Sorry, I meant *intentionally* non-standards-compliant.

Could it just be that they don't support DP Alt mode at all, and that their dock uses DisplayLink instead? Or that they don't implement the split mode where half the bandwidth is for USB and half the bandwidth is for DP, like most docking stations might typically use?

It's way worse than underhanded. It means that your USB-C Switch can't connect via USB-C to any USB-C-equipped television sets, because those by definition won't send Nintendo's nonstandard VDM. If it were even remotely acceptable to play fast and loose with the spec like that, given the history of the MFi program, you can assume that Apple would have done it, yet iPhone hardware supports any generic off-the-shelf USB-C hub, complete with HDMI.

But yeah, since DP is licensed by a different company than USB, the USB branding doesn't cover it. :-( I'm reminded of this XKCD. The most compelling thing someone can say about the Nintendo Switch 2 is that it isn't strictly illegal to do what they did. That's the ultimate concession. One more reason to stay away from Nintendo, as if them pulling the product from Amazon weren't a good enough reason by itself.

Absolutely zero evidence has ever been presented that Cheeto Benito was injured in any way, let alone actually struck by anything.

If you believe that orange piece of shit was shot when no medical records have been released, you're as much of a dumbfuck as the people who believe his claims of height and weight.

Square footage still matters and per thread performance still matters. ARM is way behind on both, to get the same performance you need more machines and that means more management and real estate costs.

Probably true, but I hope you lose that bet.

What is the working class getting besides fucked in the ass without lube?

Citation?

Picture of the damage?

That raises an interesting point. DVDs are encrypted, but for all intents and purposes are DRM-free these days because the code to decrypt them was released decades ago. Bluray is somewhere in the middle, the encryption being crackable but still needing some effort when a new disc with new keys is released.

From a right to repair standpoint, is it allowed to have some encryption that might prevent casual copying or cheating, but is also easily bypassed by repairers and archivists?

My first thought was that it is most likely an attempt to block exploits. The original Switch was exploited via flaws in external interfaces, so locking them down as much as possible is the obvious response.

That's the thing, Apple has never gone that far. Yeah, the Lightning connector was locked down, but they also made a USB adapter that could adapt it to connect to compatible USB accessories, and that included a wide range of stuff from hubs and SD card adapters to gigabit NICs. And their USB-C port has never been locked down at all.

The closest Apple ever got was not allowing third-party DVD drives to work with some of Apple's software, but that was done for MPEG licensing reasons, not revenue.

If Nintendo is shipping something with a USB-like port that isn't standards-compliant, that's way worse than just about any other company in the entire industry has done.

My guess is that when all is said and done, someone will figure out that they did something stupid in the first revision of the hardware, similar to the way that the first Raspberry Pi 4 hardware couldn't work with some USB-PD hardware because of incorrect resistors, in which case this problem will require a hardware fix. Sucks to be an early adopter.

Intel did it much worse than AMD, and about the same as IBM in terms of vulnerability and performance impact of mitigation.

Core 2 was pretty decent, that's fair. But by the time the i7 came around AMD was kicking their ass at everything but single thread. Even though I am a gamer that's never been the only thing I cared about, and I've also always been cheap, so to have AMD provide dramatically more ops per buck and have very competitive processors which were outright faster in many situations has had me an AMD customer solidly since Athlon. AMD never was able to keep up with Intel's process technology, but by the time that ceased to be a thing, all Intel had left was inertia and skullduggery.

My last non-netbook Intel-based system that I bought with my own money (I had an Elitebook with a Core 2 Duo for a moment) was a P2 400 because AMD has kicked Intel right in the goodies in the market segments I care about since right around then. Only Hammer has even been slightly disappointing since Athlon, and it was still an absolute value for money champ.

It turns out there's still no evidence that he was ever shot.

That fine is a stupid fucking joke amount. It's not even enough to make Google flinch.

"This isn't a meaningful measure of anything.
Naval wars are not won with tonnage."

They are won largely with numbers, but you ignored that part.

Anyway wars between superpowers are going to be won with drones in the future (as they are shaping up to be already) and nobody has more manufacturing than China.

There is no such thing as "the Ukraine" which is a Russian propaganda term, just Ukraine. But I guess you already knew that, Ivan.