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by philistine 2mo ago
> If GOG went down tomorrow, those games would be gone just the same as the Steam ones Absolutely not. Libraries and archives are able to keep digital copies, with limits imposed on how they may share them, not on what they're allow
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by philistine 2mo ago
You got it mostly right. It's Android, then iOS, then Windows. It is still the number one PC OS, in terms of active users and sales. MacOS is a distant second. Of course in 2026, if you want to make money as a developer selling directl
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by philistine 2mo ago
I presume Chrome on Mac still reports OS X as its OS, even when running a newer version. It is such a ridiculous idea not to put that together.
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by philistine 2mo ago
It’s a common fear. People constantly mention it on HN every time the advice to keep a TV off the internet is mentioned. Yet we have never seen proof by anyone, not once, that it has happened. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evid
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by philistine 2mo ago
Apple has long term contracts for every part that goes in the most complex supply chain on the planet. Do you think they call their suppliers every morning asking for 2 million chips? Their price increases were a mixture of absorbing some o
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by philistine 2mo ago
as a mac user who does suffer from the insanity of compiled for Mac, but never tested on a Mac , thank you.
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by philistine 3mo ago
The thing is Apple designs its own ARM cores. They don't use the vibrant ecosystem of ARM for all the important parts of the CPU; they compete with it on their own and manage to win. They only pay a small amount per device for an archi
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by philistine 3mo ago
Those two resistors cost money. It's not incompetence. It's a deliberate choice.
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by philistine 3mo ago
That’s why I love the Nova.app model. You pay for a year of releases, but if you unsubscribe you keep the latest version when your subscription was active. It’s the best/worst of both worlds!
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by philistine 3mo ago
I was asked to do that in my hometown with a girl I had never met before. It’s not only tourists, and it’s not only in foreign places. BTW, that girl had to be 5% handsy with me to sell the lie, and when I met her real boyfriend that same
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by philistine 3mo ago
Yes, invented much later, but the expression of a different power structure that those types of Romans felt was not present. But to our modern eyes it was. Hell, the mere fact the centre of power was in Constantinople and not Rome is proof
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by philistine 3mo ago
The best of Microsoft's naming schemes, now coming to your LLM chatbot.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Apple now designs its own modems, and its TSMC that fabs them. OP is asking if Broadcom might start fabbing those modems. This is not the case here, but you seem to ignore the fact Apple is a modem designer now.
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by philistine 3mo ago
It’s not literally the map of the game: it’s about what the player can do. A square means total freedom. A star means freedom to choose guarded experiences with internal choices.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Microsoft's executives lacked time to be hands-on with every acquisition. They were very involved in the decision process at the big studios, and the favoured children, but left the smaller studios without enough input.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Game Pass' finances ignored the one true thing about streaming services: they weren't going after the people buying DVDs, they were going after the people paying for cable. Cable subscribers did not exist in gaming, and so Game Pa
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by philistine 3mo ago
Nintendo finally implemented a modern update system that installs the new version in a new volume, reboots you into that volume, and deletes the old one once booted. It's why it's so fast. The work happened before you pressed upda
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by philistine 3mo ago
Nope. There are no new levels on 3DS.
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by philistine 3mo ago
The previously unreleased Starfox 2 is not a retelling, it is a proper story sequel. That is the one game where you're wrong, every single other game is a remake, with Starfox Zero the most tenuous one, but still a reimagining. They&#x
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by philistine 3mo ago
Metroid has more duds than hits. Metroid Prime 4 is par for the course for the franchise.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Pokopia and Tomodatchi only look like sandboxes at first glance. They are far more directed. They're not a perfect square with you in the middle. They're a star shape with you in the middle.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Console generations are a cultural construct. And just like the bit wars of the 90s, they are cultural constructs that cannot explain the current situation. We have not left the PS4 era. Both Sony and Microsoft use modern CPU and GPU in t
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by philistine 3mo ago
> near launch How can you say that? No credible reporting has proven that there ever will be a version of GTA 6 on a disc. The physical versions that are announced will all consist of a one-time code.
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by philistine 3mo ago
The fact that electricity was quickly commoditized does not guarantee that AWS will commoditize.
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by philistine 3mo ago
It’s your politicians who are crooked beyond belief, and have been for a long time. In the early 90s, Jean Chrétien was caught on a hot mike incident decrying that American politicians make sure that every vote they give has a local benefit
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by philistine 3mo ago
You misunderstand the security apparatus required to prevent spam if you believe that IP matching is sufficient.
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by philistine 3mo ago
Yeah no. All chips in computers, tablets, etc. have hardware decode. Intel chips have hardware decode. AMD, Arm, Raspberry Pi, what have you.
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by philistine 3mo ago
That's only for updates. The initial install must come from the eShop. That's not different for game key cards. When you first put a card in, you need to download the game from eShop. No exceptions.
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by philistine 3mo ago
People have convinced themselves that game key cards are terrible, when they're the exact same thing as the old style of cartridges, with the only difference that you don't have the 1.0 on it. People are convinced that game key ca
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by philistine 3mo ago
On a microcontroller doing nothing else sure. But on a phone, a tablet, a laptop, you absolutely want hardware decode to preserve your battery life.

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