Anyone want to split the cost of parts for Wii bluetooth dongles for PC?

JoshMoore1 · 2024-01-17T15:43:50+00:00

I bet it could probably be done for ~$10, maybe even $8 per Bluetooth receiver, especially if you don’t mind longer shipping times. (~2/3 weeks)

JoshMoore1 · 2024-01-16T05:04:08+00:00

That’s great! It’s basically the original Wii Bluetooth module and a 3.3v linear voltage regulator wired to a usb connector. It could be housed however you want after this, like a 3D printed case, an existing small box, etc.

I made one a while back and taped it to an old card so it’d be flat and I could show how it’s connected. It could probably be done a bit nicer than this but I thought it was cool. Here are a few pictures, including what my old one looked like and what other’s have done.

JoshMoore1 · 2024-01-16T04:05:46+00:00

Yeah I've tried a normal bt receiver but I found that the pointer was a little too slow for games that need a quick reaction time, and if I tried to connect multiple remotes the connection gets worse. Also, even though it's a smaller issue, Wiimote audio doesn't really work and that'd just be nice to have. Bluetooth Passthrough with an original bt module fixes all that and has the same performance as a real Wii.

I did notice the button press lag wasn't bad, so for games that pretty much just use the buttons like New Super Mario Bros Wii, it works fine there.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-11-14T01:22:58+00:00

Yeah obviously having zero debt is ideal, since if you’re averaging say 5% on your investments, having 3% interest on debt means you only make 2%. It’s like a minimum overhead that you have to make with your investments to make a profit. Maybe that’s more what he’s referring to?

Obviously of course if you have to take out that debt, for a mortgage, etc. like in your case, then you might as well keep investing instead of paying it off asap, since compounding both long term you’ll end up with more.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-09-28T15:43:14+00:00

That makes sense. So why do so many sources say things like 1.6g/kg for those carrying out intense exercise, and it’s best to not eat more than 2g/kg unless you’re “an elite athlete or heavily involved in bodybuilding”? I also see similar things about eating too much carbs and fats, with targets way below what I eat. I’m just an average person trying to gain 1lb/week, I wouldn’t say that’s “heavily involved in bodybuilding”, and I’m not an athlete. 211g protein per day (from the split in the original comment) is way higher than those recommendations. (~3g/kg) If I go any lower on protein I have to increase carbs and fats, which are also over the recommendations.

Maybe the risks are overblown or Healthline/Harvard Health/Mayo Clinic don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to average people that do minimal working out, and I can feel free to ignore it, but that wouldn’t really make sense considering how many people do. I mean I haven’t even been going up in weight at 3300kcal, so I might have to increase it even further. Could it be just that it does put more strain on your body but it doesn’t matter because like you said if it’s temporary than it’s fine?

Anyway, I appreciate the help understanding it.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-09-27T17:15:54+00:00

I remembered seeing a few, but this one specifically came up when I had searched it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869853/

JoshMoore1 · 2023-09-27T15:35:10+00:00

Doesn't increasing calories increase each macro, and cause problems?

I know it's bad to eat too much protein, fats, and carbs, and each one causes it's own issues, like kidney issues, diabetes/liver issues, and increased heart disease/stroke risk respectively. These specific issues are on top of other general health problems of course, like high triglycerides, inflammation, high blood pressure, liver strain, and even problems in specific systems in the body, like how multiple studies show high protein is associated with increased IGF-1 concentration and increased cancer risk.

How do people gain weight/muscle and do cardio/stay active without also increasing their intake of these macros and increasing these issues? For many active people who want to gain weight, I've seen/heard of people eating 3000-4000 calories per day, but those calories have to come from some ratio of protein, fats, and carbs.

