ISTR having some hallucinogenic colour issues when Vulkan wasn’t properly installed.

Thr death wave virus that crippled mankind requires a tech hegemony beyond belief.

The Apple II’s big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.

But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. That’s why even into the 1980s you’d have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like “every 8x8 block can only have 2 colours” which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitors…

If we can pick home computers that lean into cartridges, the Atari 800XL is a real winner. Nice two-tone finish, classy silver buttons with a plexi trim oiece covering the power light.

As a reptile keeper who knows full well they don’t know when to stop eating, I find this story charming. I want to feed her a basket of eyes (pre-frozen to kill parasites)

One hour from new classic myth to kawaii. I think that’s near Rule 34 turnaround speed.

Trident TGUI9440 on a VL-bus card. Surprisingly peppy on a 486/66 overclocked to 80.

Gargoyles. It aimed incredibly high for its target audience.

If you had released it with a Japanese voice track and baked in low-quality subs as $30-for-two-episodes VHS tapes to a ‘grown up animation enthusiasts’ audience, it would probably have outsold freaking Naruto.

I was always disappointed that celebrity and character voice packs weren’t a thing for the voice-assistant platforms. I’d pay literal ones of dollars for a voice assistant with a Sebastian Michaelis intonation and theming.

Cortana for Windows Phone came closest, I think they did use the same voice actress as the game character.

I doubt they enjoy having their balls in TSMC’s vice.

Intel is the only option remotely available to leverage against them.

• Starting from zero will cost bajillions and take decades to get competitive
• Samsung’s probably not divisible in a way that makes their fabs buyable
• They can’t buy into any of the 7nm/5nm level players in the PRC and fund their modernization due to sanctions
• Does anyone else have sub-10nm at anything buy lab scales?

Genocidal Shark Pirate, with sidekicks Octopus Swordsman and Karate Stingray.

How about Delete, since I don’t see it on the layout.

Or the Most Scroll Lock Ever.

I suspect that democracy is a “good times” system. It works well enough when the problems are either low-stakes or widely agreed upon.

When you get into a world of hard choices-- for example, anything where we have to devalue some existing wealth – suddenly there’s going to be both a lack of consensus (likely manufactured) and leaders too afraid of losing the next vote to pull the trigger.

That’s why I expect to see China solve its climate change and housing problems faster than the West. Without the almighty polls lurking in the shadows, they can say “petrol is 100 yuan a litre to discourage its use” or “we’re nationalizing second homes and disbursing them to schoolteachers.”

Maybe something failed to deliver for the people there that made them lose faith in Western institutions?

Some quality of life factors that didn’t appear in the metrics we track? An overall shift in role or relevance?

If you’re not connecting with an audience, there’s more to fixing it than berating said audience and acting surprised when they’re not interested in what you’re pushing.

You should paint his nails. It looks like he’s admiring a new manicure.

Goung for the plausible deniability aspect.

Electric grid implodes It was like that when I got there, sir.

It’s a bit late, but here’s my upvote. Ground the site for a few weeks, and took my Technician and General exams today, holed up in my bathroom.

I thoight the trademarks were also claimed as reparations after World War I.

Fujifilm successfully repositioned towards other chemistry. I know there’s that Eastman spinoff but why wasn’t it as successful?

Zhongli. The outfit manages to be over the top yet still perfectly appropriate for both combat and civilian scenes, and his rattail gives off just the right level of ancient dragon soul goodness.

Apparently he stole drip from the Heavenly Principals and they’ve been glassing countries ever since out of envy.

ARM has a high probability of blowing a tire.

They have a complex relationship with their licensees which may try to cause self-sabotage trying to pull more of the money home. See the various licensing fights.

If you don’t want or need x86, what does ARM have to offer-- in the long term-- over RISC-V, which is much less coupled to a single firm’s caprice? We can assume the gap in performance will continue to shrink ovrr time.