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I was having a look into the cartridge structure, and I'm struggling to nail down if Switch 2 cartridges use the ROM (discontinued by Macronix) of the Switch 1 cartridges, or if they use commodity NAND. Has anyone got an idea? I don't really want to tear down my game cards, but knowing that would tell us how much this affects Switch 2. The headline revision suggests NAND, which would imply that there's going to be continued supply for as long as Nintendo wants for Switch 2 considering NAND is everywhere, but some other sources are saying ROM.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 weeks ago (53 children)

    Fast heating, wipe clean, works off clean electricity, roasts me less in the summer, doesn't care about the air coming from a window, starts the first time every time, what more could I ask for? I got this cheap plug in one and it dropkicks my installed gas stove in basically every metric.

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    AC8 first parts spoilersCan't expand on it too much now (only had two hours with it), but this game is just amazing. That opening scene just sets the stage like how any good entry in the franchise should. The graphics! Not only is there ultrawide monitor support, but the details are massively improved in every aspect. HDR too is mindblowing.

    Look at this image - this is in engine, not pre rendered at all! In-game close up screenshot of a Beriev A-50 being shot down with high resolution explosion effects

    Can't wait to see how the game progresses.

    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    What they are talking about is an open source piece of software (Meshtastic) that's using a well-known (if specific to Chromium) standard, WebUSB. It's a genuine pain point, and stuff like this needs to work out of the box, no manually written udev rules required.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Ah, permissions chicanery. Had to deal with that with connecting a Switch 2 controller with a WebUSB enabler. To be fair, once you add the right udev rules (it is a bit of a pain, yes), it should work for any other devices of the same type (I think it's any with the same USB ID so like same manufacturer and model? Don't quote me on that though). Still, I wish Chromium (since Firefox as far as I know still doesn't support WebUSB) could sort it out by itself (like just have an "allow" button rather than writing udev config files yourself) or at least be a bit more helpful in pointing you the right way with a helpful error message.

    You do have to get used to weird edge cases like these throwing a spanner in the works, just like you have weird stuff on Windows (trying to get some older Android devices to communicate in fastboot mode in Windows makes me feel like Odysseus).

    Asking around and screwing around usually gets you places though. Eventually you find something.

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    It's finally happened! Ace Combat 8 is here. Considering how big of a moment this is, I'd like to clear up on dealing with spoilers. If you want to post anything that potentially contains spoilers, make sure to tag it. If you want to send an image, make a text post, insert the image in the body, and enclose that with spoiler tags.

    Like this:

    AC8 SpoilersAce Combat 8 logo

    Go fly with the angels, aces.

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