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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️⚧️)
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In response to this postAMIGA IS BETTER THAN PC BECAUSE IT IS LESS DANGEROUS TO PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPTICS
@foone That is quite legitimate if you happen to be a photosensitive epileptic
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as a livelong PC user, I've heard many claims about how the Amiga was better for gaming in every way... or so I thought.
The AGDQ run of D/Generation was done on Amiga instead of the original DOS, because... it has less flashing than the DOS version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwK7PTdZo10
AMIGA IS BETTER THAN PC BECAUSE IT IS LESS DANGEROUS TO PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPTICS
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In response to this postit just smells like something they added on last-minute to work around a hardware bug
@foone could be, one trick is to drive the 595 at 5v; it will still accept 3v input from the mcu and you get a level shifter for free.
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In response to this postand they should have plenty of GPIO to do both the SPI and the USB and the keyboard matrix with ease.
it just smells like something they added on last-minute to work around a hardware bug
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because the other two chips are a 32bit AVR chip and a SPI flash chip.
and they should have plenty of GPIO to do both the SPI and the USB and the keyboard matrix with ease.
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In response to this postIt turned out to be a super-common chip that I was just blanking on, an 74HCS595: 8-bit shift buffer.
Which makes me suspicious. I'm not sure that the fuck they're doing with that and why they'd need it.
@foone probably for the row strobes, 595s are good for when you don’t have enough output pins (eg i use em for talking to stepper motor drivers in cnc machines). Able to be driven by the SPI unit in a microcontroller.
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In response to this postbold of the keyboard engineers at Kinesis to use christmas flags instead of the usual flash memory chips. I'm amazed that even made it fit inside this keyboard!
It turned out to be a super-common chip that I was just blanking on, an 74HCS595: 8-bit shift buffer.
Which makes me suspicious. I'm not sure that the fuck they're doing with that and why they'd need it.
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it has been zero days since I last searched the name on an IC inside some weird computer component, only to be told by the search engine that what I am looking at is not a surface-mount 4 megabit EEPROM, but is, in-fact;
a gnome flag.
bold of the keyboard engineers at Kinesis to use christmas flags instead of the usual flash memory chips. I'm amazed that even made it fit inside this keyboard!
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In response to this postI'm not SAYING there's an alien macroscopic single-celled radiation-powered thing xenoforming the earth's abyssal plain, but that you could look at the current state of the science and definitely make an argument.
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In response to this postthey're the dominant organism in parts of the ocean floor. It's been theorized that they are "ecosystem engineers": a creature that significantly impacts a habitat, such as how beavers significantly impact the flow of rivers with their dams.
I'm not SAYING there's an alien macroscopic single-celled radiation-powered thing xenoforming the earth's abyssal plain, but that you could look at the current state of the science and definitely make an argument.
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In response to this posta deep sea submersible once collected a spatangoid urchin 3km down that was wearing a cloak of over 200 Xenophyophores. It is unknown if the urchin was specifically collecting them, or the Xenophyophores specifically sought out the urchin to grow on.
they're the dominant organism in parts of the ocean floor. It's been theorized that they are "ecosystem engineers": a creature that significantly impacts a habitat, such as how beavers significantly impact the flow of rivers with their dams.
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In response to this postafter all, we can't find them in the fossil record (though there's theories that some other things we see might be very different ancestors of them), clearly they just showed up shortly before they were first discovered in the 1880s.
a deep sea submersible once collected a spatangoid urchin 3km down that was wearing a cloak of over 200 Xenophyophores. It is unknown if the urchin was specifically collecting them, or the Xenophyophores specifically sought out the urchin to grow on.
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In response to this postnow those last two are just a matter of not having observed them enough yet (they hang out half a kilometer down at shallowest!) and we expect they probably reproduce like some other Foraminifera where they use alternation of generations, but we currently don't know for sure.
Clearly it's a perfect chance to write a story about how they're actually biological resource miners sent to collect the volatiles from earth's oceans
after all, we can't find them in the fossil record (though there's theories that some other things we see might be very different ancestors of them), clearly they just showed up shortly before they were first discovered in the 1880s.
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The next sci-fi author that wants to talk about alternate origin stuff should use Xenophyophorea. They're a deep sea organism that grows up to 20cm (8") but they're a single cell. They make specialized shells made selectively of minerals including uranium. We don't know how they reproduce and we can't find them in the fossil record.
now those last two are just a matter of not having observed them enough yet (they hang out half a kilometer down at shallowest!) and we expect they probably reproduce like some other Foraminifera where they use alternation of generations, but we currently don't know for sure.
Clearly it's a perfect chance to write a story about how they're actually biological resource miners sent to collect the volatiles from earth's oceans
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