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  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • Microsoft (and Sony) have done a terrible job of understanding the console market.

    They sell consoles so they can loss-leader you into making it up on licensed games.

    You buy a console so you can get a canned consistent experience for less than a PC. In the past, it was also for bespoke hardware that could do something a random PC couldn't easily and exclusive titles.

    In 2026, these advantages are gone. Since Xbone/PS4, you're just looking at a standard AMD desktop in a funny box. It comes in too many flavours with real performance differences. Only a few titles are still exclusive. You can spend $500 and still not have the Best Console Experience, so why not spend $700 for a PC?

    Of course Xbox and PS are flailing in that market.

    Nintendo hardware avoids those pitfalls. There's no "Switch 2 Pro" scenario where some games are meaningfully jankier. The hardware is profitable, and it's still comfortably less than a basic dGPU computer. So there's still a niche for it below the full gaming PC buyer.

    They've also been more willing to exploit "we control the hardware and software together" opportunities for only-here experiences. Since the Kinect died, has there been a major gameplay paradigm that required an Xbox or PS to deliver?

    Nintendo could port games to the PC but they won't exploit the detachable controllers or portable aspects of a Switch, so many of the ports would be lesser.

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  • They're also tiny. I had one land on my arm recently and it was maybe 7mm in the lobgest dimension when fully stretched out.

    So big "u wot mate?" energy with the tiny waving pincers.

  • Has anyone used Void Linux? What was your experience?

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  • I use it as a desktop. I like that it's free of the nasty surprises of modern Linux (flatpak/snaps, systemd, X11 is still pretty first-class) while not feeling quite as isolated as Slackware and its sort of pre-broadband approach to packaging.

    My biggest issue was poor support for an old Epson scanner that rewuired a binary package that wouldn't install cleanly as it was designed for Debian; solved by buying a $10 used Canon scsnner which worked out of the box.

    I like it better than Devuan for a non-systemd distribuition because, as its own thing, you don't end up with as many "do I need to follow the Standard Debian guides or do something special" questions.

  • RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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  • Wouldn't two half-sized sticks perform better?

    I thought dual-channel RAM was a thing at least as far back as the original Socket A nForce chipset.

  • Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows

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  • Yeah, but it was the norm prior to 1909 and was a little more aspirational than "he just got perforated, let's slap his face on the half dollar."

  • Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows

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  • What's sad is that the obverse of the 250th dime is probably the best of the redesigns. For the first time since 1946, we'd have a circulating coin with an idealized figure of Goddess Liberty instead of a dead politician.

    The typography is atrocious though. And the lack of a cohesive design language sucks. The Charles III coinage from the UK are so much better as a thematic set.

  • LLM Idolatrine: Why no one wants your agentic PRs

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  • One huge issue is that LLMs do weird and stupid things differently than how humans do them.

    If you've developed an eye for reading human-made changes, you're not necessarily going to recognize new and surprising failure modes as easily. It's literally harder than regular code review.

    Humans with modern tooling, for example, rarely hallucinate field/class/method/object names because non-spicy autocomplete keeps them on the rails. LLMs seem much more willing to decide the menu bar is .menuBar and not .topMenu, probably because their training corpus is full of the former.

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Many things still fall back to VGA, like old projectors.

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • Trying to sell consumers on "scaling solves everything" is going to be a hard sell.

    If we look at general purpose computation, which had decades of actual scaling-solves-everything growth, you had two influences that made the message resonate with customers:

    • Clear existing applications where more power made the experience straightforward better. Your spreadsheet took an hour to recalculate at 8MHz and 20 minutes at 25MHz. A lot of the "bigger model" stuff is plateauing with marginal or spotty gains. If I feed another 5 Internets of data to ChatGPT, will that summarized email be that much better?
    • New applications that could be demoed on specialised low capacity hardware and scaled down to consumers as more power became available. Think of early CGI on hardware costing tens of millions, and now you can run Blender on a $149 laptop. Since most commercial AI plays are hosted services, there's not much opportunity to tease that way anymore.

  • What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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  • I figured SDF were the sort of people who would consider uptime a badge of honour.

    I should probably be on Hexbear but I didn't know of its existence at the time. Very problematic, my Xibuck direct deposits keep bouncing.

  • Decisions, decisions...

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  • Transhumanity would be exciting if they had cool visions. I'd be all over raising a creche of draconic children.

    But no, it's just rich people gluing a Palm Pilot to their cerebrllum or doing a dance to shoo away the reaper.

  • It looks delicious

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  • The Crystalline Entity was made of rock candy, I bet.

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • The difference was that Amazon knew how to make a profit, but was reinvesting into infrastructure plays and bigger fish.

    If they had to, they could have been a modestly profitable bookshop in 2002. AWS and monster logistics might not have developed to put them in the 13-digit club though.

    Does any AI-centric play have that fundamental fallback? The services that seem to be most effective at direct monetization, the coding tools, are typically running at huge losses. If they raised costs to cover, precious few firms will pay basically the salary of a senior dev for an emulation of an enthusiastic junior dev with an affinity for footguns.

    The less enterprise-focused products-- parasocial toys, image and video gen, will likely try to dip into consumer subs and advertising, but can that generate the cash volumes these platforms demand?

  • Keyboard latency

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  • The "default" mode for a USB keyboard allows submitting 6 keys + modifiers. Some boards define nontraditional input descriptors that allow more, but that mode is not guaranteed to work in places like the BIOS menu or naive KVM switches.

    To avoid phantom keypresses when you hit three keys in a "square" on the matrix, a diode can be placed in series with each switch so current can't go through an "indirect" route.

  • If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.

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  • There's also an execution problem.

    Truly knowing your customer might produce very different outcomes than the current compliance checkbox approach.

    "I know Fred just sold his old car. The idea he suddenly has $12k in cash is not suspicious" or "Jane's been talking about going to Montreal for momths. We should not block her card when it lights up there.". That's real KYC, but it requires human connection and human judgement, which doesn't scale and doesn't provide the right paperwork for demonstrating compliance with arbitrary mandates.

  • Senator Mark Kelly says he will 'seriously consider' running for president

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  • I think she did a poor job of saying what she brought to the table. I understand not wanting to throwJoe under the bus, but opening some daylight on policy would have given her a chance to deflect the affordability problems the last months of Biden had, for example.

  • So this is why they changed it

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  • I will say there was a period around the turn of the century where everything got very "My This, My That, My Everything" branded. I think after e-Everything but before iEverything. It felt like living in a world designed by a three-year-old in the "My" phase.

  • AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

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  • Minotaurs have some potential for badass imagery. Reverse Centaur sounds intentionally clunky.

  • VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"

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  • Going back to (x)nedit where it's safe.

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