Cost/gb doesn’t matter if you’re not using the excess space, so that’s not really the right way to look at it. Suppose a 64gb cart costs $5, 32gb costs $4, and 16gb costs $3. If a game only needs 16gb, they’d save $2, regardless of the /gb.

And of course, Switch 1 carts are still being manufactured in those sizes. Not like they’re halting all production of S1 titles overnight.

So the story is that this is because they can’t manufacture carts smaller than 64GB, but why is that? Can’t they use whatever they’ve been using for Switch 1 carts? The dual-mode Switch 2 Edition carts are cross-compatible with Switch 1, so we know it’s definitely possible to use those carts.

Everyone assumes the Switch 2 joysticks are going to have the problem because they look almost exactly the same as the Switch 1 joysticks.

I suspect that the reason Switch 1 JoyCons were so brittle had to do with the flap that dust could get under. That was changed for the Switch 2, so I think people are just way too quick to assume they’re one and the same.

So you’re just making up imaginary things to get mad at?

Third party controllers work just fine. Please don’t make up misinformation.

It would not be onerous for them to continue supporting a couple of old versions of Windows, they would just have to hire a few more people to do it.

You literally did say support.

I am aware that some corporate infrastructure is hopelessly tangled up in legacy systems. But we are talking about consumer support here, which I know you know is very different.

That’s not what I asked. You said you wanted Valve to hire people to support Windows 98. What company still supports Windows 98 like that?

Can you name any other company that supports Windows 98 in 2025?

Define what you mean by ‘crash’. What’s been happening will continue to happen, but if you’re expecting any kind of singular dramatic moment, what would that be?

I hope you stub your toe and it really really hurts.

There are more tells than just that.

Actually, the biggest tell is that for how long it is, it’s mostly noise with little signal. Some of it doesn’t even make sense, “check what instances or users you’re federated with”?

Maybe whatever automated detection service you’re using can’t reliably tell, but a human who knows what to look for can. This whole format just looks very obviously out of place compared to any typical reply you’d see on this platform.

AI writes formal. No one replies to a discussion thread in this kind of format. Where on Fedi do you see an ‘average’ that looks anything like this?

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I don’t understand streaming music as a concept. My collection of individual tracks stands at about 1,700 (clocking in at 190 hours – that is 22 hours more than a week), and there are several full albums atop that.

Streaming is very useful for people who don’t have such a curated collection already. Especially younger generations who didn’t grow up on physical media.

you don’t want to choose what you listen to

You can though? You can always pull up a specific artist, album, or track. You can even curate your own collection of favorites on these services, and shuffle from there.

But for a lot of users, there’s added value in discovery algorithms that’ll find new music for you. It is radio with extra steps, but those extra steps of telling the system what music you like and dislike do result in much better results than radio stations that weren’t tailored to your exact tastes. Before you built up your collection, how did you use to discover new music back in the day? I’m guessing probably from the radio, this is that for the current generation.

The slow death of being able to own things is sad. But unlimited access to nearly all music, with discovery tools, is a pretty dang tempting deal. The average user doesn’t really care about whether not they ‘own’ their music, just the practicality of being able to listen to music.

Consider that music piracy is way way way down compared to how rampant it was in the 2000s, because people are really happy with streaming now. There’s an old saying that piracy is a service problem, and after unsuccessfully trying to fight it head-on for so long, the industry won in the end by simply offering a better service.

Back from Too Many Games last weekend. Bit different from the FGC majors I typically attend, but it was right in my backyard so I had no reason not to check it out.

We had a five man Melty Blood Type Lumina bracket. Haven’t touched the game in years, I proooobably should’ve booted up the game at least once to familiarize myself with it, but I managed to fake my way to second with 214B and 236C. Once I was down 0-2 in grand finals, I went Neco Arc just to entertain the crowd.

Splatoon 3, the random pickup I formed ended up getting completely washed. Ow.

Dr. Mario, had a very good run. Format was weird though, round robin bo1 pools that are purely to determine seeding, everyone moves onto the bo5 single elim bracket regardless. They could’ve just done double elim the whole way through and it would’ve been faster (and I wouldn’t have had to miss out on Third Strike…). 3-3 in the round robin, 1-1 in bracket, very close matches, perfectly balanced as all things should be.

Between all of that I was mostly on the rhythm game cabinets grinding Chunithm, Wacca and Maimai. Then I went to Round 1 later this week to get another fix, but I had to lament the fact that Chunithm is offline and missing half the songs, Wacca is still out of order, and they don’t even have Maimai here. :(

Also managed to pick up a CIB copy of Super Puyo Puyo Tsu in fantastic condition for $20. Absolute steal, can’t believe they were practically giving that away.

Yes, we do need a word, because it’s useful to be able to describe things. That’s what language is for.

The first time you try Linux, you will have to take a little time to learn something that is new and unfamiliar to you. But this was true of the first time you tried Windows too.

The point is that it really isn’t hard to learn, and today it absolutely is easier than ever.

Cis is just the opposite of trans, but it has nothing to do with orientation. You can be cis and heterosexual, you can be cis and homosexual.