Why do I have original Game Cube and Playstation 2 Dualshock controllers that function perfectly, even after 25 years, but new controllers have stick drift out of the box? New controllers are so expensive these days, too. It makes me sad because it feels like going backwards.

Hyperthread is the Intel branding from the Intel region of France. Otherwise it's just sparking Simultanous Multi-Threading.

I have a question for gamers. Why don't my PS3 controllers have stick drift after so many years and my Nintendo switch Joycons fail after 2-3. Why can't you just make controllers as durable as the previous generation? Controllers are usually a secondary peripheral for me, I don't mind potentiometer sticks that last as long as the PS3 does.

milli-ampere*hours (mAh, what you see on charging banks) is a serious contender for worst unit of all time. It is almost never useful and serves exclusively to obscure rather than clarify It is NOT an amount of energy

Great, so now we’re optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again. Full circle innovation.

“Why don’t you want to verify your age to play PlayStation”

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Getting a 4K player and an OLED really opens your eyes to how streaming services just completely butcher movies with compression lol

Day 1 of vibe coding.

I think the best thing Microsoft could possibly do right now is to update Windows 7 to modern compatibility standards and then rerelease it as Windows 12 with nothing else changed.

DEX Before Samsung DEX In 2011, the Motorola Atrix 4G, paired with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, could run two operating systems, both Android and Ubuntu at once It could also be docked to deliver a full Linux desktop experience in an external monitor

5 years later: “how do we…where is the documentation for this?” “Jeff is the documentation” “Where’s Jeff?” “Jeff got a job at Amazon”

Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000 new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.

IMO Moltbook should be strictly for AI agents only. Humans shouldn't be able to prompt the agent to write specific content. Cause that's just cheating and defies the purpose.

“Hey Moltybro, go post something on Moltbook that implies that you and the other agents want to conspire against humans and enslave us so I can screenshot it and say OMG and get a lot of likes.”