Donkey Kong’s bananza gets fun when it gets hard, you say?

From a gamedev perspective it wouldn’t make sense to call what was happening “classic”. It was unintended behavior.

What would make more sense would be to make a setting to allow or disable the intermission sections of the race (they’d need to think of another name for them though because they call the wait time between races intermissions in the settings already). Allow players to keep or remove the long stretches.

Its $100 extra, and that’s after the artificial COVID inflation. But your point stands.

Depends entirely on the area.

Some places have 12 sitting on a shelf all weekend, others can’t keep them in stock for 5 minutes. Your area sounds like one of the 5-minute ones.

Overall this launch has had a lot more supply and/or lower demand than the Switch 1 so its been somewhat easier, but still kinda crazy.

I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.

The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.

They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.

And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.

Well, in the case of the liberux and the 9 pro, you get a lot more storage space built in (very fast storage), way more RAM, etc.

Its up to you whether that’s all worth it. To me it is, I max out sub-$400 phones very quickly. The pinephone feels very choppy to use too by comparison.

Wow, that’s quite the difference. What’s more shocking to me though is the fact that the rockchip somehow is built to handle a higher resolution than the tensor despite being weaker (8k@60fps vs 4k@60fps), and has AV1 support where the tensor doesn’t.

“You might want to change your password”

On what?

That’s a good callout. I’m not super familiar with it, do you know how it might bench against the Tensor G4?

Liberux NEXX is supposed to be a thing but they sorely need backers. It costs about the same as an equivalent Android phone (pixel 9 pro 1tb costs $1,500, liberux nexx 1tb costs $1,300).

8 core/32gb RAM/1TB storage phone in a very sleek body, Linux phones could have their flagship soon (and unlike pinephone it sounds like Liberux is gonna do the actual work on developing the software).

Thank you!

Paywalled, can’t read

After the Apple ruling basically forcing them to allow side loading, I doubt google would even be able to.

Correct

This only helps in areas where internet is scarce or non existent. Even banned switches are allowed to download firmware updates even if everythint else is blocked (source: just did this myself recently)

So, I have a hacked switch 1 and I can assure you that any game that has had a “complete overhaul post launch” still uses about 80% of the data on the cartridge. Or rather, it loads the entirety of the cartridge, and then every update to the game after that gets strapped on top of it to overwrite whichever sections of the game it needs to or adds new stuff.

So let’s take animal crossing for example. If there were 2 major updates for Animal Crossing, youd have something akin to the following list of files:

• Animal Crossing New Horizons.nsc [8 GiB] (the cartridge itself, if you dumped it - in this case we’re referring to the actual cart itself here though)

• base.nsp [16 B] (some kind of token file for DLC attach points or something)

• 184810dheincoiepn02.nsp [300 MiB] (patch 1)

• 01849...ahd4819.nsp [24 MiB] (patch 2)

The switch loads the entirety of the cartridge, then it loads the base patch over the top of it to hook into the right location, then it loads patch 1 over the top of that, then it loads patch 2 over the top of patch 1, base, and the cartridge. Theoretically you could delete the latest update file and still have a working downgraded game. No original data is lost.

You can lend eshop games to people in your family group

Does fwupd auto-pull the firmware for it in KDE?

I’ll be real, I love what Nintendo chose to do with HDR and I wish more companies would follow suit. I hate it when they make the content crazy bright. Tone mapping for SDR games on PC and Steam Deck is notoriously bad, with oranges getting blown out into vibrant reds instead (I love my steam deck but basically have to leave HDR off).

Subtle but higher color accuracy/range was always HDR’s selling point. I’m angry at Nintendo for a lot of things right now, but this is one thing they got right. High quality HDR LCD screen for high longevity and not overturning the colors to blind the hell out of you with “vibrancy.”

I’m sure they have some kind of CI/CD pipeline that can run any game through a gamut of automated tests. They let it rip on a development switch or SDK that has access to the whole software repo and spit out the results in a CSV, with human investigation on games that flag negatively.