What makes the switch genius level of engineering is the Switch System Software microkernel architecture. When the switch plays a game, it doesn’t have bloated tasks running in the background to render some ads in some shop app you probably won’t visit while playing, but only plays the game. This approach is totally mandatory to get anything to run on the switch’s ancient hardware, but it is also so beautiful and rare to see today from a technical point of view. Where Xbox and PlayStation are directly derived from a multi-purpose desktop PC, the switch is more closely related with consoles and handhelds of the past.

Therefore a lot of flashy UI elements pulling information from the Internet or animating with some “expensive” (in a performance sense) effects aren’t really feasible, since these would hog up system resources the switch doesn’t have to spare and isn’t even designed to be able to spare. I hope when Nintendo updates the switch they keep this philosophy alive and this would very probably lead to another clean UI.

Genuine questions: what are your fears about these definitions? Are the mlem developers using community contributions unfairly and gaining money off of other people‘s work under that license? Is the current definition worse than Apollo + Reddit (both proprietary as far as I know) for the consumer?

My Joycons have survived BotW, AC:NH, Three Houses, Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime, which I all played religiously. But they finally started drifting during my early hours of TotK. I just bought the Gulikit ones, switched them in less than half an hour. Great experience, no complaints, just not drifting joy cons.

I‘m not here to shit on EVs. Tesla just makes some really bad calls. My ICE has a key hidden inside the fob I can use to unlock my car. This isn’t something EVs couldn’t do, just something Tesla doesn’t think about doing because they want to have all the margin and anything redundant means slightly higher BOM.

While I agree with this thing being a propaganda piece, Tesla is often making this laughably easy, with their total disregard for basic security, safety and redundancy. Some manufacturer needs to step up as “the face of EVs”, because Tesla is giving everyone in the industry a bad rep.

Genki themselves have been the ones to identify the shoddy implementation of USB-C PD by Nintendo: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/ckaiiv/an_engineers_pov_on_the_3rd_party_dock_switch/

And while Genki addressed the specific issue of power switching and cross signaling with that one specific chip, they didn’t address the USB-C protocol errors the Switch reportedly has. Having a charger physically able to output more than 18W has a residual risk of frying the switch, since the switch is not guaranteed to negotiate PD correctly.

I know this is an emotional topic coming down to either “I never had my switch bricked!” vs. “My switch was bricked by wisps!” and I don’t really care what you put into your switch. But if one would want to be safe, only the original charger/dock is guaranteed to work as expected.

So much this. Merc mini-redemption from lower midfield to fighting again is the most fun I had in ages with F1

Sure, I didn’t meant to discourage any development of grouping communities, I just don’t think developers will risk a full featured solution just for Lemmy at large to develop something different, they need to reconcile in the future.

Additionally: While spez’s reasoning isn’t sound on the matter, it IS true, that user generated content is highly valuable to AI firms. With ChatGPT out the door, we shouldn’t expect anything to be written after a date a few years back to be written by a human. But this means these data sources aren’t “clear” from generating a feedback loop: If every conversation is potentially three chat bots in a trenchcoat the fourth chat bot learning from that could be of a reduced quality. Therefore every AI firm (of which Facebook is regrettably one) needs to think about how to farm user generated content. I don’t think Zuck wants to be in the cloud business of hosting instances, at least not primarily. On the one hand he is a reliable business partner for regimes all around the world and “moderating” federated instances is a way to keep this business, on the other hand this will help Facebook to gain access to user generated conversation, and more important: potentially block competitor’s access in the future.

RE-engine Resident Evil games and remakes!

30W GaN sounds like a sure way to brick your switch when powered off.

It helps mitigate that risk to a degree, yes, but why take the risk at all? There aren’t any really good alternatives out there, that I know of, and the official dock does it’s job just fine.

I think this isn’t really mlem’s place to implement yet, as I haven’t seen it on any major Lemmy instance. What I have done (and did so with Reddit in the past): create different accounts for a collection of different topics, switching between accounts is fairly easy in mlem and wefwef for that matter.

