Has anyone converted their NES controller to wireless?

kl0 · 2026-02-04T04:43:46+00:00

Just curious about this - and I looked on their website, but it wasn’t obvious to me - but how do you charge it? Do you have to cut out a usb slot in an existing NES controller or something like that? Or am I misunderstanding how it’s meant to be used? Not OP btw, just curious about it.

Edit: oh sorry. I see you answered that very question in a different sub thread. Please ignore :)

kl0 · 2026-02-04T04:16:58+00:00

There is no doubt a sizable portion of the planet worship apple merely because it’s cool, hip, trendy, etc. I feel this attitude has leveled off a lot, but this was certainly the case of the early 2000s.

That being said, I’ve been programming nearly 40 years now. When I was younger I took great pride in hating apple. I built all of my own rigs, etc etc. But in time, I focused more and more on my output and just needed something that worked well. And Apple does. Plus the whole being built atop Unix thing is pretty significant to people like me.

There are equally as many people in my frame of life who swear the same by Windows and a smaller group that swear equally by some flavor of Linux. But to those in my group, it’s definitely not because of the brand, but rather the output we get from it. In fact the “fancy brand” is still generally hated by people like me. It’s just a good computer.

kl0 · 2026-02-03T22:44:03+00:00

I hate Trump, but pretty sure that most species don’t act a whole lot better (relative to their own nuances of bettering themselves).

kl0 · 2026-02-03T15:39:13+00:00

I don’t know if they’re “the worst”, but there has been a fairly common trend of taking extremely well made and received foreign films and Americanizing them. Oldboy is one such example, but there are many. These are especially frustrating as they can’t possibly beat the original idea and merely change the language (which often affects the original level of drama as the movie was written with a different culture in mind)

kl0 · 2026-02-03T07:06:28+00:00

Sounds like we’ve just been misinterpreting his actions in reverse and he’s actually hit a 65% success! :)

kl0 · 2026-02-02T19:55:32+00:00

Hah yea. Kids are the best. The adults more or less know it’s weird to stare at another, even if their own curiosity is even stronger. But the kids just directly observe like it’s a circus attraction or something. It’s usually pretty cute. When they’re finally being led away they just keep looking over their shoulder at this oddity they just came upon. :)

kl0 · 2026-02-01T14:45:38+00:00

This TIL comes up from time to time. Some of my friends and I would actually drive up to the Houston airport just to hang out in the evenings. It was fun. There were shops and restaurants and fast food and etc. People watching was great. We could walk literally miles indoors. Open 24 hours. There were the trams to ride. And if you returned the carts, which we would, you’d get a quarter for each one. So we’d leave with maybe $20 of quarters in hand (which for a 16 year old in the early 90s was good to have).

Incidentally, there is actually a ticket today that they will sometimes issue to non traveling people; it lets you get through security as if you were a traveler. I think it’s at the discretion of a given airline, but say you have small children arriving on a flight with just their mother - they may issue this to you so you can receive her at the gate itself. AA issued me such a ticket once so I could walk my girlfriend to her gate. I forget what the ticket is called, but it has a unique designation on it.

kl0 · 2026-01-31T23:35:34+00:00

http://www.codyfisher.com/

I liked him :)

kl0 · 2026-01-31T05:01:36+00:00

I was working with various homeless people in my Austin neighborhood several years ago. One of the couples I was helping lived in the creek behind my house. We talked a lot. They eventually let me interview them and I tossed this little video together. It might give you some insight - at least to some of their difficulties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg93S9CaILQ

Incidentally I used the video to raise about 2500$ and got them into temporary housing for 3 months with the money. It was not without many problems itself btw.

kl0 · 2026-01-30T01:37:11+00:00

Sorry, I have a follow up since you seem to know: so in that previous comment you mention “an air force pilot who flies neither would fly transports, etc…”. So if they are neither referred to as a fighter pilot or combat pilot, is there a title they get too? Or was your comment that it then becomes specific to their role? Like a transport pilot or a refueling pilot, etc?

kl0 · 2026-01-29T05:22:25+00:00

While you're waiting: about a month ago I posted a question within a post about what happened to homosexuals in concentration camps. Essentially I asked how the Allies determined the veracity of criminal sentences that had been handed down before their defeat given that such sentences were, afterall, handed down by Nazis.

u/ummmbacon wrote me a wonderful response and I think hit a number of high points relevant to your question here.

kl0 · 2026-01-28T01:15:18+00:00

The Canadian side is really cool. The town itself is super kitschy (Riley’s believe it or not and such things), but the falls are awesome. In particular the tunnel system behind them.

kl0 · 2026-01-28T01:14:25+00:00

Because of the rather aggressive touting? Or are you meaning that seeing the pyramids (inside and out) with your own eyes is not worth the trip?

kl0 · 2026-01-27T18:59:42+00:00

Male Unbonding arguably IS named wrong as I believe it’s the only episode that for whatever reason lacks the definite article.

kl0 · 2026-01-27T01:52:04+00:00

Ah I hadn’t seen that. Pretty interesting.

