OnionOS changed my entire mindset about what a retro handheld should be. I have an Anbernic 351m, Retroid 3+, and now a mini.

The mini, despite being technically inferior is by far my favorite because of OnionOS. Being able to turn it on, have it start right where I left off, and then ignore it and it completely turns itself off- not sleep makes it so easy that I play it all the time.

Retroid means Android which means it sleeps instead of powering off. And fill power on is slow. And configuring a Game Front End is always extremely time consuming.

Onion just works. If they added a single Thumbstick to the Miyoo, it could handle N64 and I wouldn’t need anything else.

Did some Googling and found he was in a sketch in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live that was a TNG / Love boat crossover.

But I can’t find a clip on YouTube!

Ten Forward needs this!

My favorite role was Baron von Butcher.

I can recall the TV show Northern Exposure from 30 years ago never got an accurate DVD release because of music licensing.

I think the fundamental issue with Android that can’t be fixed is complete power down and full boot time.

With a custom Linux, instead of sleep where there is minor battery drain, the handheld can turn itself off completely for no battery drain. Cold boot time is like 10 seconds. It means the hand held has a battery charge whenever you want to play it and you don’t have to wait.

How can you ask if it offers value without specifying a price?

After using OnionOS, the only thing that matters to me is the OS. I have a Retroid and Android gaming is clumsy. I might as well use an attachable game controller to my phone and have a better screen and CPU than any retro handheld.

The Manhattan project took 2.5 years. It involved mining 18.8 million pounds of uranium. 10 Cyclotron factories of 20 cyclotrons for 22,000 workers were built in 6 months to separate the uranium.

It boils down to collecting all the building equipment from around the world and sending it to where you want to build the pyramid.

50,000 people cutting stone while 50,000 heavy construction equipment operators move the stones would take 2 months.

So it’s really down to resources. If it was a Manhattan Project level of resources thrown at building a Pyramid, I’d wild guess 3 months.

Oh, I thought flavor was a style of game like puzzle or rhythm.

Flavor?

Many states now have laws that prevent scrap dealers from buying a catalytic converter without paperwork identifying the vehicle it came from.

Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.

Pussycat.

Yes, mostly sherbet. But there was also a vanilla with chocolate sauce swirl version too.

PushUps was the brand name I remember.

I think it is highly likely the ice cream manufacturer ordered the rolls from the same company making toilet paper rolls.

My challenge didn’t include inflation.

That always must be assumed. Otherwise you could claim Zimbabwe had the best return on investment over the past 20 years.

1961 to 1988. Inflation adjusted, it was 749 in 1961 and 723 in 1988.

27 years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data

If you had invested in the stock market (all stocks) in 1961, you would have lost 2% a year, every year for 20 years.

So $10000 in the market in 1961 was worth $6600 by 1981.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110102-metrics-graphic.html

Buying enough lottery tickets to guarantee a payout just ensures you lose money as the house always takes a cut.

It depends. When there is no winner the earnings roll over which means you can make money. People have made millions buying thousands of tickets so they put rules in to stop it.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659988605/the-odds-of-winning-the-lottery-are-not-good-but-this-man-managed-to-flip-them

Joke.

I understand the complaints because I hated it when Pixel dropped the jack. But it can be a smoother process than jacks.

I get in my car and no longer fumble to pull my phone out and plug it in. Pairing is quicker than plugging in a cable.

When doing yardwork I used to have to fish my cord through my shirt or it would get caught and yanked out by a tree branch. Even then it was cumbersome because of too much slack or too little slack causing disconnects or snags.

It’s not perfect. A downside that still might exist (I bypassed the problem years ago so I don’t know if they ever fixed it.) was Google’s auto pairing that wasn’t able to be turned off. When I walked close to the house from outside, my phone would decide on its own to pair with speakers in the house. But that’s a Google problem, not Bluetooth. It didn’t exist with Nexus because you could manually control pairing.

EWaste is a problem.