@kaidenshi @grahamperrin Oh, me, I definitely wrote "Weird Al" laptop.
I have a Zelda Game & Watch, it sits on my desk as a clock. I see that folks have worked out how to upgrade the thing into a general game emulation doodad. This is dangerously tempting :blobcatscared:
Do I need another emulation handheld? No, I have 2 anbernics and an assortment of still-working original handheld hardware. But it would be a neat project.
I'm waiting for a phone call today. Satan himself couldn't design me a better hell.
It's probably alarmist, but this has me thinking: What if governments and bastard oligarchs actually manage to reverse the personal computing revolution of the last 50 years? Nothing in tech is inevitable, not even individual practical access to hardware.
On one hand, I'm kinda looking forward to when bubbles burst and used hardware shows up cheap as liquidated surplus. On the other hand, I've got doomsday thinking like "how hard would it be to manufacture a DIY 6502 or Z80 in my garage?" :blobsweats:
@dandean I mean, I'd guess it's just replaced directly with profit-motivated planned subscription rate increases :blobSmileSweating:
I know just little enough about the production of ICs to think that building a DIY microprocessor would be akin to when that kid David Hahn tried building a nuclear reactor in his garage in the 90s. But then again, maybe that's what *they* want me to think :blobcatupsidedown:
Yeah, so anyway, I never throw a computer away, so I'll just be over here muttering "my precious" as the world goes to heck
In other news, today I learned that Jacob Tierney - co-creator of Letterkenny and actor who plays pastor Glen - also created the sports romance series Heated Rivalry. I think that's just delightful