medium_adult_son [he/him]

Nintendo could pay the salary for one retro gaming hardware restoration YouTuber and they would be able to restore and set up every single console within months

An entire wing of the museum could show how they restore the old consoles, replace the capacitors, use new or new old stock chips to replace failed ones, de-yellow the console plastic, etc.

Big-o and Little-o notation

FIFO and LIFO

I ran into the issue of my party members permadying when I first started playing and I had a rough going in FFT.

The FF Tactics games aren’t the best SRPGs, but I played them before any others so I’m used to the shortcomings. A few tips I remember helping are to let some characters die because you have a few turns to either end the match or revive them, take care of the archers and mages with characters that have high jump/move stats right away, and use a text guide. I can’t stand videos, but a quick primer on each story-mode battle gives you a good start.

You got my special interest in this jump started again, so I’m going back into FFT Advance on my phone emulator now

The story in the original FFT is great, as we at Hexbear have covered before.

I’d say play the PSP version emulated so you can turn up the speed, and it includes some better cutscene animations. Same with the GBA versions, emulate them and turn up the speed.

If you get lucky you don’t need to grind much if at all in those games, if you go the route of having a few extra characters with heals or the throw command. Then if you have a battle wrapped up you can spend the last few rounds attacking and healing each other to get extra experience points.

Doorbells. I had to replace a relative’s doorbell recently and the old one that lasted 60 years was built 10x better than the incredibly cheap model that all the hardware stores carry.

The options are either a cheapo doorbell that has an LED in it for no reason, a Ring surveillance doorbell, or a very expensive reproduction doorbell sold on some random website.

AllTrails and other apps like it put publically accessible trail/hiking maps into app form and have user reviews and trails rated for their difficulty. And they use GPS for trail navigation to help out inexperienced hikers or mitigate poorly maintained trail markers.

They also charge a subscription fee for features like the ability to download a map and use it while not connected to the internet. “Pay us or you’ll get lost in the woods” is profitable, apparently.

Apple might be embedding trail maps into Apple Maps, but this article doesn’t explain that.

This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites’ ranks in search results.

Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based “desktop applications” (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

Men would literally rather maintain a seed ratio for private trackers and operate a seedbox than pay for movies.

Ubisoft is master of Europe/Canada. Only the pirate fleet stands before them. Oceans Video game DRMs are now battlefields.

When my hvac broke and was replaced they put in a 4 inch wide filter box, instead of the 1 inch it was before. They said it allowed 5-10x the amount of air to go through and that seems true. Airflow from the vents is way better and I’ve noticed less dust, plus the filter doesn’t have to be changed as often.

Removing and adding the sheet metal on the intake for the furnace filter isn’t easy, but in case you have the skills or know someone that does it made a huge difference. Or build one of those box fan filters, if you look up Corsi-Rosenthal box you’ll find instructions online.

I’m always on a VPN usually on WiFi unless I’m driving. I get a day or so if I’m not working and not taking a lot of photos, and since my phone is usually plugged in while I’m driving around for work I don’t charge it at night except for weekends.

I should probably plug it in at night, does anyone know how the feature that does a slow charge until your alarm is scheduled to go off in the morning affects battery longevity?

I think Aldi is so successful in the US because they don’t do this. There is an aisle or two with random crap, and seasonal items in another spot, but I can be in and out with everything I went for in ten minutes. Trader Joe’s might do this too, I haven’t been to one in a long time. I wonder if Whole Foods or the other upscale stores fuck around with their shoppers like that.

Smaller grocery chains or independent grocers didnt change their store layouts from what I remember, but they went under or were bought out by the big chains that are already very profitable but still try to wring everything they can out of their captive audience.

Since it is based on Chromium, but promises to keep the new Google tracking out in the future and maintain compatibility with extensions, I can see why it would be recommended. But only as a backup to access a site that won’t load in Firefox.

we’re back to the days when Firefox first came out, except instead of some websites only working with IE, they’ll only work in Chrome/Edge.

“wife beater” is the word used frequently to refer to white a-frame tank tops (tankies) where I’m from. I do not appreciate that name, but I love the idea of using that word until a lib or conservative will try to explain what a ‘tankie’ is to me.