I'm not assuming it would be a constant video recording because yeah I agree about the battery concerns. Rather I'm concerned it would be intervalic photos and audio recordings, maybe based on certain contexts?
ie: mic picks up a new voice in the room, camera takes snapshot to identify the person and upload data to the cloud.
Pavement princesses. The North American Man®'s gender affirming vehicle.
I lnow multiple dudes that work as box throwers in Walmart warehouses that drive $100k trucks, trucks that will never see any kind of work that's appropriate for their size. Might haul a few 2x4s from home depot every once in a while.
They want to own a home, but they're making massive payments on a huge truck instead. 🤙
A good gaming monitor with something like the Framemeister, RetroTINK, or OSSC can give properly unnoticeable amounts of input lag.
Ok, so wait a second here. You're suggesting that buying a "good" gaming monitor (hundreds to thousands of dollars) and an upscaler (the cheapest of the options you mentioned I found for $369 USD is a better option than buying a CRT?
I found a perfectly good 28" Panasonic CRT on Kijiji for $200 CAD.
It makes the retro noises, it displays the games the way they were meant to be displayed, and there's no perceptible input lag. It also just fits the visual aesthetic if you have a retro gaming area/room in your house. There's no way I'm paying anywhere near 5-600 USD (up to 1k CAD, basically) to play retro games on a modern monitor when I can have a setup faithful to the experiences I had as a kid in the 90s for $200 CAD.
My wife is not a gamer and even she can feel it. She hated playing on our living room TV. Said she felt like she got really bad at Mario Bros over the years or something and was disappointed.
Bought a CRT; she loves the game again and is still quite good at it actually.
Reacting to stimulus is completely different than timing inputs in a video game. A few ms of delay isn't really going to register in a reaction test, but if you're using constant time sensitive information on screen to accurately time your movements in a game, you can easily feel lag in the sub 5ms range.
As a guitarist, I can feel latency down to 2ms if I'm playing through a modeling amp on my PC, especially if I'm playing at high tempos. The faster you play, the greater the percentage of time between notes that latency becomes. The effect is the same in high speed video games.
The look of CRT is important to retro gaming but do you know what the most important characteristic of CRTs for retro gaming is?
No input lag.
Play OG Super Mario Bros on a modern TV and let me know how long it is before you wanna smash the controller in frustration. The game just feels incredibly sloppy.
If you're into fast music you might find certain subgenres of metal are up your alley.
I can tremolo pick 16th notes at about 240bpm on guitar before the wheels start to fall off, so to speak. I'd consider anything over 225 to be fast. Anything crossing 16th notes at 300bpm should just be considered 32nd notes at 150bpm+ IMO. The bars fly by too fast to matter anymore if not.
Honestly I don't really jive with anything over 300bpm because I feel it loses all sense of groove or vibe-able rhythm. Its fine for little bursts here and there but a whole song at 300+ tends to bore me pretty quick.
warns those counter-tariffs and continued boycotts will still taint the feedback from Americans in upcoming public consultations.
Since when do you care about what the public thinks? If you did care, you'd be kissing our asses instead of sucking Trump's dick.
Hoekstra said "there will be a whole lot of comments" coming in from American businesses, and "they are not going to be positive."
Huh... I WONDER WHY? I wonder what the source of the negativity might be? Is it your friendly neighbor to the north that you've been abusing and threatening for no good reason? Or is it the orange piss baby that you've elected to run your country? Hm... There's truly no way of knowing. 🙄
I'd like to give a shoutout to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne for not capitulating to American bullshit.
Peter Hoekstra can get the fuck out of my country and never come back. - How's that for sentiment?
This is nothing but Trumpian pandering.