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As a total layman when it comes to air gapping: Would this not be defeated by putting the computer in a faraday cage?

The Pro controller is fully supported OS-side. It even has a setting to flip the face buttons for games that expect Xbox-style controllers

I'll concede that D3D was a dumpster fire.

But, what was actually broken in OpenGL pre-Steampipe update?

The two things I know about were:

1. The different looking water (not worse, just different)

2. In the software renderer some texture sets randomly tiled to make them look less repetitive. It's nice, but I would wager a bet that no one back then even knew about this bug, let alone complained about it.

People also forget that the software renderer was very slow on contemporary hardware, and even a basic 3D card had way better performance.

It just feels wrong historically. When HL came out, people were very enthusiastic about texture filtering and the game was clearly designed with hardware rendering in mind.

Mario 64 was two years ahead of its time, at a time when two years was like 10+ years now. Hardware acceleration, colored lighting, skeletal animation, free camera*.

Quake (World) was a huge achievement graphically but I feel like its real contributions to history ended up being internet play and WASD

Both games were mind-blowing then and are still fun now.

* It's nuts to me that we had to wait until 2004 with San Andreas to get a modern "left stick moves, right stick looks" in third person games. The N64 was 90% of the way there, but didn't stick the landing for whatever reason.

> who have destroyed any possible means of connecting themselves with real information.

See: Special Military Operation. It was always surprising to me that the Russians essentially repeated the same mistakes from the first Chechen war after seemingly learning from them by the early 2000s

Using acoustic data transmission because it is easy and I am lazy, I'd guess comparable to copper wire broadband based on the short distances involved in an average tin-can + string operation.

> Ripping the car apart to install sound insulation might void your warranty.

On my Toyota it only involved basic removal of interior panels, I can't imagine that affecting warranty or resale

> It is quite absurd (but categorically true) that the quality of audio that folks were generally listening to in 2005 was better than what we are doing today.

Comparing Apples to Apples, AirPods are definitely sound better and are more useful than the pack-in iPod earphones that everyone used back then.

Like Pantone books, color checkers don't last long before the colors fade, maybe a year or less. I remember being surprised at how much money we were spending on them.

> Wearing gloves and washing your hands five million times is more annoying than just using lead free.

RoHS was more about removing lead from electronics as a whole than health risk to an individual from soldering. To put it into perspective, if you lived in a city before the 1990s, you've already inhaled more lead than you ever will from soldering.

The enforcement threshold is much lower in other countries, but the posted speed limit is more reasonable and matches a safe speed for driving.

The Japanese law doesn't allow criminal enforcement until 30km/h over the posted speed limit, so the posted speed limit is very slow but enforcement for 10km over is non-existent and limited for 20km over (you'll only get a ticket if you are unlucky).

There are many reasons for the gap between the posted limit and enforcement threshold in Japan, but the TL;DR is that the real-world speed that everyone drives at is generally 20km over the posted limit.

> Source: I’m working for a rental car company in Japan

Then you should know the posted speed limit is low for enforcement reasons. And yes, the Japanese government and society decided to have a fake speed limit and a real speed limit, rather than change the threshold at which speeding is a prosecutable crime.

If there is no posted speed limit then the default is (was) 60. Now narrow roads have a default of 30.

In my area, I can’t think of a an example of a road that would be affected by this law change that didn’t already have a 30 km/h posted speed limit.