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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Holdovers from when “don’t be evil” was still a thing.

Both Android and Chromium are rapidly deteriorating in regards to FOSS. Yes, they are technically FOSS, but in the stranglehold of Google who keep carving away more and more freedoms.

Just consider Google Play Integrity and Manifest v3 (in regards to e.g. Adblocking) as two obvious examples.

If Google could, they’d instantly close the Android sources and remove the ability to adblock on Chromium.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
80 cents for how much initial value?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever trick to Un tangle a spool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The last uncleanly-wound spool I had was in 2018. I haven’t paid more than €25 per kg ever, usually €15-20.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever trick to Un tangle a spool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Never had a pre-tangled spool. Tangles happen if someone lets go of the end.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Vorons still the best DIY printers in 2026?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Hot take: open-source top-tier printers are a thing of the past.

We are so far by now that companies can make out-of-the-box amazing printers for far cheaper and more high-quality than any DIY solution.

You can still DIY and get freedom, customizability and repairability for it, but you can’t DIY to get the best and/or cheapest solution anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I fear not so. Maybe for easy stuff. But when it comes to actual troubleshooting, Lemmy is severely limited by its tiny user base.

(There’s only about 40k monthly active users on Lemmy, and that number includes bot accounts. For comparison, that’s fewer active users than the Crackberry forum or the LTT forum. Reddit has over a billion of daily active users, so around 25 000x as many as Lemmy.)

Chances are there’s nobody on Lemmy who uses the same hardware, the same distribution and the same DE as me, so if I need help debugging an issue that’s specific to my combination, I’m out of luck.

Even on Reddit the same is true for many issues. While there might be someone with my exact combination who might even know the answer, that person first has to stumble across my post among the millions of posts that are created every hour on Reddit.

So chances are if you ask a deeper question than “How do I copy files” you will not get an answer. Instead you likely will just get snark and “RTFM noob!”

In fact, even though I have been using Linux for well over a decade now, I ran across a problem I couldn’t debug: Games would run fine on my 4070 today, but they’d randomly slow to a crawl (multiple seconds per frame) the next day. I’m a Linux software developer, so I know how to go about this. Reboots and all the usual stuff didn’t help. Logs didn’t show anything relevant. Google didn’t help either. I asked on Stackexchange, but the question was closed as duplicate to an entirely unrelated question. By the time I got it reopened, it was so far down the queue that it didn’t get any answers. Asking on Reddit just got me “Lol, noob, RTFM, works on my machine”-type of answers.

So I bit the bullet after about a year of getting nowhere and asked AI, and the first answer got me to the right track.

Turns out, flatpak keeps its own copy of the Nvidia driver. This version needs to be identical to the system driver version. If it’s not, the GPU isn’t used at all and instead it falls back to software rendering. So if I do dnf update and it updates the GPU driver, it breaks the performance. Running flatpak update && reboot fixes it again. So any time I ran dnf update without flatpak update && reboot after it, it would break the performance. And I often ran flatpak update first.

AI reall can help debugging weird issues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You have to differentiate between a monopoly in economics and a monopoly in law.

In economics a monopoly is the only seller of a good with no other competition. If I am the only one who owns apple trees, I got a monopoly on apples.

In law a monopoly is someone who owns so much of the market that they can charge unfair prices. If I am the only one who owns large orchards full of the best kind of apple trees, it doesn’t really matter to me that someone else has a couple mediocre trees in their backyard. I am not a economics-monopoly, since someone else is also selling apples, but I hold enough of the market that I can set the price to whatever I want.

(Ok, the analogy isn’t perfect, but you get it, I hope. Basically the “excess market power” thing you talked about is the legal definition of a monopoly.)

Customers don’t necessarily need to be end customers. If steam is charging their business customers too much, that counts too. (It also affects the end customers too, btw.)

So the question is: If I don’t release a game on steam, will that cause it to underperform significantly? If so, does steam charge a lot above market price? If both of these questions are answered with yes, a lawsuit could be successful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hiroshima scientists turn any smartphone into a radiation detector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I guess if you want an automatic alarm, that could be useful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Buying a home is out of reach for a ton of people in their 30s and 40s right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believing you will retire before you die now requires the same faith as believing in heaven⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The thing is, there’s no clear cutoff when you are so old that you become a burden.

If you are unlucky, you might hit that at age 50. If you are lucky you might make it to 90 while being fully self-sufficient.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That is the title from the news article. It might not be how good journalism would work, but copying the title of the source is pretty standard in most news aggregator communities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Might be a digestion issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you call your community with their url, it tells you what you're about to "see" -- c/NWSL becomes see NWSL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I’m going to c/politics. Yeah you sure are, buddy, you’re gonna see all those US only politics, because obviously “lemmy.world/c/politics” cannot be about world politics. US is the only place in the world that matters, right?

FTFY
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Btw, most browsers allow you to disable video auto-play in the settings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I usually try and pick up a console a few years after its done. Its usually cheap and the nostalgia wave hasn’t hit yet. At that point its probably been hacked and the store shut down so I feel no qualms aquiring games however I see fit. Though there seems little reason to do so after the 360 and PS3 since most games play on pc too now.

