I can’t believe I forgot about this greentext. I knew it but didn’t catch it… I apologize

There’s a “your mom” joke here but I’m not going to make it because you don’t deserve that.

That exists, its called GPT4chan, and it went exactly like you’d expect.

Calculus can find you two pairs of parallel sides, right there on the circle!

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.

How do you get it to do discord and other random apps?

You are thinking of the Bill of Materials cost, which is not the same as fab cost. Higher data densities absolutely do cost more to fab, and are upcharged to companies and individual consumers for profit. Nintendo has to pay more for higher density storage amounts and so do you.

If you have access to the actual files themselves you can even edit them with a text, binary, or hex editor depending on the format.

Are you using Pipelines in either github or another upstream source management platform? I don’t know if they have a free build plan or not, but you can have an entire pipeline that just spits out an executable for one or more platforms every time you commit to your main branch, depending on how you have compilation set up (you can have it use both a Linux and a Windows VM for different steps in the pipeline too). It can even handle publishing them to a website if youre handy with bash and/or powershell scripts (or python or JS or whatever you can call from the pipeline).

I use the Azure DevOps version at work and its amazingly useful, but very confusing to learn at first.

She got that rifle ready to go

Looking forward to seeing your work - it’s always good to have competitors, and gpt4all is also very crashy. If you have a lead in stability, I’d definitely use yours over theirs.

Some other areas you could probably look into if you want to differentiate are:

• Getting Started experience - recommend some high quality models and update the list as time goes on. Maybe include a good default one as part of the package.

• Convenience - include a way to do what the modern chat interfaces do where asking it to do something other than text will call a different AI model built for that purpose and return the result (image generation, etc)

• Voice conversations - Can we actually talk to the dang thing?

• Assistant module - piggybacking off of the last one, can we invoke it with a wake-word or a button press and have it “always available” (similar to HomeAssistant with a Whisper plugin, but on-device).

Anyway, I wish you well in your endeavor and will keep an eye out.

EDIT: looks like the conversational bits are on your roadmap, and you do have some basic suggestions on startup.

As for voice, the OpenWhisper module might fit your project’s theme a bit closer than elevenlabs.

Bro this is Gpt4All

What I am telling you is that while that sounds like an amazing idea in theory, in practice almost no stores offer it. How can we do that if its not even an option? I have literally never seen it done anywhere here or in any of the other places I’ve traveled to (I’ve been to about 5 different states this year alone).