RMP 042 — Is Retro Gaming Still Worth It in 2025?

Episode NotesNewsLinux/FOSS News* Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least* DeepSeek outperforms OpenAI's reasoning model at just 3% of the cost* Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 cost-effective AI is impressive, but OpenAI will "obviously deliver much better models" than it….* Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts DeepSeek's open-source AI as "super impressive": "We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously* GOOGLE OPEN SOURCES PEBBLEOS: NEW PEBBLE DEVICE IN DEVELOPMENT* Netrunner 25 “Shockworm” ReleasedMicrosoft News* Trump says Microsoft is one of the companies eyeing TikTok* Microsoft is working on a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X* Your Microsoft 365 subscription cost is going up for the first time in 12 years — but don't worry, it now includes a "monthly allotment" of CopilotCreepy AI News* Trump’s AI Push: Understanding The $500 Billion Stargate Initiative* Microsoft introduces “Muse” generative AI model for “gameplay ideation”Other Tech News* VLC Developers Working on AI-Powered Real-Time Subtitles* Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez Calls for Ending Online Anonymity, Linking Social Media to Digital ID* World Economic Forum White Paper Pushes Public-Private Collaboration to Accelerate Digital ID and Censorship Initiative* Players upset following two-day PSN outageRetro Gaming/Tech News* The prototype GameCube from Space World 2000 is being sold for $100,000* SuperStationOne, FPGA PlayStation 1 console now available for pre-order* 'Ninja Gaiden 2 Black' highlights a major on-going issue with Xbox / PC Game Pass* DINO CRISIS & DINO CRISIS 2 ARE BACK, AVAILABLE ON GOG!* The Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collections launch to 'Mixed' reviews on Steam as EA investigates 'various issues'* The House of the Dead: Remake now available* DoomPDF - Play Doom Inside PDF DocumentsCommand Line Tool of the Month: aria2 — The Ultra fast download utility* aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP/SFTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP/SFTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.”Main Topic: Is Retro Gaming Still Worth It in 2025?* The original article from 2022Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe