I think you’re mixing up names. Dobson is the name of the mount, and since they’re most commonly used on Newtonians, it’s kind of become shorthand. My 5" and 12" are both Newtonian reflectors on Dobson mounts.

Maybe you’re thinking of a Schmidt Cassegrain?

I remembering bringing my 5" dobson to a work retreat camping trip. Everyone was pretty boozed up to the point where they were struggling to keep their eyes steady in the eyepiece.

When one of my coworkers finally got everything lined up he just blurted out “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S SATURN!”

It was great.

I love showing people Saturn. Clearly visible even with city light pollution, and rings can be resolved even with cheap hardware.

Kind of nuts how long people can live without ever seeing the rings for themselves.

Most mobile game developers just want to attract whales. People who spend thousands of dollars in their app. They don’t care about everyone else because they don’t make any money off anyone else.

For some games, 20% of players spend $1800 or more a year. One of those people spent $90k.

So if your game sucks for everyone else, it’s not a big loss.

You could also argue that if even if you’re not self-hosting (i.e. renting server hardware from a 3rd party), your data is still in a siloed environment. While it may be accessible by law enforcement if you are targeted specifically, it’s unlikely to be dragnetted like the data collected from popular apps.

Doesn’t even have to be nationalized. Bring back the railroad barons and lets party like it’s the 20s.

Sure, but many people in the US have only one option for hardwired internet. Starlink and 5G options are the only other option.

I pulled down 100mbps and was able to FaceTime just fine. Maybe too much lag for serious online competitive play, but I never measured it.

And no bandwidth caps from what I’ve seen.

We got one for our camper. Works really well though we only use it in the summer months. What are your complaints?

…is starlink an option for you?

Copyright law is the only one that matters apparently.

My strategy is to just keep some copyrighted Disney music on my phone and blare it if things get too dicey.

Back in college, we used to do a “gallon challenge” every 4th of July for the people staying on campus over the summer. Some of them cheated by taking lactaid.

I think it’s really interesting to compare old iPhone ads with current smartphone ads.

iPhone in 2008: You can check the weather, get directions, take photos.

Phone in 2024: If you point your phone at a sign, it’ll google stuff about what it sees on the sign. Also, your iPhone will literally leave your hand and fly its way to the Verizon store to replace itself with an iPhone 16 because that’s all we got.

Yes, but you still need to install the cores developed by the community in order to play ROMs.

The necessary core for ROMs was released barely a day after OpenFPGA support was, but it wasn’t released by Analogue.

The console doesn’t officially support ROMs. It must run games off the original hardware carts.

However, there’s a fairly simple hack to get ROMs to play on the SD card slot of the Analogue Pocket that many suspect was unofficially developed by Analogue themselves.

Yeah, I was fully expecting this thing to be like $400.

Emulators can’t always play every game. I know Pokémon Snap has always struggled to run.

This is identical to real hardware and upscales everything to 4K. Not to mention native support for Bluetooth controllers and other creature comforts.

I think that’s a Qualcomm proprietary thing that isn’t supported by standard USB downward facing ports.

Moore’s law factored in cost, not just what was physically possible.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years.