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A long time ago when I envisioned a "smart home of the future" I imagined using lots of sensors to control vents, windows, blinds, and HVAC to more efficiently heat and cool the house and optimize comfort in it while using less energy. I still would like something like that but instead we got dishwashers you can turn on with your phone...

The linked page appears to be down, I get an "Access to this site has been restricted" error.

I'd say the best PPC Mac will depend on exactly what you want to do on it.

Fastest that can natively run OS 9 with full driver support is going to be the MDD.

Best low cost and low space for tinkering is going to be the mini with the caveats you mentioned.

Best price to performance on the used market for PPC OS X software is probably an iMac G5.

Absolute best performance for PPC OS X stuff is going to be the PowerMac G5.

Honorable mention to the eMac, which can be be found for ~$100, 1ghz combo drive models and below can natively run OS 9 with full driver support or you can go with up to the 1.42 ghz model which is going to be similar to the fastest G4 minis, and comes with a beautiful built in CRT, with the caveat that it takes up as much space as a CRT.

I wrote a blog post last year about Reddit bot behavior and the dead internet: https://interruptkey.com/posts/pollyannas-corpse

> - ScummVM, maybe modern games could run under a G4 with Altivec

Having done some testing for the PPC version of ScummVM on 10.4 I can say that it won't run many of the more modern games because none of those machines supported shaders on the GPU, which many of the more modern ScummVM supported games like Thimbleweed Park depend on. A software shader implementation could be added in theory if someone had the gumption to build it but it would most likely be unusably slow on those older machines.

It probably could? I was just talking about the waste aspect.

I'm not sure how legislating the razor and blade business model would help with the bit about e-waste. The basic idea is simply that the product is sold at a loss but the consumables (ink, blades, vape cartridges) are sold with high markup. My gut reaction is that making the consumables cheaper would increase the waste because people would be buying more of those consumables.

I tried it with Siri and it worked the same, giving me the full date.

I'm more scared of macroplastics, a 2 ton hunk of plastic falling on you will kill you way faster.

I was at a Mark Mulcahy show in Hamden, CT and he started covering a Magnetic Fields song, it was the only time in my life where I just screamed in fan excitement.

Switching tabs doesn't seem to overwrite the vertical lines, I have pink and green pipes drawn on the 2nd and 3rd tab that were supposed to only be on the first one.

I looked up this Brownstein protocol and the first result is the FTC taking action against the guy for making false medical claims by making up a crazy vitamin protocol and falsely advertising it as a way to prevent or cure coronavirus.

Nice, it's a universal binary! Works great on my PPC machine.

Mass transit and personal cars aren't necessarily mutually exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit

According to Wikipedia the NES had a lifespan of 20 years.

I wouldn't mind these "smart" TVs so much if they didn't suck so much for regular use. Why does it take 30+ seconds for me to get my television turned on when I just want to use a gaming console plugged into one of the inputs??

> Ultimately, camera-only vision systems will likely be the best solution, but until then, integrating LIDAR will get us much further.

Why though? How could it possibly be better than camera plus other sensors?

I use an eMac for this purpose. Available in similar configurations to the mini, the 1 ghz combo drive model and below can boot os 9 natively without the hacked os9lives version, and it comes with a beautiful 17 inch trinitron CRT built in!

Hey, if they target PowerPC I could run it on my eMac!

Ahh! Thanks for clarifying!

I'm confused, what's going on here? Is there a reason you wouldn't have bothered reading a post from that specific person?

Bah, useless fission, wake me when the Mr. Fusion comes out.

Perhaps, but the fact that they needed to include that line almost defensively speaks to the culture, as if they had to justify why they were reading fiction books.

> I was also going through a phase in my life where I believed reading more fiction would help power up my imagination.

I kind of hate this mindset. Why does reading always have to be with the goal of self improvement? When someone binge watches a new TV series on Netflix no one asks them what skill they were trying to sharpen by enjoying that media.

Is the name a Star Trek TNG reference? https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Riva%27s_chorus

Now add different phosphor decays on the black parts for each subpixel!

I used to have a 4400/200 with the PC card and honestly loved the thing. It was my first Powermac and I could press cmd+enter to switch into windows 95, it felt so cool at the time.

Not related to the content of this post, but resizing my browser window on that site is kind of trippy.

While I'm sure this is cool, I had to read a few typo filled paragraphs in to even start to get an idea of what the heck Box64 and Box86 are (some kind of emulator it seems from the comparison to Rosetta?)

> What‘s next? Lasers?

Yes!

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