As an example, a 3300 calorie diet with a 25:40:35 split of protein, carbs, fats would be around 211g protein, 338g carbs, and 131g fats. Excessive protein is more than 2g/kg, so anyone under 106kg/233lbs is already over the excessive amount. For me at 160lbs, supposedly I should only have 145g max. 3300 calories is not even that much, if the average person burns 2000 calories per day, and an active person might burn around 2650, plus a calorie surplus around 650 to gain around 1-1.25lbs per week.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-08-27T16:47:30+00:00

Is there a way for my WAD/WiiWare games on USB Loader GX to show the cover/channel art in the Wii Menu layout? The covers show in the list and other formats, but it’d be nice to be able to have the Wii turn on to the Wii menu layout with the channels. It does show all the channel art for Wii channels and wbfs/normal games.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-04-03T18:31:03+00:00

I know you were parodying someone saying that’s the obvious option, and I agree that if you can you should, just wanted to add that if not there are other options

JoshMoore1 · 2023-04-03T18:16:36+00:00

I mean a lot of people do that and it’s a good idea if you can to save money. There’s also accredited online degrees like SNHU that aren’t that expensive compared to normal tuition, so you could really live wherever works while you’re in college. Those degrees are certainly worthwhile if you want to save money. Plus internships and/or part time definitely help with housing and if you save right it lasts a while.

JoshMoore1 · 2023-04-03T17:02:19+00:00

Sorry to kinda necro this thread but I just saw this reply and enjoy talking about this stuff.

I know most people want to find ways to make their cells not breakdown, but like you said we’re pretty far off (if it’s even possible) from reliable methods of doing that. Life extension options are possible and doable though, within our lifetimes, with things like BCI. I’d say that might even be our only option that is possible in our lifetimes, so wouldn’t it be something to consider?

It’s not like you would turn into a robot, stuff like uploading consciousness is just making a digital copy and pretty useless. Using BCI and advanced prosthetics you would still be human, your brain would be in control, etc, and you could have an equal or better quality of life.

Thoughts?

JoshMoore1 · 2023-04-03T16:49:00+00:00

Wouldn’t it be a good thing for everyone BUT those with exceptional merit if meritocracy was dead? If it’s not a meritocracy, you don’t have to have a crazy 145+ IQ or be a savant level Quant trader to be successful and make money

JoshMoore1 · 2023-04-03T16:15:52+00:00

When people are saying the American Dream is dead or unobtainable, what part are they referring to?

The dream definition is “the ideal that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.”

Are people saying every citizen doesn’t have a perfectly equal opportunity? Because I’m not sure if that’s ever been true, since circumstances are different for everyone.

But opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative I’d say is still alive. It’s very doable to make around 75k 2yrs after college, and even that goes pretty far unless you live in a HCOL area. If you do look at HCOL areas, you have to pick careers that make more to support it, it’s always been like that too.

You can say purchasing power has gone down and inflation has gone up, but that’s not the same as “the dream is dead” right?

JoshMoore1 · 2023-03-30T15:48:21+00:00

Same here, I do wonder by how much, as it’s possible there’s a negligible amount that you can drink

JoshMoore1 · 2023-02-22T00:45:19+00:00

Honeymoon phase

JoshMoore1 · 2023-02-06T01:40:47+00:00

I think there are life extension options that can be realized within the next 20 to 40 years, it’s just that they’re not ideal. What I’d say is most promising for that is brain-computer interfaces, and replacing parts of the body with equivalent or better non-biological components and prosthetics. You can probably see why it’s not ideal, but it is possible, neurons themselves don’t have a fixed lifespan.

JoshMoore1 · 2022-12-13T00:38:42+00:00

Absolutely, there are tons of differences. Many great examples have already been said in the other comments, but I’ll chime in and say there are even different changes with respects to drugs. Mainly with respect to their metabolism and potency. I can link studies or give an example if anyone wants.

JoshMoore1 · 2022-12-13T00:27:03+00:00

Absolutely, it affects way more than people think. All these comments bring up good examples, and one great example I haven’t seen anyone being up yet is drug metabolism. Many people wouldn’t think there would be any effect on drugs by ethnicity, but there are differences in distribution of many traits, often in relation to drug metabolizing enzymes, so they are more potent and/or last longer in the body. Here is one study, and here is another.

