I suppose nationalities or cultures would have been better! People are not their nation and culture crosses borders and all that. As for calling Nigeria lesser known, I suppose I mean more the culture and people of Nigeria than the nation itself. Lots of people where I’m at know of Nigeria at least by name, and typically they think of internet scammers. But if I asked random folks where I’m at who Fela Kuti was I’d get lots of no’s back.

Could have worded it as “lesser known cultures” or “cultures not commonly discussed”.

The datedness adds to the experience honestly. I can’t play with any mods that are too detailed, nor can I use any mods that add super high res textures. It’s like the graphical uncanny valley for me.

Any time, SharkFucker420!

It’d probably depend on the game, but see if there’s any source ports for the games in question. DSDA Doom, for example, adds modern wide-screen support to classic Doom and has heaps of fantastic options for different compatibility levels for different custom map sets. GZDoom is also an option if you want gameplay mods (shame it’s so inefficient lol).

You can also see if there’s any wide-screen patches for your games on the PC gaming wiki.

The modern political climate in my country is bad enough to make me suicidal, so I avoid as much of it as I can.

Ah thank you, it’s about time I replay Ace Attorney

My most frequent stim for YEARS involves me playing along doing saxophone fingerings to whatever music I’m listening to or is stuck in my head. So, maybe a wind instrument!

Stagehand work is tons of fun, honestly! If you’re American or Canadian and live somewhere with a decent music/stage production scene there’s probably an IATSE local in your area you can do gigs with as overhire.

Zip drives were sadly before my time, but I actually managed to find one in the wild! A parallel port drive in clear blue plastic for $40 at a local used media shop. Just the loose drive and cable, no box or anything. Prooooobably a touch too pricey for a device that wouldn’t surprise me if it had the click of death.

Honestly I do kinda miss magnetic media like that! Having a big cartridge with moving parts ya shove into a slot just felt so nice when we used floppies as a very young kid.

My Way - Frank Sinatra. I’ve always said if I were to follow through on my suicidal ideations I’d do a cover of that as my farewell to my loved ones.

Yeah, I will apologize to ya for the unnecessary harshness. Could’a worded it much better than that. Leaving it as is for posterity’s sake, but there was no excuse for it.

I just don’t wanna see AskLemmy turn into AskReddit, is all. That sub frustrated me endlessly cause it could have been a great place for people to interact, tell interesting stories, discuss ideas and whatnot, but it turned into “do you agree with this opinion everybody here already agrees on” and “men/women, what sex do you sex the most?”

I ain’t a prude, but I don’t enjoy seeing something that could be a bastion for high brow content get turned into a breeding ground for boring, uninteresting slop.

Gonna take the L here since like ey, not a big issue at all lol. I just want more meaningful content than something with a single one word answer that I won’t remember in 5 minutes.

I just don’t like low effort content being somewhere that could be a great spot for interesting, profound discussions. I’ll take the L here, ain’t a big issue worth getting worked up over, but I’ll stand by my thoughts lol

“A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions.”

This is more something that should go to NoStupidQuestions. Your answer is that it tastes stony. Discussion ends there.

Store bought THC definitely helps, but my tolerance is wicked high right now and I don’t know if I wanna rely on a substance that could rock me into jail or cost me my job, just to keep me somewhat functional in this very dysfunctional chroma nightmare society we live in.

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Batteries are easy to get thanks to Cameron Sino! They make brand new batteries for old devices from cameras to PDAs.

As for parts, depends! Some you can easily find broken/untested units for cheap to grab parts off of. Others like my daily driver, the Sony Clié PEG-UX50 (It even flips around to hide the keyboard!), is rarer since it was top of the top of the line, and therefore wicked expensive ($700! Today that’s worth $1,200!) Working units can be found but command high prices, and it needs a special dingus cradle for charging. Without the cradle, you can’t charge as it doesn’t take USB power.

A lot of the time, untested units usually just need a new battery and they kick right back on. Every untested device I’ve bought was much cheaper than working, and one fresh battery later it starts right up.

Ah nah, Personal Digital Assistants! They’re basically Smartphones with half the smart and none of the phone. Pocketable computers that do a lot of what modern phones can do - but worse because it’s 20+ year old tech.

Oh yeah, there’s definitely a reason why the iPhone took off so well lol