

Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.
Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.
“It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface.”
They’re bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about
“Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!”
Saturday before Easter… 17 or 18 year old kid was going on and on about how he couldn’t wait to get home so he could play Call of Duty all night, and this and that… lots of swearing, lots of talk about shooting and destruction.
Me: “I dunno man, don’t you have to be in bed early so the Easter Bunny will come?”
Forget the orbit… remember the song…
https://genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics
“Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving
at 900 miles an hour.
It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second,
so it’s reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm,
at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.”
For point 1, this sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
You buy a Nintendo console, Nintendo says you broke the rules and bans that console, now non-Nintendo games won’t work on it because it’s banned from reaching online services.
“2124-4508”
I’m going to spoiler tag all the Nintendo legal-ese because it’s A LOT.
It boils down to this console is banned from logging in online. So a couple of questions:
Do you HAVE to be online to play Switch 2 games?
If the ban is correct for user violations, why ban the hardware? Why not ban the account?
You’re unable to connect to an online service and you receive the error code 2124-4007 or 2124-4508.
You receive the error message “The use of online services on this console is currently restricted by Nintendo.”
What to do:
This error code indicates that the Nintendo Switch console you are using has been permanently banned from connecting to the internet due to a breach of the user agreements.
A breach of user agreements may include, but is not limited to, activities such as:
Fraudulent or unauthorized transactions
Violation of the Code of Conduct
https://accounts.nintendo.com/term/eula/AU
5 Nintendo Code of Conduct
When using the Nintendo Account Service, you must comply with the Nintendo Code of Conduct and ensure that your Nintendo Account is not used in breach of the Nintendo Code of Conduct. The Nintendo Code of Conduct prohibits all illegal, harmful or otherwise inappropriate conduct, including, but not limited to, the following:
Illegal, harassing, hateful, defamatory, embarrassing, offensive, obscene, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable actions performed with the Nintendo Account;
Soliciting, accessing, storing or distributing prohibited materials;
Providing any incorrect or false data when registering or using the Nintendo Account;
Submitting false reports (either in a game or through an online service) regarding other users or content;
Making, sharing or playing unauthorised copies of games, applications, software, add-on content, music, images, videos and other content available via the Nintendo Account Service; making new versions of Digital Products or other content available via the Nintendo Account Service (“derivatives”);
Using cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorised device or software designed to modify the Nintendo Account Service or any part of it or using any unauthorised User Device or any unauthorised modification of a User Device; attempting to derive source code of the Nintendo Account Service;
Gaining unauthorised access to any of Nintendo’s computers, hardware, equipment, servers or networks used to support the Nintendo Account Service; hosting, intercepting, emulating, reverse engineering any part of the Nintendo Account Service or redirecting the communication protocols used by Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Account Service, regardless of the method used to do so;
Engaging in any commercial or advertising activity, or arranging meetings using a Nintendo Account;
Selling, trading, assigning or otherwise transferring a Nintendo Account to another person or entity;
Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that infringes the rights of others, including any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy rights, portrait rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights;
Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that contains personal information (including photos, images and videos) of any third party without their permission;
Selling, trading, assigning, licensing, or otherwise conveying virtual property for real money or for funds credited to a Nintendo Account, where “virtual property” refers to any features of games or other content that can be traded with other users for free or for in-game virtual currency;
Fraudulent activities performed in relation to the Nintendo Account Service (in particular in relation to transactions in Nintendo Shopping Services).
I kinda had the opposite experience, I had been a PC gamer for years before the Xbox came out, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Aliens Total Conversion, Hexen, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Unreal…
By then I had kind of burned out on FPS, so when I heard about Halo I was like “I dunno… another FPS…”
Then I played a demo in the store and was like “Shut up and take my money!”
Speaking of consoles here.
Valve really operates in a different market from Microsoft or Sony, but what hurt them was a couple of things:
Repeatedly skipping Gamescom essentially told Sony “Yeah, we don’t care about Europe.” And the sales numbers show it. Sony owns Europe.
No differential between console and PC. Launching the same game at the same time on PC and Xbox doesn’t incentivize people to a) buy games on Xbox or b) develop games on Xbox. Why bother if it’s on PC the same day?
Focusing on digital vs. physical takes games out of stores. On a recent trip to Target they had a nice big Playstation section and a nice big Switch section. Hey? Where are the Xbox games?
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/target-not-selling-physical-xbox-games-anymore.1679241/
Solitaire.
He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?
Every piece of news on the Switch 2 made it sound less and less impressive.
I’m the opposite of you, I pretty much buy EVERY console and I’m skipping the Switch 2 for now.
If you absolutely need to entertain the 7 year old, get a Switch OLED. It’s a better deal.
A GREAT game to play with kids is called “Stacking”. Looks like there’s a Linux version so you might be able to get it running on the Pi:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_(video_game)
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, OS X, Linux
The gag is this…
You play the smallest of a set of Russian nesting dolls and you want to re-unite with your family.
In order to do that you have to solve a bunch of puzzles in a world filled with other Russian nesting dolls.
You can jump into any doll one size larger than you, and you can jump out to be one size smaller.
Each doll has a specific skill or ability, so by swapping bodies, you use the various skills to solve the puzzles.
The challenge is, you might find one that has the right skill, but you’re too small to jump into them, so you have to find the right chain of dolls to size up and size down to do what you need to do.
Trailer:
Well, define “Reasonably Priced”. I dig the Steam Deck for that kind of thing.
I hope they have a voice over because when you get to that line… “And none of them ever saw Stu Redman alive again…” it’s a jaw dropper. :)
Needs to be at least two, if not three films to work.
Missing:
The entire concept for the Blues Brothers came from the tiny Eugene Hotel in Eugene, Oregon when Belushi was there filming Animal House.
The hotel regularly held blues performances, of which Belushi was a fan, when he wanted to perform some pretty basic numbers, Curtis Salgado took him aside and was like “No, no, no, I’ll teach you some REAL blues numbers…”
There are 3rd party Switch 2 games? 🤔 I thought it was all 3rd party ports of Switch 1 games…
Lets say you find an instance that meets your requirements, given the lack of email validation, what’s going to happen is that instance will be host to trolls and spammers, top to bottom, and then it will get defederated from the rest of lemmy.
I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.