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- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 6 days ago:
Yes/No. Both Sony and Microsoft have quality control processes to ensure that whatever is published is going to play on first entry of the disc.
That said, publishers use A LOT of workarounds. Day 1 patches to “finish” the game. Download code inserts. And as of recent, mandatory online server check-ins. As far as I’m aware, Nintendo is the only one who allows publishing half the product with required download.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
I’m afraid to find out how many people are still downloading OpenOffice, thinking it’s the same software they heard about back in 2010.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 weeks ago:
It’s right there in the link. It sold more than Witcher 3, even though it did the wrong thing by releasing early and buggy.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 weeks ago:
…and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn’t hold CDPR as a high standard.
- Comment on The SUPERSEGA Scandal / Retro Gaming's most bizarre failure 2 weeks ago:
FPGA console gets announced, guy behind the project is kinda weird, multiple demonstration videos are cheaply faked, project scales back, guy is actually really weird, more fake demos, SEGA shuts down the project, people charge back their pre-orders, guy turns to alcohol and does a bunch of drunk interviews/voicemails, and then he doxes his supporters while trying to prove he didn’t commit fraud.
I really suggest you watch it though.
- Comment on The SUPERSEGA Scandal / Retro Gaming's most bizarre failure 2 weeks ago:
The whole video is wild. I had a huge paragraph written, but decided to delete it because whatever I write doesn’t do justice to how bizarre the whole interaction is/was.
Count me as one who was skeptical but otherwise onboard with buying a Dreamcast FPGA. Glad I didn’t put money down.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
exactly. Thank you.
Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.
$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter
$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012… now, with $80 you get… 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649
Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can’t get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I’m ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.
- Comment on Upcoming Xbox Console Update Reportedly Resetting System Back to Factory Settings 4 weeks ago:
After the “We’re going to delete any cloud captures older than 90 days… oopsie we deleted your local storage”
I’m going to delay updating as long as possible regardless.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
I refuse to believe there isn’t much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 4 weeks ago:
I just want bigger drives… I feel like we’ve been stuck at 1TB for at least a decade.
- Comment on Retroid Pocket Classic Unveiled: A Return to Form - Retro Handhelds 4 weeks ago:
That reminds me, I still need to order a ModRetro Chromatic
- Comment on Linspire - The Successor to Lindows (that’s still around) | MJD 5 weeks ago:
tl;dr:
He buys an official USB stick of it (unbranded), finds out it’s an Ubuntu derivative now, with a mix of Gnome and KDE apps, and anything that was proprietary Linspire software on it hasn’t been updated for a decade. Concludes it must be for schools and corporations wanting an official support team.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 month ago:
I thought I was losing my mind after seeing all the PS5 Pro praise. Glad to see that the numbers matched what my expectations were.
I do wonder if Sony bought out some influencers or something, because it was oddly counterintuitive amounts of praise.
- Comment on Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian 1 month ago:
You answered your own question. You just cheated, or you played it over and over and over until you got really good/lucky.
You have to realize, a lot of the early stuff came off the backs of arcade that were designed to be played repeatedly with little progression aside a number that went up.
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 1 month ago:
They were one of the few, if only, remaining manufacturers in the US that produced a subcompact car. Yet they are getting rid of both the Versa and Altima.
I hate how everybody bloated up their fleets with crossovers and SUVs…
- Comment on Struggling to get PI OS working on a 3B 1 month ago:
Any reason you avoided the official Raspberry Pi Imager software? You really can just configure a headless OS all before flashing the SD card. Choose RPi OS lite from the list, then set up your hostname, username, password, wireless and turn on SSH service. Then all you have to do after flashing is plug in power and SSH in. None of this display troubleshooting would be needed.
- Comment on Struggling to get PI OS working on a 3B 1 month ago:
Two questions:
Do you have anything between the Pi and Display, like an HDMI switch? Sometimes the Pi incorrectly sets the display resolution if it can’t communicate with the display directly.
Did you use the Raspberry Pi Imager program? You can configure SSH and WiFi, before you even image to SD. It’s how I set up my headless stuff so I don’t have to futz with connecting displays.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
You’re not thinking evil enough, honestly. Two examples off the top of my head, each being fairly innocent mistakes: If you enter your phone number for 2FA, it’s not going to be public-facing. It’s their responsibility to keep that information private from internal and external threats. Ok, so what if it leaks… right? Oh, it turns out the hacker SIM swapped your phone number for the 2FA, and did a password reset on your account via support chat. Still no big deal, its just social media… Except you’ve been giving updates to all your patreon backers on your project that’s shipping soon. It suddenly vanishes off the internet, replaced with a crypto scheme, and all your supporters just flooded your bank with chargebacks. Your attempts at getting your account back are met with silence and your supporters are now furious. Was any of that your fault? No. You get $100.
Let’s try another example: Bounty programs are used by companies to collect bugs and other possibly exploits so they can be fixed. “Too expensive, nobody will know if there’s a bug anyway.” So the app on Google Play store gets installed by 30 million users with a critical flaw… if a very specific image is opened in it, the phone bricks. All the news sites cover the bug, pushing the image to the front page. You open the app and… Your expensive phone just died. Were you at fault for that? No. You get to join the arbitration group and get an individual settlement of $12.
Think more evil. Don’t stick with the “I have nothing to lose” because you almost always have something to lose. The fact these terms were even thought of and written means you do have a financial investment in the platform.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
I looked at the terms of service and noticed that they bind you into arbitration, limit your terms to $100, mandate you to travel to Delaware for dispute, and force you into mass arbitration if your dispute is similar to others.
Pass
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them to just name it “Xbox” and try to play it off like a movie reboot.
- Comment on This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive 2 months ago:
I didn’t think Debian had support for RISC-V until 13.0 Trixie comes out later this year.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
All I know is that if my country was entirely digital in payments, I’d be between a rock and a hard place.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
same checking number, new account. The branch manager was 100% sure that any autopay using the current card would not be automatically updated because the new card would not be considered a successor to my current card.
She even showed me the scenario play out in the card ordering software.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
Yeah, I can’t explain the limitation either. That’s how all my cards worked before when they changed numbers after expiration, but the branch manager was very clear that the current debit card would be canceled not reissued. So it’s a new account under my name with the tap card. They even showed me the software used to order replacements, and my card type was cleared marked DO NOT USE.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
Correct. The card is not tap. The only cards they can order now are tap, so to get a replacement they have to cancel the card and issue a brand new one, messing up any autopay tied to the current number and leaving me without a payment method while the new one arrives.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
This would suck so bad. My debit card’s chip went bad and the bank can’t reissue me a new one until it expires. I’ve been using cash as a fallback when I don’t want to do the ‘3 chip failure timeout then swipe’ dance just to purchase some soda.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 5 months ago:
I always got the impression it wasn’t a learning AI but rather a very limited “Has the player pressed the run button? if YES: AI can use run next cycle”
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 5 months ago:
gradients, animated GIFs, “best browsed on”, and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it’s missing is an index page.