That’s what I do too, but there’s a sweet spot. I got a bunch of New 3DS XL for the family just before the eshop closed, and I paid €80-100 for each of them. That made sense to me. But paying €300+ doesn’t make sense to me.

DS and 3DS are hard to replicate well on a single screen device. So i get those, but there are newer handheld emulators with dual screens. Nintendo also keeps shutting down 3DS emulators so progress is slow. Vita emulation is still in its infancy.

DS/3DS emulation works well enough with a phone and a portrait mode controller attachment. That way you get the stacked screen layout and it’s handheld too. And the screen is way better too, which is especially noticeable if you compare it to running DS games on the 3DS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I like the attitude!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
These old consoles are 100% better on emulators with stuff like fast forward, save states, upscaling and in the case of the mobile ones, decent screens.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

In general playing games on original hardware is going to be a better experience than running it in an emulator.

Tbh, I think that depends. On the 3DS it does make more sense, you are right, especially if you want the 3D effect. That one is really not replicable.

On a New 2DS XL without the 3D effect, I don’t know… Most games I played don’t really use the touch screen a lot (though that obviously depends on the games) and a phone with a portrait-mode controller can replicate the dual-screen quite well.

But yeah, everyone has their own preferences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought a 3DS XL last year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Who cares?

Stop posting drunk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought a 3DS XL last year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In that case, take that issue up with your boss. Has nothing to do with what we are talking about here.

Please take your drunk rear and go annoy someone else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, I don’t mean why do they have more money and thus can afford stuff.

The question is why is the original console worth so much more to them than the alternatives?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have a Wii U too, but I got that thing for €60 back then.

If I would be getting into that right now, I’d just load up CEMU (or other emulators) onto my living room PC. That one also works with Wiimotes and other Bluetooth controllers. It also nicely plays PS1 and PS2 games (haven’t tried anything newer yet). Setting up these emulators was super easy so far.

On the Wii U I don’t have to fuss with emulators, but instead I have to hack the console and fuss with whatever’s the current homebrew solution. (Btw, I should really update some time. I’m sure I am way outdated by now.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

(for whatever reason)

That’s exactly what I want to know :)

I mean, for people who can’t or don’t want to afford original hardware, there’s more than enough options out there, so I’m not questioning why someone sells these things for those prices. I’d just like to know why someone pays that much.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought a 3DS XL last year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The cheapest way for a quality emulation experience is probably a phone with a portrait-mode game controller attachment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought a 3DS XL last year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What do I care if you dropped a DS in a toilet?

Stop posting while drunk. You are obviously not smart enough to make sense while drunk.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought a 3DS XL last year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Stop posting while drunk.

I guarantee you that I’ll never attempt to fix any of this N e-waste ever again anyways.

Who cares? Nobody forces you, if you don’t want to, don’t do it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Phone attached controller might be cheaper, but surely you can see that its a significantly worse experience than a properly built console?

I do have some of my old consoles still, specifically a Gameboy Color and a New 3DS XL. I also have a Razr Kishi v2 smartphone controller.

The Kishi+phone easily beats the original GBC in every metric except of nostalgia. When it comes to the 3DS, it’s slightly more mixed, since I can’t use the Kishi in portrait mode, so emulating both screens on top of each other is difficult.

I did try another controller in vertical mode (can’t remember what it was called, a friend of mine let me try it) and there the experience was actually better on the emulator than on the real device, except of the missing 3D graphics. But other than that, performance was better on the emulator (especially Pokemon games struggle on OG hardware), the screen was much better.

Might be a bit more mixed for games that require precise touch input, but none of the games I played actually need that.

Especially now that online play has been discontinued on the 3DS, emulators aren’t that far behind.

And the biggest advantage: saving a few hundred Euros for the controller compared to the original hardware.

But that’s of course only my view, and that’s why I was asking for other people’s experiences, because I want to understandtand their reasoning.

In terms of second hand consoles, yes, no warranty, but, it’s still not messing around with emulators, it should play the games largely as expected.

Ease of use? Yeah, I guess that’s fair, especially if you aren’t hacked. Once you hack the console, it’s just as much hassle as dialing in an emulator…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sorry, that was a bit of a misunderstanding. A MISTer makes sense to me. I was talking about newer original retro consoles. Something like a DS/3DS, PSP, Wii, Wii U, PS3. These things are now often more expensive in mediocre second-hand condition than they were new back when they were new, and that’s what I don’t really understand.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Depends on the handheld, but most of the older handhelds have easily replaceable batteries.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Buying a complete product means you don’t have to mess around with emulators not working quite right, and if it doesn’t work, you can just return it.

Can you return second-hand consoles?

Expensive is relative to income. 300eur is not much money for some. Also, 300eur is cheaper than a steam deck…

True, but I mostly meant relative to other devices you could use instead. The cheapest option would probably to get a phone-attachment controller for maybe €50-100 and connect that to the phone you already have.