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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • \1. Many retro games were made for CRT TVs at 480p. Updating the graphics stack modern TVs is valuable, even if nothing else is changed.

    \2. All of my old consoles only have analog A/V outputs. And my TV only has one analog A/V input. The mess of adapter cables and swapping is annoying. I want the convenience of playing on a system that I already have plugged in.

    \3. I don’t even still have some of the consoles that play my favorite classic games, and getting retro hardware is sometimes difficult. Especially things like N64 controllers with good joysticks.

    Studios don’t need to do a full blown remake to solve these problems. But I’m also not going to say the Crash and Spyro remakes weren’t welcome. Nintendo’s Virtual Console emulators toe this line pretty well.

    But studios should still put in effort to make these classic games more accessible to modern audiences, and if that means a remake, that’s fine with me.

    (I’m mostly thinking about the GameCube/PS2 generation and earlier. I don’t see much value in remakes of the Wii/PS3 generation yet.)







  • Mostly I use custom launchers because I don’t like the Google News feed

    What’s wild to me is that back in the Google Now era, I was so excited to root so that I could install the extension for Nova to add Google Now.

    But these days, the Google “Discovery” feed is trash compared to what Google Now once was.




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    toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs it a sweatshirt or a jacket?
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    2 months ago

    Sweatshirts are double-layered pullovers, typically non-woven. Sweaters are single-layer pullovers, typically knit. Jackets have buttons or zippers. Hoodies have hoods and are made of fabric (e.g. raincoats are not hoodies).

    You can have hoodies that are also sweatshirts, or hoodies that are also jackets.

    This garment pictured in your post is a jacket. It is also a hoodie. It is neither a sweatshirt nor a sweater.

    This is just my interpretation of the situation. I don’t know of any formal classification system for outerwear.



  • Yeah, I know what a hydrogen fuel cell is.

    What I’m saying is that the cost to develop hydrogen infrastructure, the complexity of it’s distribution, the risk due to its high volatility, and the uncertainty of a relatively underdeveloped technology all seem to be losing to batteries, which are very mature tech and are already in the supply chain and for which we already have a well developed electricity distribution grid.

    I just don’t see what investing in fuel cells will do other than slow the adoption of zero emission vehicles by another decade.