wavebeam
@wavebeam@lemmy.world
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 day ago:
I love how hard this comment goes
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 days ago:
I hadn’t played many games like that, I liked the combo.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 days ago:
At the risk of sounding like I’m making excuses for wanting to see the tiddies, the storylines of the different characters is fun to navigate. But yes.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 3 days ago:
don’t sleep on Hunie Pop, it’s actually pretty fun.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 3 days ago:
i work for a big OEM that makes touch screens usually put in places like hospitals, airports, POS systems, etc. commercial devices not consumer. As part of my (remote) job, i have to validate solutions on all of our products. I get a lot of DHL deliveries of stuff directly from our factories. This includes what the industry called “IDS” monitors: “Interactive Digital Signage”
Anyway, I’ve got a 55" 4K IDS hanging in my bedroom and use it with an Apple TV 4K and sometimes my Steam Deck for gaming. It’s definitely not good but it’s not that bad either. The response rate isn’t great, and the picture can’t stand up to an OLED, but it’s better than some of the cheaper TVs in the same category for size and resolution. Our newest models have more even backlighting and a better contrast ratio, but those aren’t even mentioned in our spec sheet. That said, It’s also VERY expensive compared to consumer devices. It’s so dumb, which is great! It also was designed to last a decade always-on without failing, also great! But even if you could buy one as a consumer (you can’t) you almost certainly wouldn’t consider the value proposition worth it. $5k for a touchscreen TV with relatively bad picture and response rate? You’d get one of the highest tier consumer TVs for that money… with the tradeoff being that it’s absolutely jacked full of ads and user-tracking malware.
There really isn’t a “good” solution here. I only use this because I have to have it for my job, but also it was free and works good enough for me relaxing in bed. I play games on a gaming monitor that also isn’t very smart, so it works out for me. If TV OEMs offered an amazon-kindle-style ad-free version for ~20% more i probably would do, but i think they find the tracking and ads more valuable than a one-time purchase with no strings.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 6 days ago:
We could really use some phantom thieves to steal the hearts of these leaders with distorted desires.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 6 days ago:
nice! I bought this one like 15 years ago for like $20 from a guy in a mall parking lot, advertised as broken. it had like “University of Washington” written on it, so presumably he got it from a school several years before he sold it to me. Initially I wanted to gut it to make a fish tank, but i was lazy and also that was a stupid idea. Instead I fixed it and installed Mac OS Classic on it, as well as marathon.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 6 days ago:
hell yeah
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
it’s not perfect, but still quite good!
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
thanks!
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
A7thStone is right, it’s a MiSTer in a custom “case” i made.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
it is!
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
I’ve been wanting a Saturn for a while now, but not yet! I usually play Saturn games on my MiSTer.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
I’ve got 2 PS1’s, and the one most visible in this photo is an SCPH-1001 with the RCA jacks on the back. I haven’t modded it because I’ve got better ways to play backups of PS1 games and it’s not quite worth the effort. I have used TonyHax on it though, which does the job. the other PSOne is barely visible right next to it. I got it from an estate sale and it actually came with a modchip! So i can play backup discs on that one if i want.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
G3 iMac 333Mhz
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
It allows it to accept higher quality analog signal input for old video game systems. RGB separates the signals into 4 (in this case) separate inputs, one each for Red, Green, and Blue colors in the image, as well as sync on the fourth input. the image is much clearer than you’d have typically seen from systems on this TV back in the day using composite, or S-video if you were fancy. It’s the highest quality analog signal you can get for a CRT.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
It’s definitely a record player and not a PS3
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
Image I just took this photo. Is my setup next level? I RGB modded the Sony if it helps.
- Comment on Please help 1 week ago:
You should install linux
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 month ago:
Yeah, they curate their service with people they specifically invite. At least for a while, no idea if it’s still this way, every channel owner on Nebula was a part-owner to the service and had a vote in major platform decisions.
I think this rules, personally. It makes me feel great about subscribing knowing that everyone there has a vested interest in the platform as a whole succeeding and producing worthwhile material. On the flip side, there are really good channels on YouTube that I wish were on Nebula, and I think would be a good fit, but there’s not really a process for suggesting them to the platform for invitation.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 month ago:
Nebula is an invite basis
- Comment on What is the most "Indie Feeling" game that is definitely NOT from an Indie Studio? 2 months ago:
Dave the Diver
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 9 months ago:
I’ve been saying that we need to have a law on the books to require any online components of a game be required to have the source to those features be released upon closure of the online service. I would be fine with them then being except from any security liability for anyone who gets hacked by use of that software and even retaining ownership of the IP, so no one could sell access to the service, but being able to stand up fan-run servers for old Xbox-live games or dead MMOs more easily would be really great. I’m locked out of so many PlayStation trophies simply because online servers have been down for ages now.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 9 months ago:
They’re right. I have been using old videos games for recreation. Too bad that they’ve decided to prevent me from paying for the privilege or at least being tracked through library usage and have instead decided it’d be better if I was just an untrackable “criminal”
Either way, I’m enjoying these old games and living my life guilt free.
- Comment on Relationship goals 9 months ago:
No no, he’s right.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 9 months ago:
Yum brands has always been at the forefront of using tech to sell fast food. This was true then and is true now. Taco Bell has pioneered kiosks and in-app ordering as well as KDS in QSR environments.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 10 months ago:
Yeah all of these are ridiculous but save file editing? lol. That’s insane.
