thatKamGuy

Pennywise, you say?

Conservatives and missing the point of their favourite songs; name a more iconic duo!

Wait until they’re 2+ and randomly adding things to the cart in the hopes you won’t notice!

If you still enjoy using the self-checkouts for bigger shops then - you might just be a masochist! 🤣

Democrats attempting to protect Americans from the repercussions of their own choices, and getting criticised for it - while Republicans speedrun towards a techno-fascist feudalist future.

With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.

For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.

Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.

Season 1 was interesting, while Season 2 largely felt like it was treading water and retelling the same story. I don’t blame people for falling off the series around that point - or early into Season 3 if they were binge-watching.

However, Season 3 was inarguably as good as the first (and arguably better) - with Season 4 further improving on that, not only telling its own engrossing story, but also bringing together a lot of past plot-points together and setting up the scenario for the final season.

If you’re game to give the show another try before the release of the first wave of S5 episodes next month - I’d recommend just reading a synopsis (or YT video) of seasons 1&2, and just jumping straight into Season 3.

There aren’t all that many episodes, so you could easily pace yourself with one episode every day or two to not feel burned out, while still catching up.

TIL rechargeable CR2032s exist, and also that their output voltage is higher than standard ones and apparently may run the risk of damaging circuits?

We don’t even need to imagine, necessarily! The quality of games released towards the tail-end of its life cycle speaks volumes: Uncharted 2&3, The Last of Us, God of War 3, Metal Gear Solid 4 etc.

I don’t think there was anything actually wrong with the architecture per se, but rather just the lack of proper documentation and tools set potential developers back significantly.

It was definitely hubris on Sony’s part, thinking that they could do whatever they wanted given the prior success of both the PlayStation and PS2 consoles prior.

Those PS3 launch stumbles definitely were a wake-up call, however I do believe that because it was largely the US/Western arm of SCEI that lead the ‘rescue’ - they ended up wrestling control away from the JP arm, ultimately causing the PS4/5 to end up so risk adverse and largely unremarkable as a result.

To be fair, that iconic PS1 texture twitch was Ming-boggling to see in action!

People like to live within their comfort zones. I remember a study being referenced that claimed to show introducing facts contrary to a person’s existing viewpoint don’t get them to change, it just made them double-down and be more defensive.

My parents got me this set of the Childcraft children’s encyclopaedias when I was like 6? I inhaled those things for knowledge back in the pre-internet days!

Am considering getting one for my own kiddo when they get old enough, but like most things from my childhood - they look to have been discontinued.

Literal dictionary definition of a BIOS:

Note the part regarding enabling a computer to start the OS. But regardless, this point is largely moot as we are just arguing semantics.

No the PS4 doesn’t run a PC-style AMI/Phoenix BIOS, but instead a secure chain of Boot ROM to bootloaders - however, so do Macs, which are PCs.

Dumps of these console boot ROMs and loaders - at least in emulation circles - tend to be colloquially referred to as a BIOS, as it constitutes a System that handles Basic Input and Output.

It even putting this one point aside, it runs an AMD-designed x86-64 APU, that was available to purchase for PCs (AM1 socket) albeit with a reduced power GPU.

It runs GDDR5 unified memory like a modern iMac, or Steam Deck.

It natively runs a UNIX-derived OS, again like an iMac, or Linux on the Steam Deck.

Let’s just face facts, the PS4 & 5 are just iMacs in drag 😉