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

@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!

@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

@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

@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

@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

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.

@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.

@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.