Historically, consoles' launch prices were a premium that only enthusiasts accepted to pay. Afterwards, they would get price cuts. They had to, otherwise they would simply not sell beyond that niche.

The original PlayStation launched for $300, and after just four years it was selling for $100. The Nintendo 64 went from $200 to $100 in three years. And yet, the PlayStation 5 never got a price cut in five years, nor the Switch in eight years. You can't blame Orange Man Bad's recent tariffs for that.

The ultimate nerd brag: to have switched to Linux a week before Linus Torvalds first announced it.

YouTube incentivizes videos to be over 10 minutes. Consequently, videos are made longer than they have to be. Watching them in high speed just compensates a problem that YouTube created in the first place.

One can assume that the "never surrender" faction would have had greater influence, if there were no nukes to make obvious that their stance was suicidal.

Even after the bombings, when it was clear that Japan would be thoroughly fucked if they kept fighting, their ministry of war attempted a coup to prevent the surrender. So it is reasonable to assume that, without the nukes, Japan would have kept fighting, forcing a much bloodier land invasion.

So am I. And it enrages me.

The article does mention Unicomp.

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Hah! Look at this fool, he believes the moon is real!

Got a serious genetic disease? The sensible solution: get your tubes tied. Want to raise a child? Adopt one instead!

DDG is American, you're thinking of Yandex.

One can only wonder, what if Linux had 'standardized' around GNUstep instead.

Is it really low framerate, or animation stylistically choppy on purpose?

Perhaps, but you don't need a financial crisis to explain the fall of Xbox.

This handheld not Microsoft hardware, though, it's an Asus.