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The interest isn't artificial; A lot of people (especially me) are just highly interested in this tech. I myself am working on a 2D variant meant for low-bandwidth environments to replace low-res pixel grid images.

You personally may not feel it, but there is a real, genuine interest, especially given how good it is at replicating photorealistic environments in realtime, relatively cheap (in comparison to NeRF). It's awesome.

Also, what would the ulterior motive be for someone to 'pump' this? There isn't a financial or clout-based motivation to do so. It's just interesting tech, which I believe we are all at least partly here for.

If you were to have said this about Charlie Kirk, or inevitably Trump himself when it happens, you'd be treated like you had killed them yourself.

A few days ago I cracked the edge of my smartphone's screen at just the right spot to shut its display off entirely, though it still works. Using the USB-C dongle meant for my laptop, the phone pops into a desktop view which basically is the same experience as a Chromebook (for better or worse).

In the meantime before its repair, I shoved my SIM card into an old flipphone I had in the tech graveyard drawer. I've actually really liked the limited flipphone experience. It's a mental breath of fresh air to not have a time/focus black hole in my pocket at all times. It made me realize that I've had a pretty bad relationship with my smartphone in terms of how much time I wasted on it. I'm considering keeping the flipphone as my primary phone. Maybe smartphones do too much.

Five years ago, I paid a flat $45 fee for Cold Turkey, software which does the same thing on Windows and Mac which doesn't require I chip in for no additional work on the developer's part; It is completed software that runs on my own machine, just like Kiki.

Sure, diming $30/year is a 'better deal' than nickeling $5/month, but this is not the sort of 'deal' which this software warrants. This is not a service product, and pricing it like one is silly.

"Anyone famous" in the vast, vast majority of cases is completely detached to the cause of anyone's death or further suffering as a health insurance CEO would be.

It's comparable to most Call of Duty games at the minimum, many of which have maps in completely residential and commercial areas. Russian airport terminals, Ukranian apartment blocks, etc.

Also- considering the plotline of the game, in which the protagonist is fighting off an invading IDF military, is that flag you see Israel (Israel) or Israel (Occupied Palestinian territory)?

Missions across real places in Palestine

Seems like the latter, with no evidence for the former.

Why not store emulated RAM on disk and get the full 512KB experience? Killing the drive from overuse? Surely the flash speed of the RP2040 surpasses the RAM speed of the original Mac.