This is based on an inaccurate analysis from a non-expert.

Switch game cards use Macronix XtraROM. These games are rated by the company for data retention shelf life of 20 years at 85°C / 185°F. But it depends on environmental conditions like humidity, and 20 years is an extremely conservative estimate. It’s safe to say they will last much longer than that.

DS and 3DS games use an older version of Macronix technology, and critically also write to the cartridge itself. These will likely have issues long before Switch games do, although it should still be a long time.

Magnetic media was rated for a similar lifespan and in most cases still works fine 50 years later. The rare issues with CDs are due to manufacturing defects like glue separation, not the technology itself. These are, again, exacerbated by environmental factors. CDs are 30 years old at this point and the worst iteration of optical media, and the overwhelming majority work fine.

Different technologies, but just included for comparison.

If you’re concerned about it, dump them to SSD RAID storage.

Imagine justifying sending someone to a foreign prison for life without a trial, or even possibly enslavement in a place like Libya, and then complaining about being called names.

The first two are like he’s trying to manifest it

Seven senators voted for her.

• Tim Kaine (Virginia)
• Andy Kim (New Jersey)
• Elissa Slotkin (Michigan)
• Gary Peters (Michigan)
• Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire)
• Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire)
• John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)

In the New Testament, that stuff all comes from Paul. Paul was a conservative asshole. He was the first evangelical Christian, in both the historical and modern sense.

I know quitting is hard

Uh, you can’t just turn in your two weeks when you’re in the military. There’s a reason why AWOL is a thing. And you can’t apply as a conscientious objector to an individual conflict. Even if you apply, it can still be denied.

You have agency

You literally don’t, unless you’d prefer prison and dishonorable discharge.

Edit: The thread’s about Iran, not whatever pet grievance you have.

This isn’t rocket science. Most Americans were (and are) unhappy with the direction of the country and she was the status quo candidate. She literally said she couldn’t think of a single policy difference between herself and Biden, an unpopular president. And the tone-deaf joy campaign—give me a break. People were (and are) angry. A populist was always going to win this election, but she didn’t campaign as a populist.

Like most Democrats, she also lacked the courage of her convictions, as evidenced by how quickly she backed away from voicing progressive policies from 2020 like Medicare for All. Or maybe her convictions were more moderate and the progressive positions were the ploy? Who even knows? What few meek ideas she did put forward she quickly backed away from after closed-door fundraisers with rich investors.

I voted for her despite all of this. I wrote letters to swing state voters. But it was a pretty grim march to November, because I saw all of these things way before the election and knew with near certainty that she was going to lose.

The ocean needs to hurry up and retake Florida.

It sounds like to me that they’re building a new specification like they did with MSX. MSX was wildly successful in Japan.

I’m sure all Xbox Next approved devices will be able to access the Xbox store, along with Steam, GOG, etc. It will almost certainly be a digital device, since it also includes handhelds.

As for your existing physical collection, I can imagine Microsoft releasing an official disc drive accessory that works with any Xbox Next console. There’s no reason that wouldn’t include handhelds, but of course that would be super clunky.

Kind of bizarre they have a photo of Warren as the top image for the headline “Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass Crypto Bill” when she’s been the most vocal one against passing it.

No one has been a bigger critic of the GENIUS Act than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, who has warned that in addition to weak protections for consumers and financial stability, the bill allows tech companies to issue their own private currencies and “take control over the money supply.”

She also said that the GENIUS Act mirrors the passage of the 2000 passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which deregulated derivatives and helped the product proliferate in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.

Sure. I dislike her, but she’s been vocally anti-interventionist for many years. She hitched her wagon to someone who doesn’t actually care about any of it.

Anyone in this administration who has any values whatsoever is destined to fail, because the leader they’re so obsequious to has none.

It’s really not that complicated. Trump is a bully and loves piling on to prove he’s the alpha male. But he’s also a coward (like many bullies) and is afraid to wade into something that will spiral out of control. So he’s trying to subjugate the government of Iran using threats so he can get the satisfaction of the former without the risk of the latter.

“Not since Truman…”

So Huckabee wants to nuke Iran?

Also, tell me this is not a letter that would be written to Kim Jong Un if the names were swapped.

In [Trump’s] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

Those are clearly Netanyahu’s words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.

You mean ceded. Seceded is what the West Coast should do.

It’s interesting that you post a message like that when yours is the majority position on Lemmy and comes up regularly. Any time I post conflicting data on the election, I’m down voted at about a 40/60 ratio up/down. Meanwhile politically I’m somewhere between Lenin and Bernie.

War in the Middle East is a Republican rite of passage. It’s part of their heritage.

Did you forget about 2021-2023?

I’ve never had a reason to go to Medford before and now I have a very good one not to.