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  • Nintendo to start adding a digital discount / physical premium to new first party Switch 2 games

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  • Tears of the Kingdom was my last physical game. Switch I was all physical and I bought a lot of games. Switch 2 going digital but now only buying Nintendo first party games and games that would be good for local multiplayer. Digital games on consoles don't have amazing sales. PC you have certified key resellers including the bundle shops like Fanatical and Humble Bundle and now another one in Digiphile

    I still want the Switch 2 to be a smash success to drive adoption for SD Express. That should be in phones, cameras, PC handhelds, raspberry pi and it's competitors

  • Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives

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  • Personal interest in burning discs have got to be very niche. Playback is becoming boutique. They're becoming more expensive. Less releases but higher prices with smaller print runs. More steelbooks. More retailer exclusives.

    It was already the case ten years ago that most good movies wouldn't get a physical release especially if it's not a movie from your region/in your language. Moreso the case now than before and more expensive than before.

    UHD blu-ray players that don't suck aren't cheap. Like problems with triple layer disc playback or what HDR standard does this player support or it supports multiple but it's a flipping through the players menus to switch HDR standard for what your disc carries

    Lower quality but for most movies, the only option if you can't catch it in a theater is streaming. And in some cases, it'll only show up on streaming for short periods of time like on Mubi. Most movies you won't see a Blu-ray/UHD disc rip. It'll be a streaming service rip. For me as long as it has 5.1 audio, I'm good

    The physical market for movies/TV is getting worse and more expensive. For UHD disc players, it's sparse for hardware releases that fix the ongoing issues/annoyances and they're expensive

  • how do you see future of linux?

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  • More popular. More users. Higher percentage of desktop/laptop PC users

    Flatpak permissions handled in a very easy to use way. No silent failure. No need to go to flatseal and users understand why something didn't work how they expected and what they need to do to fix it

    Growing Linux userbase eventually results in great day one support for new products from Qualcomm, ARM mali GPUs, PowerVR, etc. They'll want to be able to compete year after year with Intel and AMD someday

    Someday native Linux games rather than WINE/Proton will become the norm

    Popular media software categories continue seeing open source software gain mainstream/professional viability. Talking like Blender, Godot, Krita today. Someday stuff like Kdenlive, Scribus, Inkscape, Ardour, GIMP, Darktable, etc will breach some line of good enough functionality, interface design. Someday the user base will grow enough and enough will make it into industry with their experience and opinions

    Someday more normal Linux phone OS's like PostmarketOS will become a solid piece of the mobile pie. Like ~5%. Like how desktop Linux is today. Good usability but still working up to streamlined. That'll be way better than today. In what I imagine would be well over a decade when a Linux phone is as popular as desktop Linux is today, it'll actually be pretty easy to use like desktop Linux is today

    I see everything through the lens of the difference in user experience and mainstream penetration of 2010 compared to today. Like Kdenlive of 2010 compared to today. 2010 Blender vs today's Blender. 2010 OpenOffice compared to 2026 Libreoffice. Gaming with WINE in 2010 to today with Proton/WINE/Steam. Unity/KDE/GNOME/etc of 2010 compared to today.

  • Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading

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  • Still worse than it was before. There's no win in that

  • Huge Nintendo Switch 2 Update Adds Handheld Mode Boost For Switch 1 Titles

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  • Got to try this later today. See how Xenoblade Chronicles 2 looks on it

  • Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans

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  • New consoles and maybe new steam deck. Maybe raspberry pi and similar SBC hardware won't be stupid expensive anymore

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • Where I work, the company has a ChatGPT contract that's used as a coding assistant tool in VS Code and I imagine also for the admin/contract/legal people doing what they do. Every contracting company developer I've worked with, their company has some enterprise ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/etc. I've talked to software developers at large companies that raved about what they could do with enterprise Claude and enterprise Cisco AI coding tools

    Pretty much everyone I know at the minimum uses the Gemini Google search summary for coding questions/dockerfile/kubernetes/open shift/docker compose/helm/terraform/ansible/bash script/python script/snippets/...

    edit: Ineffective activist hive mind people here don't like hearing people using AI. The first person I knew that made regular use of ChatGPT before I ever opened the webpage was an electrician. Like 2 years ago. He used it to write up his emails to customers. The second I met was a person that did marketing for a local restaurant chain. They used ChatGPT to draft marketing text for emails and mailers. Been doing that for like 2 years now as well

    I remember in the news Level 5 using generative AI to create early idea. Beloved video games Expedition 33 and Arc Raiders use/used generative AI

    2024 article

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/over-1000-games-using-generative-ai-content-are-already-available-on-steam-but-are-any-of-them-worth-playing

