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This is the only reason I have Yuzu installed - I own Tears of the Kingdom legitimately but the Switch is such a piece of underpowered, overpriced junk that I'll never replay the game on real hardware, when I can instead be playing at 1440p and 60fps with all kinds of enhancements on PC.

While that's a fair point, I also have to wonder how much of that is actually lost sales, vs. people who wouldn't have bought the games otherwise, or didn't have a Switch to play on, or etc.

Personally, I paid for a copy of Tears of the Kingdom when it came out, but only because I had a Switch I could borrow from someone to play it on - if I hadn't had that option, I wouldn't have bought a Switch just to play one game, and I just wouldn't have bought the game at all.

Had they released the game on PC as well as Switch, I would have bought it for PC, but that's not an option. As it stands, either you have to own an overpriced and underpowered console, even if you only want to play one Nintendo game, or you can pirate the game and play it on PC, and have a much better experience than on a real Switch. Nintendo is somewhat bringing this upon itself in my opinion and I don't feel much sympathy for their lost profits, real or imagined.

Nintendo's been a horrible company in this regard for ages. Personally I've never given them money besides for Tears of the Kingdom when it released - I don't even own a Switch, I borrowed one to play it. They make good games sometimes but that's the first and last time they're getting any money from me.

Sounds like they need to hire more lawyers to argue that the first set of lawyers' pay is excessive.

IRC is not a suitable platform for anything in 2024 in my opinion. I've also never used Matrix and it doesn't seem to be catching on either. I gave up on using forums years ago as well, because why would I want to make a forum post asking for help, only to get a single response hours later, when I can chat with other users in real-time on Discord.

Personally I think that as valid as some of the issues with using Discord for FOSS are, there isn't a better platform for a community to interact with each other on. Sure, projects shouldn't be using Discord for everything, there should be documentation and stuff available online, but for fluid discussion and getting help from others users, I don't see any decent alternatives.

Very impressive spreadsheet, I appreciate the link.

The GCloud and the Razer Edge are both significantly more expensive than the PS Portal if I recall correctly though. The Abxylute does seem similar in price, although I'm guessing the PS Portal likely has better controls (being essentially a Dualsense split in half) and maybe a better screen.

Also yeah, Steam Link would work too but Moonlight/Sunshine generally seems to work better.

If running a moonlight client on one becomes possible, I might be actually interested in buying one, just for casual gaming at home. The Steam Deck looks great but is pretty expensive and a little overkill when I could just stream from my desktop to a less powerful device.

The streamers and viewers that will be affected by this are Twitch users, not Amazon users, so of course it makes sense that this is Twitch announcing it to their userbase and not Amazon.

Part of why I like CS so much vs modern 'live service' games is that I can play whenever I feel like it and I never feel like I'm missing out on something happening, and when I come back after not playing for weeks or months, everything's the way it was when I left.

I don't think you can dismiss 1.8 million concurrent players on CS:GO back in May of this year as just "peer pressure or nostalgia". Plenty of people obviously still find it extremely fun, myself included.

Cobbled together or not, the app is functional, has an awesome UI and I love that I don't have to leave the app to actually read articles. Awesome work!

Been using Harmonic daily for a few years now and I love it so much, it's an incredibly well made app. Thanks for making it, awesome that it's open source now as well!

Looks like this site just scraped a Fox Business article and edited it to misspell the hacker's name and swap the pronouns used in the article? Not really sure what the point of any of that would be but the original article is here: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/tsa-no-fly-list-discove...

I'm not sure I really understand what the purpose of Passage's product is - doesn't webauthn already do what they're doing? It looks like they're using webauthn too, so is this just a wrapper around it?

It's the market that's unhealthy. Samsung and Apple are really the only big players at this point - Sony has sub 1% market share, Asus likely even less. OnePlus is owned by OPPO and together they have about 9% market share. Samsung is the only brand that is actually able to compete with Apple.

Indeed. I'm a staunch Android user, but I seriously envy iPhone users for the Apple Watch. Nobody else has put the same level of care and resources into their smartwatch and if it wasn't for a myriad of personal dealbreakers I have with Apple products, I'd be tempted to switch to iPhone to be able to have an Apple Watch.

Exactly. While Apple's special tools might be the best ones to use, It really seems like a way for Apple to frame stuff like iFixit tools in a bad light. Suddenly hair dryers and microwave beanbags are only for hackjob poor quality repairs now that Apple's fancy screen press or whatever is available to rent.

Reading through the comments sections on MacRumors posts pertaining to the toolkit, plenty of people are seemingly very eager to jump to disparaging iFixit, their tools, and any repair store that doesn't have Apple's fancy expensive tools just because they're not doing it "the right way".

This is frankly an astounding take - People like Louis are actively trying to increase the longevity of Apple products with stuff like right to repair.

Louis points out issues with Apple products and somehow he's a bad guy for that? Informing consumers is somehow bad because you think that people should only buy iPhones? Give me a break.

I find it hard to believe that BAYC is successful because of the art, personally I think they're rather ugly and I know that a lot of people would feel the same.

I think a more likely reason for their success is that they're an easily recognizable series that's known to be expensive; people buy them for the clout. NFTs are fundamentally about clout, and one-off NFTs just don't have the same clout value when used as a Twitter profile or whatever, regardless of the art quality.

A more practical and commonly used solution would be to use a cheap laptop to remote into a desktop computer. I've known people who've used chromebooks for this exact purpose.

I suppose one could just block port 53 outbound, forcing you to use the local DNS server

Spotify also predates Apple Music and has always been more popular than Google's scattered offerings

Like what? Blackberry OS and Windows Phone are dead. There aren't any feasible smartphone platforms out there besides iOS and Android, unless you think your average consumer should be buying a Pinephone or something (and I wouldn't consider that anywhere close to feasible anyways).

Something isn't easy if it's expensive.

The defeatist mentality from my perspective is arguing that we shouldn't try to make locked down stuff less locked down.

And in many cases, you don't have a choice to use Signal or etc. What if all your contacts are using iMessage? Sure, most of them will have SMS, but that's not guaranteed. There will always be edge cases of users who are locked in due to situations outside of their control. Shouldn't we be trying to make things less locked down for them?

There's a lot more than just free apps to consider in this scenario.

Paid apps will have to be re-purchased, your Airpods won't work as well, your Apple Watch won't work at all with Android, you won't be able to message your contacts who use iMessage without SMS, etc.

iPhone owners tend to buy into the Apple ecosystem which ends up being a whole bunch of vendor lock in, and it becomes unreasonable to switch platforms. The ability to switch to Android certainly doesn't give Apple a free pass here.

20 years is very extreme. It's not realistic for anyone to support 20 year old hardware.

This is super cool, I've had the idea to do the same thing for a while now, but never bothered to try. Really cool to see it realized and in action!

Points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 can be fairly easily mitigated by just encrypting your backups, especially if you're using something like Duplicati which will do it automatically.

For 8, cloud storage services like Backblaze B2 can mail you a hard drive with all your data on it. I believe with B2 you can also return the drive afterwards and get your deposit on it back.