It’s been “released” for 4 years. Yes, it’s “early access,” but surely there’s a point where we ignore that label, no?

manufacturing games has become much cheaper

Sure, the physical distribution is cheaper, but the development is way more expensive. That’s largely offset by more sales, hence the gradually reducing real price of games.

Yeah, it’s never fun seeing prices go up, but they tend to stay pretty flat during a console generation. So at the start, they’re making more than at the end, when inflation has chipped away at the value they’re getting per sale.

I’m not saying it’s “good” or anything, I also prefer cheaper games, just that it’s understandable when looking at pricing history compared to inflation.

That’s just the human condition, but I think you did a good job.

I disabled my caps lock button, and my life got so much better.

Same, but I like the option to fix it at some point.

USB-C is really complex electrically due to it being able to flip, which means you have two rows you have to solder instead of the typical one (so basically you have to have a heat gun and know how to use it). But it’s way better than micro USB, so chances are you won’t need to fix it.

Sure, if it’s not a good value for you, then don’t buy it. Console games have never been cheap, and consoles have generally been affordable (not cheap).

IMO, the prices aren’t outlandish when you take inflation into account. Here’s an article that goes over it:

• OG NES - $180 in 1985, ~$480 today
• SNES - $200 in 1991, ~$415 today
• N64, Game Cube, Wii - ~$330, give or take
• Switch - ~$440

And this page lists game prices:

• NES - $146
• N64 - $120
• GameCube - ~$90
• Wii - $80
• Switch - $77

So generally a downward trend. The Switch 2’s expected prices are a bit of a correction to $80-90, but still pretty much in line with recent consoles.

Here’s the image for reference:

Why? The first Switch is pretty fantastic for my use case, which is casual gaming w/ my kids, their friends, and my nephews/nieces.

I also have a Steam Deck and most of my gaming money goes to PC games. But I do like the Zelda series, so I’ll buy a handful of games now and then for the Switch (usually as gifts to my kids for X-mas or whatever to kill two birds w/ one stone).

Nintendo bad, so don’t support Nintendo.

That’s about it. I didn’t finish it either, but I heard the rant and figured I wasn’t missing much by not finishing.

WOULDN’T THAT KIND OF DEPEND ON WHAT MING THE MERCILESS WAS PLAYING? YOU GOTTA GET SOME STRINGS IN THERE TO BE A PROPER KISS TRIBUTE BAND, SO IF HE WHIPPED OUT AN ELECTRIC MANDOLIN OR SOMETHING, I MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN LISTENING TO WHAT THEY COME UP WITH. I’D EVEN TAKE A BANJO.

I’M NOT SUPPORTING EITHER PERSON (FAKE OR REAL) IN ANY WAY, JUST BEING HONEST.

Micro USB sucks.

That said, USB C ports do wear out if you bump them a lot, which is a lot more likely in a controller than something like a phone. My laptop USB-C charging port is wearing out because my kids are rough with it while charging. I’d much rather have a cheaper barrel jack than I can solder at home than something complex like USB-C for something that could very likely need a repair in a few years.

I use BT controllers: DualShock 4 and Steam Controller. They work well enough, and I’m a lot less likely to bust the port if it’s only used for charging. I’ll probably upgrade to the DS5 though, since the micro USB charge port is pretty busted now.

I haven’t decided yet, because it’s not available yet. Once it’s available, I’ll check reviews and whatnot to decide whether to purchase it. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t, it depends on a bunch of factors.

Yeah, Nintendo sucks right in the legal department. But whether I buy their products has less to do with their legal department and more to do with the quality of the product.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This is a good thing.

Maybe? It depends on what the speed limit is and what enforcement looks like.

I can get up to 20mph (30+ kmh) on my non-assist bite, faster when going downhill, yet most people cruise at 10-15 mph. If we set it too low, it’ll discourage use for regular transportation, like commuting, and if we set it too high, it doesn’t solve the problem.

And for enforcement, there’s no way police will be stationed there, and camera surveillance is difficult, so it’s unlikely to happen.

I just see the whole thing as problematic, so either don’t enforce anything or enforce vehicle types.

I think we should just ban non-assist from the bike lanes and paths. I’m fine with them existing, just not fine with irresponsible people endangering others by cruising at car speeds in pedestrian zones.

I’m generally in favor, provided the licenses transfer properly when you sell it, while the game remains until someone else inserts the card.

We absolutely do! I gave one kid the Smash Brothers DLC with Steve for a birthday gift, and the other one asked if there was another and ended up buying the other DLC with their own money. One kid bought a bunch of Lego sets one year.

They get money from chores, extra jobs, and occasionally selling stuff (lemonade, hot coco, etc).

It’s working pretty well so far.

Arch doesn’t have a standard interface, you pick it yourself. By default you get a terminal and no UI whatsoever.

On most Linux distributions, you’ll install a pattern (basket of packages) for whatever you want, like gnome-desktop or plasma-desktop then reboot and it should be an option to pick at the login screen. There are dozens to choose from, and they all have various features and caveats. Installing multiple is generally fine, so feel free to experiment. Some distros have a very customized interface, so you may need to customise it a bit to match what you see in screenshots.

I recommend either KDE Plasma or GNOME to start. Broadly speaking, GNOME is more unique (inspired by macOS iI guess) and stable since it’s sponsored by RedHat, whereas KDE Plasma is more familiar (looks like customized Windows) and still pretty stable since it has a large community.

The specific distro doesn’t matter that much for the interface, so pick something mainstream with at least an option for more recent packages.

Right, basically renamed. Trump wants the for credit. His opposition to Obama and Biden isn’t over policy, but that his name isn’t on it.

Sure, if he could pick and choose what attention he gets, he’d pick positive attention every time. But if he had to pick between negative attention and being ignored by the media, I think he’d pick negative attention.

At least that’s my read. And selfishly, I’m really tired of seeing Musk and Trump all over my news feed.

Honestly, the whole Arch family is problematic because everyone does things a bit differently with different assumptions, so support doesn’t exactly transfer. Arch in particular also expects you to do a lot of your own research, and that tends to carry with the various derivatives.

When you’re new, you want something mainstream with a ton of users with a variety of configurations so you have a better shot at getting support for the problems you’ll run into. You also probably want something recent, especially for gaming since there are a lot of changes to the gaming landscape.

That’s why I recommend stable distros with relatively up-to-date packages. My go-to is Debian, and if you need something newer, upgrade to whatever the testing release is (in this case trixie). Fedora is also a great option. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed and Aeon (and soon Kalpa), but I don’t recommend those distros because they’re relatively niche so getting support may be difficult. They rarely break, but new users seem to attract Murphy’s Law more than others, hence why I don’t recommend it for new users.

As a second or third distro, sure, it’s absolutely fantastic. I loved Arch when I used it, and I mostly switched because I wanted to run the same family of distros on my desktop and servers, and I wanted something a bit more stable than Arch for servers. I realize now that what I actually want is a separation between base OS and running services, so I’ve switched to containerization and am porting to a rolling distro for my servers as well (in this case, MicroOS, coming from Leap). But I definitely do not recommend Arch for new users because it has very few guardrails out of the box for when things go wrong.