If you’re going to be doing any amount of soldering, I’d highly suggest the Hakko FX888D. You want to use a good iron, otherwise you’ll get poor results and/or be more likely to hurt yourself. (Hitting one’s thumb with a hot soldering iron is not fun.)
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Introducing the Morph 4K, a modular 4K upscaler that form fits your setupEnglish
51·2 years agoThere are two 4k capable scalers announced for retro games:
- Retrotink 4k
- Made by the same guy who made the Retrotink 5x Pro among other scaling devices such as the Retrotink 2x, RGB2COMP and COMP2RGB devices. The 5x is a scaler that works better than the OSSC and can go to higher resolutions along with more effects to help emulate the CRT look and feel.
- Morph 4k by PixelFx
- Made by the same team behind the DCDigital (aka. DCHDMI), PS1Digital and now the Retro G.E.M. which is the recently announced console agnostic HDMI modification.
There is also the OSSC Pro, but the details are sparse and we haven’t had too many updates about it.
PixelFX has lost any and all respect that I had for them and almost made me want to sell my PS1Digital modded system just to be rid of owning anything they’ve touched. Their announcement video for the Retro GEM took the piss on Digital Foundry by doing a cringe-inducing “parody” called “Digital Infidelity” and was wildly inappropriate. Couple that with the news that the GEM would have DRM on the extra features for an additional $80 once you bought the device and it left a very sour taste in my mouth.
Prior to their terrible announcement, I was determined on buying what ended up being GEM as I could get HDMI out right from a PS2 I bought specifically for that mod and now I won’t bother.
- Retrotink 4k
messem10@lemmy.worldto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Introducing the Morph 4K, a modular 4K upscaler that form fits your setupEnglish
51·2 years agoAfter their absolutely terrible “parody” reveal for the GEM coupled with the DRM crap there, I’ve lost all respect for PixelFX.
I’ll buy the Retrotink 4k instead, even if it costs more.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The new Sony Walkman costs more than you think, here's whyEnglish
1·2 years agoThere are also used units like the Pioneer XDP-100 which is still good, but the Android bit is slow.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.English
2·2 years agoNow you can go into pretty much any thrift store and get a whole box of them for like $5-10.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its bestEnglish
3·2 years agoAny type of automatic moderation. It is a godsend for managing a community as you don’t have to worry about content with or breaking those roles as the bot(s) check it for you.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its bestEnglish
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messem10@lemmy.worldto[Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world•New legged robots designed to explore planets as a teamEnglish
1·2 years agoIssue there is how does it handle loose fill material or sand/dust in its joints? That’d wear it down quick or result in it getting into an unrecoverable situation. (Wheeled rovers have a larger contact area and less likely to sink into sand.)
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next weekEnglish
63·2 years ago320kbps is basically indistinguishable from lossless, even with insanely good headphones/amplifier/DAC/speakers.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.
3·2 years agoHopefully they’d just make their own instance to which everyone else could defederate from.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are downEnglish
2·2 years agoNope, here’s an article from CNN about it: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/politics/email-typos-mali-military-emails/index.html
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are downEnglish
151·2 years agoThere is also the recent news about how millions of US Military emails (.mil) were sent to Malia instead (.ml).
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix removes its basic tier in the US and the UKEnglish
2·2 years agoIf you have fiber, 99% of the time your speeds are symmetric.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•ASUS will manufacture and develop new Intel NUC mini PCsEnglish
3·2 years agoConsidering they’re basically doing that with their Chromebox line, it is not that big of a surprise.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI trainingEnglish
11·2 years agoNot that Mozilla has been 100% great either. Remember the Mr. Robot debacle?
If not: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass
Also use a password manager such that you can have randomly generated passwords for sites.
messem10@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was "The Incident" at work that caused an exodus in the work force?
18·3 years agoProbably the impetus for the mass exodus at my old job was the “We’ll Miss You” Zoom call we had for a beloved senior developer. The company had recently added a new manager role that hadnt existed before and things were fine. The new guy started micromanaging like crazy. The SD who was leaving basically went off during the call about how the company didn’t need NG’s role and how it was burning people out.
I stuck around for another year-ish, and NG managed to make a group of about 20 developers dwindle to 5-ish. Saw the writing on the wall after getting shafted, changed jobs and am now making double that salary along with far less stress.

Sadly it can’t work that way. From a programming perspective alone they are very different engines.
Unity uses C# while Unreal is C++.