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Yeah, I don't need 1440p in handheld mode. It supports 4K in docked mode and that's good enough for me.

I'm still skeptical of the overall performance but we'll see. The Switch aged poorly and I'm afraid the Switch 2 will be similar. I don't want to see first-party games throttling to 20fps in 5 years.

Absolutely wild that this is not included with the console. Especially after Sony included Astro's Playroom on every PS5.

I love this font. I set my web browser to use it and prevent sites from choosing their own fonts. Some poorly-designed sites have layout issues without their preferred fonts but I don't care. I do too much technical work to tolerate glyph ambiguity. I use the mono version in my terminal as well.

If anyone knows a similar font with serifs, I'd love to hear. I tried this on my e-reader but wound up reverting to serifs. It just didn't feel right.

Let me put it this way: I audit open source software more than I audit closed source software.

If you like hiking, you might also enjoy indoor rock climbing. It's more social and fun than a gym and you will have the opportunity to interact with a lot of the same people repeatedly. You might even have some beginners groups in you area to get started. Meetup.com is good for finding groups like that.

Good luck out there!

There are two potential show-stoppers.

1. Field-specific apps that only run on windows. If you really need Adobe Creative Cloud or SolidWorks or something like that you might be out of luck. This is mostly true for apps that require GPU acceleration, which is difficult to rig up in a VM. You wouldn't want to do that if it was a big part of your workload.
2. Mandatory spyware and rootkit DRM to prevent cheating with remote tests. Hopefully if they do such a thing they provide loaner hardware too. I've seen a lot of bullshit in my time but my experience is outdated, so I don't know what's common nowadays.

That actually sounds like a neat idea. I mean, it's a privacy nightmare, but not much more than any other social media site.

Never seen one I'd actually trust for the mic, but I've seen a lot of Lenovos that have sliding covers for the camera.

I'm a little reluctant to put an adhesive slider on my MacBook because it closes pretty tight and I'm afraid the extra thickness would create a pressure point and cause damage over time.

Kind of makes sense. It would be an addition to the lineup rather than a replacement like previous "T" series. It would just cannibalize sales.

Bummer, but probably the right move.

Mobile payment is the only major problem I've encountered. Fortunately, for me it's just a nice-to-have, not a must-have.

I've heard that some banks have that feature within their own app, but I've never actually seen that. If anyone knows of specific banks that support that, please share! I suspect there's no such thing in my country but who knows?

It ranges from "automatic" to "infuriating".

If you have Secure Boot enabled, there are some hoops to jump through. Read the docs and follow the steps for DKMS.

Depending on your distro and your requirements, you might want to install the drivers manually from Nvidia rather than using older drivers from your distro.

If you need CUDA, god help you. Choose a distro that makes this easy and use containers to avoid dependency hell. Note that this is not any easier on Windows (at least not last I checked, which was a few years ago).

Arc has a similar feature, but last I checked it used ChatGPT. Firefox runs a local model, so it avoids the privacy issue.

I have no problem with this in principle. The question is, does it suck? Document summary is a use case LLMs are well suited for, but it's still highly application-specific. I've seen great summarizers and I've seen garbage summarizers. Hopefully Mozilla's implementation is not as lazy as most others.

The great thing about USB-C is that it's so easy to charge anywhere. Get a power bank or two and you should be good to go.

recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

There is a mountain of anecdotal evidence, and a small mound of scientific research, suggesting that psychedelics can improve creativity even in the long term. Ask your doctor if LSD or psilocybin might help with your imagination deficit.

Ebooks.com has a ton of DRM-free ebooks. They have a whole DRM-free section, plus a search filter, and they clearly display all available formats before purchase. That's my first stop for ebooks.

why aren’t the consoles cheaper everywhere outside the US?

Prices are rarely the same across regions to begin with.

For example, the original Switch launched at $299 in the US and €329 in Europe (or ~350 USD at 2017 exchange rates).

Probably. Even Switch 1 uses naive upscaling a lot of the time. I don't think Nvidia makes any chip that don't support DLSS at this point.

I just hope we get decent frame rates in general. I don't want to deal with 30fps fake-4K.

just let me play the old version of the game on the new console.

I don't think you need to buy any upgrades to play the original Switch versions on Switch 2. It's supposed to be almost 100% backwards-compatible with Switch games, with a few exceptions for games that rely on specific hardware features (like IR).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the original BotW and TotK will play just fine on Switch 2 without upgrading.

Considering how poor the performance was in TotK, I really think Nintendo should have made it a free update. That's fairly common on the PlayStation side. Lots of PS4 games got free updates with PS5 optimizations, for example (and even more free updates for PS5 Pro).

I dropped TotK due partly to the performance issues. At this point I might rather play it on an emulator than buy it again for Switch 2.

This is the clearest sign to me that Apple has jumped the shark.

Apple has a long history of waiting until they could do something right rather than rushing to market with some fad. And here they are tripping over themselves to ship something that is obviously half-baked (at best). There's no vision, there's no attention to detail, there's no careful UX design. It's just "oh shit we need AI right?"

I've never tested this hypothesis, but I would guess that a big-ass battery would remain useful after years of wear while a normal battery would need to be almost constantly plugged in. It's one thing to plug in a power bank now and then, but if it effectively becomes a wired device that's too much of a pain.