Posts made by magicmarker

Marcinozga, do the hardware spec's of your RPi match up with the RPi RetroPie Kit I linked earlier? Are you running RetroPie? This is the first I've ever heard of anyone complaining about lagging playing NES on a RPi. I've never run NES on a RPi, so I don't have any input. I'll find out when my RPi kit arrives. What I also wanted to mention is that you run RetroPie and Emulationstation to not only play NES, but also Atari, Genesis, SuperNES, Gameboy, etc... Not to mention playing any ROM where the NES classic would only play a specific set of games.

@coliver said in Nintendo Abandons the NES Classic, So Build a Better One Yourself:

@magicmarker said in Nintendo Abandons the NES Classic, So Build a Better One Yourself:

My Raspberry Pi 3 RetroPie kit will be at my doorstep tomorrow.

For the price... that really isn't that bad.

Much more flexible and powerful than a NES Classic as well. The NES Classic has it's place though...

My Raspberry Pi 3 RetroPie kit will be at my doorstep tomorrow.

@wirestyle22 You must be single! That is not Wife approved for a living room.

@scottalanmiller I guess after reading my reply that I should be considering my setup as a home lab. I had it in my head that a home lab would include physical rackmount servers/switches and/or an account setup on Azure or AWS to setup VM's to play with. I just wanted to make the point that if the person has geeked out their home, that the candidate shows a passion for the work.

You can have a conversation with the candidate about his/her setup at home to get the information you need. I think that it's pretty crippling to not hire someone without a home lab. I don't have a home lab, but I have home automation setup throughout my house. Such as text messages if I forget to close my garage door, security camera door bells, light automation, etc... I played around with setting up an FreePBX and had a full FreePBX working in my house for awhile. To the point where you would my dial my home phone and you could press 1 for the kitchen, 2 for office, etc... I've now just went the voip.ms route. I'm a cordcutter as well, and I could go on and on about the geekyness of the cordcutter setup to free myself from paying for cable too. I got my VCP without a home lab. So really, I think if you can have a conversation about their setup at home to learn how geeky the person is, and what they have figured out on their own to use technology should not be overlooked.