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Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]

Time Extension: This Dying Street Fighter II Cart Is A Sobering Reminder That Physical Doesn’t Mean Forever. “Ownership of the games we play is something that is naturally very close to the hearts of many gamers, and with good reason – billion-dollar companies are a little too fond of pulling access to digital goods, after all. However, it’s always worth keeping in mind that even physical […]

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The Register: Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR. “Anthony Caccese, a principal product lead for enterprise platforms at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by day and a Raspberry Pi tinkerer by night, recently published an open-source project called 240-MP on GitHub. It’s a simple concept: Text-based menus that look like an old-school VCR interface, but with […]

TechCrunch: Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support. “Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models…. The move means users will only be able to use their devices to read content that’s already downloaded. So, naturally, people are jailbreaking them.”