    2025 article

    https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/1-in-5-steam-games-released-in-2025-use-generative-ai-up-nearly-700-percent-year-on-year-7-818-titles-disclose-genai-asset-usage-7-percent-of-entire-steam-library

    If you're fighting against AI usage in development of anything, strategies of the last few years need to be revisited to determine where improvements can be had

  • Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025

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  • I don't think the 5863 is limited to games released in 2025

  • Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

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  • These idiotic lawsuits. First of all, this isn't even Valves responsibility. Second, Steam/Valve are small frys compared to Amazon/Apple/Google/Microsoft. In gaming they may be smaller than Sony and Nintendo and those two have full on closed software platforms. Steam is one software store among many on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. All these groups want to enshittify PC gaming. They want to enshittify personal computing in general. Turn pre-iPhone smartphone operating systems into iOS

  • Getting rejected

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  • Don't know if it's still a thing in hiring for minimum wage jobs - what I remember were all the meyers briggs and similar test. When someone tells me their personality type from one of those test, I instantly start thinking that they never had a retail hell job stage of their working life

  • Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?

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  • Could be an age thing. 20 years ago on the 360, achievements I cared about. By the middle of the PS4 generation, I stopped caring about PS trophies. On Steam, never cared about Steam achievements. 20 years ago being a completionist was an interest of mine which included achievements. Today, I'm fine not finishing games

  • Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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  • More incentive for people to go to PC and chances for Linux gaming to grow. We'll get a Linux GOG client someday and drag EGS kicking and screaming to Linux too. Steam lets devs generate keys for free for deva to sell on other stores with no Valve cut. Bundle sites like Fanatical, Humble Bundle, Digiphile

    Closed hardware platforms with closed software distribution loops are destined for enshittification

  • Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub

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  • They're hosting their own Forgejo. Forgejo is easy to self host. There's even easier simpler stuff like Gitbucket. If you want something with a ton of features, Gitlab self host but that takes way more resources. Personally I have Gitbucket on my NAS for my basic stuff but am thinking about giving Forgejo self hosted a try. It looks better than gitbucket

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Something I think is that back in 2008, I'm certain Hilary Clinton would have won and possibly won by a bigger margin than Obama. Practically anyone that won the dem primary in 2008 would have won after the start of the financial crisis and the albatross of middle eastern wars, but Clinton in 2008 hadn't been so successfully smeared and there wasn't 8 years of continued middle eastern wars and widening income inequality discontent under a dem president where interest in party outsiders exploded. Plus the significance of social media was so much more important in 2016 than 2012 and 2008 and Clintons poor adaptability to the daily internet mood swings wouldn't have been a problem in 2008 when Facebook was still duking it out with MySpace and didn't really have middle aged and older people yet, youtube was 2 years old, twitter was niche, reddit was really nerdy, instagram wasn't a thing yet

    I'm certain in 2008 Clinton would have won easily, won by a larger margin, faced less unified opposition from republicans in congress. 2024 ended up so close that I'm sure if there was a democratic primary, Harris would not have won but whoever did win, would have beaten Donald Trump. Like if the Michigan governor ran and won the primary, Gretchen Whitmer would be president

  • Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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  • Tech writers consistently suck. We've had 3rd party app stores for a long time. Googles trying to make them worse, not welcoming them

  • Xbox as a platform is officially dead

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  • Microsoft Xbox hardware wasn't going to be competitive in sales with Sony or Nintendo. Maybe now they can be competitive with ASUS ROG and Lenovo Legion and Dell Alienware

  • Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC

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  • That's not going to get me to buy a PS6. PS5 is at least my only (UHD) Blu-ray player that I rarely ever play games on. Not buying another PlayStation in the future for not even averaging 1 exclusive game a year that I'd want to play

  • Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

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  • The only solace is that wireless operators are becoming competitive for me. Like all these companies suck but now I can use Cox, AT&T, EarthLink as the mediocre to crappy wired options and then Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile for 5G internet options which are good enough for me

  • [ETA Prime:] It's Basically an Android Steam Deck Now! [Snapdragon 8 Elite, 16GB ram] [emulating full x86 PC games]

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  • Always complaints about battery/heat like the only thing people will try and play are AAA graphics champs. Hades isn't hard to run. You can play the old Flatout games. Stardew Valley and Terreria with your cloud saves. There are tons of games coming out every year that looks like they could run on anything from a SNES to a PS Vita. Pretty much any game available on the Switch that is on Steam is super easy to run. Like the Ys games I've tried in Gamehub

    On mobile Wuthering Waves, Zenless Zone Zero, Genshin Impact, etc are super popular. Warframe just released for mobile. Albion Online. People have some 5+ years outdated opinions mobile gaming