I use a Pebble Time, which lasts well over a week on a charge. (With an always-on screen, at that.) It tracks sleep patterns, which it wouldn't be able to do if I had to take it off to charge every night.

I originally got it on sale cheap and wasn't sure what use it would be, but now not having it drives me nuts. Especially since my phone is on the large side, and usually in my bag or on my desk, not my pocket.

It's a lot more convenient to just look at my wrist to get the time, or see what that text message was, or dismiss a call instead of pulling out my phone to do it. Being able to respond to texts from the watch is useful, too.

The plot's largely nonsensical and the songs are rubbish, but the sets are fantastic and every character is perfectly cast.

It's based much more heavily on the Thimble Theater comics than on the cartoons, so much of the audience was confused by characters like Geezil and the Taxing Man.

Watch it on DVD with the subtitles on, and all of Robin Williams's muttering is spelled out.

Have you tried getting the keys an antidepressant?

Wales.

Some old games rely on depreciated APIs or functions. The newer hardware may have to emulate them in software.

A few old games run like utter ass on my 1080Ti.

I hate to break it to you, but Linux sucks.

It sucks in ways that are DIFFERENT from the ways that macOS and Windows and AmigaOS and BSD and AIX and VMS and openSTEP and Plan 9 and Haiku and Solaris and eComStation and RiscOS and Android and iOS and Symbian and Blackberry 10 and Sailfish suck, but it still sucks.

They all suck. They suck different ways and in different amounts, but suckiness is inherent in all of them.

Circus Peanuts, for instance.

NYC can't be 'flooded' with driverless cabs unless they replace driven taxis one-for-one.

While that's certainly possible, it's really hard for a company to get enough taxi medallions to start something that radically new. Though I do see that the medallions are down to about $250,000 each; they were over a million at one point.

I actually don't know what the multicore support is like in AmigaOS 4.2 beta; I don't have one of the dual core machines.

That said, even AmigaOS 3.x supported multiple (mismatched!) CPUs via assorted kludges. 68040/PPC and 68060/MIPS machines existed.

My wild-ass uninformed guess is that the second core is probably accessible but not automatically used by the scheduler yet, but that's just a gut feeling based on years of 'it should, but...' with Amiga crapola.

What I'd really like to see is a port of AmigaOS to some of the Raptor workstation boards.

The fastest Amiga is a dual-core 2 GHz PowerPC. You can emulate a PPC Amiga under Windows, but I don't think you can in Linux.

Mine's not that fast - I have an 800 Mhz model - but it's a lot of fun to futz with.

And that's the point, really. It's not a terribly practical machine, but it's fun.

What makes you think that? The latest Metro game was on Epic instead of Steam and was the best-selling entry in the series.

Gaming is cheaper than ever.

Here are some console prices, adjusted for inflation to 2019 dollars:

Atari 2600: $850.19
Nintendo NES: $475.43
Sega Genesis: $392.84
Super Nintendo: $374.71
3DO: $1207.11 (guess everyone was right to mock the price!)

It gets even more interesting if you just stick with Playstations:
PS1: $502.02
PS2: $443.96
PS3: $762.10
PS4: $435.73

Games have gotten cheaper too. Pitfall for the 2600? $80.70. Secret of Mana for the SNES? $141.62. PS1-era games? $67.16 budget titles to $83.95 manlines. PS2-era? $74.24.

All of these are launch prices and assume new, AAA games. Sales, discounts, and indies are less, of course.

Of course, this is just an example of 'When I was a boy, candy bars cost twenty cents!' 'Well yeah, 20 cents was a lot more money back then.'

This is some old-school Usenet-level argument going on in here. Makes me nostalgic!

I just call it 'squirrel'.

The last Power Mac came out 14 years ago.

And the problem with it wasn't lack of cooling, it's that when it gets old the cooling system leaks.