I wouldn’t word it that strongly, but I totally get what you mean. While I love the core gameplay loop and world much, much more than botw (I was one of the very few heretics who were just lukewarm on botw, instead of seeing it as game of the millennium; while I really love totk and get why people are raving about it), I feel like Nintendo did just one virtual currency too many. Needing to collect and exchange like three or four different zonai stuff to upgrade the battery and buying building materials and fabricating premades. While still needing the shrines and korok seeds, to upgrade health and stamina, collectible currency like the poes and obviously rubies, feel like a very imbalanced in game economy, which in turn makes the grind so bad, it’s unbearable sometimes. Even though each currency in and of itself is fairly easy to grind in my opinion, just not everything at once. At the same time totk gives the illusion of a fairly creative game, where grinding isn’t even warranted. Just let me build stuff!

The nexus poster on Twitter are often technically inept (journos, real life famous people, etc.). Therefore I understand the migration to Mastodon and such going slowly. But I have high hopes for the likes of federated Reddit-alternatives, since Reddit’s audience is a much more technical crowd. The only fear I have is the FOSS community’s infamous infighting over non-issues. As long as things like Lemmy or kbin are federating, this is probably a non-issue, but as soon as two or more of the major players get hung up on something irrelevant and cannot reconcile, the party is over as soon as it began.

I am a diehard Apple fanboy and don’t see any viable alternative for any of their main product lines. But their multi monitor performance is comically bad: I have Thunderbolt docks and two monitors work fine through that from a technical perspective. Though dragging windows between monitors is not seamless and macOS even rubs it in your face with some quirky UI hints when you are “leaving” one monitor and enter another like it’s the 90s. Icons and real life data in the menu bar have had scaling issues for a decade now on the screen you are not currently active on with a window (but can still see in real life, because eyes). There is an old desktop wallpaper saved somewhere from when I first connected the monitors that stays on the second one (the first monitor has my normal wallpaper). I know I can change this independently, but why?! When opening monitor settings you can adjust things like refresh rate or color profile independently, which is nice, but each window for adjustments opens on the screen it is adjusting. Apple’s whole multi monitor experience feels clunky and dated and hasn’t been getting any improvements for years, which tells me, nobody at Apple uses multiple screens.

I have very mixed opinions about PWAs. Philosophically I love them (remember the Ubuntu phone? That would have been my iOS alternative!). But in practice most aren’t done very well and feel like a browser bookmark that has been opened from the home screen. But wefwef feels outright native, totally impressive!

Oh, I think you are right, my bad!

I had been using Feedly as well, as my GReader replacement. But they put a lot of features behind an arbitrary paywall with a few quite high. I understand people need to feed their families, but Reeder had the better value proposition for me (especially since I am already paying for iCloud storage).

Off topic, but what is going on with the air bubble in the lower left corner of the screen? Is that etched screen defect or just a screen protector?

You will receive vastly different answers by different people to that question, since different people have different requirements (and incidentally you didn’t stated yours).

My 2cts: If you want to use the Series S as your only current gen console on a nice large 4K HDR TV and expecting to be blown away by the graphics you will be disappointed, since the Series S’ graphics looks considerably worse. People may start to fight this statement, but consider this: the Series S held their own against last gen consoles quite well (even the X/Pro refreshes), since the current development for games is completely screwed we didn’t really enter current gen the first few years of this cycle, therefore Series S looked like a great value proposition. If people don’t play current games (which are just starting to begin being current gen only), they may have had a better experience with the Series S tha past few years, than they will have as soon as current gen really is upon us. The Series S - though marketed otherwise - is not a true current gen 4K console.

If you are planning to use the Series S as a companion to a PS5 either for GamePass or dipping your toes into some Xbox exclusives, I’d personally wait for Starfield to come out and get reviews how it’s performing on Series S, all other MS exclusives don’t warrant spending any money, in my opinion.

In case the Series S should accompany a switch (which is a less talked about scenario), graphical fidelity won’t really be the issue, since Series S vastly outperforms the Switch docked.

I’m very contrived situations, where one would be using a 1080p or 1440p desktop monitor and a PC not equipped for gaming or a mac, the Series S could be a nice companion for some casual gaming, but as soon as the monitor becomes too good, the Series S will hurt even more due to the short distance between the user and the screen.

Is there an update pending behind the red bubble on the settings icon?

Mlem is Great! But what really surprised me is wefwef, hands down the best PWA I’ve ever seen

We have known UbiSoft to be out of ideas and options. This seems like they are grabbing for straws. Yes, people liked Black Flag more than AC3 and more than Rogue, Unity, and Syndicate. But I don’t think the gameplay (especially the dull cities and the even worse reality levels) holds up really well today. They shouldn’t have crashed Skull and Bones as hard as they did and developed a full fledged Black Flag 2 without the AC ballast and more pirate stuff.

tl;dr: the “””unexpected””” adoption barrier are publicly available charge stations.

