Mark my words!

Anything with that lurid phrase in it can be safely dismissed ...

So, on the minus side we've got people trying to game the system. On the more-minus side; the way they are trying to game the system suggests that peer review has, at least in part, been farmed out to chatbots because it's easier. Fantastic.

"A tandem charge the size of a solar system" isn't really the reassuring correction I was hoping for; to be honest.

Thankfully, you can sustain national greatness just by shouting belligerently about it; the idea that you actually need competence or execution is just a con; so this should have no side effects whatsoever.

Besides this doesn't stop the use of the USB port on it. As soon as someone is able to sideload software on to it you can still use that or the WiFi. I think this is more to stop what happened to the first Switch and the PR nightmare of bad docks bricking the Switch.

USB PD operates off a side band so they can support hat ill regardless of any vender stuff. Also from the spec Additionally, vendors may support proprietary modes for use in dock solutions. So if they wanted to implement a custom display interface they can just do it as long as the other USB parts work. The alt mode they used on the first switch was just off the shelf so now they can implement a custom vender built dock.

I am not saying this is good or bad. Alt mode was specifically designed for venders to implement their own custom protocol over a high speed link and all alt modes are managed by other consortiums implemented by their own standards. Its why some Display Port and HDMI converters don't always work on come chipsets.

Also remember when the Switch first came out and it bricked a bunch of them using cheap docks. I doubt Nintendo doesn't want "untested devices" to keep bricking their device. I don't think this is malicious its more that kids plug anything into everything and rather do this than having another PR fiasco.

Good or bad, this is an expensive device for kids to break. Though I do hope a portable dock does come out.

As an aside my grandpa hated trump because of all the failed businesses and depts he had. He felt Trump contributed nothing and just lived though taking advantage of the government.

You cannot argue with these young die hard conservatives anymore. My grandma, god rest her soul, was a 100% "liberals will eat your children" kind of woman. At the age of 80 living though the first trump administration she went strangely quiet. Both my grandpa and her HATED Trump and stopped donating and practically gave up on all politics at that point. Its because they remember who he was back before the 2000, 1990, and even the 1980s. They just silently "stopped" talking about because they had the context of what fascism truly was and how Trump bulldozed his way. When he was on that reality TV show, they told me it was just embarrassing.

It will be a generation before these kinds of opinions change. Books will be written, people thrown in jail. I suspect there are millions of these silent conservatives that are just quietly pulling their support because of this while these proud people try to defend them without donating a buck.

Probably not great news that someone further up the Kardashev scale remains a fan of double tap strikes.

My suspicion is that they are probably in the clear. the USB PD spec includes 'vendor-defined messages'; both 'structured VDMs' that are standardized and 'unstructured VDMs' that are basically whatever the implementer feels like. This obviously doesn't prove that Nintendo are in full compliance with what the USB-IF really wants the USB trademarks applied to; but(along with the reports that it plays just fine with 3rd party chargers) it looks a lot more like a basically-compliant-minus-any-bugs-or-compatibility-hacks USB PD implementation that just doesn't mention DP alt mode unless it likes the unstructured VDM chatter. Dick move; but one you could do in full standards compliance.

Sounds like they are acting all pious over what is basically a workplace dispute over division of margins.

The outfits that do ransomware negotiations remain legal; because for some reason that's one area where nobody bats an eye at you doing business with transnational criminal syndicates; but they are basically just bagmen who take a cut of the deal for interacting with the disreputable ransomware guys for you. In this case, apparently one of the employees wanted a larger percentage of the cut than he was getting from his employer.

I suspect that what he did is some sort of crime in a way that what his employer does isn't; but it's the same business model; just with some disagreement over whether that guy gets a percentage directly as well or whether just the company does.

Then I guess we had better:

1. Go nuclear
2. Figure out how to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere.

If it takes a Manhattan Project, so be it.

Or we can just keep emoting, blaming other people, and demanding (on our iphones) that other people go back to the stone age. Doesn't seem to be working though.

Eberhart seems like he may be falling for the hype himself. He says "What's happening now isn't innovation; it's aspiration masquerading as disruption..."; but fails to note the fairly profound differences in results between the orbital delivery guys and the moonshot guys; and how neatly that maps onto what is aspiration and what isn't.

Putting satellites into orbit is kind of mundane at this point, too common, too obviously useful; but it's sufficiently obviously useful that more or less anyone with nation-state aspirations wants to at least have a program that executes; and civilian and day-to-day operations want someone who executes but cheaper. And that exists. Going to the moon is cool, and it's a nice prestige project for when the gerontocracy needs to show that they still have it just like when they showed the commies what for; but it's unclear exactly what the point is or the stakes are beyond that. The customer presumably would like to actually land something on the moon, at some point, just to say that they did; but what they are buying is mostly aspiration on the cheap: We get to say that we have a lunar program for way less than Apollo money, you do some open-ended tinkering, honor satisfied.

He can talk about 'accountability'; but it seems like it's a fundamentally hard problem to actually sustain a lie about how serious you are, at an institutional level, in the long term. It's not like do-or-die projects are free of losers(especially because circumstances have a nasty habit of thrusting them on people whether they like it or not; rather than giving them the luxury of choosing whether or not to take on those stakes); but they tend to be animated by a sense of genuine urgency. Stuff that is, fundamentally, kind of optional, by contrast, tends to reflect that in bulk. Timmy Rockets may be genuinely more passionate about stir-welding than you've ever been about anything; but, like is cousin who is really passionate social worker, will soon discover that going to the moon and fighting poverty are open-ended projects we do because they sound nice, not because anyone who matters is actually committing to a deadline.

I can think of some niche cases where this might be useful(mostly HHD/SSD wear data; though bad actors have been able to tamper with those values without much difficulty); but overall this seems like throwing an awful lot of identifying data and a whole 'trust me bro' shadow subsystem at a problem that the data is unlikely to actually help all that much with.

This will be very good at fretting if the refurbisher swapped out RAM or mass storage; but it's not like onboard diagnostics are all that good at picking up the difference between a machine that has had a fairly hard life and now has somewhat dodgy ports and a bit of uncomfortable flex vs. one that sat on a dock most of its life and got unplugged only a handful of times; any any issue that the embedded diagnostics can pick up can also be picked up without any special recordkeeping by just running the diagnostics when you receive the device and verifying that it doesn't throw any errors out of the box.

If you've already got the trust me bro shadow subsystem I assume it's relatively cheap to propose having it keep more records; but I'm not really convinced of how much value is being added.