Sega Master System. Bought mine used for 200 Finnish marks. Sold it to buy a karate gi.
Bought an SMS2 in 2009 and RGB-modded it. It's been hooked up too my CRT ever since.
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I spent a good few years with it. It's been ten years since I sold it. Those games really shine on a retroid pocket with upscaling.
It's not retro in my mind, but I'm old.
I do wish the cables were male and ports female (think Lightning)
There's a reason 99% of barrel connectors have power on the inside. I'd be nervous too fry a USB port or charger with the live end of a cable with power exposed.
Apparently lightning cables have an authentication chip in them, because of course they do. I'm guessing this chip also protects against short circuits between power and the other lines. I don't think the USB implementers forum would like to add that kind of over-engineering to their specification.
I've only physically broken one USB-C receptacle, and in that instance the whole port got ripped off the circuitboard.
For an external display I'd bet the case is the hardware driver for the panel.
At least my 17" Powerbook G4 with a massive 2560x1440 display does it in the software display driver. I'm sure some laptop panels do it in hardware as well, but seems there's some very janky shit going on at least with laptops that have both integrated and discrete GPUs.
USB-C is clearly superior. You can plug them in either way
With USB-A it always takes three tries to get it plugged in.
My PowerBook G4 might be a bit dated, but running other resolutions than native is quite heavy on that thing. Your built-in display can handle one resolution only - anything else will require upscaling.
Your GPU can probably do that upscaling for cheap. But cheaper than rendering your desktop applications? 🤷♂️
You'll have to benchmark your particular device with powertop.
IPv6 was "just around the corner" when I was studying 20+ years ago. I kept a tunnel up until the brokers shut down.
I've been hosting some big (partly proprietary) services for work, and we've been IPv6 compatible for a decade.
My ISP finally gave me native IPv6 earlier this year, which gave me the push to make sure my personal hosting does IPv6 as well. Seems like most big players services support it today. It's nice to not have the overhead that CGNAT brings.
IPv6 got a bit of a bad reputation when operating systems defaulted to 6to4 translation but never actually managed to work.
I was dual booting windows NT4 and Slackware 3.0. A lot of my old 3.11 and 95 software didn't work on NT4, so eventually I stopped using it.
I've moved on to Arch Linux, now, but the software I use to sync my palm pilot doesn't work. It's available in the AUR, but it won't build.
Huh, this vegan dog shampoo has not been tested on animals.
I feel like that's the one product they should test on animals so that my dog doesn't have to be the guinea pig.
Last time they tried to wage arctic warfare they lost more men to the cold than bullets and artillery.
213kWh feels like quite a lot of juice. Admittedly, I usually don't go at planing speeds.
I have an 80Ah lead-acid battery to power the electric trolling motor on my inflatable dinghy. That's 80A*12V = 0.96kWh. That gives me 5-10Nm range depending on speed. My dinghy would sink with 213kWh on board.
My 7 tonne sailboat uses ~2l/h of diesel at twice the speed. 213kWh of lead-acid would double the weight.
INFO: What filesystem does your source drive/partition have?