty well even from the beginning.

I noticed it there, but it seems like on the GOG page it says it requires Doom II to function, so I opted not to link to them since it wouldn’t be free then. Do you happen to know if it works without any tinkering for GOG users who don’t own Doom II?

Oh, cool! I had no idea this was a shared universe thing that others were contributing to. Looks like there’s yet another fan project called Ashes: Epoch, a prequel to the first game.

Man, tons of great stuff going on with that world.

The trailer for Ashes: Blackwater (I assume the 3rd game?) looks pretty rad.

Many foods are fortified with calcium, like soy milk. You can reach the recommended daily intake quite easily. Just be sure to have adequate Vitamin D levels and Vitamin K to make sure the calcium actually goes to the bones instead of the arteries.

Same here. It’s not the type of game that seems worth the time investment, but it makes for a great video essay! Maybe some of its ideas could be re-used in a more polished experience someday.

I grew up cooking on an electric coil and recently now have access to a gas stove, and overall I find the gas stove has more downsides compared to the old electric coil. Technology Connections did a good video on the advantages of resistive coil stoves as well.

Could always have a small camp/hiking stove for the odd power outage.

Ross Scott suddenly cries out somewhere in Poland