I also put together a retropie. I have it attached to a CRT. I’ve got a few snes’ that I’ve repaired and one more to fix. I’m very concerned my CRT will die eventually. Those are impossible to find now. Good ones anyway.
They didn't used to for that very reason; samples have to be representative of the populations you are trying to study. If you mostly poll college students, you are only going to know things about a middle/upper SES with no income of its own ages 18-22 that skews radically Left in 2023.
Roommates shitting on your bed happens in college. I think there's even been a few threads about it here. College experiences don't generalize (which is also why the social sciences are shit, since they mostly study college students going through the weirdest part of their lives.)
It's a reminder that, in the age of digital feudal
I'd avoid the proprietary stuff and just build one. You can find fairly cheap cases with 8 bays and an ITX mobo tray, and right now the sweet spot for refurb drives is 10TB so with a TrueNAS using RAID-Z3 (or Unraid if you prefer) setup you're looking at 60TB, minus overhead and not going over the recommended 80% capacity on ZFS. Z3 lets you lose up to 2 drives before the shit really hits the fan, which is not as uncommon as you might think.
