Episode 373

373: This Jerk, Right Here

Casey's ridiculously Casey storage waffling, John's ridiculously John evaluation of the PS5 controller, and Marco's ridiculously Marco retro-gaming setup. With special guest Tiff Arment!

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

April 9, 20202h 28m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Search Engines before Google
- WebTV
- BNC connector
Follow-up:
- Synology RAID rebuild time
  - Getting progress
    cat /proc/mdstat
  - lvm
- Dark Sky acquisition & location data
- Weather data consolidation
  - Dark Sky's data sources
  - Trump continues to fill the swamp
Casey's Computer Corner
- BBEdit
- Arq Backup
New PS5 controller
Raspberry Pi
- Pi-Hole
  - Installation instructions that Casey used
- CanaKit — the kit Casey bought
- Raspbian
Retro gaming
- Special guest Tiff Arment joins us
- Emulation:
  - RetroPie
  - 8bitdo SN30 Pro
  - Wave Race 64
  - 32X
  - Neo Geo
  - 3DO
  - Sega Saturn
  - Rotary phone
  - Kontra/Konami Code
- Famicom vs. NES controllers
- Improving the original experience
- Connecting to the TV
  - Technology Connections: How Did Old TVs Work?
    - Racing the Beam
    - CRT skeletons
  - RF modulator
  - Composite video
  - S-Video
  - Component video
  - RGB over SCART
- Scaling console video output to modern TVs