yikes, I’m glad I decided to switch to debian stable recently, not that it’s a foolproof system either

good thing games have looked better than necessary for fun and enjoyment for ages now. Hopefully everyone has some still usable hardware around.

I like this. I will now feel less bad about not innately having a dance in mind when there’s an opportunity for dancing.

It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.

ah that stinks, yeah it’s not the most comfortable for long sessions. Might be worth checking out emulation and playing with a control method that works better for you. You’ll lose the 3D but you’ll still get to enjoy some really solid games.

I took my 3DS XL on vacation because I knew I’d be waiting in lots of lines. Dipped in to Tomodachi Life (3DS), made some more progress in Pokémon Omega Ruby, and had some fun with a bunch of arcadey titles like pac-man championship edition and the 3ds version of Dr. Mario. Also took some 3D photos with the 3DS’ camera, which I didn’t really give much appreciation to back in the day.

Back at home and I’ve gotten back into the Sims 2 which I’m playing on my Steam deck after tinkering around with a custom control scheme for a while.

looking at the schematics of the device I want to monitor more closely, it looks like it’s actually using addressable LEDs with a two-wire protocol, which actually makes things even easier because I can just sample on the provided clock edges. I think these are colloquially DotStar rather than NeoPixel devices. For reference I’m designing some mods for a modern pinball machine and it would be useful to know the state of lights on the playfield since I can’t hook into the code directly.

well, it’s more being able to detect long vs. short pulses, as it’s not the logic level but the pulse width that encodes the bits.

fortunately the RP2040’s programmable IO can run at 40x that 3MHz rate, so with a working program I should be able to differentiate short and long pulses and convert them back to bits. My application shouldn’t need to know exact colors, rather just detecting certain patterns or an on/off threshold state for a specific light in the chain.

This is not true, datacenters are bad, but this is not why. Here’s a good post re. this “study”

Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re built

Still plugging away at Pokémon Omega Ruby, my wife is playing Alpha Sapphire. Remembering just how fun and cool the 3DS is as a console. Also played a bit of Dragon Quest Builders on Steam Deck.

I’ve played stardew a reasonable amount, but my wife has absolutely devoured that game haha

I think they were ported relatively recently afaik