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Trying to come up with retro tech-themed variations of the word Saturday

SATAday
CD-Rday
Chatterday
Sega Saturnday

When somebody tells you they'll meet you in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 11 o'clock at night to give you a free Sony Trinitron, you go meet that person in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 11 o'clock at night for a free Sony Trinitron

#crt #crtgaming #trinitron #retrogaming

Happy 20 years to the PSP!

Here's my PSP 1000 model. This thing desperately needs some TLC; the battery no longer holds a charge and the control stick has an exaggerated drift, making most games unplayable. I get most of my PSP fix on the Steam Deck these days, but part of me wants to crack this thing open and see if I can restore it to working order.

Weird to think that we've now had two decades of 3D graphics on handhelds. Do you have any PSP favorites?

#psp #sony #retrogaming #handhelds

Mastodon on E-Ink: not terrible!

@emarktaylor @cfb @FlashMobOfOne

@FlashMobOfOne The Spinach Artichoke one is amazin

@thomasfuchs If I can't like Windows XP because it existed at the same time as the Iraq war, then I guess every piece of technology and media that exists today should be invalidated while existing concurrent to the mass slaughter of Palestinians (or war in Ukraine if you prefer)

Nostalgia absolutely can be weaponized in reactionary movements but that doesn't mean it is categorically wrong. By the same token, new technology is not good because some people's social values have improved

@buru5 I think it's better in a lot of ways, mainly with save states and emulator speedup when available. I'm struggling to connect this to your food metaphor, though

Sometimes I go entire days without realizing how my experience using a web browser is vastly improved by various third-party tweaks. My sanity is at least partially preserved thanks to the work of all these extension developers; they are the true unsung heroes of the modern internet.