Framework is better hardware, having physically touched both S76 and Framework laptops.

My brother bought a Framework 16 recently with the discrete GPU on my recommendation and it was not silly pricing. Mobile workstations with discrete graphics and comparable specs in that size class were all $2000USD or more and the Framework was maybe 15% higher. Well worth it for the intentional repairability and upgradability.

Nintendo cares a lot about killing off emulation and ROM hosting wherever they can, actually. They send out cease and desist letters all the time and many projects and websites have been killed because of it. Thousands, I think, from single-person projects like “Another Metroid 2 Remake” all the way up to Team Xecuter. I think one of the Switch emulators that was in progress a couple years ago got killed off by the lawyers.

The catch is that reverse-engineered emulators being made without any Nintendo code, and made without the intention of profit, are not a violation of copyright law or Nintendo licensing and Nintendo has no grounds to sue the makers. But they’re always keeping an eye on such projects waiting for something actionable.

This is why any given Nintendo emulator website or Github repository you can find will have zero links to any ROMs or any sources for them – because anything like that will get an immediate letter and possible lawsuit.

Edit: I remembered right, Yuzu actually got sued and had to pay Nintendo 2.4 million USD. It’s also dead in the water. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/nintendo-v-yuzu-switch-emulator-shut-down-settlement/

“Electoral politics try not to be just a popularity contest challenge”

Failed for like the 50th time

You should read the article – they actually tested and proved it won’t melt down when it loses all active cooling.

That’s awesome – for folks who didn’t read the article they actively tested the reactor’s passive cooling by shutting off all its power systems. It cooled itself to ambient temperature with no meltdown in less than 35 hours with no active coolant flow.

Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.

I have seen the phrase “the Switch is a telemetry nightmare” on CFW websites

One might argue that it is, instead, the Lunchable that is the poor facsimile of a charcuterie.

Capitalists try not to assign monetary value to literally every single item, feeling, and natural occurrence on Earth challenge:

oops, failed again

I didn’t read the body of the message so this is a joke responding to only the title:

With a calendar!

(Seriously though I’m polyamorous and a calendar is basically a necessity)

As long as people keep getting paid to make predictions, they will keep making paid predictions

No public sources yet, but there are positive whispers from anonymous people in the electronics supply industry. Companies that make boards, chips, screens, that kinda stuff. That plus the fact that the original Switch launched in 2017 is enough for me to believe the new one is on the way.

That console’s hardware is endlessly fascinating. Incredible what they did with it, at the price it sold for, back in 1996!

Maybe if it was a joke about leftist infighting it’d be understandable

Valve’s legal department just got back from holiday break?

The wealthy, who disproportionately wreck the environment across the whole globe, refuse to be less destructive.

Oh jeez, did some brief research and that is awful. The person in charge of Retroarch seems to be a greedy asshole, doesn’t properly credit other people’s code, and there’s direct IRC-logged evidence of abusive behavior towards emulator devs. Yikes. No wonder there are competing projects.

Time for me to never touch it again. I hear LaunchBox is a fine alternative but on my Switch I might just grab ARM builds of individual emulators; it would save time over the whole RA interface anyways.

RetroArch never had a Mac build huh? Very odd since it’s got Switch and Linux builds