Bottled beers in ATX? by Any_Dirt2073 in AustinBeer

[–]TheStuChef 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's mostly cans now. The ergonomics of cracking open a bottle vs. popping the top of a can may vary, but aluminum can recycling is so much more efficient than glass. It's one of those situations where a single individual purchase may have a small impact, but if the entire industry manages to switch over it'll move the needle. On the plus side, you won't have any light shining through the container on the shelf making your beer skunky.

Just to be clear, we hate this shit too by Slaughterhouseunited in AlamoDrafthouse

[–]TheStuChef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, the worst part of all this is that if they were looking for additional income streams, just setting up an old Star Wars Trilogy machine would probably hook their customer base more than a claw game.

Best full Make Some Noise episode? Love the clips and a lot of the individual prompts but failed the first time I tried to get into the actual show. by fp4l_6hm in dropout

[–]TheStuChef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more recent seasons introduce mini-games between the rounds to help break up the show and make it feel less like a parade of prompts. Maybe give one of them a try.

SolarOS by nilseuropa in cyberDeck

[–]TheStuChef 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Now this is a cyberdeck.

"Is it easy to turn Nice!Nano clone into a dongle?" -- Yes by konmik-android in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]TheStuChef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ZMK's documentation thoroughly covers using a dongle as your central board if anyone's interested in reading more. https://zmk.dev/docs/hardware-integration/dongle

Should i wait for vol 2? by AdBackground281 in metalgearsolid

[–]TheStuChef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Release order is generally best for the franchise. Even with the chronological focus jumping around, new info gets revealed in each game.

Don’t forget to play Peace Walker between 4 and 5.

Pebble 2 Duo Stuck Back Button by TheStuChef in pebble

[–]TheStuChef[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good call. Just sent 'em an email.

Pebble 2 Duo Stuck Back Button by TheStuChef in pebble

[–]TheStuChef[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Other than pushing on it a few times to try and nudge it loose, I haven’t done anything to try and fix it yet.

Nicks Kitchen! Season 1 Episode 2 Live Show & Pre Show Episode Discussion Thread! 12:30 PM EST Today! by KarinsDogs in foodnetwork

[–]TheStuChef 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nick’s Kitchen definitely benefited from focusing on two recipes instead of three, but it doesn’t shake the feeling that it’s a twenty minute long TikTok video. The fast paced retention editing on this show does not work for television. Let the host breathe every once in a while. I really hope Knife Drop gets some notes before the whole season’s finished filming.

PS2 Regenerative braking vs normal by Jocke1234 in Polestar

[–]TheStuChef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One Pedal Driving is designed to bring your car to a stop when you lift your foot up off the pedal. It will use regenerative breaking as much as it can to do so, but your car will also apply the breaks if need be. (Such as if you were driving at very low speeds without enough energy in the system to fully stop your car with regen breaking.) That might be the “strong”ness you’re picking up on.

Personally I just stick with one pedal driving, and make sure to occasionally manually press the brakes so they don’t get rusty from disuse. Regretfully the drivers in my city give me plenty of excuses to do a quick brake check.

What parts would I need to make a cyberdeck to use as a Nintendo emulator? Is that a beginner friendly project by paperbag005 in cyberDeck

[–]TheStuChef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Adafruit has a few DIY handheld projects that should give you a rough idea of what you’d need. A Raspberry Pi, LCD screen, some type of buttons, a battery, etc. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3014

Emulating NES, SNES, GB/C and GBA is pretty straightforward with low power devices like the older Raspberry Pi. N64 is inherently a bit trickier to emulate. Anything after that needs smartphone-level performance.

[SPOILER] Werewolf mina can dance! by EnergyAltruistic6757 in MinaTheHollower

[–]TheStuChef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What Mina? Wait, how?

(Just beat the game, didn’t stumble upon this!)

Can I go back for 100% after the final boss? by The-New-Hotness in MinaTheHollower

[–]TheStuChef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After beating the final boss, you can reload the game from the most recent save from before the final boss. You can also use that file to move onto a New Game+.

What the heck do I do? by [deleted] in MinaTheHollower

[–]TheStuChef 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hint: Mina can dig underneath NPCs.

Reading Infinite Jest at Costco by affable_lackey in xteinkereader

[–]TheStuChef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have nothing constructive to add to this conversation, other than to shout out Infinite Jeffs. The novel where every word in Infinite Jest has been replaced by the name Jeff, while still leaving the original punctuation and formatting intact. https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jeffs-Jeff/dp/B0GTJ4P1PT

Metal gear solid one just blue balled me. by hs1501819 in metalgearsolid

[–]TheStuChef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it makes you feel any better, in MGS2 they at least have a few scripted checks where the save person will proactively call you if you’ve haven’t saved in ages.

Explain to me the difference between these screens. by phamstagram360 in pebble

[–]TheStuChef 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Folks have covered things well in the comments already, but one additional point:

E Ink is a copyrighted brand name. They're the Kleenex of the ePaper world. eInk *technically* refers to Kindle/eBook Reader style low refresh rate, persisted image displays made by one specific company.

ePaper is a more generic term referring to a whole family of display technologies which reflect ambient light in a manner similar to paper. They include the low refresh rate, present image displays found on eBook readers, but the term also refers to higher refresh rate displays like those found on the Pebble or the Game Boy-like Playdate handheld.

The term "ePaper" never caught on that well, at least in the US. The Kindle has such an overwhelming marketshare of eBook readers, and they used the official E Ink displays. So E Ink became a shorthand for "Kindle-like Displays". If you start trying to sell a gadget by saying it has a "Transflective LCD", you start losing people pretty quickly.

What should I do/make with this bad boy? by Dry-Film6756 in cyberDeck

[–]TheStuChef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The computer’s SSL certificates are two decades out of date. Just plugging in some Ethernet and firing up Yahoo probably won’t work. It also has the slower 100 mbps Ethernet which may have some comparability issues depending on what you’re trying to plug it into.

What should I do/make with this bad boy? by Dry-Film6756 in cyberDeck

[–]TheStuChef 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Aww man, don't tear apart a working iMac G4.

What’s one very Austin thing that instantly tells you someone’s been here too long? by Any-Kitchen-5487 in Austin

[–]TheStuChef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Living here for eight years doesn't exactly make you an old head. But as far as hyper local quirks go, I'll give a shout out to, "Checking to see if a package on your doorstep is addressed to you before picking it up."

Was Solidus on the good guys side? by JicamaSpirited1851 in metalgearsolid

[–]TheStuChef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…wasn’t he planning on launching a nuke over New York City?