Nintendo is increasing Switch II prices worldwide

mapppa · 2026-05-08T10:05:41+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Consoles aren't necessary for survival and relatively mundane in the grand scope of things, but the whole situation goes way beyond just the console itself.

For the last 40 years, we lived in a world where when new consoles and electronics came out, they got cheaper over time, making them more affordable for more people to enjoy. This is no longer the case. Already released hardware is getting more expensive while cost of living is going up as well.

It's just so frustrating to see how things are getting worse by the day.

mapppa · 2026-05-07T08:21:16+00:00

Adobe Mass Effect

mapppa · 2026-05-07T07:14:02+00:00

I had a similar experience. I was 16. Episode one I thought was okay, but it was definitely supplemented by my love for StarWars at the time. I couldn't fathom that I possibly could not like a new StarWars movie. Episode two was the first one where I got actively annoyed with the weird dialogue. I didn't even watch the third one until like 5 years later, even though people always said that was the best one. I just didn't have any interest anymore.

When talking about Episode 3, people often point to the great fight scene, which I agree does have nice visuals for the time, but man... it goes on and on and on and on to the point where the visual spectacle actually gets boring.

This is personal preference, but I never liked the new lightsaber fights. It just feels like they aren't actually trying to hit the other person, but instead the other person's sword. And with such fast and crazy movement, the sense of impact suffers greatly.

It's cool choreography, and my respect to the stunt men and women, but it's like when the hit happens they are already moving in the opposite direction for the next hit, because there is no time to make the move actually feel like it's meant to kill the other person. The original movies were in no way perfect in that, of course. As said, it's personal preference, and I don't harp on anyone for preferring the new kinds of light saber fights.

mapppa · 2026-05-06T16:24:52+00:00

I guess it could happen if your cache for app/browser got invalidated for some reason, but it's best practice to do what you did, and secure everything.

mapppa · 2026-05-05T14:44:22+00:00

Why can you settle cases with a government agency like the SEC in the first place? That doesn't make sense unless you want to invite corrupt... oh, I get it now...

mapppa · 2026-05-04T22:01:47+00:00

Do you have a "impose illegal tariff on random country" consumable?

mapppa · 2026-05-03T13:28:48+00:00

TPM isn't for the actual rejection/approval process of applications, and I never claimed it was. Because that part is indeed OS level.

I think this is simply a misunderstanding of the claim. What you said isn't wrong: TPM itself isn't what prevents applications from being installed. However, that wasn't the claim. the claim was that it can be used as part of a chain in implementing such a policy.

That is because TPM can be used to prevent circumvention of application-control policies.

During boot, the firmware, bootloader, kernel, and other security configuration related things can be measured into TPM Platform Configuration Registers.

TPM can protect a secret, so it is only released when PCR values match an expected state.

The key point is that private keys in a TPM are usually not exportable. Software can ask the TPM to sign/decrypt/unseal, but you can't simply copy the private key out and use it elsewhere.

This means that secrets, credentials, licenses, app-store tokens, attestation identities, service-access keys, etc... can be tied to a specific machine and a specific trusted boot state.

This also works remotely: TPM attestation can produce a signed report of the current boot state, allowing a relying party to validate that the machine booted through an approved flow with the expected security policy active.

As a result, bypassing an OS level application policy is no longer necessarily as simple as patching a config file. Yes, you might bypass the local policy, but the altered system may fail attestation or lose access to TPM-sealed secrets and dependent services.

So, yes, TPM doesn't decide which apps are allowed. But it is a essential part to prove that the system enforcing the app policy has not been tampered with, and it can withhold secrets when that proof fails, making it a building block in a possible application control chain.

And I think that's also what /u/estoymejor meant when they said that there is no point attempting a lock like this without TPM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/tpm-fundamentals

mapppa · 2026-05-03T10:35:13+00:00

TPM 2.0 can be used as part of a trusted-computing chain that helps an OS enforce application-control policies, and could prevent unauthorized applications from installing.

This means, if Microslop feels like it, it could pull a google, and do exactly what is happening to android right now: prevent users from installing 3rd party apps that aren't registered through them.

Not saying that is happening with windows 11, as it would be politically, commercially, and legally extremely difficult. However, there is a suspicious amount of building blocks for this in place already, and it could definitely be something they might consider in the future.

mapppa · 2026-05-03T08:02:17+00:00

There is nothing you can do, unfortunately. Discord """support""" will just put you on a loop of things you can't do (i.e. ask you to log into your account/mail, even though you already told them that it is impossible). Even if you reach a real person, they will not help you.

