I had no idea there was a place you could go and just grab microcontrollers/SBCs and electronics supplies

LMAO

A strange hypothetical, I know, but I've been thinking: I love planes - Wouldn't it be awesome to own a private jet? Maybe even one with gold fixtures! It'd cost so much to operate though... That's "multiple homes" money. Not to mention the environmental impact! I could never.

I had the dumb idea to hook up a Koryuu composite-to-component transcoder to the RetroTINK-4K to see what it'd look like. While the RT4K has more robust filtering, the result of being able to dial in the sample rate over component is even composite video pixels get really sharp!

I feel like I need to explain some things. Clear facial distortion aside, some people like the DLSS 5 image because it's high-contrast and looks like film looks like. But that's not what reality looks like. Cameras need a whole lot of light to not look like a fuzzy mess.

"Character rendering is transformed."

Addressed to Twitter but: I worry for the people who rely on LLMs to fact-check; They aren't all-knowing, nor even especially clever. At best, they go by the information available to the public, same as anyone else, no more - Usually with a delay. They also have access to the same misinformation.

TIL that the NES "blacker than black" palette entry 0d is not just blacker than black, but imitates a sync pulse that can cause TVs and scalers/capture devices to lose sync. What's more, The Immortal on NES used it to gain 1 more shade of grey. I've yet to be able to run it.

Apparently there are rumours that Windows 12 is coming this year and will not only double down on Copilot, but introduce a subscription model for it, despite requiring an NPU. I refuse to believe Microsoft is stupid enough to try the heated seats DRM trick.

Windows for GameCube #vtuber #tech #shorts

Messing with the RetroTINK-4K's latest experimental firmware, shrugged at the new high-pass filter until I tried it on my 2-chip SNES... RT5x's pre-emph did similar, but the RT4K seems to have finer control. A 2.00 MHz HPF (3.00 for hi-res modes) very nearly fixes the smear for me.

Well this is a pleasant surprise. Believe it or not, I have a video written about this game's "sequel", F-22 Total Air War. Not many people remember these games now, but this has excellent damage modeling+wingman control+stealth, and an AWACS mode that makes the game into an RTS/"sim-medium" hybrid.

A retro tech question that should be trivia, but may in fact be a riddle: How many watts does a PlayStation 2 Slim 7700x draw?

I really wish we could get a secure replacement for email already, one that’s incompatible and not just bolting on and becoming an optional feature by necessity. And SMS. And phone networks. And credit card networks. And

I’m not at CES but I feel it’s appropriate to say: AI will not save us. AI is a great tool, good at plenty of things. But it is a tool; It matters who uses it, & for what. It’s unprofitable, so ask who benefits, how; & whether that’s OK to you. AI will not save us.

Something very normal I think about a lot is that still using GIFs in current year is weird. It was a very limited format to begin with, albeit by design. I admit dithering does have a certain retro charm…

What's all this about ModRetro? Ah. I see.

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

Kaze Emanuar did a video on the Analogue 3D that sums up pretty much exactly what I take issue with from Analogue's marketing direction. FPGA doesn't mean accurate; It's an emulator running in hardware. Doesn't mean it's not good though! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrby...

Huh, Ace Combat 8 was announced? From the description, it looks like it's going to have squad bonding and a protagonist that exists outside the plane. Bold move after Assault Horizon, but maybe it'll work this time. I should do an Ace Combat video someday. www.bandainamcoent.com/games/ace-co...

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

Maybe it’s a little over optimistic, but I legitimately feel like the fabled Year Of the Linux Desktop™ is really coming.

I cannot begin to describe how little interest I have in an AI web browser.

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

Rebecca Heineman is probably best known for coding 3DO Doom from zero in 10 weeks after being told it just needed "polish" - the licensee didn't understand what porting involved. Since hearing that story, she's someone I've looked up to a lot. Now, she's got a different struggle...

Unexpected upside to the impending Windows 10 EOL: Lots of cheap Linux gaming/home server machines flooding the market! www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechT...

Feels like I'm seeing a lot of Lumafield stuff showing up on YouTube and socials lately. I'm guessing they're running a campaign? I mean, obviously, but like, is there something going on?

... Why do I feel called out by this

Every time I open a newly installed browser and a search ends up on Google, I'm like "I'm sure I can still find what I'm looking for..." ... I honestly have no idea how anyone uses Google anymore without tearing their hair out. It's so bad.

People are people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY00... And so, one of the longest-running, most well-known mysteries in the history of video games, has been solved. ... All because of an argument between a mom and her adult son.

hey siri how do I stop living in interesting times

Randomly looking around wplace, and lo and behold there's a trans flag near where I grew up?? I want to be their friend

I'm dangerously close to 100k subs???

I had a whole thing written up about the Collective Shout thing but TL;DR people like this have been around since forever and that they're only now gaining global influence is weird and frankly alarming. Platforms have their hands tied because the alternative is to not be able to do business.

I think this is interesting for a different reason: A lot of the same people who are pushing what we call AI are the people who were big on NFTs and crypto. I think there's a difference in how media influences people's perceptions more than we like to think. But there is yet another angle to it.

NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

Today was Canada Day, but in Newfoundland it was Memorial Day. At Beaumont-Hamel in WWI, the Royal NL Regiment were ordered to follow up a failed attack presumed successful. Left in clear view of German guns, they were decimated. At school, I recall more WWI history than WWII.

Today in pointless knowledge: Via 86box, Windows 95 can achieve very high refresh rates, but at least in this configuration it taps out at 1,238 Hz. I can specify higher, but it won't actually switch to it.

Watching the Switch 2 launch is interesting. I don't really feel a great need to have one, but some people are going nuts for it. From my perspective, it's eerily like a WiiU situation where they launched without any software to back it up.

Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 Pride is about not just persisting, but taking life back from the fringes of society, thriving in spite of adversity. It isn't vanity; It's solidarity and defiance. Sometimes protest, sometimes celebration, however the political pendulum swings, we remain.

Honestly the most amazing thing about the Canadian election is that non-Canadians actually lost sleep waiting to see if PP would lose his seat. Which he then did.

I'm here. And so are you. Happy #TDOV2025! Hope you all had a good one, all things considered!

So... This is what's been going on the past little bit. If you're in the Discord, you know that it's pretty much been resolved now, but I've had to adjust plans for the new workstation build video, and also a video about the things that led me to this tragedy.

NEW VIDEO: I Left Linus Media Group - What do I do now? youtu.be/ELnX3gEHuHI

Still screaming about this branding

Feels weird going through all these old videos getting footage for editing... First of all seeing me so large, but also just... Memories.

It's funny to me that people are talking about "Switch 2" when every Nintendo console launch I can remember has never used a sequential number and were instead referred by the codename, like Ultra64/Reality, Dolphin, Revolution, -uhhhhhh-, NX... What happened to "Ounce"?

Around 6,000 miles of holiday road trip nearly over, and even got some video clips shot already! Time to get to work.