Huh... I just assumed the Andy Dick hologram was so much more pushy that it got the other one deprecated out of pettiness.
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I knew people with NiMh batteries for their RC cars\planes\boats, but the first time I ever saw NiMh AAs, was in a GameGear.
Yeah, Sony lost me when they broke my Linux install and degraded the DVD playback functions, within six months of me buying my PS2. Similarly, the last "good" smartphone I had, was the Palm Treo (650p\680p\Centro); since then, I've never had a single phone that granted direct hardware access & allowed unloading/sideloading the OS by default.
Manufacturers want deep control these days; way beyond mere root permissions.
Likewise... I haven't bought a game on optical media since the Wii.
Hm... I've never bought PC software on a disc...!?
And yet I have all these old Windows & Office & game discs... Man, hoarding tech is a weird habit.
Man, I hear "disc drive" & I think "hard disc drive". I've connected optical drives when USB boot wasn't supported, but the last time I voluntarily used a disc drive was to test an M-Data disc burned to silicon. But yeah, none of these new devices have a HDD or optical (or floppy disk, for that matter).
Those are not discs.
Less "not optimized", & more "not supported"; IE, accelerations that don't turn on, because companies like Intel, Broadcom, Samsung, & NVidia, have a long history of only giving preferred partner devteams, prerelease hardware access, much less any peeks at unobfuscated firmware.
Since they said they have "5g home internet (about 10 times faster than the best wired option and 3 times cheaper)", with "shit ping", I assumed they meant 5th Gen cellular as their internet service at home.
Only a couple years ago, did we finally get a cable drop in our neighborhood, to actually give faster service than 4G LTE. (There's still no fiber here, at our location in central Denver.) Because the cable company (Comcast) doesn't offer a reasonable rate, we use line-of-sight wireless to a local mesh operator. Until then, we used 4G & 5G cellular, as our home internet. It was shit for reliability, but when it worked, the peak speeds beat any residential service available, by a pretty wide margin. Of course, those peak speeds turn to timeouts whenever the highway fills up (& our 5Ghz WiFi still flakes out too, as does the 2.4 Ghz wireless camera, & pretty much anything else that isn't shielded).
There was no point in running ethernet, with that setup; it was never going to be stable. I still had to run 2 hardwires though: one to the Sony PS2, & the other to an ancient beige switch by the IBM PS/2.
Some people in the mountains & such, are on "5 Gigabit" wireless internet, but most seem to be on even lower speed plans than that. I'm really curious which @[email protected] has, because 5th Gen cellular is literally the best internet a lot of US residents can get, despite the abysmal terms & throttling that so many providers employ.
Total Annihilation.
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Yes! I had three NiCd to every one NiMH, & the NiCd would all be flat within minutes; then I'd switch to the NiMH for some actual fun & within 30 minutes they're all spent for the day. Sometimes I stripped the single-use flat cells out of used Polaroid film packs, for just a few minutes of superior power:weight ratio on my littlest RCs
Then there were the flashlights we'd use for hours but if you put the same cells in the GameGear, dead in no time.
LiPo cells were like a revelation...
Come to think of it, the PSP had an optical drive which was a battery hog too; I remember a friend being elated that I'd found an aftermarket pack with more mAh.