{"id":1370,"date":"2016-05-28T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2016-05-28T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:24:28","slug":"applying-critical-thinking-across-disciplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Applying Critical Thinking Across Disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After patiently waiting for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/RetroPie\/RetroPie-Setup\/wiki\/Manual-Installation\">RetroPie to install <\/a>and worrying about issues, I read the rest of the documentation including this sentence, &#8220;Now, you have to copy your rom files into the ROMs directory.&#8221; At first glance, I figured it meant the files had to be moved from one place on the Pi to another. Turns out these are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/retropie\/retropie-setup\/wiki\/Transferring-Roms\">ROM files<\/a> that come with the various games and legally you are supposed to own the games in order to use the emulator. \u00a0Well, I don&#8217;t own any games&#8211;never bought a game console&#8211;so legally I can&#8217;t use RetroPie.<\/p>\n<p>As I realized what had happened, I was reminded of one of the fundamental rules of cooking: read the WHOLE recipe first so you aren&#8217;t surprised when you are making something for dinner in an hour only to discover the whole casserole needs to sit overnight in the fridge. That&#8217;s a little how I felt last night.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there was an uninstall option but it did leave a few orphan applications behind and I&#8217;m thinking it may be time to do a clean install of Raspbian (after a backup, of course!)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out all those cooking lessons can apply to programming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After patiently waiting for RetroPie to install and worrying about issues, I read the rest of the documentation including this sentence, &#8220;Now, you have to copy your rom files into the ROMs directory.&#8221; At first glance, I figured it meant the files had to be moved from one place on the Pi to another. Turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Applying Critical Thinking Across Disciplines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[161],"tags":[423,414],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-cooking","tag-raspberry-pi"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-m6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}