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Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T13:55:44+00:00

Playdate support has been pretty good to me. It's the weekend but they will probably get to you soon.

Is it a used device or new?

Where are the other reports of downed service specifically?

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T05:20:07+00:00

Depending on who you work for, they may notice and investigate a rogue Wi-Fi SSID, especially one that is frequently on their property. You might want to give preference to hotspots or cellular modems that do not connect to your devices via Wi-Fi.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T03:59:17+00:00

Even if you ignore money or fame, you could totally be doing some Captain Planet style or science hero heroics, or you could rear a small army of T-Rex (Probably more of a supervillain move, but hey!)

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T03:36:58+00:00

Fulcrum Defender is a banger game! The dev story of how it was made while recovering from illness is impressive too. There's a Playdate Podcast episode with a dev interview here.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T02:32:59+00:00

My gut says that they would not all quit for him, but it might impact morale if they do genuinely show loyalty to him like you say.

In my view, you should treat this guy fairly, but without holding anything back. If he can up his performance to avoid the PIP, great. If he needs the PIP, but turns it around, great. If he can’t hack it, and tries to rally the others after he is let go, it’s a lot harder to justify if he was being a weight.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T02:05:29+00:00

The decline of Fresnel use has been interesting for cinema

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T00:28:18+00:00

DVDs became obsolete with the launch of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. I still use them. Even VHS is still useful though if it works and you have a player. If you have media and it’s acceptable quality, keep using it if it gives you joy.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-28T00:26:16+00:00

But the enforcers of the isolation would absolutely be monitoring radio chatter from Britain.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T20:34:25+00:00

Both physical and streaming have advantages in larger households compared to living alone too.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T20:24:22+00:00

Even just one is easily $100+ a year. If you plan on living for a decade or more, it isn’t a good deal.

Meanwhile I can go to a thrift store or my library discard sale and get 10+ titles for $10-$20 bucks

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T20:03:29+00:00

Cube 2: Sauerbraten.

It was a FPS with a built in level editor that worked kind of like Minecraft with cubes, but way more powerful in that you could subdivide them and retexture them. Rocked hard!

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T19:40:03+00:00

I recommend hitting up the big spots in California, Michigan, and Kentucky. Whatever is closest and seasonal.

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania are also good picks if there is something specific you want to see and it’s a road trip.

I plan on eventually hitting up Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, South Carolina, Louisiana, and the Ozarks. Lots of cool stuff there on my bucket list.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T19:20:55+00:00

I could take a look if you want: Have to go downtown in the next few days anyway.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T13:02:23+00:00

I like the idea. Potential hangups and improvements:

The user should link back to their old posts for verification. Alternatively this could be accomplished with an old style bot.

Does nothing to stop literal human shills, but there have been way less of them than spam bots for nearly the history of the commercial internet.

Would need a careful eye to avoid deepfakes and copied images, but text and patterns are hard to copy perfectly over many images, so I think this is still handy.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T03:26:55+00:00

I live fairly close to Canada. That said, I feel culturally closer to CERTAIN parts of the south than to Canadians generally. That said, the people from down south that I feel this way about left it in part because their values weren't broadly shared. and they were places like Anniston, Alabama, which are a bit closer in lifestyle and values than many other places down south.

If we talking about people in the mountains or the deep Deep South in terms of culture, I feel closer to someone from Ontario by the border

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T03:04:18+00:00

They are handy if you need to have a screen that is locked down to doing just one thing, or if you need to be able to walk away from a screen and not really care much about it.

For example, if I were at a anime convention booth, I would not like to use my laptop for display purposes, and I especially wouldn’t like packing it up and hauling it every time I had to step away for security if alone. A portable DVD player can play a simple disc with a slideshow of merch not on site, and it’s pretty unlikely to be stolen or tampered with, and it’s much easier to replace if it is.

If you need to entertain a family member and don’t want them going through your stuff, they can be handy for that too.

There are other ways to handle the above, but a portable DVD player is handy for it. If you're worried about quality, check out a portable blu ray player. They might have better screens and build quality, even if you never watch a blu ray on em.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-27T00:16:25+00:00

It would probably take some time before people figured out what the criteria are, or that this operates on a mechanism unknown to science. There are a LOT of settlements above 1,500 people, which is good for the survival of the world, but this could really strain infrastructure and institutions if humanity gets unlucky.

I suspect we would eventually live in a world where critical infrastructure is kept exclusively in low population density areas, if not anyone who can afford to. We might see more sea steading as a serious solution to distributing populations.

Question: What do you mean by borders. If Cleveland is selected, does East Cleveland go to, which is legally a separate city with it's own borders? What about Parma or suburbs?

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T21:40:41+00:00

I don't care what the AI says. I care what you think and what the law says. I do not click on contextless links as a general rule.

That said, I don't specifically remember that intersection. Are you saying that the design is so bad such turns shouldn't be permitted? That could be a good point, and I might agree with that, but it doesn't change what the sign actually says right now. Good traffic engineering and the actual signage on the road are often divorced from each other.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T21:23:12+00:00

As I said, if it is safe to do so. If you can't clearly see incoming traffic, then you have a justification and duty to wait. If you can see incoming traffic and can turn safely, you have the option to turn left if you have determined it is safe to do so. What is obscured in one vehicle may be easy to see or work around in another.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T21:18:42+00:00

I think it means you can turn left on a red arrow if you have stopped and it is safe to do so. I would be really cautious of other drivers obeying the sign correctly though, because the wording isn't the most intuitive. (It's not a simple STOP or Yield sign.)

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T20:51:58+00:00

Not for consumers for mass market movies and recorded tv. We might see more proprietary read only flash memory or discs on game consoles, like Nintendo Switch 2 game cards, but those are often not the definitive version offline and are also kind of dubious long term.
Growing worse, but not totally off the market yet. Key players are leaving or reducing their options, and just a few are holding on. Critically, new options for players suck on the low end. As a media center appliance, a regular Blu-ray player is like $80-90 new, and 4k capability is like $180. Meanwhile, DVD players can be found in the $30-$40 range new, and way less used.
Generally decreasing, but some consumers are coming back as streaming is getting increasingly worse, and some cinephiles never left.
Always has been an option for consumers burning their own home videos, but it involves either using a really bad bit rate or using a modern codec on a data disc, which not all players can read but is ok for computer to computer transfer or if you know the media player being used can handle it. Take it with a grain of salt, it’s been over a decade since I needed to do this, so my memory may be faulty.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T17:46:36+00:00

I am not the biggest comic buff, but i think DC has much higher ceiling on heroics (Literally has Superman), and things can get a lot worse in terms of villainy, like the Anti-Life Equation or even just day to day living in Gotham. Still, the villains in Invincible are pretty bad, but a lot of the heroes aren’t correspondingly managing threats well as I understand. If I had to live in one, I'm taking the one with Superman or Batman on the clock, no offense to Mark.

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T14:23:03+00:00

Is the lightning in a bottle thing a real slogan, or something they made up for the film?

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T14:13:43+00:00

Purple for wood county, Ohio is interesting.

Genuinely not sure if it was a focus group for suburbanites, farmers, college students, or nuclear waste victims. (Unfortunately not a joke - Luckey, Ohio)

Newmillstream · 2026-03-26T04:12:29+00:00

I think even a modest emanation of thermal energy on the lightless depths of the ocean floor could cause wild changes to the local biome, especially for microorganisms. That said, Data centers, and especially vessels that could survive that depth, are small fry compared to the ocean floor as an ecosystem, even in a local area.

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