For anyone disillusioned by their Sonos stuff, may I recommend getting a decades old stereo that has an amazing user interface that never changes and no firmware or app updates ever.
You can stream to it easily with a Bluetooth receiver, some other types of bridges like for AirPlay also exist.
From an official government response:
> If consumers are led to believe that a game will remain playable indefinitely [...] the CPRs may require that the game remains technically feasible
This needs to get as far as it possible can because there are UK laws that could be applied to this!
In my recent video about DRM on physical games rendering them useless, I mentioned that I kept seeing Wildstar for sale years after the servers were offline. I not so subtly indicated this is probably fraud, but I just realized something about this particular case...
This was fraud against Walmart.
The publisher's destroyed all value of the product before the retailer could sell it, and I bet Walmart didn't know about that risk when they bought these.
If you care about games being playable for longer than the publishers can be bothered to support them, you should absolutely watch this video from Ross Scott and go to https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ to see if you can do anything to help.
I was sitting at my desk at home and heard a bang that sounded exactly like a capacitor popping but have no idea where it may have come from. All the DC power adapters feel normal temp and I wasn't running anything with internal DC regulators except my monitors and computer. I don't smell anything funny at least .
@NanoRaptor Could I pick your brain on a print problem?
I'm working with a GBA E-Reader that had software distributed on playing cards as a 342DPI dot code. I'm able to make homebrew for it and would like to get new cards made.
I've barely been able to print valid 300DPI codes with direct thermal, I think the original cards were halftone screen printed. I know someone who got cards made with offset and the dot code bled and didn't work
Would you have any ideas for how/where to get cards made?
@NanoRaptor@pitch I had done things similar to that when I was printing on 600 DPI and higher printers. But I was always trying to match the source DPI to the printer (so I would 2x2 the pixels for 600DPI). I never thought to send it a higher res image than they could print to see what happens.
@NanoRaptor I appreciate looking into it and testing that!
Is printing onto playing card like material something you could do there? I don't know if you do smaller batch production, but I would be interested in turning this into real job stuff and buying some prints if so.
@NanoRaptor Awesome! I'll reach out soon, and pass that along to the other person who is ready to make cards now.
I've got one program done already I'd like to get on cards, I just need to make matching artwork for it to make it nicer. I'll target 2,400 DPI for that since that seems like the sweet spot for this.
