BasidialTiger

Well, in that case, I’d like better odds. What am I supposed to do with a million dollars?

I guess I’d press it anyways. 1% is better than nothing.

And now I’ve just gone and impulsively bought some of those on the internet.

Oooh this means I don’t have to commit to a long sleeve shirt in the summer or maybe as heavy a coat in the winter! Thanks internet stranger! 😊

I think that’s from mastodon users, and how mastodon works when replying. I haven’t personally used mastodon though, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

If it’s important, they’ll leave a message.

Have we met before, Mr. Tongue?

I don’t know a lot about biology or things like that, and this is probably a bit of a mess of a thought, but a lab grown brain in a jar could have some really interesting implications if given, say, a computer, as it’s sensory inputs and ways of interacting with the world.

Would it know what it was? How might it socialize? What would it do on the internet? Would it understand the difference between real human controlled characters and AI characters in a video game? How effective might it be at learning our languages, and communicating with us in them? What might be the most effective way/medium for it to learn a language?

I think it would be really interesting to study, and I don’t imagine there would be many ethical issues?

The non-pokemon ones I played the most were:

DMG: Kirby’s Dreamland 2

GBC: Shante

GBA: Drilldozer

Platformers to me always felt like the best suited games to handheld games, and I love the bright colorful art styles. Drilldozer is definitely my all time favorite. If you can find a copy, I’d highly recommend it! The rumble pack cartridge is so cool.

Oh wow, I went and looked up the MacBook Air, it looks like you could snap it being so thin. I’ll have to keep an eye out for one of those at the junk stores, I’ve not disassembled a laptop nearly that thin yet. Personally, I’d probably just end up taping a battery to the bottom of that if it came to it. Most of the laptops I’ve got are at least an inch thick, so it’s generally not a problem finding some space in them.

I recently picked up a T430, which turns out is an absolutely awful crapshoot with third party batteries that may just not charge thanks to Lenovo, or that just might stop holding any charge after a few cycles, or at worst manage to catch fire. Lenovo no longer sells new OEM batteries for these older machines, and as they get even older, finding new third party batteries will only become more difficult.

I think I might have left my thoughts a bit unfinished in my original comment. I think where I was trying to go with my issue with laptops being included in here is that requiring the batteries to be easily detachable won’t stop manufacturers from trying to lock you into something evil, something along the lines of a battery subscription like it’s printer ink. If anything it may encourage them to, and that’s a scary thought. What happens when they stop producing batteries for your locked down hardware? Can’t use “non-genuine” batteries, they won’t be allowed to charge. The average user is likely just going to toss it and buy another one, creating more e-waste.

What I feel should be regulated is the interchangeability of parts like batteries, similarly to how USB-C has been enforced. Innovation is great, but proprietary major components that are destined to fail prematurely to the rest of the device from normal wear and tear don’t benefit repairability, even if they are easily replaceable. Eventually that part will no longer be manufactured, and a consumable part that no-one else is allowed to sell to your users encourages you as the OEM to design that part to have a mean time to failure that’s as short as possible.

Sorry if this reads a bit disheveled, I wrote it kind of sporadically.

It’s not that I disagree with you entirely. It’s just personally, knowing how to solder, and having had to replace batteries for both external and internal battery laptops recently, I’d rather not have this extend to laptops. As it is now with modern laptops, you just open up the housing, desolder the old battery, get just about any lithium battery from anything (those cheap USB power packs are great), and solder some wires from that to the control board. Going back to detachable batteries means having to deal with every single manufacturer’s proprietary awful housing and pinout slots. You either buy an OEM part from the manufacturer (if they still sell them) or risk a fire with third party batteries in awful housing. Detachable batteries is also how you end up with things like Lenovo using firmware to disallow third party batteries from charging on their laptops.

I feel it’s more important that housings should be user openable with normal tools (guitar pick, razor blade, screwdriver) without damaging the housing. HP is genuinely awful for this on laptops.

uses another engine to handle said physics

I would love to expand on this for people that may not know, the physics in Source are based on Havok. (Wikipedia Article)