Speak for yourself, Gunga Din - I run MATE on a netbook and it's just fine.

Well, yeah, it is copyright infringement...and I can imagine they're gonna get creamed hard for it, given that there's a lot of stuff from big companies among the MAME romsets.

OTOH, I'm of a mind that copyright is just too damn long, so when it comes to stuff of the age of most of the classic arcade games, I just don't give.

Isn't it specifically designed for a specific system that specifies a specific model of nVidia graphics controller?

This needs the giant foot icon.

How bad would putting a mesh around the area where the turbines spin impact their input?

The funny thing is anti-vax started out on the hippie left, and spread to the religiot right.

And socialist, at that... Naziism was hardly socialist, name notwithstanding.

I've only ever bluescreened any NT Windows on metal once in my life. A couple days ago. Prolly a dying usb port.

I used Ubuntu for one version - 05/10, I think it was - then went back with Debian, the previous Linux distro I had used.

I tend to agree on that. Admittedly I'm an "old earth creationist" who believes that there was a "re-creation" or repopulation after a cataclysmic event, but I accept that from the point that life started here, it has not been stagnant, and has been changing and mutating in ways one might call evolution.

There's ups and downs for both approaches. I admit that.

I like to use older or less powerful systems. I got a rather weaksauce Linux netbook I take around with me when I leave the house for long periods of time. I still run an IBM 5160. So naturally, I'm biased toward the optimize-for-speed approach.

When writing emulators I'm willing to sacrifice a little accuracy for a major speed boost. I had an Apple //e emulator that ran nicely on a 486/66, where the hardware emulation was handled entirely in C.

I'd like to see something like MAME written around the idea of optimizing for efficiency (speed and size) rather than accuracy.

Two Buck Chuck, the cheap wine from Aldi Nord-owned Trader Joe's that won a taste test and made French wine connoisseurs' heads explode.

More or less my perspective. Though I don't think an anarchic market is necessarily "free" - as much as I think that certain restrictions are necessary in a society to maintain the overall freedom (like, you can't just go around killing people ... you can't just go around preying on other businesses) I tend to overall support a "live and let live" philosophy.

I tend to consider the term "libertarian" poisoned by the faux-libertarian randroids, so I don't call myself such a thing.

You'd want another libc too, like MUSL.