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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  no, using sony as an example. all sony consoles are hackable despite effort to stop it. nintendo is the same situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Gintama is even about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  its a shounen that parodies popular shows, so it can be anything thats reletively popular for its time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  youd be suprised. all of Sonys consoles are hackable, despite efforts to stopping it. willing to guess that another SD express exploit will be found, as one was already found late last year, and the switch 2 is one of the devices that uses it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the deck was released during covid, so it was in the best interest to valve to actually sell the device to people looking to actually buy and play games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  steam deck afaik only checked if you have ever purchased a steam game to prioritize. as those with new accounts or never purchased a game would be a red flag on whether they actually want the device for themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.

• ⁨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:

  the problem at least in the shortrun, is that if you got that many ssds running in single lane on a consumer platform at the likely inflated cost the drives would be, it would almost be cheaper just to get the workstation platform at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ill try to name things most people havent played.

  I heavily recommend people to try Downhill Domination. think like snowboard kids or mario kart(specifically mount wario or dk mountain tracks) but on mountain bikes. Silly bike combat with soo many side paths for players to try to forge their own way on winning a race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i actually think its not the worst priced framework product ironically. Prebuilt 1k pcs tend to be something like a high end cpu + 4060 desktop anyways, so specs wise, its relatively speaking, reasonable. take for example cyberpower pcs build here, which is of the few oems iirc Gamers Nexus thinks doesn’t charge as much of a SI tax on assembly. it’s acutally not incredibly far off performance wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the model clearly was designed around to cut coat corners and imo, meant to partially replace their chromebook line. using the older 13th gen cpu, ontop of having features like a kensington lock makes it sound like its the cheap option for school leasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they already announced pricing for them.

  1099 for the base ai max model with 32gb(?), 1999 for fully maxed with the top sku.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its used to mean a new product that you specifically have to keep track of. e. g if you found framework desktops in a store, it wouldnt all be sold under 1 sku. all 3 ram capacities would be 3 different bar codes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  qbits in general yes. with traditional computing, a state is either on (powered) or off(unpowered). the fundamental idea of quantum physics, but also quantum computing, is that there are other aspects of an electron that can be measured and changed. which direction it spins, its offset, what direction its poles are etc.

  with more different “states” that an electron can be in that can be measured, you can get that many times more data, per electron.

  so in laymans terms when comparing it to a lightbulb, at a given moment in time you not only care about if the light is off or on, but what color it is, what brightness it is, how hot it is, if its making a noise, what shape its making. fundamentally speaking, having more states means you can describe something faster since youre sending out more measurable data at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  to most people (including myself, who did take college level modern physics. course), explaining the standard model of elementary particles, is way too high of a level regardless.

  its like being given scifi names and terminology, and then suddenly finding out theyre real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i work in refurbishment of the leased devices. basically laptops are either bought, or returned to a 3rd party business, to be processed and resold to a business who resells, or to another business that wants cheap devices .

  these are businesses, there wont be a demand drop because business’ do not behave like consumers. a good chunk of them will at times, buy things they might not need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the majority of laptops dont come from companies like acer. the majority of them are leased by dell/lenovo/hp to businesses. all this does is hurt acer. and businesses require the laptops to function so the major total of laptops isnt changing much.

  also tariffs doesnt automatically create rise of US production. it can also have the opposite effect. E.g during trumps last term, boutique case maker CaseLabs went out of business due to tariffs on aluminum prices. You know which case companies survived? the ones that kept production in asia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hence why i kinda wanted to put “small” in emphasis, because small today isn’t the same as small before. its still small enough that it can be used in one hand though, just on the edge of it. Almost everything else is larger than it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the A series is smallish, the last small android phone was probably the Asus Zenfone 10, then Asus axed that line and merged the Zenfone line and ROG phone line and followed the ROG phones size. A phones however aren’t flagship so theyd fail the check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  rip Pat Gelsinger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They weren't wrong in the first post though⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. nothing free will ever be best, because you are the product

  2. best heavily depends on usecase, and not all usecases are covered by the “best choices”

  for piracy, you need vpns that dont keep logs, and allow port fowarding(a feature not all vpns support)

  for privacy from governments, especially western ones, people want vpns hosted in countries outside of the five/nine/fourteen eyes alliance

  for example, a common VPN choice that covers both usecases is Proton VPN, as i believe its swiss hosted, does not keep logs and has a form of port fowarding. someone using a vpn for privacy might not care about the use for piracy or vice versa, so they may spend time looking for vpns that give more value for their usecase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But what’s the alternative?

  the government hosting their own social media like how some college campus’ have their own mastadon server specifically for their universities news. It’s not like other organizations haven’t already done it before. Spin your own server, and in your alerts, link your own mastodon server, which should not require user login to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  personally i dont even know if my mom even knows how to remotely wire money digitally, or even understand what a gift card is. if shes ever given me money, it was always in person. it makes me a terrible candidate, at least if youre trying to scam my parents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its the mannerism that matters on the phone.

  the other part is for a scammer to create a model using broken english/asian language, which on its own, is a huge hurdle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my family knows i hate using the phone in the first place so me calling without good reason is a red flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily say it is or isnt spotifies fault, but how I see it is music kinda changed due to the digital age. Before the digital age, most people mostly needed to get into, or the eyes of a record label to get anywhere, and that had its fair share of dirty laundry (e.g whats happening with P Diddy). The digital age flipped the book around, where being able to publish music nowadays is extremely easy, but the problem is you’re competing against a wave of other users. It’s also significantly more expensive to do live concerts nowadays too (which is completely separate from spotify) as more and more concerts are getting canceled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just beat Luigi's Mansion for the first time! Happy (almost) Halloween everyone!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i dont think it was that spooky going in blind (except the basement of THAT house I was NOT prepared for and got jumpscared)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mixture of housing supply shortage, empty homes, fucked investments, a bit of zoning laws, and nimbyism, and airbnb

  housing supply shortage

  younger generations want to live in cities because thats where both employment and “fun” is reletively speaking. the demand is very high for limited space.

  empty homes

  in some areas, there are homes that are completely empty, some due to negligence, inheritance and some just to artificially decrease supply. to put an example, San Jose, CA legitimately has more empty homes than it does homeless.

  fucked investments/nimbyism

  some people see housing as an investment instead of putting it into stocks. the investments keeps proces high because its seen as profit rather than a basic necessity to live. people who own houses will use all their power to prevent more houses to be built because more home lowers procing because of more supply.

  zoning laws

  some places, they restrict building to strictly residential or strictly commercial building. as WFH becomes more mainstream more land needs to be made as residential land. or remove the zoning alltogether

  airbnb

  airbnb gets you more money in popular areas. it takes away a potenial home for a local worker in favor for maximum investments, which is bad for the city, because it circumvents hotel taxes, and takes away potential income tax from someone who would have lived and worked in the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason why when people were saying they wanted competition to unseat x86, I didn’t want it to be ARM based, because I knew 100% that ARM would jump in and do some shit to rake in more profit and negate all the potential cost savings to the consumer.