I can't speak to the others, but I have a couple 8bitdo controllers and they're fantastic. If the aliexpress listing is legit, I'd go with that one, no question.
I've never heard of the other two brands, but cursory googling doesn't sound promising for them.
You sound a lot like me, and probably get annoyed with a lot of grindy mechanics. Especially when you have limited time to play games.
Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes will really scratch that Chronotrigger itch.
Outer Wilds is also incredible (don't read spoilers, just go in blind). It's mini space exploration with cartoon-arcadey newtonian physics.
Sword & Sworcery is also great, and a good point-and-click adventure with an amazing soundtrack. I'd almost argue it's better on a tablet or largeish phone through. It's very touch input focused, which is OK with a mouse, but I think is better with a finger (as intended)
Others I enjoy :
Oh man. That looks fabulous. I may have to give it a go some time. Can't do it tomorrow, but one day soon....
Honestly, I had to google it, too :D
As far as I know, they mean "Personal Video Recorder" in a fashion similar to "DVR"/"Digital Video Recorder" like the one your cable company provides. It's a little misleading, imo, because it doesn't do any recording, but I didn't come up with the name, so who knows.
Twenty years later, I still sing this.
And I still wonder what happened to fhqwhgads.
The new mantle I've been working on is finally ready to install! So, we'll be mounting it this weekend, along with the TV (yes, "tv too high" but we don't have an option). So excited to finally have this done!
Seconding this. Frigate is great, and I've been running it on an ancient Debian box with a coral tpu for a few years. The only dedicated camera I've had has been at the front door, but cams I've used for testing and "goofing off" have been great at motion detection and object recognition.
Maaan I got so excited by this and grabbed Connect. It was great until I saw it completely blocking comments in threads by users from those instances. :(
I think my big irritation is that it's super distracting to keep hitting block on the seemingly infinite supply of communities on lemmynsfw ;D
But it's also annoying that none of the apps (lemmy pwa included) actively clear the feed of your newly blocked user/community.
I enjoy scrolling All to find new and interesting things, and that's how I built my sub list on the oldsite. It's just frustratingly difficult to filter signal from noise at the moment.
I've been using nodered with homeassistant for a few years, and have also used it to add minor integrations for some external apps to send push notifications through HA.
On the surface, nodered looks like "programming for non-programmers", and I've seen it get knocked for that. It's really not that at all. Yes, it's a node-based system and you're not "writing code" but it's very robust and can do a heck of a lot. I highly recommend folks check it out, it's a pretty powerful little system, and I've been running it on my ancient amd fx-6300 server (along side a bunch of other docker containers) without any noticeable system slowdown.
Because it is. While it does do a decent job upscaling, it's not some magical thing. Keep the 4k, and be pleasantly surprised when older content looks nice on the larger display.