IIRC I downloaded Firefox 1.0.4 way back in the day, and kept using it until somewhere around version 6 or 7. Moved away when they started copying Chrome on everything. Rapid-release inflation was the last straw.

Intel announces two generations of defective processors and AMD gives up that opportunity to recall their own launch? Must be something very wrong with the batch.

My first thought went to the Milk-V Pioneer since it has mATX form factor, but both products are priced way higher than your average desktop.

https://milkv.io/pioneer

I see so many people recommending deleting your Facebook account. As far as I am aware, that only removes your ability to control the information they collect. They will create a shadow profile of you anyway.

If you’ve already accepted their terms of service and have an account: Best thing to do is to lock down the privacy controls, audit the “off-facebook-activity” trackers once in a while and avoid those websites in the future, and never use the account. Give them no wiggle room.

Just yesterday I had that exact “Tech enthusiast vs tech worker” meme play out. I wanted a timer to control the electrical outlet for an aquarium bubbler. Saleswoman really wanted to sell me this “smart” controller with an app that can program the outlet.

Me:“What happens when the app stops working?”

(saleswoman is frantically flipping the box over for answers)

Her:“…maybe…it keeps the existing timer?”

my brother’s controllers were wireless before it was cool

It seems like you’ve got plenty of choices already, but how about an OS that’s already been cut down to work on the limited RAM of a Raspberry PI? It bills itself as a good alternative for limited hardware.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/

MisterFPGA has a real image problem. It just exudes “complicated”. Visit the homepage and witness exposed boards and adapters shooting everywhere, along with constant talk about loading cores and updates.

SuperNT/MegaSG and RetroUSB’s AVS are popular because they remove that barrier for entry. This one promises to do that, but obviously people are skeptical. The fact they want to launch without full Dreamcast capabilities and say it’ll be updated later means they already put up a barrier for entry.

I feel like there are far too many IceAnimal forks that just vanish the month after they put out a release.

It might not be entirely true, but it just feels like that.

Most of the DVDs I’ve played can skip the previews with chapter selection, but daaang the blu-rays locked that up. Can’t skip anything at all!

I thought those players only worked on special 3D TVs? I’ve never tried the feature because my TVs are always the cheap ones.

something that important I’d put into the login banner as well.

Yup, back when it transitioned to UWP. I don’t know if they removed them because I immediately extracted the old version from a previous Windows and have been towing along that import baggage every setup since.

I can’t recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.

And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad… all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.

Youtube Trailer says FPGA.

… though the article says that SegaCD support will be from external hookup to the official SegaCD device. So I guess it’s just MD/32X. I was really hoping it might have the full suite.

yeah, weird phrasing. I mean, they have horrifying shipping times, but I never thought of them as gatekeepers.

I really hope this wasn’t some guy’s pet project that accidentally got news coverage. I want to order one!

Are you thinking of the recent update to 4 to bring it to the latest version of Creation Engine 1?

I hope those days are numbered for a little while since they made a clean cut on Creation Engine 2. The whole mess of backporting newer Creation Engine versions to older games should be settled.

The “we know better than you” attitude Microsoft has. They’ve very slowly removed more and more power user functionality. Almost every customization has to be hacked in with a group policy or registry edit now, or by outright replacing explorer.exe