Older Millenials and Gen X, the same ones that grew up with the NES and SNES. Not small at all

Edit: Roughly 180 Million people in the US alive today, were 7 years old or older when the N64 released in 1996. Which is about 55% of the US population.

https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/united-states-population-by-age/

The Wii is great. Play games that make the most of the wiimote and nunchuck, those are the best.

My favorites were Metroid Prime Trilogy made/remade for the wii controls, and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess / Skyward Sword. And the fun arcade/sports games like bowling, golf, Mario Galaxy, etc

Looks like I missed House of the Dead 2 and 3, so I may try to find a used wii and used copies to play em. It’d be awesome if Nintendo released a Wii Classic like the NES and SNES Classics.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/1637-the-top-10-wii-games-that-make-the-best-use-of-the-wiimote

https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/4nvthu/which_wii_games_make_the_best_use_of_the/

Voice Input app that respects your privacy… FUTO Voice Input, designed to work entirely on-device with no data stored via Louis Rossmann

Anecdotes: my neighbors used to let their baby crawl around the gravel parking lot, neighborhood cats and dogs hanging out, and I was like “Those are good parents.”

Meanwhile a neat freak surgeon and nurse couple raised kids that are allergic to nearly everything in the world (ex used to babysit the allergic kids).

Something good about growing up with cats and dogs in the house and playing in the mud. (If you’re in an area without parasites in the ground)

https://archive.md/AMusN

Audi Pre-Sense was the worst offender. Looks like many others have similar experiences even this year:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221016080422/https://www.reddit.com/r/Audi/comments/rggdis/audi_presense_collision_just_scared_the_crap_out/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240119200441/https://www.businessinsider.com/audi-driver-says-pre-sense-safety-feature-almost-killed-them-2023-12

I had a Nissan after that that implemented it a lot better, never any slam the brakes events. It would warn you with a beep and apply light braking first.

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/EMERGENCY_BRAKE/

Agree with the automakers that the tech isn’t ready.

The article doesn’t mention how many times these cars slammed the brakes in false positive situations.

The cars I’ve driven with this are too conservative with braking in a lot of common scenarios like driving curvy mountain roads, or parallel parking in the city near pedestrians or taxis. I’ve had it brake multiple times in normal driving scenarios wtirh false positives.

The car takes over and decides to full stop immediately, almost causing me to be rear ended multiple times. Eventually the dealership turned off the feature, but only after multiple complaints from customers and media attention.

I vowed to never get another car with this system because of how bad the experience is. But looks like that may be an option only with used cars, due to the bew mandates.

I’ve seen Sceptre recommended whenever this question pops up. https://www.sceptre.com/

I’ve also had a lot of fun using a projector in the living room as a display (with blackout curtains on the windows) but it may require some care to make the bulb last longer. And it was a bit annoying trying to figure out how to get audio and video working for consoles/laptops. I think you might need some kind of HDMI splitter and speakers to get audio and video working properly?

Another useful search term is “Display” or “Commercial Display” instead of “TV”

These “Displays” will be TV’s without any of the bloatware and spyware, but may be missing features like refresh rates, picture quality, etc.

For example here: https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-displays

Not answering your question, but avoid Roku like the plague

Roku’s Ransom: Agree to Forced Arbitration or Lose Your TV!

The article mentions Kairos Power but doesn’t mention that their reactors in development are molten-salt cooled. While they’ll still use Uranium, its a great step in the right direction for safer nuclear power.

If development continues on this path with thorium molten-salt fueled and cooled reactors, we could see safe and commercially viable nuclear (thorium) energy within our lifetimes.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-06/china-building-thorium-nuclear-power-station-gobi/104304468

To my layman’s knowledge, using thorium molten-salt instead of uranium means the reactor can be designed in a way where it can’t melt down like Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Edit: The other implication of not using uranium is that the leftover material is harder to make in to bombs, so the technology around molten-salt thorium reactors could be spread to current non-nuclear states to meet their energy needs and reduce reliance on coal plants around the planet.