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I did NOT know any of that, good lord what a disaster. I engage with games for the sake of their art and design much more than for the challenge. God-mode and a pensive stroll through a chaotic level with explosions everywhere is a lot more fun...

Huh. We all have rose-colored glasses with older games. The lackluster ones just fade away, while new games we love or hate afresh How about Daikatana? Never played the game, but I vividly remember the offputting publicity campaign

uOpt mentioned surplus Soviet antipersonnel mines which....... I grew up in the Pervian jungle where *I suppose* it was fairly common to put a shotgun shell into a bit of pipe and rig up a trip wire/firing pin arrangement to blast whatever game...

The biggest danger for me is that my hobby (which pays quite a few of my bills) is designing and building modular synthesizer circuits. It's so satisfying. But a game like Factorio or Satisfactory or Astroneer will SUCK ME AWAY FROM MY SYNTH...

I thought I was old @ 52 -- my first computer game had to be Parsec (side-scroller space shooter) on the TI99. Used cartridges for games and other programs, with peripherals including an audio cassette recorder for data storage wow

Fill empty $$$product$$$ containers with sand or water? Pissing off your thieves might lead to more aggressive reprisals though... My sympathies!

I feel like this thread is a goof, but I do find it amazing that we still encounter problems with text entry speeds in the year of our lord twenty twenty four. I was typing on a Kaypro suitcase-style computer back in the '80s, and it was better...

I bet you DID hear that it has a depth camera, but that's probably marketing-speak for an ultrasonic or laser type rangefinder. I'm guessing they put it in for precise focus, but the depth info can turn images into two different images! I can't...

heh, like when I put my phone on my laptop and the video glitches. Yup :P

Well, my USB-only Brother keeps chugging along, and shows no signs of wearing out. Helps that a lot of the wear-parts get replaced every time the toner runs out *genius*

sure sure haha but they're too close for 3D parallax. One's wide, one's telephoto, one's for low-light?? I know there's an ultrasonic or LIDAR rangefinder in there somewhere? Anyway, 3D video from (effectively) one camera is just bonkers cool and...

Yeah, the print server doesn't seem like it's gonna work. The driver lets me select between WinXP and Win2000 LOL My printer is an old Brother, which IS built like a tank, and I DO have a basement full of generic toner cartridges, so I'll stick...

I'm not sure if getting it hooked up to wifi will help if it doesn't work when wired. If you've got any spare access points, I'd do what everyone else says, give it a dedicated access point with wep/wpa1/no auth and see... If you don't gave any...

Sometimes an aesthetically designed PCB is actually functionally better, but sometimes not. With analog electronics, trace length and resistor placement and grounding are all VERY important, and sometimes a nice straight symmetrical layout works...

oops, kicked a hornet's nest LOL -- I want to participate in FS/FT boards because I wanna buy good used hardware at reasonable prices from knowledgeable people :P Luckily, I "profile messaged" (whatever that is) a user with something I wanted and...

Windows made it very difficult nigh impossible to share a printer connected to a Win10 box, so I bought a very cheap Netgear WGPS606 54Mbps print server. It won't connect to my modern wifi network, although it can *see* the wifi, and additionally...

wait I'm just learning about this whaaaat 3D with a monocular lens WOW. Seriously impressive. I encountered a 3D photography enthusiast who showed me his ~2009 3D point-and-shoot with the lenticular screen on the back. Incredibly charming...

so I can PM people from the For Sale board

I've used Inkscape SVGs with 3D modeling software well... Tinkercad haha.... and they work well. Circuit board material is a great material to make modular synth panels from since the precision needs to be sub-mm accurate to work with...

You could relive the glory days for cheap OOPS I just checked prices for Voodoo video cards on ebay *jeebus* it's not like they're any GOOD, everybody!!!??!?