Other/older digital cameras used similar sequences of letters and numbers like DSC_0001 and a few more I can't remember atm. It might be fun to search for those too.
It's a shame they couldn't have ended the Electoral College error. It's very frustrating knowing how much better things could've turned out if the people who won the popular vote had been able to take office instead of the losers.
Many devices can absolutely be built in a way that they do not require a dumb remote server to work, but they're built that way anyways because the manufacturer is rent seeking. It can be damn near impossible to find equivalent devices that don't do that. It is absolutely right to get one and complain about absurd remote links that shouldn't be there in the first place.
There's a lot of stuff like this that should be very illegal and include excessive fines and jail time to stop it from happening. Buying something and then having the manufacturer take features away is a major bait and switch in the best case. It's fraud. Turning off cloud servers and abandoning hardware leaving it useless when it could be made useful if source code was released should be just as illegal. They need to start cracking down on these horrid business practices.
Oh wow this brings back memories.. I used to check this book out from a local library from time to time and daydream about building a computer. It would've been outdated already even then, but the idea appealed to me anyways.
Unfortunately a fad that's been around since 2016/2017 or so. The largest one is probably Fortnite BR, they tend to have a few million monthly active users.. although whenever there's an event there's a lot more who just log in for the event. Typically a BR is one person (or one duo or one squad, etc) vs everyone else. No one respawns, except for specific exceptions, and the last person/squad/whatever standing wins. There's an official team deathmatch type mode as well but the children tend to scoff at it as if it's just training wheels for "the real mode" instead of realizing that it's more fun to have respawn than to not have it.
Get real. ID Software showed the way to do this in the 90s and early 00s when they released the source code to their early Doom and Quake games, sometimes only 3-5 years after they came out. They didn't give up rights to ip and they didn't give up trade secrets either. Not only have those games enjoyed a high level of support ever since, but it's also enabled new creative works to be created even to present day. (ie Selaco)
Just say you'd prefer it to be legal for these corporations to defraud customers as a regular business practice rather than it be mandated that they can't do that and move on.
Napster wasn't a huge improvement at all. More people could use it sure, but it was awful on a technical level compared to anything else. You couldn't resume transfers. It automatically shared your library with everyone else. You could cancel any active transfers.. all this meant that most things I tried to download via Napster were from people who weren't intentionally sharing their mp3s, and would cancel any transfers they saw going. I had so many that I waited 10-15 minutes to download only to end up with an incomplete file that I had to throw away because I couldn't just resume it.
Downloading via IRC was objectively better in every way.
I'm actually kinda bummed to hear that. I logged in sometime in the past few years and was pleasantly surprised to see my number from the 90s still worked. Moot point now if the whole thing is being shut down anyways, I guess.
Is there even anything that would make sense? A lot of the older enhancements were because of the limited compute ability of older consoles, or adding sensors like the already mentioned gyro sensors and light sensors in GBA games. The Switch is already more powerful than anything you could reasonably add in a cart, and probably already has any sensors you'd reasonably add too. If there's anything else that could be done, that'd be interesting to find out.
Shutting down Reader was a monumentally stupid thing to do. Social features aside, I liked that it was a website I could go to and catch up on things no matter if I was at home or at work or elsewhere. The alternatives were things like apps, that didn't have that kind of access, or a self-hosted thing that I didn't want to manage, or some services that I don't think lasted.
All of the alternatives are worse. And imagine if you're dependent on gmail and they shut that down. Reader was like that.
Can't wait for this to be exactly like every other massive capacity optical disc technology that I've read about over the past 20 years and never come out. Will there ever be anything larger than the 100gb? 128gb? BDXL discs? I wish.
Line of Sight in a mostly empty area probably gets you a lot of range but even then I find 2-3km using "regular wifi" a little hard to swallow. 1.25-1.86 mile omnidirectionally is way too far unless you have some special thing going on like your router is high up, or using a high power (1w or more) transmission, or both.
I've seen plenty of photoshopped pictures that look just as realistic as a real photo. There's also the possibility to make realistic images in Blender and Unreal Engine, among other 3d programs. It's just trendy to hate on AI things these days, even when they do the same things that have been possible without AI for decades. Stop with the pseudoscience rationalizations on why AI is worse.
If they want me to return to the office, then I need a private trailer with my office and it's own facilities in it. Don't shove me in where I'm forced to share air and virus with anyone else.
FPGAs are not emulation. They implement logic at just as low a level as an ASIC. One day even working original C64s will stop working. You can't get original parts anymore. This is as good as it gets for fixing those.