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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Not very close, despite the online rhetoric. Life continues and our feudal lords play their games.

    If things continue to get worse and another lunatic succeeds Trump, I think talk of secession will start to gain more traction in the West. But even then, it would take something really major (and not something the Lemmy politics crowd considers major, but something that actually snaps average liberals out of their comas) to garner enough support for it to actually occur.

    Western secession would be an uphill battle; it’s just as likely we’d lose an armed conflict with the rest of the country, and an all-out war would be absolutely terrifying.




  • In 2014, some of us at a small company with disposable income discovered that Winamp was on the market for a relatively small amount of money (as compared to our profits). We all had fond memories of it and we had a team capable of doing something interesting with it.

    The problem was we couldn’t figure out anything interesting to do with it. We could think of a ton of things we could do, but we couldn’t think of a good business model around any of them—by which I mean profitable, not just eking by.

    In the end, it just wasn’t worth our time. We were better off having half the company prototype new product ideas than sink our resources into this one.

    The company that did eventually buy Winamp added an NFT marketplace to it.

    It seems like Frantic got stuck at the step of nostalgia plus things he could do and didn’t think too hard about business models and profitability. Leveraging his house is a bad sign, because it implies he lacks the financial resources to do much with Commodore beyond buying the brand.

    My guess? He’ll try to put together a new computer aimed at nostalgia seekers, it will underperform, and he’ll pivot to selling branded merchandise for a while until he eventually sells the brand at a loss.









  • I’m glad The NY Times is at least regularly calling these racist now in their news department, instead of “racially charged” or whatever.

    But his shock win put him on the national radar, and some Republicans in Congress are now seeking to undermine him using a strategy similar to the racist one that Donald J. Trump employed against former President Barack Obama by questioning whether he was born in the United States. […]

    Some Democrats condemned the comments and expressed outrage, although they have learned not to expect any response. And their denunciations of racist attacks typically disappear into a morass of polarized content on social media. […]

    [Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama] made racist comments in response, lamenting New York City’s high concentration of undocumented immigrants and referring to them as vermin who “live off the federal government.”





  • This is based on an inaccurate analysis from a non-expert.

    Switch game cards use Macronix XtraROM. These games are rated by the company for data retention shelf life of 20 years at 85°C / 185°F. But it depends on environmental conditions like humidity, and 20 years is an extremely conservative estimate. It’s safe to say they will last much longer than that.

    DS and 3DS games use an older version of Macronix technology, and critically also write to the cartridge itself. These will likely have issues long before Switch games do, although it should still be a long time.

    Magnetic media was rated for a similar lifespan and in most cases still works fine 50 years later. The rare issues with CDs are due to manufacturing defects like glue separation, not the technology itself. These are, again, exacerbated by environmental factors. CDs are 30 years old at this point and the worst iteration of optical media, and the overwhelming majority work fine.

    Different technologies, but just included for comparison.

    If you’re concerned about it, dump them to SSD RAID storage.