That’s what I meant by “never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted device”, whether that’s a Chromecast or your PC you can always plug in something else you trust more than the TV. Obviously finding something you can trust that does everything you want is another story.

My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)

What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?

The worrying part:

Most TVs on the market today come with a technology called automatic content recognition (ACR) built in. This is basically Shazam for TV — Shazam itself helped popularize the tech — and gives smart TV platforms the ability to monitor what you’re watching by either taking screenshots or capturing audio snippets while you’re watching.

The author then just gives up and says “maybe targeted adverts aren’t so bad”, concluding that the only way to avoid them is to buy an older TV. Fuck that! Either never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted devices, or go for a deep dive down the pihole.

Nothing excusable about it, you just shouldn’t be surprised that big greedy corp wants to maximise profits, and that an open system can run more games than a locked down console

Were you expecting to have every game available from day 1? I’m sure they could, but they are a business and they probably want to make money.

I missed this at the time, that fold-out keyboard looks incredible

We also hate people based on social class and what they call a bread roll

As if an exe could truly understand unix socks

Maybe get the cheapest micro sd card or usb drive you can find and install it on there? You could probably double your storage size for a couple of euros!

I suppose technically yes, but not in normal conversation (in Britain at least). It’s not like it’s completely nonsensical, but to us school is primary and secondary education, higher education is university; they’re distinctly different things and saying “gets kicked out of school” would be way less ambiguous.

I think it was a combination of more space on the cartridge and better compression algorithms. The rumour was that Iwata wrote some miraculous code that produced enough space to include Kanto too, but I think that’s apocryphal.

You can tell that Kanto was an afterthought by how easy it is in comparison, it was still great though

Yeah but that can be done after you’re finished, definitely shouldn’t be part of planning!

Is “blackout” a bingo term for filling every box, or just falling unconscious from overwork?

Americans call uni “school”

Huh, apparently it is a “simple suspension bridge”, which when I click gives:

Not to be confused with Suspension bridge or Swing bridge.

These bridge people need to sort out their naming schemes!

I don’t think this is a suspension bridge, I can’t see any suspension and the caption says “swing bridge”

A long time ago I worked on a project which had all the user-facing text strings in their own separate file (for ease of translation). I didn’t think much more of it at the time, but even if I was just rubber-stamping this PR then seeing that a code-only refactor was touching the strings file would raise an eyebrow.

Same principle as a former burglar who now installs security systems or a former soldier who now works as a bodyguard. You’ve got the skills, you just want to use them in a different way!