rodneylives

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I’ve seen far less reaction to than I expected? While the Switch 2 looks like it takes standard MicroSD cards, it DOESN’T. It takes the fairly obscure MicroSD Express standard! I can’t even BUY an SD Express card locally right now! It seems likely, at launch, that Nintendo’s branded cards will be the only ones people can get that will work with it!

  The Switch 2 has 256GB of onboard storage, much more than the Switch, it is true. But it’s also backwards compatible with the Switch, and lets users bring their old digital library over with them. I have a 256GB card in my Switch, it’s nearly full, and it doesn’t have my whole library on it! If I got a Switch 2, I’d have it filled up on day 1!

  And the MicroSD card issue won’t be obvious to most buyers. Parents will get their kids Switch 2s, and wonder why their old card won’t work with it. It’ll look to them like the Switch 2 or the card is broken, unless they implement a physical lock against incompatible cards, and I don’t know if SD cards even support those. Also, SD Express cards are more expensive than standard ones.

  This could end up being a debacle almost on the scale of the price (which, as others have noted, isn’t even Nintendo’s fault entirely).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla lost more than one-third of its value in first quarter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I blame the rise of internet stocks. There were a few companies, like Google, Amazon and Facebook/Meta, that if you got in on the ground floor of them you became insanely rich, you got so much money that economically it became a good idea to speculate on lots of little companies. It’s distorted a lot of economic realities.

  Tesla has been in that mode for a long while, and it’s largely still there despite everything. And if Musk hadn’t blown his own company up, it might even have paid out in the end. Tesla was the only company seriously making electric cars for a good while, they had a strong lead on everyone else, and they had their charger network. That’s a lead that Musk’s recent actions has foolishly squandered—really, foolishly doesn’t seem like it’s a strong enough word. It’s an unforced error, it’s an own goal, it’s Musk just handing his company’s lead to his competitors.

  Tesla’s implosion may be the beginning of a new age of sober realism in corporate governance. Imagine stockholder meetings where executives are asked, “You aren’t going to Musk this up, are you?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla lost more than one-third of its value in first quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has so much further to fall. Tesla is still wildly overvalued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to FlyingSquid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know FlyingSquid from another community, and sent them a private message just a few days ago saying hello. (I didn’t know they had been missing at the time.) FS is awesome, and I really hope they’re okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This poll is for the Mozilla Foundation. They don’t make the browser. The post should probably have made that clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I signed up for Loops the first day. I didn’t get an email confirmation until two days after, and I still haven’t been given a way to sign in.