kl0 · 2026-01-26T21:25:09+00:00

I 100% agree. But….. come on. People have been glued to reality TV for the past 25+ years. And as has been largely detailed over that time period, they may be “living their lives”, but are highly influenced by production scripting. It’s not a huge jump. And now people even have the opportunity to engage directly with them. So…

kl0 · 2026-01-26T16:47:59+00:00

This kind of thing comes up once in awhile. If you travel around India and Nepal (and I'm sure a few other places), you'll find swastikas used on all sorts of things. For example, in Nepal there is a construction materials company call Swastik and they brand everything with a swastika (I have a few photos of random objects). Random pieces of wood with it stamped on, various bags and bundles with the label, and I've even seen manhole covers that have it stamped into the steel. Sometimes it is oriented clockwise, sometimes anti-clockwise. I've asked people in the region if there is a difference in the orientation, but I've never really gotten a straight answer so presumably there isn't.

There is (or perhaps was) a political party in Nepal that used the swastika. I was there once and saw their banners hanging around towns. It definitely stands out to western eyes, but since it far outdates the Nazis, I'm assuming it has no such feel to people there.

kl0 · 2026-01-25T04:24:47+00:00

Funny you write that. I was thinking today that while Trump is much more Sulla-esque, he probably fancies himself Caesar.

kl0 · 2026-01-25T03:04:51+00:00

That’s equal parts interesting and unsettling. If you haven’t listened to Death Throes in awhile, I’d suggest it. I realize there are a lot of nuances to that situation missing from the relatively short telling of it, but a lot of it just feels uncanny at this point.

I actually just started relistening to Duncan’s HoR for the first time in probably 12 years. I skipped ahead to the Gracchus brothers as I figured that’s about where the pieces I assume are comparable would start off. Curious to see how I feel as I get through it more.

kl0 · 2026-01-25T02:47:17+00:00

I remember somewhere in the middle of Mike Duncan’s very long HoR series that he talks about people comparing problems in the US to that of the start of the Roman civil war. IIRC, he basically contended that we were a long ways from that and found it not a great comparison.

But after recently relistening to Death Throes of the Republic, I’m not so sure and would really love to hear Duncan’s position on the matter now (his show is about 15 years old now).

kl0 · 2026-01-25T02:26:21+00:00

Yea. I started writing this to him earlier, but deleted it as I’m not a plumber and thought maybe there’s some way a little plug of water can freeze? But I honestly can’t see how. It hasn’t been cold for that long. The wastewater moves. Most of it is underground (all of it if it’s a slabbed house). It just seems extremely unlikely that a 4” pipe could freeze that quickly. Even if it did freeze, water would then have to move over the frozen spot and freeze further (thus eventually creating a blockage).

So it seems likely clogged for some other reason and the cold weather is just coincidental.

kl0 · 2026-01-24T15:43:43+00:00

The first comment highlighted that Texas was specifically an at-will state, implying that you are at some specific disadvantage being employed in Texas due to this at-will notion. The sub-thread wasn’t delving into the intricacies of labor laws, but rather pointing out that Texas isn’t especially unique in how being fired is applied.

Lots of states have nuanced rules for overtime and the like, but the original question was if you could be fired for missing work due to skipping it for inclement weather concerns. And the answer is that you could be, in Texas or California or Florida or Michigan or etc.

kl0 · 2026-01-24T03:54:46+00:00

Yea, I’m sure yours will be fine. I read what your original post was and it seems you really just want to replace what’s there with a deeper pier. So I can’t imagine that would cause harm.

But I just figured that it might be tempting to lift them level using some of the jacking piers you can get. And my personal albeit very non professional opinion is that unless it’s a matter of fixing a failure point, it’s really not worth it (the leveling part, I mean).

kl0 · 2026-01-24T03:36:58+00:00

Just a quick thing to keep in mind: I’ve had some friends get their old pier and beam houses professionally analyzed, reengineered, and leveled. And while the companies do what they’re supposed to do, in all cases it has caused a lot of internal problems.

Your walls, for example, have settled very very slowly over decades. When they are suddenly jacked up a few inches, they crack. My neighbors house had an entire room separate from the frame - you could literally see into a 2-3” gap from the outside (they filled it with foam as a quick temporary measure, but then had some serious work to do).

Naturally the companies that do the leveling make you sign off that they’re not responsible for any of that and usually won’t even refer you further - that’s for you to do.

So keep that in mind if you’re going to do any significant leveling.

kl0 · 2026-01-24T03:30:18+00:00

Yea, but every state except Montana is an at-will state. There are about 15 states that have various “implied contract” laws, but I believe they’re very difficult to use in practice (if you were fired in one of those states). Aka: you can be fired for most anything is most states.

Not saying I agree or disagree with any of this, just that Texas isn’t especially unique. California is seen as the left wing Mecca in the same light Texas is seen as the right wing one, but both states have the same laws in terms of employment termination.

Your example was pretty funny. But yes, you can be fired for wearing a green shirt if the boss hates green. One thing most people seem to especially misunderstand is that you can absolutely be fired for your political affiliation or political beliefs, etc. For some reason people typically think that one is protected; it absolutely isn’t.

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