The PS3 is in competition with the original Xbox One for being the most undercooked and overpriced launch of a game console. I guess it’s what made the recovery even more astounding.

I guess they had to remove backwards compatibility at some point considering the solution was to shove an entire PS2 CPU and GPU onto the motherboard, massively driving up the already stratospheric production cost that they lost money on even with the high launch prices. Still, it is unfortunate it went away, as it ensured that PS2 games would play perfectly and as intended on PS3 with a proper HDMI output too. Plus, since it went away early, it means all the models with backwards compatibility have the defective GPUs that can cause a yellow light of death. A PS3 Slim with PS2 compatibility would have been amazing. I agree so much with XMB being peak UI design as well, almost every console following has in my opinion a worse UI, other than maybe the Switch, but that’s because the Switch barely has much beyond a game selector.

We don’t talk about Bruno the Microsoft POSIX subsystem

Ah, I meant the current Nintendo store system that they changed to after stopping the invite system. Anyone buying it from Nintendo of Europe can pre order it now as long as they have an active Switch Online subscription.

People who have both another platform and a Switch: confused screaming

Today I learned that for some reason some DNS servers don’t like SRV records, so had to troubleshoot it when people were unable to log onto my Minecraft server that is on a non-default port.

One of us! One of us!

Agree so much! 5 was amazing (although will always have a soft spot for 4) especially with the ending. Blurry being in the game is possibly the most 2005 thing to happen, and I love it.

Even ROCm on some distros isn’t that bad. On my 7900 XTX (admittedly an officially supported card, your mileage may vary on unofficial cards) on Fedora it was just a case of doing sudo dnf install rocm-* and everything installed (might be some extra packages you need after for specific apps, but you know if you need them). On openSUSE though, it was a total pain.

I haven’t tried it myself yet, but there is a GPodder sync server app for Nextcloud that can let you sync subscriptions and play time to any compatible app. This would probably be the best solution as it would use your existing setup.

Died 1990s, born 2025 - welcome back Mac hard drive firmware lockdowns