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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 to me than -- good grief -- a pair of incompetent...

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 was wandering by into bushmeat. My friend who grew...

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 DESIGN because games like that scratch the exact same...

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 than some of my experiences with Google Docs etc...

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 find the forum where I read about this, but it...

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 smart

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 with it :P My router does have a tempting USB...

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 within those constraints, sometimes not. Digital...

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 they PM'd *me* and I just got the stuff and it...

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 it can communicate okay on the wired network but...

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 technology, and I'm not surprised it didn't really go...

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 fine-pitched ICs, so holes, slots, silkscreen, dimensions --...

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!!!??!?

Yeah, the old days!!! I overclocked a Celeron 566 with a "celery sandwich" DIY watercooling system with a Peltier device on the chip. The pump failed to start one time at a LAN party, the Peltier boiled the water in the waterblock (a heatsink with plate aluminum epoxied around it) so the block...

The limit on liquids is for what you carry on (ludicrous) so liquid in packed bags is fine. I took a pair of growlers of beer across the country from a local fancy brewery, and they got opened by SOMEBODY and weren't closed properly, and leaked on my clothing. Airline staff is unlikely to mess...

Zorin is my goto. Looks nice, pretty lightweight, the toolbar is on the bottom by default which is Correct...

I design Eurorack synthesizer modules as a hobby, and I'm DESPERATELY trying to get my post count up (used to be seriously into hardware but lost my account in whatever data loss thing happened years ago) so anyway, here's a mixer I'm designing. Inkscape is my tool of choice, since I'll always...

The point of watercooling is to have far FAR more cooling capacity that you actually need? With a nice side effect of the thrill of your computer being flooded if something weird happens. This complexity seems to lean on the side effect too much

Expensive. Remember GainCard? The amp that was an LM3886 datasheet reference design? Sold for at least 4 figures. Skeptical

I read a thread today about somebody weeping about the prices these fetch on ebay. "I could have saved $200," he moaned dramatically, "and gotten even more premium of a bundle!!!" I'm shocked that the savings were so low, and much more shocked that anybody would be shocked that flagship tech is...

Yup. I had a Riva TwiNTexelunit card. Imagine, **TWO** texel pipelines that could run simultaneously my god the power

Hmm, from a physics-of-sound perspective, two subs might fight each other. If just one is being used at a time, no biggie, but if they're both being used, there may be "bass nodes" where the bass is overpowering and sloppy, which can be partially fixed by putting the subs right next to each...

TRS is "tip - ring - sleeve", which is the normal stereo headphone standard. TRRS adds another ring to connect to, and can be to carry a composite video signal back in the day, and much more commonly is for microphone connection. Your laptop will have contacts for TRRS, but Apple and The Rest Of...

Hey, I'd like to get the Ryzen 7 processor and ROG motherboard bundle with the 32GB of RAM. I've been around since before the weird crisis where the user database got nuked or something, so I look new.... but anyway, I think you specified Venmo, which works great. -Juanito

Heh, I think you nailed it with the "enormous heat generation or power bill" thing. Plus the noise. Evaporative cooling is a thing, and a window units are LOTS more powerful than your typical PC solution so... :D