INFO: What filesystem does your source drive/partition have?

Sega Master System. Bought mine used for 200 Finnish marks. Sold it to buy a karate gi.

Bought an SMS2 in 2009 and RGB-modded it. It’s been hooked up too my CRT ever since.

I spent a good few years with it. It’s been ten years since I sold it. Those games really shine on a retroid pocket with upscaling.

It’s not retro in my mind, but I’m old.

I do wish the cables were male and ports female (think Lightning)

There’s a reason 99% of barrel connectors have power on the inside. I’d be nervous too fry a USB port or charger with the live end of a cable with power exposed.

Apparently lightning cables have an authentication chip in them, because of course they do. I’m guessing this chip also protects against short circuits between power and the other lines. I don’t think the USB implementers forum would like to add that kind of over-engineering to their specification.

I’ve only physically broken one USB-C receptacle, and in that instance the whole port got ripped off the circuitboard.

For an external display I’d bet the case is the hardware driver for the panel.

At least my 17" Powerbook G4 with a massive 2560x1440 display does it in the software display driver. I’m sure some laptop panels do it in hardware as well, but seems there’s some very janky shit going on at least with laptops that have both integrated and discrete GPUs.

USB-C is clearly superior. You can plug them in either way

With USB-A it always takes three tries to get it plugged in.

My PowerBook G4 might be a bit dated, but running other resolutions than native is quite heavy on that thing. Your built-in display can handle one resolution only - anything else will require upscaling.

Your GPU can probably do that upscaling for cheap. But cheaper than rendering your desktop applications? 🤷‍♂️

You’ll have to benchmark your particular device with powertop.

213kWh feels like quite a lot of juice. Admittedly, I usually don’t go at planing speeds.

I have an 80Ah lead-acid battery to power the electric trolling motor on my inflatable dinghy. That’s 80A*12V = 0.96kWh. That gives me 5-10Nm range depending on speed. My dinghy would sink with 213kWh on board.

My 7 tonne sailboat uses ~2l/h of diesel at twice the speed. 213kWh of lead-acid would double the weight.

MeeGo, then Maemo. It lives on in the successor SailfishOS.

From version 7.5 through version 7.6 onwards distribution of MaxDB (previously SAP DB) to the open source community was provided by MySQL AB, the same company that develops the open-source software database, MySQL. Development was done by SAP AG, MySQL AB and the open-source software community.

Wait, did I get his kids in the wrong order?

He does!

Say hello to MaxDB!

Their main product is telemetry and selling your watch history to advertisers.

That’s why Plex doesn’t work without an active internet connection.

What filesystem do you have on that SD-card? Likely FAT32, which does not support ownership.

The Android client seems to have dropped a few player engines in a recent update. Previously there was an option to use libvlc, omxplayer or a third option that I can’t recall. Seems the developer opted to go with the worst option.

The AndroidTV app can use external players such ss VLC. I went with kodi as a client instead.

Yes, and now they’re looking for a real terminal

People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.

I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.

Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.

A youth wasted playing MUDs, I guess. I was pretty fast before that, but I probably doubled my pace in a few years.

I guess I might be a millennial or Xennial, then.

Gen X here. I’ve got an average 123 WPM on typeracer, which puts me in the 99,8th percentile.

I started looking at the screen instead of the keyboard early on. There were touch typing classes as an option around 8th grade, I think, but it was literally just having a map of which fingers go where and typing text focusing on using the right fingers. I didn’t take one, but I think I’m using the right fingers for 80% of the keys. I’m moving my hands back and forth a bit to let my dominant fingers do the work.

I started playing MUDs in 1997 at age 13, and building up that muscle memory for every combination of two- or three letter commands probably did more than I’d care to admit. I still miss the responsiveness of a proper DOS prompt, or Linux tty.