It’s so fun to build your own! I did too

This is a much appreciated overhaul

You mentioned “Dreamcast style” so I didn’t think you’d mind

https://retrofighters.com/our-collection/d6-dreamcast-6-button-wireless-controller/

I totally agree. Luckily for me I have an old mechanically operated car that I plan to keep forever.

So the family being delivered to ICE has to hope a benevolent hacker community can somehow hack that particular vehicle within the 20 minute window of a drive to a concentration camp? Does this sound reasonable to you?

I suppose maybe in the future as car hacking gets more common and attrocities from our government worse, there might be hackers viewing protests from the sidelines specifically waiting for these situations.

Does Biden’s law, or any for that matter have real impact today?

I haven’t heard of a situation in which a kill switches was activated. This does not mean it hasn’t happened. The fact that it exists can only lead to exploitation in the future. It’s also being normalized as people don’t speak against it.

Is this 3rd party control easily removed with a software update?

No. I’m a mechanic and learning to hack. All car systems are different. One day when I’m confident in my abilities I’ll share my knowledge to help others.

Your answer is deeply disatisfying.

Unfortunately yes

There are researches who have already shown it’s possible to see a cars location, stop it, and unlock it’s doors. People have also hacked into car cameras and seen in peoples homes etc. Also due to Biden’s 2024(?) Infrastructure Act all new cars built have a kill switch that’s accessible by a “3rd party”. Besides the 3rd party, no backdoor can be made that can’t also be accessed by good hackers

LMDE? Hahaha

It does work just fine and that’s okay. One feature that’s killer on Plasma is auto theme switching (and night light which they both have) so you don’t burn your eyes out after dark. Would be sweet if Mint had this feature too

That’s a great idea

I was thinking about that limitations would exist although I don’t know what they are at this point. Just getting options here from other people. I do think I want to create something 16bit or even have more detail with 32bit (still a 2D game). It seems like all my interests are coming together around Python and saw that GoDot has a plugin to allow the use of Python over their in-house scripting language. So with GoDot via Python I could make my game have neat new abilities such as the depth of field and particles from games such as Octopath Traveler and Songs of Conquest. Then I would be limited to New consoles but with a retro pixel art aesthetic and forego retro console releases. This way I can really learn and apply Python knowledge and it would benefit my various interests/hobbies.

I considered that for sure but I do think I want the ability to have more detail in my game world

Thanks for the info! That’s all really interesting and I’ll look into it

Wow that’s awesome and quite shocking that it’s so popular. I wonder if GB is more popular that GBC and GBA

That’s good to know. However even just the Moby games count I’m pretty surprised that these systems are so active

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for years and after having used Plasma on a number of different setups Mint feels so antiquated. It’s not even close, Plasma is far superior. It’s so much more modern and snappy feeling and you can do so much more with it if you want. Cinnamon makes you have to figure to look in applet settings to then find the setting to modify the start menu. So unintuitive. Among a bunch of other examples I could give

I was unaware of all of this. I’m on Linux so I don’t use their launcher. I’ve seen sketchy EULAs that are game specific but not heard about DRM

What crap have they been doing?

Be careful buying a phone from eBay. There’s a scam where once you get the phone the seller calls it in as stolen and the IMEI is blacklisted (so the seller gets insurance money). There’s nothing you can do to stop it. My Pixel’s IMEI slot 1 got blacklisted but slot 2 (esim) is okay and I’m using it without issue, though limited to one esim at a time now.

They always include the main and important changes in the F-Droid description