chocochunks

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by chocochunks 3mo ago
It's also been re-released on Nintendo Switch as a part of Arcade Archives.
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
They own Minecraft, Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Diablo...
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
The first few years. By the end it was supposedly profitable for Sony.
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
Even then they don't include everything on the disc. If you buy anime on Blu-ray or DVD it's really common to get both the original Japanese audio and the English dub. Even on iTunes they are often separate releases (although it l
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
No, but they're also monetizing a bunch of extra ways that they weren't in the past. In the PS2 era, Sony made money from the cut of physical games and accessories and maybe the console itself if it was purchased far enough into t
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
Yes, Kobo, Google Play Books both carry them.
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
That hasn't been my experience on SteamOS and Bazzite. Generally the keyboard pops and you can enter text, occasionally you do need to do it manually but even then text still works. On my GPD Win Mini I actually have the opposite probl
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by chocochunks 3mo ago
I can never remember the data.table syntax, every time I use it I have to re-learn it. It doesn't feel very SQL to me either. There is an interface to use tidy syntax on data.tables and get's you 90% of the speed.
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by chocochunks 4mo ago
Have you used XR glasses (e.g., from Rokid or Viture)? If so, how do they compare for that use case?
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by chocochunks 4mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/tech/942572/wwdc-2026-live-blog-ios... At least a summary of what was missed.
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by chocochunks 4mo ago
Blu-ray is more annoying. DVD has one key used forever. Blu-ray has constantly changing keys. The LibreDrive firmware still needs the new keys to decrypt the disc but the drive won't refuse (like the server drive in the article) to rea
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by chocochunks 4mo ago
That's what modern Surfaces are. The consumer models have been Qualcomm SnapDragon based since 2024, they are pretty fast, battery life is pretty good and you can do whatever you want. Although native Linux support isn't quite the
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by chocochunks 4mo ago
Forever only means 9 more years apparently.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
Only if they are DRM-free. And only if they are in a compatible format. It's a solvable problem for techies in a lot of instances but for mainstream users it's pretty close to bricking.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
It's not. It's really not. It's 14 years of you can still access the store and buy stuff. That's not that good. You can buy a DVD and it'll still work on 25+ year old players. You can still buy digital content on an
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
What's wild is they STILL haven't built a mouse with two switches for clicking. Right clicking is on all their mice/trackpads faked with things like touch sensors. They are just dead set against it for some reason even though
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
All the modern mainstream eReaders have offline dictionary support. Some of them you can add custom dictionaries to. Not sure what's special about the "Livio" apps but they do exist.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
I went to school too. Sometimes at school we would do presentations using a projector connected by HDMI, maybe you could get away with the room computer but that only had USB A ports being some ancient desktop. Sometimes we did group projec
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
I know. But iGPUs aren't there yet, and once you add a discrete GPU it becomes a lot more expensive. You can get a PS5 digital at GameStop for $400 new right now. A decent similar GPU like a Arc 580 or Radeon RX 7600 or 6600 is going t
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
No you can't. Even at the raised prices. And if your argument includes used prices don't forget you can buy used consoles too.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
Yeah, but that USB 3 port has to do a lot of heavy lifting. It 's also the only video out port making decent dongles a necessity. On a $600 PC it's not uncommon to have USB A (at 3.0 speeds), HDMI in addition to USB C and maybe ev
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
That's not how long they will provide software support. It's how long you can get a hardware repair. Some "vintage" products will get current software support but not others. Some products have lost software support befo
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
You can get DisplayPort KVMs. As a nice bonus the KVM will let you share a single mouse and keyboard set between them.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
For the SNES, from what I heard it was partially because with the flat topped NES, Nintendo of America got a lot of repairs from kids spilling soda or whatever on the NES they were using as a table. For the SNES, they deliberately made it h
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
There's some overlap. I think it probably has a bigger impact on game attach rate for a certain segment of gamer. I bought a lot less games on Switch upon getting a PC handheld, not because of price (generally I find games are pretty c
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
It's not really. The CPU in the Switch 2 isn't the most amazing and the Steam Deck has 4GB extra RAM (but it's also got a lighter OS), but the GPU is worse on Deck. Switch 2 offers pretty comparable performance in handheld mo
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
You can't play Pokopia, DK Bonanza or Mario Kart World on PC. Even with a 5090. You also can't play Cyberpunk 2077 on the plane or train with a 2nd hand desktop unlike the Switch 2.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
Shareware died before Steam. Steam launched in 2003 and didn't sell any 3rd party games until 2005. Nobody gave a shit about shareware in 2003. Nobody gave a shit about shareware in 2010 when Steam seriously became useful as a place to
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
Microsoft had to bundle an Xbox gaming mode to compete. It's not a normal app.
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by chocochunks 5mo ago
Why? With Bazzite and similar that's kind of the whole point of them existing. Just installing Steam from Flathub or the repo is not going to get the same level of integration (gaming mode, etc.). Bazzite works really well on my PC han

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