Just removing all mods isn’t really the answer. Mods have a purpose, removing them all will lead to chaos in some subs. The John Oliver pictures aren’t just malicious compliance, they are also a taste of things to come without mods. Maybe Automod can remove some of the worst stuff, but excessively posting flowers in a sub for cars is just as detrimental and is totally at the whim of the mods to follow up on this. Since this is all about money, I cannot see a professional moderation team in the books. Additionally professionalized content moderation is much more complicated for Reddit than it is for other companies like Facebook. They just have to check against their “community guidelines”, but Reddit has a lot of cases, where something useful in one sub can be despised in another. I’d like to know what the endgame is.

With Microsoft suddenly gaining ground with bing and Google not getting anything other than mail and search off the ground, I comfortably say: fuck Google for whatever, go shitty go broke

There are two actors who are really against WFH: on the hand hand highest echelons of management who know they probably have these buildings as part of their balance sheet and need its valuation to stay high, to borrow against. And on the other hand banks and investors who financed buildings like this and have them on their balance sheet and need its valuation to stay high to leverage against. These guys use manipulative media to make this a moral judgement call of work ethics and propagate theses ideas of „working hard = working from the office“ to middle management who are generally just regurgitating these statements. The results will be devastating, since companies acting in their or their banks‘ short term valuation interest will in turn bleed the most crucial talent left and right. I am working in and around IT and every developer or admin who is really, really good either has better WFH conditions than the rest or has a new job by now already. Everyone else comes to the office. This commercial real estate bubble needs to pop fast and WFH and voluntary hybrid models (not everyone has the office space at home or wants to WFH, some capacity should be reserved for them) become the norm, so companies can focus on their business again.

I actually don’t think this has anything to do with standing up for their users but is a simple cost/benefit analysis: building compromised E2E-communication that is still reasonably secure against bad actors is much more difficult (if not impossible) than building robust E2E-communication. Apple just doesn’t want to lose business users over headlines like „iOS messaging used by Chinese spies to steal US trade secrets“, while headlines about how difficult it is for government agencies to unlock iPhones probably drive sales. Nothing morally or ethical here, only profits.

Picking up games I am currently playing on my gaming PC like the RE-engine Resident Evils and remakes or Jedi and Hogwarts have been my best experiences so far. Yes, graphical fidelity isn’t as good, but the general seamlessness gives serious Switch vibes, but for modern games instead of the more „mobile“ feeling of the average Switch game.

I only own Linux and macOS devices, except for my gaming PC. With Steamdeck and SteamOS I am really hopeful to eliminate this last Windows installation in the next few years.

Can someone maybe post the contents?

I find it so comical, that is Nintendo fans are saying something so logical and uncontroversial, yet say it with a lot of doubt, since Nintendo could very well fuck us over for no gain at all.

Yes I think SONY will be able to shape the refresh to a degree and Slim will make much more sense than Pro. But there is some headroom left for ray tracing, maybe the Pro is focusing on that?

Switch should have been refreshed a few years ago. I’m not holding my breath Nintendo does it now.

Normally I won’t bet against Apple. They know best and if they don’t (HomePod, AirPods Max), they still do somehow down the line. They are just better at selling than anybody else in any industry ever. But I feel like the Vision Pro could be the first real and complete flop Apple has in this millennium: If they would have know how insignificant Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens are and how hard the primary vision for Zuck‘s bleakest of bleak legless corporate metaverse looks, they wouldn’t have build a headset in the first place. VR/AR/XR has a singular use case with gaming and its not really relevant there either and none of the major tech companies wants to focus primarily on that. Apple was afraid of AR dominance by Google or Microsoft a few years back, probably, and started this project, but maybe they should have written it off.

This has been an ongoing trend for years now. Microsoft wants everyone to rent GamePass instead of buying a game physically forever.

To be honest: supply chains be damned, the contracts for a PS5 Pro/Slim will have been finalized going back years, the pre production can be postponed to a degree, but it will happen in one way or another. Even Nintendo couldn’t completely stop the Switch Pro from happening in the form of the OLED, even when they realized they wouldn’t need it. The same will happen with PS5 Pro/Slim.

Getting good Apollo vibes, like this a lot!