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Game controllers use bluetooth, TV remotes use infrared. Bluetooth is radio waves, it can go a limited distance, but can go through some obstacles. IR needs line of sight. Howver, IR uses way less power than bluetooth, can go a longer distance and the line-of-sight requirement can be a good thing. For example, if you have multiple TVs in different rooms (or even the same room) made by the same manufacturer. Yes, you could pair the remote with the TV, but that would create a new problem - you wouldn't be able to use the same remote on different TVs. I have two AC units, both are made by the same manufacturer, so both respond to the same remote. However, while the remote is IR, the sensitivity is ridiculous - I can be pointing the remote away from the AC and it would still respond. Most of the time I only use one of the units, keeping the other off by turning off the circuit braker. Sometimes I need both of them on. When both are on it is really had to adjust only one of them without having the other one react. I need to put my hand on a specific spot on the unit I do not want to react (yeah, I need to cover the IR sensor, but it is not visible from outside, so usually it's just trial and error). My LG plasma TV has a remote that works using radio waves (I think) and while I can use it while it's still in my pocket, it drains the batteries much faster than the IR remotes.

Maybe a year ago, someone said I should try the bing bot in Skype, so I did ask it a few questions, that was it. When I search something on Google, it also gives me "AI result" that's usually nonsense, so I don't really pay attention to it.

A knockoff NES. It looked similar to this: But it was not this, I do not remember what the model was, but I remember that it had some numbers. Also, the controllers did not have the red buttons, though IIRC the controllers themselves were red. I only had a few cartridges, of the type "9999 in 1" where it pretends to have thousands of games, but they are modifications of a few real games. I played with it, but IIRC I preferred the PC when my parents finally bought one. It was fun using the two antennas that came with it to have a wireless connection to the TV and to turn on a TV in a different room and see the game.

Alicorn, if that's not possible then unicorn. Magic seems cool and can compensate for lack of hands.

I hate this as well, in fact I use a lot of old stuff. However, I can also understand the ISP. If they are upgrading the system to something incompatible, they cannot just leave you on the old one. If they wanted to, they would probably not only have to keep the old system online, but also keep your whole apartment building (or neighborhood) on the old system and some of your neighbors may want the faster speeds. Also, it sounds like the equipment is considered property of the ISP, so you don't have to pay for the upgrade anyway. I am more annoyed by various forced upgrades of things that do not force others to comply. The government would very much like me to get a newr car, even though my current car can use the exact same roads and exact same fuel as the newer ones. It's not like they have to maintain special roads or provide special fuel just for me. Other customers demanding higher speeds (just because you don't need a faster connection does not mean that nobody wants it) or the aggregte capacity (your and your neighbors use combined) was not enough anymore because of increated usage, more customers or both.

When I was a kid, we had a VHS player (not a recorder) and some tapes, some movies and some cartoons, though they were pirated copies and not factory made. They all were in Russian (the Western ones had Russian voiceovers) and I do not understand Russian, though for something like Nu Pgodi or Tom & Jerry it did not matter as there is very little talking in those cartoons. Later I got a TV tuner card for my PC, but had reliability issues where the recording would get corrupted or randomly stop or some other problem, so I bought a VHS VCR in 2006 or 2007 and started using it - video quality was somewhat lower, but it was way more reliable. Now I have multiple VCRs and still record VHS or SVHS tapes from time to time. Most of the tapes I have I recorded myself from TV and most of those are various concerts or music TV shows. A year ago I bought some tapes about steam locomotives and trains in general. While I am not using my VCRs as much as before, that is more due to the fact that I have a way to record/download from IPTV, so now I use a VCR to record from a channel I cannot get the other way or as a backup. If the provider ever stops me from doing it, I'll go back to using the VCRs more. My tape collection is not that big though, only a bit over 100.

Mainly it's the popularity of the platform. If you need to spend effort to make sure the game works on an OS, would you rather do it for a popular OS or one that only a few people use? I dislike Windows 10 and 11. As for optimized APIs, IIRC, recently the Linu kernel got a patch that adds some functions to have Windows-style locking or something (called NTSYNC), this was done mainly to improe the performance of Windows games on Linux. Linux caches stuff all the time, by default it even puts some programs into the swap file to free up memory for cache (you can disable that by setting vm.swappiness=1 in sysctl.conf).

I quite liked it, it was worth the money I paid for the bluray. Then nothing changes. Nobody is taking the original from my file server and I can ignore the new one if it sucks.

I quite liked the animated movie. I hope the reboot happens. If it sucks, I can just ignore it and rewatch the original again, but there is a chance it may be good.

For anything DOS related, I use an actual old PC with DOS (and Windows 3.11). More fun that way. Similar for games that run on Windows 98 or XP - an old PC with that OS. If a game is coded for Windows, then it makes sense that it would run worse on Linux, because the API calls are not the same, something that may be optimized on Windows may not be on Linux. I remember, at least in the past, there was a problem with Linux async file IO. There were multiple APIs to choose from and none of them worked very well, but the only async API on Windows worked better. I found out about that in relation to torrents and why a torrent client uses sync IO for disk, but that was a while ago, maybe it is fixed now.

I am not really interested in superheros, so I do not know much about them. Still, the only reason they would show the main character dying is if they can somehow resurrect him, otherwise the series would just end and nobody wants to end a popular series. Just like how Arthur Conan Doyle had to bring back Sherlock Holmes because fans asked for it (even though AFAIK, he really intended to end the series and write about something else, even if it meant less money for him). I guess if there are a lot of reboots of the same thing, it could get confusing, but I am reading about the attempts to reboot Babylon 5 (one of my favorite series) and if the reboot happens and it is great, awesome, if it sucks, well, I can still watch the original.

I don't particularly care. If the reboot is good, I'll watch it, if it's bad, then I won't. A bad reboot or sequel would not ruin the original show for me. I can still watch the original, nobody is going to take it away from me.

It was not 8%, I would not care about that. With a GTX970, Derail Valley on Windows 8.1 got about 40-50fps and on Linux it got about 15fps on the same PC. With a RTX3090 the framerates are higher (obviously), but they are also more similar between Windows and Linux. Yeah, I think I read something about Vulkan that may be the cause of this. I do not like "bleeding edge", I use Ubuntu LTS or Debian and dislike it when I have to use something else like CentOS and now I have to look for the equivalent of /etc/network/interfaces or some other config file. I also dislike updating anything and like seeing long uptimes.

I use Debian on my servers and Ubuntu (with KDE) for some PCs, though if I wanted to install an new PC now, I would probably use Debian on the desktop as well. Linux is what I would say programmer-friendly, but not neccesarily user-friendly. It does have the "self-made" or "designed by programmers" feeling, similar to the devices I build for myselt. Windows (at least the older versions) is different in that more setting are easier to access without editing text files or using the command line. Creating a custom resolution with an nVidia card is easier on Windows for example. Linux has the drivers for most stuff built-in, so usually most of everythign works immediately after installing. OTOH, if there is no built-in driver for some device (but there is one published by the manufacturer), you may have lots of "fun" trying to make it work. Or it may be easy. Games on Linux run quite well (at least the ones I play), but if you have an older card (for me it was a GTX970) some games have way worse performance on Linux than on Windows on the exact same PC. Apparently there is some kind of compatibility problem and you need at least a RTX20 series card to overcome it.

Twice, both times at night. Once I made a small mistake when driving though an empty and dark intersection, so I had to blow to the breathalyzer (got zero). The other time cops were bored, saw my car that's not common anymore and wanted to chat. This time they did not check if I was drunk.