They use filters to mimic the appearance of a CRT. This can make games that were designed for a CRT look significantly better than rendering them directly for modern LCD displays.

Some examples from a quick search:

Here’s how I would do this in blender:

1. Import the stl
2. edit the default cube so it overlaps the part of the stl you want to delete
3. add a “boolean” modifier to the stl that is set to “subtract” the cube
4. apply modifier
5. export as stl

You don’t need to know the details of the CPU architecture and pipeline, just the instruction set.

Memory addressing is barely abstracted in C, and indexing in some form of list is common in most programming languages, so I don’t think that’s too hard to learn.

You might need to learn the details of the OS. That would get more complicated.

A quick search on EBay shows some results for $100. That’s also relying on the console to be in decent shape besides being heavily used, and you have to deal with getting a video adapter, which is like $20 for a cheap one or $100 for one with fancy features that makes it look nicer.

$250 for a brand new product supporting modern features like HDMI, USB, and Bluetooth sounds reasonable. It’s got a built-in video filter system like the fancier adapters, and if it’s anything like their previous products, it will have support for mimicking other consoles of similar compute power (the original PlayStation 1 potentially?) I checked and their website says it won’t support this feature. However, it does mention it has support for the Expansion Pack, which is another ~$70 although it’s only needed for a handful of games.

Their previous products have sold quite well, so there’s that.

A lot of my local elections are unopposed democrats. Local elections tend to be a lot less diverse.

Could I run larger LLMs with multiple GPUs? E.g. would 2x3090 be able to run the 48GB models? Would I need NVLink to make it work?

FOSS lightweight ”virtual machine” (it’s not quite a VM but it’s similar conceptually. It’s much lighter on your system than a VM).

Easy to install, setting it up for your use case may take some coding if it isn’t common (bash scripting experience will help).

All I want is to host this on my server and have it download the latest offline installer of my GoG games automatically.

Hmm maybe I’ll look into it again. The concern had something to do with having to spoof a serial number. I own Final Cut and would love to have the beefy GPU and CPU in my desktop accelerate it, but also am very afraid of losing my main account with that and a lot more. Already my current workflow is to render on my old MacBook as uncompressed, then transfer it to my desktop and use FFMPEG to compress. Better results and much faster than trying to have my MacBook do any sort of video compression.

Inkscape is for vector graphics, GIMP is for pixel graphics. You probably want to use a combination of both for many situations (design the logo in Inkscape, touch it up and scale it in GIMP).

From my experience, GIMP is close to par with Photoshop in terms of both features and user friendliness. Inkscape is unfortunately much harder to use than Illustrator.

I got macOS running in a VM on my Linux desktop. But then I didn’t want to connect my main iCloud account because I have heard they may ban you if you they detect you are doing stuff like this.

Without an iCloud account I can’t really do the stuff I actually would want to use macOS for, like using Apple’s movie editing software, or making iPhone apps with XCode. The default mail app is nicer than any alternative for Linux I’m aware of, at least.

Many of the 1st party Nintendo games go for $30-$100 on the used market. Plus buying something to play it will be at least $100. If you are actively playing a lot of them it could be worth the subscription.

It’s a simple story about a guy trying to build a fire.

At least be accurate.

The “Pro” model iPhone has a lot of the features you are calling out the non-pro one for not having. Also no non-proprietary lossless audio streaming would be more accurate.

My local used game store rarely has the valuable old games anymore.

Just make it a Nintendo DS style: two separate screens with a hinge in between. They can make the gap caused by the hinge fairly small.

I think they meant “electric field” rather than “orbital”.

Not to mention that orbitals “exist” infinitely (with negligible strength/probability).

/home is for every program to store its personal junk in hidden files apaprently

Then have chromium installed for chromecast only and Firefox installed for normal browsing.

Xubuntu is more than fine. Tbh it doesn’t hugely matter which distro you use for this type of thing