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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Steam Deck gets SteamOS 3.4 update, here’s what’s inside.

    The highlights for me: a new horizontal performance overlay that uses the wasted space when you’re running games at 16:9, a fix for weird fan behavior, and the ability to manually eject (read: unmount) SD cards to be extra safe before you yank ‘em. But there’s way more, too.

    I wonder if the weird adaptive backlight glitch is why my Duck Game starts stuttering after a few full rounds of play.

    Update: I might wait a day to download this one. Valve already had to revert one SD card pathing change and I’m seeing owners complain of missing dual-boot partitions and getting stuck on the boot screen. My Deck sat on that screen for 30 min before I worked up the courage for a hard reset. Seems OK now.

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    Sean Hollister
    How to make a working Lego computer brick.

    Remember when this man brought Lego’s classic computer bricks to life by putting a working computer and OLED inside? I have bittersweet news. Though I did connect him with someone at Lego, it doesn’t look like that’s moving forward, he’s no plans to produce more than a few, and at this point it sounds like he’s nearing the end of the project.

    Consolation prize: here’s a rough idea how to make one yourself! Also, they play Doom.

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    Sean Hollister
    My “$125” Equifax settlement turned into a measly $5.21.

    I just got my check in the mail. We knew this was going to happen, but it still stings: while the company that leaked 147 million Americans’ financial information continues to profit, and the lawyers walked away with more than double what all victims got combined, we get a lousy $5 because too many of us victims signed up. Apparently, the courts thought only 248,000 people would.

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    Sean Hollister
    Angry about DualSense Edge battery life? Consider what else Sony fit inside.

    I would have absolutely designed a PS5 controller with more battery life and Hall Effect joysticks, but I have no imagination. Instead, Sony crammed its own brand-new toolless hot-swappable joystick modules into a pad that already housed not one, not two, but four motors: two for haptic feedback and two for its amazing adaptive triggers.

    Check out a stick swap at the top of our video below; after, watch TronicFix’s teardown of the original to see how little room Sony had to work with.

    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Batteries, bottle caps, Game Boys and more: CT scans show how they’re put together.

    “Scan of the Month” may technically be a marketing effort for one particular company’s CT machine, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth: it’s awesome to see precisely how Lego figures and EpiPens work with these X-ray like images. I can’t get enough.

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    Sean Hollister
    Don’t throw out your old expired COVID-19 tests — check this site first.

    My wife and I just rescued six perfectly good tests from the trash! Yes, many COVID-19 tests are effective longer than pharma companies originally wrote, and you can easily find the new date by looking up your test and its Lot Code at the FDA.