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Working with PyQT5, I can understand why so many people gravitate towards Electron Cancer. Having things immediately update, without going through some bizarre event processing, makes it a lot easier to do progress bars and other things without the entire UI locking up.

Almost every toolkit is retained mode, and forcing updates is always way harder than it should be.

@cirno Character limits on social media influencing IRL speech.

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>FSE/Pleroma also works on ALL browsers.
You have me disappointed. I was expecting it to run in w3m.

@coolboymew @cereal @Moon Even the IQ testers say that it is not recommended to be used on individuals with autism because autistic people tend to have narrow interests.

@coolboymew @cereal @Moon This. When I was really little, I had my IQ test taken and got below average. My Mom was apparently in tears, but the tester told me I got everything "right" but it didn't answer the questions the "right" way.

IQ tests are mostly logic based and never take into account other forms of thinking like creativity, spatial thinking, etc.

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@coolboymew And you can thank retarded revisionist YouTubers like Irate Gamer for making the US SMB2 look terrible otherwise they would probably included that instead of The Lost Levels.

@coolboymew I'm disappointed that there is no alarm. I think a digital clock is useless without one and the lack of a kick stand means I can't put it on a nightstand or counter (places where putting a digital clock actually makes sense). So yeah the clock functionality is useless especially when literally every electronic device can tell time for decades now.

And forget hacking this thing. The pause button only pauses the emulator, so it would be useless in a game like Zelda when the pause menu brings up an inventory menu. Maybe you could change the actual emulator, but you still have to deal with the lack of a select button (I probably should've noticed that earlier).

I just hope Nintendo does the same thing for Zelda next year. I think a more full length game like Zelda would be more worth the price (even though I think the first Zelda game has aged terribly) and hopefully they will fix on the issues of this one.

@coolboymew I don't think it automatically makes hacking the system illegal. It's probably a legal gray area like installing macOS on a non-Apple branded computer. I haven't seen this being tried in courts. Apparently, this is the same EULA Nintendo used on the NES and SNES minis and I've never heard of any court cases involving this.

If anything, it would probably allow Nintendo to go after modchips or kits that allow users to hack and mod their devices (the mere fact you made one is proof that you hacked their device). Nintendo tried to go after cheat devices in the past, so it doesn't really surprise me that Nintendo would try to do such a thing.

@coolboymew Also there is a disclaimer on the back of the box saying that you agree to the EULA by purchasing the system. I guess that's your "warning".

@coolboymew I think it will allow them to go after those making tutorials on how to hack it because it does say that you are not allowed to tamper with it.

>You may not...bypass, modify, defeat, tamper with, or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the System

It also says you can't reverse engineer the software even though that falls under fair use. I guess they could go after you if you document the changes of the ROM on TCRF or something.

The only way they can actually punish you is by taking you to court.

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Kinda upset there just isn't a decent video game theme matrix room occupied or managed by anyone on fedi, so I made one on lain's server

Not going to promise anything, but I felt like it needed to exist.

You can join it here -> https://matrix.to/#/!HxmXYWxxBPQLCxRGGK:matrix.heldscal.la?via=matrix.heldscal.la
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