I have to very strongly disagree with this sentiment. I have personally tested quite a few no-name "4K 60fps" cameras from Amazon and AliExpress. Many of them upscale from 1080 - which is fine I guess - but then in 60fps will use a crop sensor and upscale from like ~640. Even with the more recognizable SJCam and Akaso brands, unless you're paying ~$200 - you're going to get upscaling, bad color science, bad image distortion. When comparing against a GoPro 5 (first 4k 60 entry) or 8 (first with USB C) the difference is astounding.

Though perhaps this is the difference between good and great that you refer to - but for me, it's certainly worth getting a used GoPro vs any of these modern cheap alternatives.

Unfortunately current new GoPros don't improve on their existing line enough to justify paying current prices. I wish I could get a new 2018 quality GoPro knockoff for <$200

Lately I find myself playing classic games on emulator, or generally games without huge graphics demands (been playing that climbing game PEAK a lot lately).

For me, getting a random no-name-brand Mini PC is such a fantastic deal these days. Throw bazzite or now real Steam OS on it, have access to your whole library - it's a linux machine you can configure to your hearts content. I love it. Probably the best deal on amazon right now is this machine, though there's others if you know how to search.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK34WJ84

Example of real-life gaming performance here - nothing mindblowing, but more than you'd expect from a tiny box that costs like $400.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlup85AxRd0

Just wipe windows immediately and put SteamOS on it and you're good to go

I get asked this a lot, so here's my defense!

Now when clicking on the 'dealscope' button there's a little modal which tries to clear it up a bit.

Oh - and colors are grey-blue to red, with red being pareto optimal

Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/

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Is 'rats' a juggling jargon I'm unfamiliar with? Or do rats stare into the distance often?

The only downside (and this applies for SQLite as well) is that it runs too well that you can get some bad habits - or at least follow patterns that don't support horizontal scaling which you would want to do in production. A number of problems across different projects have bit me because I relied too long on SQLite (or PGLite) when moving from local dev to setting up cloud infra. This includes things like connection pooling, read replicas, consistency issues with sharding. Maybe all those people who productionize *Lite have a point!

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