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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    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.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Want solar panels on your California home? Now might be the time.

    The CPSC just unanimously agreed that utilities can pay you 75 percent less for your solar electricity during the day — unless you get grandfathered into the previous NEM 2.0 rates by April 2023. Solar companies are angry; environmental advocates were divided.

    I’d get a move-on, unless you plan to buy batteries alongside your solar and sell power to the grid in the evenings. Permitting and inspection can take a while.

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    Sean Hollister
    Every game should have this feature.

    Friends told me Persona 4 Golden was excellent, and they were right — but what kind of game lets you lose loads of progress if you don’t buy items just so you can teleport back to its save points?

    Ain’t nobody got time to backtrack through repetitive dungeons forever, and it looks like Atlus now agrees: the PC version is getting updated to add quick saves. More like this please.