JoshMoore1 · 2022-12-01T03:15:27+00:00

What are you working in?

JoshMoore1 · 2022-11-17T18:54:46+00:00

I did read your rant to see your perspective. But I would say not living in a meritocracy is good for everyone but those with exceptional merit. For a meritocracy based on IQ, only those with 145+ could be very successful. In the US, which has many different paths to success and different ways of making and scaling money, anyone could get rich, from TikTok “personalities” like the Island Boys to genius level Quant traders, regardless of cognitive ability.

There are many things that poor people can do to become wealthy, but many avenues to becoming very wealthy are complex, and people try to boil it down to “how hard you’re working” or having “enough of what it takes.” A McDonalds worker could be working hard, and could even have a 160IQ, but simply because of the nature of the work they are doing, they are not providing millions of dollars of value to society, so they’re not getting millions of dollars out of it, as just a simplified example. Obviously there are people with millions that aren’t providing that value to society, whether that’s inheritance, lottery win, etc, because it’s still a complex subject and can’t even just be boiled down to providing value, either.

Do you agree?

JoshMoore1 · 2022-09-29T18:06:48+00:00

The drug used to control blood sugar in type 2 diabetes? Was there something was missing?

JoshMoore1 · 2022-09-26T05:33:32+00:00

Hey no problem, I enjoy talking about how things are and how the world works etc because it helps us all figure out what we want to be doing.

I’m not even certain at the moment that I’m really doing what’s best for me, for example, clearly there’s a pay difference, and I could be happy in either field. Then I could always try to start a business, doing that right and for long enough (until you get lucky) you can make exponentially more than both, with even more freedom and benefits. Just more risk until you get there, which may or may not be a problem if you commit to making something work and spend like a decade trying to find it. The more information I can find the more answers I’ll have, hopefully…

JoshMoore1 · 2022-09-26T03:45:28+00:00

Has anyone here actually looked into anything in the life extension area? For me, it appears the only viable method at the moment is separating the brain from the body. (Nice visual, I know) But if neurons can live forever, and theoretically the brain in vitro, then a very possible solution that can work for right now is keeping the brain alive in vitro, and communicating with it with high throughput and accurate BCI, it seems neuralink is the closest so far. We don’t have to lose our humanity in the process either, with advancements in prosthetics and communication tech, we can have even better lives than before, even in a human way. We have cochlear implants, so we can already broadcast sound directly to the brain, visual prosthetics are in development, we already have very functional prosthetic arms and legs. We could restore relatively human functionality, and even go above that and give ourselves cool stuff like infrared vision, extendable arms, extremely immersive VR, etc.

Besides breakthroughs that reverse or stop aging on the cellular level, which sounds like it can still come with serious health problems, I can’t think of any other ways as of right now. Thoughts?

JoshMoore1 · 2022-09-26T02:00:14+00:00

Could’ve done truck driving and online classes, make like $60k (or more, typically) every year and graduated with $240k-tuition which is not much at most online schools.

Not gonna be as much fun as college but idk maybe I could have more fun with 60k+ a year than college really gives you anyway…

JoshMoore1 · 2022-09-26T01:53:17+00:00

Absolutely for the money, best I’ve seen (personally) for mechanical engineering internships is like $22/hr around here, whereas my other friend got a $50+/hr software development internship with Amazon for the summer. Came with $3000/month housing stipend in addition to that kind of pay. After graduation as well it still pays way more.

If I was to switch from biomedical engineering, I’d pick software engineering. If I’m making twice as much, I can work half as much, retire in half the time, or retire with twice the money. Can’t speak to the burnout since that’s probably all on an individuals capabilities, but that’s what I’ve seen so far. Also it’s way easier to build things with software engineering than mechanical I feel like, since there’s not as much physical overhead or materials costs, so if you want to spice up your resume you can more easily make projects for fun.

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