And much like ad blocking in browsers, if it starts becoming a common behaviour, it will be prevented at all costs.

“Rich Ongoing Notifications”

Translate Google to English:

“Intrusive Unblockable Ads”

Hell no.

I’ve just played the first level on a Spectrum emulator.

I have no real wish to play the second.

It was Street Hassle as well I think.

Only ever saw a few screenshots in a ZX Spectrum magazine, but it certainly has a memorable art style.

Usual tankie nonsense masquerading as progressivism.

Call out their bullshit, get a ban.

The path to inner peace.

Just stick .ml with hexbear and grad on your blocklist and move on.

I use an Nvidia shield pro.

Certainly handles Jellyfin and Moonlight (for gaming, I could never get Steam Link working smoothly).

I assume there’s a YouTube client you can drop on it but I don’t use YouTube for much because I can’t stand YouTubers.

Because it doesn’t have $100s of millions to throw at marketing, or the name dropping of Twitter creators behind it.

It is what it is. You can either be alright with being small, or hurl money into it, but the people who hurl money into things tend to want it back at some point, and that means becoming a shitty business.

But at the same time it’s under £300 and doesn’t even need a PC or PS5 to run it.

A PSVR2 with console will set you back just under £1000. A Valve Index setup with good PC is probably going to be close to £2500.

It’s not hard to see why the Quest outsells all the others by miles.

Yes, but it’s not really for the masses is it? It costs over a grand which is a big ask for hardware that few people actually make games for.

N64 definitely aged better than PS1, especially in motion. Just a few too many compromises, like the integer positions and no perspective on textures.

It’s just a shame that only one company wants to bring it to the masses, and they’re one of the worst companies I can think of.

Although the last few years have certainly given them competition on that front, if not the VR one.

I legit thought that was a pre-rendered video until I saw them crash in the same place I did.

My first videogame machine was for black and white TVs and had 10 games, and all of them bar the target shooting game were variants of Pong.

PS2 was the last really big graphical leap. My fucking mind was blown by GTA3.

Since then we’ve had higher resolution, normal maps, physically based rendering and now raytracing, but none of it really feels that huge when moving from one gen to the next. PS2 came out and everything from before was obsolete, instantly. It even had backwards compatibility but I think I used it exactly once just to see the texture “improvements” (they actually just blurred them). This gen I’ve used it all the time.

Probably not, but it does add a touch of legitimacy to the claim that emulators are for playing your own backed up games.

So do most of mine. Makes maintaining data integrity a lot simpler and it’s how my database replication tools work.

GDPR was the only time I bothered to delete the data, and even then it was me setting the content of the records to “Information removed due to GDPR”.

Being able to undelete data is a powerful customer service tool, and when Grandma’s Facebook account gets hacked (because her password is one of her grandkid’s names), and all the photos get nuked (and being grandma, Facebook is their photo backup solution), they’re probably going to want that all that restoring again.

But then if data privacy was important to you, you wouldn’t have put it on Threads.

I can see why they’d do that tbh. Being able to delete something posted in error is something that may not be guaranteed in the Fediverse. Once it’s out there, you’re relying on others to delete that cute picture of your cat with your shrivelled up little winkie clearly visible in the reflection of your TV.

We trusted corporations.

I’d like to think we’ve collectively learned our lessons, but watching people migrate from Reddit to fucking Discord makes me think that we really have not and probably never will.