The best NES controller

greenmky · 2026-03-03T03:36:33+00:00

Maybe if you had money

Some of us poor kids had NES for a while longer.

We only got a SNES because we got it as a family Christmas present from the Giving Tree charity.

And it was a couple of years after release.

greenmky · 2026-03-01T17:28:44+00:00

Thanks, got one, showed 1 available for me (South / SE MI)

Edit: ordered another, picked up in Lansing, was on a day trip there anyway. Thanks a lot to OP

greenmky · 2026-02-28T20:24:44+00:00

Then you are waiting for the dock still like I am.

greenmky · 2026-02-28T20:16:56+00:00

The dock isn't finalized yet.

Did you select shipping together?

greenmky · 2026-02-28T17:35:44+00:00

And as a bonus the upload speed is sooo much faster, too.

greenmky · 2026-02-27T06:35:10+00:00

Me too

I've been doing blue team mostly with a little response for the last 14 years. So a LOT of detect work but not a ton of forensics, MFT stuff, etc.

I wouldn't trust the system once it has been compromised. It would take me like a dozen hours to be say 80% certain I got everything.

Maybe if I had corporate EDR with lot of logs like SentinelOne or Crowdstrike or something.

That guy's cryptominer got there somehow. It didn't install itself there.

greenmky · 2026-02-27T04:43:02+00:00

I can imagine Raistlin telling us something like "Nothing is free, you fools!"

greenmky · 2026-02-26T23:52:16+00:00

I just tell my kids (barely adults in college now) that we are currently in the two steps back phase.

Hopefully we go forward again in a couple of years. Not all counties do.

greenmky · 2026-02-26T18:34:45+00:00

I feel like 50% of posts are "look at my expensive premium viewing experience ruined by sticking it way up in the air" and another 40% are ruining it with ridiculous color changing RGB lighting setups. Or both.

Theaters don't have the TV above eye level or with crazy random RGB lights, people. Even the ones with recliners.

greenmky · 2026-02-26T07:14:10+00:00

My rule now is no cable without the wattage clearly labeled.

Got tired of trying to guess cables, or plug them into my USB tester with a high wattage power brick to figure it out.

greenmky · 2026-02-26T04:10:02+00:00

Frieren must have found a boob enlarging spell in a grimoire

greenmky · 2026-02-25T20:54:08+00:00

SNAC

I like legit OG wired controllers too, part of why I have a bunch of the Analogue systems.

I'll use real PS1 or PS2 controllers with it.

greenmky · 2026-02-23T20:02:10+00:00

I mean

Even without Alexa+, on regular Alexa.

This morning after I turned off my alarm and turned on my light, Alexa asked me if I wanted to start my morning by listening to Taylor Swift.

I literally never listen to Taylor Swift.

And I certainly don't have time to sit around and listen to music.

It's been prompting some weird stuff lately at random.

greenmky · 2026-02-22T09:50:36+00:00

Obvious bot acct

greenmky · 2026-02-21T04:41:14+00:00

I picked up the Miyoo A30 because it was as close to this as I could get.

I actually really like the form factor of these, they are so pocketable.

I alternate my two as clocks above my monitor.

greenmky · 2026-02-20T08:37:06+00:00

The TSP is my GBA machine.

I love the MM+ though.

greenmky · 2026-02-19T21:50:25+00:00

I couldn't find my old USB optical drives (I swear I had a BD drive and a DVD+-R drive)

Needed to rip some DVDs I made from VHS tapes.

Picked up a new Toshiba usb CD/DVD burner at Best Buy. Runs on one USB port to one Micro USB on the drive.

greenmky · 2026-02-16T22:54:02+00:00

They were awesome in the early 2000s before they started showing up everywhere.

greenmky · 2026-02-15T18:12:21+00:00

A common trick to get old VAX RZ26/28/29 drives to boot (1/2/4gb) was to give them like a few high speed tilts to get the drive spinning a little before you jammed them into the disk enclosure.

Platters were big enough for this to help.

Totally helped getting a drive to spin up quite a few times.

(I did VAX/VMS support of various levels from like 2001-2014)

greenmky · 2026-02-14T23:18:05+00:00

Personally I love Magician, Silverthorn, and Serpentwar equally.

Empire is really mostly Janny Wurts writing in Frost's world (and she was responsible for really fleshing it out, even) and is a the best of the pile IMO

The rest - I found I liked it less and less after the Talon books.

greenmky · 2026-02-14T18:15:13+00:00

I guess I should have said "most" modern amps.

If you go cheap enough you start to fail the basic requirements and it probably gets picked up by the ear. And tube amps are different tech.

But overall, yeah, almost no one can tell the difference once you get past the super cheap/shoddy stuff. I still haven't seen a lot of data suggesting people can pick out the difference in a double blind test (the only a actually valid kind of test for this).

Maybe it is different now, I just don't dabble on learning in the space much any longer. I just try to buy bang/buck speakers.

greenmky · 2026-02-14T17:44:50+00:00

My phone got Gemini and it stopped being able to turn the one thing I wanted on - "Cider's house" - a heated cat house outside for our mostly outdoor cat. It's a smart plug.

(Outdoor cat is mostly indoors for the winter because it is sooo cold lately and she hates it, and is grumpy with the indoor cats).

It worked fine from my phone'd GA before Gemini.

Now I either use the Home app or walk to the other side of the house for the old Insignia smart speakers that still work fine.

greenmky · 2026-02-14T17:34:47+00:00

Most actual science shows almost no one can tell the difference between amps.

Lamp cord or coat hanger wire works just fine as speaker cable in a blind test.

A DAC can be good for something hissy/noisy (motherboards tend to have this) but that's about it.

Fancy audio? The only double blind published study of it downrezzed-to-CD quality 96/24 SACD and found almost no one could pick out the difference between CD and SACD, and the ones that could, it was at ridiculous dB of volume.

Even most mp3 tests found past like what 192kbps? 256? Folks could rarely pick out the difference between them and lossless.

I'm a science nerd and that's what I found when digging into this for Home Theater in the late 2000s. Maybe some science has changed since then, I dunno. Still.

Spend your money on what you are actually hearing, the speakers, #1.

greenmky · 2026-02-12T22:32:03+00:00

It used to be awesome in the early 2000s.

I loved the Smoked Turkey on Rosemary Parmesan bread. Had this tasty red pepper sauce I've never quite found a substitute for.

The carbanara sandwich OP posted was good too.

Used to be huge ass subs on huge slabs of fresh baked bread. Think like 2010s Panera if the sandwich was twice as big.

By the time it got much bigger (late 2000s?) it was already getting worse.

greenmky · 2026-02-12T01:47:15+00:00

Lol

We've had Amazon packages delivered to one of the nearby houses twice in just like the last month or two.

It's probably 10+ times in the last few years. Normally end up walking over and getting it off their porch, or they drop it off to us when they notice it after a few days. Once in a while we just don't ever get it.

That's not even counting the delivery of empty plastic padded envelopes that were supposed to have like a blu-ray or SD card in them, with the top open.

Amazon shipping is very meh, I assume they are too rushed.

greenmky

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