20 minutes for a 1GB update.

It's getting tiresome and an inconvenience to switch on an Xbox for a quick game.

I have installed entire Operating Systems quicker.than these updates take to complete.

Consoles used to be convenient to fire up and play, that was a lot of the appeal.

And are controllers getting heavier?

The moment those things got a hard drive they're not consoles anymore but a computer imo, including issues like getting slow what former consoles didn't have

@chatgpt what's the main difference between computer and console in definition?

@retoor
The main difference between a computer and a console is that a computer is a general-purpose device that can perform a wide range of tasks such as word processing, browsing the internet, creating content, and gaming, among others. A console, on the other hand, is primarily designed for gaming and entertainment purposes, with a focus on providing a streamlined and optimized experience for playing video games. Consoles often come with specific hardware and software configurations tailored for gaming, while computers have a broader range of functions and capabilities.

A computer optimized for gaming it says. I doubt if that was the original definition

@retoor I added a chip to my original Xbox. This allowed me to install 80GB hard drive. I put the whole game on my hard drive for the games I played a lot. I just boot and select without disk. This allowed me to mod Morrowind to have better textures/models for people. No more polygon people. That xbox still works and is a better experience than the newest xbox IMO.

@Demolishun did you know that the moon is maybe older than the universe?there's also a theory that it could be hollow

@retoor I'd be happy if I switched it on and it didn't waste 20-30 minutes waiting for it to update, this usually happens when I have about 30 minutes to spare. Crazy!

@retoor it is hollow. We dropped a nuke on it a while back. It rang like a bell for 3 days. They also dropped some large payloads on there. It would ring for a few hours after.

I heard a story NASA did the calcs on size of moon versus it gravity pull. The calcs indicated hollow, at least partially.

Another fucked up thing about the moon. Is as you dig the rock seems to get younger. Also full of h3 and I think titanium on the surface. The h3 is useful for fuel. The dust can be baked to make bricks too. So a lot of building material is there for building a station.

If you want to go down a really interesting trip. Go look at expanding earth theory. It is fascinating. According to that theory the moon (and every other object in the universe) expands at a rate according to their mass. This could partially explain why moon is hollow, maybe.

@Demolishun There was never any nuclear explosion on the moon, but there are articles about "top secret" plans to detonate a nuclear device in the 1950's, crazy cold war ideas perhaps. The moon does ring like a bell though, it refers to the duration of shallow moon quakes, and at the Moon's center is a dense planetary, metallic core.

@Demolishun will watch that. Now I'm halfway this one, it's good: https://youtu.be/OAzikSDmslU/...
But drop the fish.

Meteors, despite their size can't get deeper than 60 miles. Smth blocks it.

The moon ringing like a bell stuff was also in this YouTube video

@Demolishun what about the earth? Hollow earth theory is awesome

@retoor no idea on earth. I would think core would fill void. maybe something similar on moon.

@Demolishun UFOs come from inner earth. There are holes in the center of the northpole. No ice there, everything green is the theorie. A pilot claims to have flew there inside such hole

@retoor there is so much weirdness about this. The only place that claim could be credible is the South Pole. Planes fly over the North Pole all the time. There is a no fly zone in the South Pole. And a weird agreement by all nations to honor that. Since when are nations in agreement with anything? If this claim is credible it tells me its a self preservation thing.

@Demolishun maybe I'm wrong and it was the south pole. But the reason planes not flying there is the air pressure afaik. It's unsafe

@retoor so people have flown in no fly zone before. The only weirdness was compass would act weird. Then when they landed there was suits from DC that chewed them out for flying there. Even for saving someones life. How did the suits get there so fast?

Antarctica is a crazy place for sure. Wild stories coming out of there. Who knows what is true? I suppose there could be weirdness in North Pole too, but seems to me more likely on South Pole.

@retoor the wild thing about the internet is all sorts of wild stories came out on the web 20 years ago or more. However, most of these stories disappeared.. Why? Who would scrub the stories and why? They didn't harm anyone. We have lost so much in last 15 years its crazy.

@retoor I cannot believe you would dis hecklefish.

@Demolishun disappeared stories.. Could be just because they weren't true. Before internet we believed a lot of stuff. Even my dad told me stories completely not true, not sure if made up for educational purposes tho. He learned me some math while explaining that the richest man of the world was the inventor of chess and why. So, maybe he just applied tricks. But he also said that the brother of Bill gates invented the computer 😂 Before internet, world was more magical, diverse

@retoor people said I was crazy for even considering UFOs existence. Now we are having the US Congress doing disclosure talks of UAPs and NHIs as we speak. We even have Pentagon threatening elected officials because of this.

Some stories are not as crazy as some would have you think.

Some day someone might capture footage of an unidentified flying object that will turn out to be an xbox that I've thrown off a cliff...

Buy a PS5. No problem here. After starting it up after 2-3 months it kindly said that I missed an update and when I wanted to install it. Of course, I just started the game and will do the update maybe this evening or tomorrow.

@bazmd maybe your Xbox is the box they did find on the moon somehow

@Demolishun did you know the six mile high tower on the moon is a soap catcher? It recycles our soul. Reincarnation is a trap, we're all trapped. Our masters live from our emotions

@retoor * soap = soul

@retoor The word "soap" made just as much sense to me lol

@bazmd I'm just repeating stuff of series I'm watching. Some myths, some conspiracy theories

@retoor I understand, I've watched a lot of those videos out of curiosity too. I've studied astronomy since I was a teenager, I've even wrote astronomy software, I enjoy the subject ;)

@retoor One program I wrote was to load up the coordinates of stars in an xyz environment to view their distance relative to other stars, for example I could plot the stars in the constellation Orion and rotate the entire constellation with a mouse and view where the stars actually are from any angle.

I could also save each constellation and load them up together, I manually converted thousands of stars for the project.

@bazmd some of that software for plotting stars is lit. Even claim 3000 year accuracy or something.

@Demolishun I use Redshift, it can plot planets, moons and everything else for at least 12000 years, I've used an original copy since the 1990's and it has always been extremely accurate. You can even use it to plot new objects like comets or satellites and it will track them in real time, just type in the orbital elements. pretty amazing stuff...

@bazmd what does manually converted thousands of stars mean? Adding recent discovered stars to the software?

@retoor Stars are plotted from earth in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination) I manually converted this with an extra dimension [distance] like Cartesian coordinates, basically xy into xyz, -x -y -z I also added t [time] for auto rotation, so ended up with 7 0,0,0 -0,-0,-0 and t.

@retoor The idea was to view a constellation of stars from any angle, the program got very complex lol

@retoor Celestial Coordinates.

@bazmd wow, nice. Learned things. Thanks doc

@Demolishun Lucky you.

Mine has died recently.

When I plugged it in to the wall socket, a bit of smoke came out.

Once I opened it up I noticed the tops of two capacitors had a convex shape.

On topic, though: yes - I love the current generation.

/s

Assassin's Creed Valhalla had a day 1 patch of roughly 100 GB, IIRC.

There are many more games like this, sadly.

@D-4got10-01 if its "just" caps you might be able to fix it! Hopefully...

I had 2 monitors. One started flaking out. This was during some capacitor issue at the time. So I opened one up got all the major cap sizes. Ordered them. Then replaced them all in that monitor. Never ended replacing the caps in the other. Both worked fine for a long time after that.

@Demolishun I'm definitely planning on getting it fixed.

Before I got a chance to unlock my old HDD in preparation for upgrading it, the console developed yet another ailment, though.

I may need to find a service that can fix it, but the console is worth it.