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  • There’s nothing to really tweak on Android because it is Android which hides most things from your control. I did everything I could. If you play every day and charge every day it’s fine. But if you treat it like a classic handheld you will be frustrated.

    A real handheld like a Gameboy Advanced can be left in a drawer for a year and ready to go. That’s the experience that a Linux retro gives you. You don’t have to constantly think about charging. It’s instantly ready whenever you are.


  • I have a Retroid but despite the hardware being fantastic, I wouldn’t recommend it because Android is a bad retro gaming experience.

    Instead of turning on the device and instantly being in a game, you have to boot Android, which is ridiculously slow. If you don’t do a full shutdown after playing, you’ll find your Retroid’s battery dead the next time you pick it up because of Android’s idle battery drain.

    Linux retro handheld’s like the Miyoo Mini work so much better. You turn it on and you are in your game in 10 seconds instead 45 just to get to the os and then need to load the emulator, load game and restore state. When you hit power on a Miyoo or equivalent Linux, your game state is saved and the device fully powers down so there is no idle power draw.







  • Yes LLM’s can beat humans in many tasks. But the jump from super spell checker to real AI is still huge.

    It’s like the 1960’s where computers were beating chess players. (Not grand masters but they could beat regular people.) Because a computer could out think a regular human, people assumed that with more resources, we would have real AI in 25 year. That was Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey. It seemed very reasonable in 1968.