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Comment Most 3rd-party Switch 2 games are Game-Key Cards (Score 1) 136

There will be plenty of legit carts with full games on them

Reports differ. "Most third-party Nintendo Switch 2 games are Game-Key cards" by Michael Freeman claims that all third-party Switch 2-only physical launch titles other than CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 are Game-Key Cards, citing a post on X by Gematsu. "Nintendo Switch 2 Editions", or games compatible with both Switch and Switch 2, are less likely to be GKCs.

Comment Pre-2000, when people still used dial-up (Score 1) 93

So maybe the web will return to more of the state it was in back before 2000.

Back before every website was filled with ads. Before everything was paywalled.

And before most people had an Internet connection at home faster than the 0.05 Mbps of v.90 dial-up. If you exclude ad-supported and subscription websites, you end up with mostly websites operated as a hobby. I'm not confident that having only hobby sites around will sustain a market for home broadband Internet access.

Comment Ball sports have no owner, unlike esports (Score 1) 55

One fundamental difference is preservability: a game publisher can shut down an esport. If the NFL goes bankrupt, gridiron football will continue to exist in other leagues, such as UFL, NCAA FBS, and high school. By contrast, once Riot Games no longer operates Valorant, Valorant ceases to exist. Ask any player of Overwatch or Club Penguin what happens to a live service game upon sunset. Or it can continue to operate Valorant while playing favorites, using copyright to shut down the less-favored league's public streams, as Nintendo has done to Smash World Tour and other professional Smash Bros. events.

Comment Racism invented by Bernier and Linnaeus (Score 1) 71

What is the name of the inventor of racism and what year did he or she invent it?

Racism against people of sub-Saharan African descent was invented in large part to rationalize the Atlantic slave trade. The distinction between white Europeans and black Africans was first described by François Bernier in Nouvelle division de la terre (1684). Carl Linnaeus codified it in Systema Naturae (1767), calling the African variety of humans "sly, lazy, negligent".

Comment Delisted games (Score 1) 71

This is why i just stuck to playing games that are many years old.

Good luck buying a game several years after release when games get delisted from stores. This can happen when the game is an adaptation of another company's product identity to which the game's publisher only had a limited-term license (such as DuckTales Remastered) or the game's online matchmaking ended service (such as Overwatch and Titanfall and Concord) or the console's online store ended service (such as WiiWare games).

Comment libgcc license (Score 1) 24

This is something which kept me away from Ada as a language. Most of the libraries are gpl or worse. Even Ada itself has some weird licensing which is like, "It's like GPL but only more confusing. We promise that our lawyers won't haul you into court because we are so nice, and our lawyers only eat kittens on weekends."

Last I checked, GNAT was GPL, and its standard library had the same linking exception as libgcc and libstdc++. This means you may link the library with proprietary software so long as you don't modify the compiler to introduce a mix of FSF-owned code and GPL-incompatible code.

Comment GNU/Linux appears incompatible with passkeys (Score 1) 139

Desktop Linux also happens to be the only major operating system not listed among the compatible operating systems in Microsoft's help page about passkeys.

Supported devices

Passkeys are supported on the following:
- Windows 10 and newer.
- macOS Ventura and newer.
- ChromeOS 109 and newer.
- iOS 16 and newer. Passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator require iOS 17 and newer.
- Android 9 and newer. Passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator require Android 14 and newer.
- Hardware security keys that support FIDO2 protocol.

Comment Fewer students qualify for busing nowadays (Score 1) 182

Since then, fuel costs and bus driver labor costs have risen, forcing districts to cut their budgets for busing. Nowadays a public school student in my part of the U.S. typically doesn't qualify for busing unless the student both attends the designated school for the school district where the parents live (or another school in an approved magnet program) and lives more than 1 mile away as the crow flies for elementary school students, 1.5 miles for middle school students, or 2 miles for high school students.

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