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Retrotink 4k CE Announced and Mini Restock (www.retrotink.com)

The CE is a lower power version of what is now called the 4k Pro. It is priced at $475, which puts it more in direct competition with the morph paired with a analogue bridge (I think that bundle would be $350ish). RetroRGB has a nice break down of the differences (link in the article).

Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3) (media.ccc.de)

9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)

I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.

X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder (techcrunch.com)

One NZ launches nationwide D2C texting service with Starlink (www.rcrwireless.com)

Mastodon Annual Report 2023 (blog.joinmastodon.org)

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Misskey Has Reached 1 Million Registered Users! (fedidb.org)

Fan Made Dreamcast Port Of GTA 3 Steals The Show (hackaday.com)

Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems? (www.scottrlarson.com)

Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)

Starlink to roll out direct-to-cell services in Ukraine - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, found lacking (www.tomshardware.com)

AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB RAM (www.tomshardware.com)

2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry (www.wired.com)

CRT simulator shader released for high-refresh OLED, LCD screens (www.tomshardware.com)

Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores (www.theverge.com)

Right-Wing Figures Allege Censorship on X Amid Visa Controversy (www.pcmag.com)

Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)

Chinese AI company's AI model breakthrough highlights limits of US sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)

Miyoo Flip Is Officially Up For Sale & Ships In Early January (retrododo.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/30264551

Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (jamchamb.net)

SeBridge - A bot that bridges the social and semantic web by answering SPARQL-queries based on the knowledge base of dbpedia.org (se-bridge.org)

The semantic web, for example through projects like dbpedia.org, tries to make the internet machine-readable. By making it accessible in Mastodon, users could quickly access and share data from the semantic web.