Best Ultimate Tech Talk Hang Out Loud Edition season VI, RIP MarkMan's #BeardStache

Man that purple Saturn shell goes hard. Considering going for it as a Nights themed Saturn.

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A Nights Saturn would be sweet! From what I’ve read, many of the color ways are going to come with black buttons and cart slot cover. Here’s to hoping they offer color-matched options as well.

Unlikely, the foreign manufacturer don’t think its viable.

Well my case is from the exact same company making these so they definitely DID at one time.

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More reasons why I never, ever will get a Apple Phone.

This Anti-repair Bull shit has went to a whole new level, also they can fuck off not including a charger needing a connector not many people have available.

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Agreed, they did pretend to play nice for about 9 months, and support self repair and mom 'n pop repair shops working on Apple gear, but I’m sure the 12 was intentionally engineered this way from jump off to get the cell phone repair market back the way they like it.

:smiling_imp: Devil’s Advocate would say though… If you can afford a Mercedes, you can afford to maintain a Mercedes.

:innocent: Myself, I’ve been happy with my old Android phone for ~2 years now, a Moto Z2. Also I don’t see anything really compelling with recent smartphone tech that would get me itching to upgrade.

What phones you boys rocking currently?

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Oh here some PS5 controller teardowns

Nothing I can use for pad hacking, yet.
But it’s a start

Oh My phone a Samsung Galaxy S20

I really hope the PS5 (and controller) come in black later on. Not really interested in the while console-panels. I might’ve been ok with the white controller if it wasn’t the stock one that was included with the system.

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Phone debates are always way too heated, so I normally try to avoid them.
I used an iPhone XR myself.
I don’t agree with the way a lot of the business decisions are made at Apple (Lightning port for one), but I haven’t had any issues with my iPhones, so the whole ā€œnot 3rd-party repairableā€ thing isn’t really something that I’ve been concerned about.
Funny story: I was coming from Windows Phone in 2016 and was actually going to go full Android at the time… then the Galaxy Note 7 (the phone I had my eye on at the time) started blowing up.

Honestly, I like the tech on the Samsung side a lot more: I’ve always wanted a Note for the stylus, and I’m very interested in the folding concept (though I still think we’re several years out before it becomes truly viable).

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The new 8bitdo arcade

Is it just me, or does everything not feel centered correctly there?
I find that there needs to be a bit more space on the left side of the lever?

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I don’t like how it tried to be a updated NES Advantage

Should’ve used the Super Advantage’s button layout LOL

Love the ā€˜vintage’ yellowing from the factory. /s

My nostalgia is rooted in a new looking gray-topped NES…not a decades-old yellowed one…

The joystick mount point is too much to the left.

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I played PS2 CvS2 via OSSC for only 30 mins on my LCD monitor yesterday. On hour three of a YouTube ā€œburn-in fixerā€ vid today and the top life/timing bars are still visible…

Bob deinterlacing sucks balls (at least on my LG monitor). Gonna stick to PS1 on my PS2 for the foreseeable

Ouch.
I thought burn-in was a thing of the past?..

It’s now gone. I ran a seizureific RGB cycle vid for a few hours and it went away. But…yeah… I thought burn in wasn’t a thing on LCDs.

I read in shmups forum that the deinterlacing on the OSSC Pro isn’t as bad (prospectively). Hopeful that launches soon.

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Depends on the technology the screen uses. TFT, ISP, ect.
Oled displays had similar issues.

Insomniac programming for the evening:

https://longhornengineer.com/2011/07/17/sega-neptune/

Hoping someone will create a ā€œEZ MOD STYLEā€ kit in the future to make this mod a little easier to do.

Just when I think Apple can’t get worst

TB3 ports but no EGPU support :man_facepalming: