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  • Seems like there is a problem between PieFed and the Voyager App

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  • The bug is back with vengeance 🐛🐛🐛

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • We’re good for now, at least on surface. Given that Switch 2 prices in the US didn’t go up after tariffs it seems like we’re subsidising Yanks for some reason. There’s also Japan-exclusive region-locked Switch 2 SKU that’s about $350.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • Yes, that’s what this blog post is about :)

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • All you’re saying it’s complex and that it will take time. Americans put a man on the moon, they’re a resourceful bunch. Some got pretty lazy though.

    I don’t think people in Asia are different from others and will likely be interested in pivoting their economies to be less dependent on a single thing. China already started so things moved to Vietnam, Indonesia etc. which for now are cheaper. Eventually „the west” is going to run out of places to outsource dirty work to. Colonialism is visibly losing steam, hence the rise of fascism which is just colonialism pointed inwards.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • „I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • Why? Do you mean the only viable model is to outsource cheap labour to Asia forever? People over there will move on eventually.

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Napster reunion spotlights a giant leap in tech company rule-breaking
    www.washingtonpost.com /technology/2025/08/02/napster-reunion-silicon-valley/

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • It’s not viable without upsetting those who benefit from status quo, that’s for sure. Many people don’t seem to be happy with that status quo though. They picked wrong answer to the correct question but they weren’t that far off.

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • Well, long term Americans could be making Nintendo Switches domestically. They’d be more expensive but blue collar workers could be making more money. It’s not entirely dumb as everyone here paints it even if the implementation is laughably bad. Previous term Orange man made TSMC build a cutting-edge fab which by now is operational which is also pretty important for supply chain security in case China invades Taiwan. Europe would be fucked because we didn’t do enough for domestic manufacturing. Of course Orange man can’t make up his mind between using tariffs to forward personal agenda and meddling with internal politics of trading partners of the US but sometimes he gets it right. Toys being slightly more expensive is probably lower than tan spray on his list of priorities.

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • How does amount of units sold in one country that decided to enact tariffs relates to prices of products sold between other sovereign countries? I would like to emphasise that world doesn’t revolve around the US and that US citizens democratically made it clear that they are no longer interested in attempting to make it so.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy:

  • Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.

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  • Video game console prices didn’t rise because Brazil has high tariffs on electronics.

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @piefed.social

    Fandom split on Silent Hill f's "soulslike" combat
    www.eurogamer.net /fandom-split-on-silent-hill-fs-soulslike-combat
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
    www.seuros.com /blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
    misk @piefed.social

    Nintendo raises the Switch 1 price from $299 to $339 / The Switch OLED price jumped by $50 on Sunday, to $399.99.
    www.theverge.com /news/717610/nintendo-switch-original-price-increase

  • The Industry’s Rush to $80 Video Games Has Stalled — For Now

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  • That’s just rose tinted glasses, there are loads of unique games that are leaps and bounds above Mario 64 or Halo, even from AAA studios. Off top of my head (so probably skewed toward recent releases): Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Tears of the Kingdom, Unicorn Overlord, Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Returnal, Half Life: Alyx. Saying there are no impactful games is disrespectful to amazing work that’s still being done. They don’t have as much of a visible impact because new generation of gamers chose to play Fortnite and Genshin Impact instead.

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’
    english.elpais.com /technology/2025-08-03/chatgpt-dissidents-the-students-who-refuse-to-use-ai-i-couldnt-remember-the-last-time-i-had-written-something-by-myself.html
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
    misk @piefed.social

    Gradius Origins Review - The Ultimate Collection + Brand-New Salamander 3 | Digital Foundry Retro EX

  • I'm an undiagnosed, presumably autistic person. Pretending to be one makes me feel comfy womfy.

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  • Yes, this joint and movement is part of Beighton Score which is a measure of hypermobility and a sign of a connective tissue disorder. I won’t go as far as saying that if you’re hypermobile then you’re autistic but I know plenty of autistic people and almost all are hypermobile. When I was researching a hereditary condition that could run in my family (turned out to be correct) I spoke to some I haven’t been in contact for a long time and got surprised reactions like how did I know they could bend like rubber or how did I know grandma could too.

  • PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming

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  • This low power mode has RAM running at half the bandwidth which will really kneecap performance but is a common way to increase efficiency in mobile devices. If it was about saving power they wouldn’t make adapting existing games this hard IMO.

  • I'm an undiagnosed, presumably autistic person. Pretending to be one makes me feel comfy womfy.

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  • Read as much as you can on autism, preferably written from autistic and neurotypical perspectives. There are things about autism that seem to be common knowledge among autistic people that NTs and science seem to be completely oblivious about. There are also things that autistic people attribute to autism but are result of usual comorbidities.

    When thinking about what is normal it is common to be thrown off by what your family is like. Autism is highly heritable and it’s very likely that if you’re autistic then at least one of your parents autistic is too even if they don’t know it.

    If you’re after something objectively verifiable on your own then look into joint hypermobility - if you can dislocate some of your joints at will then it’s surprisingly likely that you’re some form of neurodivergent. My mind was blown by some of the recent studies in that area. I wasn’t that angry about not being diagnosed earlier when it comes to how my mind works because I found ways to cope. I was angry because it turns out that there’s a whole slew of physical conditions that seem to be specific to autism that doctors aren’t aware of usually and will never consider because of their own misconceptions about autism.

    Once you understand how autism works you’ll know. By the time I got formally diagnosed I didn’t have any doubt about it myself even though I would laugh at the idea couple of months before.

  • Close Call

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  • Piefed has built-in community migration feature which is why many migrated there when Lemm.ee shut down.

  • Why isn't Mbin more popular?

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  • Web browsers are the most resource intensive apps these days. Dedicated app doesn’t have to run JavaScript or ask for UI elements over network so it’s better for both battery and bandwidth.

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/

  • PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming

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  • Sony just introduced a low-power mode for PS5 that looks like groundwork for some kind of PS5-compatible handheld so this ”leak” sounds very unlikely from the get go.

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @piefed.social

    FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077
    www.phoronix.com /news/FEX-2508-Emulator
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract
    www.cnbc.com /2025/08/01/palantir-lands-10-billion-army-software-and-data-contract.html

  • Reddit pauses its paywall plans

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  • Oh, I know the mods of larger mods tried to monetise but I thought that was more in allowing posts from advertisers to appear as grass roots and to silence other voices. I didn't realize they were being baited along with promises of payment.

    Abusing your position to shill is fairly known by now but some mods would like something more formalised not to get their hands this dirty I think. Being a Reddit mod is a highly politicised thing because you’re usually at mercy of subreddit creator or loudest people in a community. The consequence is that there are many mods that are there not based on merit. I always thought some people were mods just to brag about about being a mod but curiously enough they always became quite active when it came to advancing their status or making money.

    As to how Reddit carrot dangling looks like in practice - I was modding a national sub in a country that didn’t have established Reddit presence so sometimes there’d be official communication that they would hire someone to keep someone culturally in the know for things like translations on staff for example. That never panned out as far as I know although I left around that time so maybe it changed. There are also those Mod Summit events that are kind of like corporate onboarding and where they announce where Reddit is going, sneak peek of things that are coming etc. I was to three of those and it was always either heavily implied or said outright that there would be a way to make money off communities officially. That also never happened. Just ways to keep your unpaid labour engaged :P

  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out
    www.cyberdaily.au /digital-transformation/12441-atlassian-terminates-150-staff-with-pre-recorded-video-will-be-largely-replaced-by-ai
  • Apple @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Apple CEO Tells Staff AI Is ‘Ours to Grab’ in Hourlong Pep Talk
    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-08-01/apple-ceo-tells-staff-ai-is-ours-to-grab-in-hourlong-pep-talk
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2025/08/ukraine-rescues-soldier-via-drone-delivery-of-complete-e-bike/
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    The biggest fighting game tournament is a little smaller this year — but still exciting
    www.theverge.com /games/717660/how-to-watch-evo-2025-las-vegas
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @piefed.social

    Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil
    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-08-01/next-bioshock-game-changes-leaders-after-development-turmoil
  • Technology @lemmy.zip
    misk @piefed.social

    Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing
    www.theverge.com /news/717440/google-epic-open-play-store-emergency-stay
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @piefed.social

    The Industry’s Rush to $80 Video Games Has Stalled — For Now
    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-08-01/the-industry-s-rush-to-80-video-games-has-stalled-for-now
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
    misk @piefed.social

    Death Stranding 2 Is A Joyful, Absurd Response To COVID
    aftermath.site /death-stranding-2-covid-lockdown-hideo-kojima