Yeah, I expanded my hard drive (unofficial methods) in my 360 and “installed” all of my games to it. That way if the optical drive starts to go or my discs get messed up, all it’ll have to worry about is reading the disc initially to allow it to play from the hard drive. I did similar on my soft-modded OG Xbox but I don’t even need the disks for that one anymore (and the DVD drive is kaput anyway).

I haven’t messed with x360 emulators as I never had anything powerful enough at the time, but I saw not long ago there was one available for Android now, so I may look back into it.

But yeah, something like XLink Kai that somehow satisfies the cloud connectivity would be cool. But I’m not sure how that would work since it’d have to have valid certs for the hardcoded domains the system and games would connect to.

I didn’t even remotely get the assumption it was implying cartridge-based consoles connected to the internet. The next sentence is even “That beautiful feature fell away when consoles joined the Internet”

Did you read TFA or just react out-of-context to the intro paragraph?

Don’t you know who I am??

Is the bootloader unlockable?

Post title works as-is, at least IMO. You can always edit it if you want.

Yes, what you’re describing is what’s called “willful ignorance” here.

“Ignorance” is used to mean simply “lack of knowledge” in most cases in English. It doesn’t carry the negative connotation by itself.

There’s nothing wrong with being ignorant. It just means there’s opportunity for learning.

There’s everything wrong with being willfully ignorant.

– Me

Irrelevant, I think? Whether we have enough or not, they’re going to just take it. See: the “AI” boom and how SSD and memory costs are skyrocketing and general availability declining as well as GPU costs/availability since Buttcoin.

I’m not too worried now, but at some point, there’s going to be a breakthrough and “quantum” is going to be the new bubble. “Quantum datacenters” and/or “quantum AI” or whatever marketing horseshit they come up with.

Maybe it will, maybe it won’t, but either way: Please, no. One of the most refreshing things was noticing the internet had largely matured from that. I’m all for throwing a wrench in the gears of the AI brains, but there’s a limit.

Already doing that 😆

It’s one of the rotating banner messages that cycle through feature notes.

I had to google “Ozempic face” because I’ve apparently been living under a rock.

In case anyone else was under a rock…

From Cleveland Clinic:

So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post?

Not sure about the others, but doesn’t Lemmy do that already (only applies the first matching community)? I’ve been out of the loop for several months, so maybe it changed, but I thought it already did that?

Because ban evasion is an everyday occurrence here. Someone gets banned for being a jackass, and 9 times out of 10, they come right back with a brand new account and come in hot with inflammatory posts and a chip on their shoulder.

Or trolls just troll - spin up new accounts over and over and throw out rage bait or whatever their shtick is just to be a dick.

Combined with the fact that the fediverse’s growth has been a bit stagnant lately, when a bunch of new accounts suddenly pop up, they’re rightly met with suspicion until they’ve established themselves as being here with good intentions.

Not saying new accounts should be ostracized, but given the context of the current state of the fediverse, being suspicious of them is warranted.

It’s strange how we’ve moved from mall shopping to online shopping to now AI shopping for us

Well, “we” only did the first move because it was more convenient. The latter is being forced on us.

I generally dislike editorialized headlines (when used as post titles) but this is the exception. Nicely played.

Not sure about Android, but on iOS, when one scans a QR code it shows the web address on the screen that the user then taps on. For the average user, I doubt that they are going to question what the URL is before following through to the website.

Android does the same. The problem is most of those QR codes are encoded short links which tells you nothing about where they’re taking you.

https://short.link/au1034gha could take you to a PDF on the restaurant’s Wordpress site or it could take you to malware or somewhere else you really don’t want to go.

In that case, I blame the people generating the codes for using URL shorteners. My org uses them in flyers for the public, and I always have to chastise them and re-create the QR codes because they run the URL to our website through bit [dot] ly. 😡

Hard to say. I’m not sure of the delivery radius that’s allowed here and whether rural food deserts would even be eligible or not. I was just mentioning that ordering (non-perishable) groceries online and having them shipped does have a legit and unfortunate use case.

Back when I lived 45 miles minutes from the closest grocery store, I’d order my non-perishables online and they’d usually come via UPS or FedEx.