💾 Add hard drive sounds to your flash based retro PC, canceled Star Trek films and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-30
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Geek
- James Earl Jones Signals Star Wars’ Role Darth Vader Retirement – Deadline
- ELLO LC1 | Hackaday.io
- New Star Trek Series Is Officially a Deep Space Nine Sequel
- Hugh Jackman will reprise his Wolverine role for Marvel’s Deadpool 3 - The Verge
- -Gear-Sphere- God I Love Images And Art And Gifs - Immensely powerful thrift shop find, google drive…
- ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Removed From Paramount Film Slate - Variety
- Welcome - Cryosphere - Cryosphere is a Sci-Fi themed MUD
Retro
- Star Raiders demake for the PICO-8
- The last man selling floppy disks says he still receives orders from airlines | TechSpot
- SNES Star Fox now runs at a silky 60 fps thanks to a new hack | Ars Technica
- A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip | Ars Technica
- Upcyling a 40-year-old Tandy Model 100 Portable Computer - IEEE Spectrum
- TRS-80 Gains Multiple Monitor Support, And High-Resolution Graphics | Hackaday
- Nerdly Pleasures: Atari 400 - An Atari 2600 on Steroids and More
- Remembering the S.O.S. — the Spoiler-Free Opinion Summary - Break Into Chat
- 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 recreated via reverse engineering - Graphics - News - HEXUS.net
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- Tiny Dongle Brings The Hard Drive’s Song Back To Updated Retrocomputers | Hackaday
- HDD Clicker – HDD Sound Simulator v0.1 – Retroianer
Videogames
Technology
- Tesla issues recall for 1.1 million EVs due to power window problem | Ars Technica
- The Dark History of Zip Files - YouTube
- Your Glasses Can Reveal Secrets While on a Video Call | Sensei Enterprises, Inc.
- Simple 20-20-20 screen rule really does help with eye strain, research shows | Aston University
- People are using their phones in the shower, apparently - The Verge
- Why History Needs Software Piracy
- The appeal of small computers • AndreGarzia.com
Science
- Researchers Claim to Solve the Mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism - ExtremeTech
- Superconductivity Model With 100,000 Equations Now Contains Just 4 Thanks to AI : ScienceAlert
- Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images | Ars Technica
Pop Culture
- If Homelander was in Avengers Endgame - YouTube
- ‘Final Space’ creator Olan Rogers confirms that the series is becoming a tax write-off for Warner Bros Discovery
- John Wayne’s Final Ever Role Was In… Star Wars?! (Yes, Really)
- Spirit Halloween: The Movie - Exclusive Clip (2022) Christopher Lloyd, Jaiden J. Smith - YouTube
Pot Pourri
- ‘GameStop Daycare’ Is A Thing & Staff Are Tired Of Babysitting
- Foreign Words We Need in English | Otherwords - YouTube
- I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How.
- An Incredible World Record Was Set - And You May Have Not Even Heard About It! - Running with Miles
- McDonald's is selling Happy Meals to adults — with a twist | CNN Business
- ‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music | Music | The Guardian