u/dothefandango

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dothefandango

$100k a year is not a “never need to work” wage anymore. Maybe as a work supplement but that’s not even enough for a house. 

dothefandango

Look into EverDrive cartridges. I think this is exactly what you are looking for. They are not cheap, but well reviewed. Mind you — you need one PER console, not just one size fits all. If you want that, you're looking more so at like a mini-pc situation, or a home-brewed Wii/Xbox situation.

dothefandango

What kind of systems are you looking for? There are flash rom cartridges for things like SNES, Genesis, N64 that you can load roms into and play on the original consoles.

dothefandango

it was free. and it was everywhere.

check out the name of the label ;)

dothefandango

A hometown show for me. Never miss a CT show!

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No I’m sorry, I’m confusing you lol. 

There’s likely no difference in “quality”. What you will experience with that on is them attempting to turn the 5.1 channels into virtualized surround sound (in stereo). You get the same “quality” either way but you may get some like “that sound is coming from behind me” effects as well. 

It may also affect the sound in ways that make it kinda worse. It’s a personal preference per game thing I think. Keep this on and then turn off surround sound in the game if it sounds bad. 

dothefandango

I take back my previous answer. They use virtual surround sound. The choice is yours. Do whatever sounds better to you. I bet you will find you like the 5.1 on for gaming.

dothefandango

They may be better quality, but 5.1 surround sound is a very specific thing meaning that the audio signal will be split 6 ways, with 5 directional speakers and 1 subwoofer.

these are REALLY good headphones — make no doubt. But they are STEREO headphones.

You can get equally good quality sound from 5.1 and stereo. It's really all about positionality and spatialization of audio to different channels.

edit: also worth noting: headphones are only going to be as good as the audio mastering in the game itself. most people cannot tell the difference between audiophile level details that require 80 ohm high impedance drivers. but to each their own.

dothefandango

I don’t even know how you can say that with sarcasm

dothefandango

That’s not an emoji library. That’s a keyboard input feature. I don’t know if you can trigger the emoji keyboard on native devices via react native but you could build/incorporate your own picker. 

https://github.com/sskhandek/react-native-emoji-input

Emoji are just text characters, nothing special is needed to display them. Unless you want custom ones, then that gets… complex. 

dothefandango

This is how most discussions on Reddit end, unfortunately. 

dothefandango

This computer is completely toast. There’s no fixing it. 

dothefandango

This is hilarious because you went to two different subs looking for comrades and both groups are like “bro give it up”

dothefandango

You definitely don’t need a library for emojis

dothefandango

also you made an untrue claim that I was correcting. You can conduct federal mail fraud thru UPS. It's not mail fraud because it goes thru USPS it's mail fraud because it uses communications that crosses state lines to commit fraud. Get it?

dothefandango

I think you're the confused one

> mail theft

> he was prosecuted under a federal offense

> "stealing is not mail fraud" - you

Mail theft is a federal offense. A good lawyer, with connections, can get police work and DA attention. Mail theft is a serious crime that federal agents take seriously.

You made a leap of judgments because of a lack of information.

Things are more complex in real life than they seem.

https://preview.redd.it/z201muqicqxh1.png?width=1298&format=png&auto=webp&s=9dbd86a19372baf43bd7384067370ee9b15205c0

dothefandango

Why don't you just turn it on and find out? What's the worst that could happen? Truly? Why be worried?

dothefandango

any package crossing state lines paid for with USD becomes federal. you can look this up without being so sure of yourself. it's probably not mail fraud, because theft isn't fraud, but it is a federal crime

dothefandango

good bot

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I live in Wilton. Feel free to PM me. It’s a great town in CT. 

I have a few friends that regularly commute to the city and find it doable. I would want to live closer to a direct train station if it was me. The traffic to SoNo or Westport in the morning could be maddening. 

dothefandango

you can use OpenCore to patch your machine up to play Roblox.

but seriously, just by you asking to play Roblox I can tell you are a kid. You should not do this unless you know what the hell you are doing. You can ruin this computer your mom bought. You need to read a lot of instructions. And have a 32GB USB thumb drive.

I'm being serious: if you don't know what you are doing don't do anything with regard to OpenCore unless you have someone well versed with computers near you.

dothefandango

what kind of games were you expecting to play? an old iMac likely can't play much but there's a ton of old games that are compatible, especially if you do get the OpenCore stuff working.

but you need to understand -- this is not a gaming PC. This is not even really a PC to play games on. You got a family computer from a decade ago. It can probably do enough for your family, but it's not a gaming machine.

computers do so much more than just games. it can be a vital lifeline for a family to actually become a part of today's economy. you could teach yourself to code on that thing. you could learn a lot about the world.

but it's not for games, sadly. if she bought it for that purpose, she got scammed.

dothefandango

Mid Atlantic, neither of us really want to claim them but they were a OG colony so I’ll allow it. 

dothefandango

September Maryland is a mammoth. Rest of the Season Maryland is this.

dothefandango

… is it?