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That's all fair, I definitely see the appeal (especially regarding the controllers, which is something third-party companies have struggled to get right for decades). They're a good way to play the games. But for me at least (and I've heard similar sentiments from others), a big part of the "retro experience" comes from playing on a real console and a CRT TV. Something about the built-in firmware and knowing it's basically just a raspberry pi under the hood puts me off the whole thing and I would rather just emulate on a PC because it's less hassle. But ultimately of course if you enjoy it then keep doing so!

Oh wow, I forgot all about that. That was a strange trend.

As someone who does often play retro games on a CRT TV, this monitor wouldn't cut it either. Same reason I never understood those "retro consoles", even the official ones made by Nintendo/Sony. At the end of the day it's just a plastic shell made to look like the old thing around something new.

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I found myself frustrated with the headache involved in getting a simple web app with hot refresh and full JIT tailwind working. One of tailwind's big advantages is its speed, so why not pair it up with vite? Using this boilerplate you can go from zero to styling in record time.

Is this how you talk to people in real life?

> to realize that your redesign didn't help

Did you miss the part where it led to a very large increase in sales?

I find it hard to feel bad for him. Big N jobs are cushy but there's so much operational headache. Not that owning your own business is much better in that regard, but at least you feel like you're accomplishing something.

It uses an IR camera as a proximity sensor. A video isn't good enough. You would need AI to construct an accurate 3D model of the face based on it.

Fingerprints are stored as data, and data is hashable. As someone who doesn't know the ins and outs of fingerprint readers, that sounds ludicrous. I also don't see why it would need to be hashed, however.

>I am not on social media

That's wrong. You are on social media right now.

Which is the reason for the very common stance "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment".

> At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations.

I'm not sure what country you live in, but in the US, all the big ISPs might as well be run by the government, at least when talking about privacy. Private VPN companies are far more trustworthy, all else being equal.

I've never understood this. I think if you have a relationship with social media that elicits a desire to "quit", it's not because social media is terrible, it's because the relationship is bad.

I wonder as well if there's a difference between people who use it to catch up with their real-life friends vs. people who use it to communicate with online friends. I deleted my Facebook account last year simply because I had never used it; most of my friends on there were people I was acquainted with in real life at some point but I have no desire to talk to them. I never used it so I just deleted my account. However, I use Twitter, and I'd never dream of deleting it; most of my interactions on there are between me and friends I initially met online, and social media is one of the main ways we communicate. These are real friends - I've met several of them in person now - but I'd be losing a huge channel of communication with them if I went dark on social media.

Which, when worded like that, almost sounds like they're trapping me on there, but I also have no desire to quit. I've never felt Twitter negatively impacting my life. I go on it daily, I usually have it open in a tab while doing other things on my computer, but I don't spend hours just scrolling, and I don't follow people who say things that will only make my day worse. I don't see it as wasting my time any more than watching TV or doing crossword puzzles, which are also things I spend a reasonable amount of time doing.

The comparison to cigarettes and alcohol is ridiculous in my opinion. I don't buy the premise that social media, by default and for most people, makes your life worse. Maybe I'm just the exception? I have no idea.