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Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete"?

The library definitely still holds up, especially since you can also run NES, SNES, GBC, GBA and NDS games via homebrew as well. Games for 3DS are more designed for portability as well, better suited for short pick up and play bursts and easily paused/saved for later as opposed to console games that tend to expect you to have more time to dedicate to them.

That being said, with original hardware going up in price it might be better just to get a cheaper replica device. You're probably going to be emulating most games anyways, it does not need to be on original hardware. I would only spring for a real 3DS if you are a real retro hardware fan or if there's a particular game you want that doesn't work on one of the knockoffs.

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Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete"?

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Yeah we're at a point far enough past the 3DS's heyday that replicas are generally better quality and cheaper now

I still wonder how the replica machines handle 3DS homebrew, though I suppose a lot of it probably doesn't matter since it's enabling or expanding on 3DS functionality that the replica machines would already have built in

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Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel

He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.

So the billionaire building autonomous weapons and spying technology used for genocide who also injects the blood of young men to rejuvenate himself is here to warn us about the dangers of young climate activist trying to deliver food to starving Palestinians?

It's sad that we're at a point where people will actually listen to him and think he is anything other than a terrible person

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PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

  1. The official Pixelfed app just has a nicer looking UI
  2. There's not really a competing app for people leaving Insta like there is Bluesky vs Mastodon
  3. Pixelfed's content is mostly visual so it's easily digestible to casual users and you don't have to scroll past dry Fedi arguments
  4. Better discover features so users don't have to do a bunch of legwork to find who to follow

Just my guesses though, but like any social media it really depends on if big creators will switch and if users stick with it over time

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TikTok is a Time Bomb

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TL;DR: right-wing hand-wringing over the app "turning the kids trans and lowering their IQ"

The author also has articles defending Israel and complaining about "woke ideology" if you need any more reason to skip it

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Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress

Even after Automattic acquired it, the site continued to lose money at a rate of $30 million each year, the company’s CEO Matt Mullenweg had said.

I still wanna know what they're spending all that money on, because I'm sure it's not developers or even servers. The idea that they can only be profitable if they're constantly growing their user numbers is an investor idea that's doomed to fail eventually and why so many social media sites are crashing right now

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Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says

What I want to know about these "unprofitable" tech companies is where all the money is going? Wikipedia, which is run entirely on donations, has an operating budget of ~$150 million. Reddit, Twitter, etc... make many times this amount and even with the greater number of employees and salaries it still sounds like some creative Hollywood accounting that they're unprofitable. It feels like a big chunk of money is just going to investors/C-classes so they can just say they're not actually making any money while the big players get their payday.