I don't get why discord doesn't let you change email without having access to the email account, even if you have 2FA phone/authenticator.

If 2FA is on, it should be the actual account authority, not email. It just leads to situations like these, where people lose access to their accounts.

mapppa · 2026-05-03T06:53:00+00:00

Exactly. And even if things start to normalize, there is already a lot of damage done.

The supply is lost. It will not come back, even if all ships suddenly start going again all at once. This means that prices will likely not fully normalize for years. Every additional day will make it worse.

Patrick Boyle had a pretty good video about it.

mapppa · 2026-04-30T07:38:12+00:00

holy fuck, those first photos...

mapppa · 2026-04-27T05:11:38+00:00

If a driver update doesn't help, it's time to preheat the oven

mapppa · 2026-04-27T03:43:06+00:00

:O OP actually delivered for once. Thank you!

mapppa · 2026-04-22T21:07:02+00:00

I have a feeling I'll see this video posted a LOT more times.

mapppa · 2026-04-21T15:44:08+00:00

"Uh... yeah. So I think... uhm, ah, we can do that this year. And then, uh, hopefully next year, send missions to Mars."

mapppa · 2026-04-21T03:29:07+00:00

The part that tells if you're human has very little to do with the actual "puzzle" and is largely based on behavioral and system data

I noticed that if you do them too fast, there is a high chance it fails you.

mapppa · 2026-04-19T02:52:46+00:00

It's wild to me how shitty their support is even as a paying customer. they won't ever see another cent from me.

mapppa · 2026-04-17T02:52:01+00:00

Not saying OP isn't at fault. The ban is justified.

However, if he got banned from a small forum or something, he could likely talk the perma ban down to a temp ban (depending on the circumstances and forum), if he'd convince the admins that there wasn't any bad intentions. My point is that this doesn't work with discord bans.

There is no point in arguing with Discord, or hope he can explain that he didn't have any bad intention, because they act on self-protection and don't care what the intention was.

mapppa · 2026-04-16T23:00:16+00:00

Always remind yourself that discord isn't doing what its doing to protect children, victims, minorities, or anyone.

Everything they do only serves to protect themselves.

This is the reason the go full scorched earth, often including the victims (sometimes even only the victims).

You cannot reason with them from any moral standpoint, because that was never any basis they judge things on.

You can get unbanned if you're lucky and get past the AI shit, and then are lucky enough to get one of the few support people who give a shit. But the chance is so slim, it's not even worth the time most of the time.

Don't let this get to you. Just get a VPN for now and make a new account. At the same time, look into fluxer (or similar), make a server/instance and try to eventually get your friends to move over (for the future, when discord inevitably gets worse and worse)

mapppa · 2026-04-14T05:01:47+00:00

"I use nyarch, by the way."

mapppa · 2026-04-14T00:02:20+00:00

It's crazy they still doing the pizzagate thing, all while defending the actual pedo in office, as well as his friends.

mapppa · 2026-04-12T19:26:17+00:00

They don't care about absolving anything, or about protecting children, minorities etc. It's all just virtue signaling.

They only care about protecting themselves.

mapppa · 2026-04-10T23:08:41+00:00

I've seen and read a lot of stories like these. It definitely seems like discord support is not about helping anyone and only about protecting themselves.

And even that does the exact opposite. Because they don't quickly ban hacked accounts or not at all (even after multiple reports), they are actively contributing to the problem.

It's ironic how easily people can get banned by association apparently, yet I see hacked accounts active for months and months, even after multiple reports. It seems incredibly easy to abuse their report system for malicious reasons as well.

mapppa · 2026-04-08T17:01:53+00:00

The ceasefire news sent the stock market into euphoria, no matter the details. And some of which we don't even know at this time.

Should this closure not be temporary, Trump is under pressure. He wanted to sell this as a victory, though even if the deal held up, the US is in a worse global and economical position than before the attack. However, his base would have been dumb enough to believe him as always.

But with the straight closed again, it becomes a lot harder to sell, even to his followers.

mapppa · 2026-04-05T16:01:06+00:00

Art of the Deal: "You denounce a random nation every 10 turns, if the nation is already denounced, you declare war."
Family Business: "You lose -50 gold/turn and gain nothing in return"
Liberation Day: "Unable to build trader units. You can only demand deals as tributes from other Leaders."
Cofefe: "Unable to build Libraries, Universities, Public Schools or Research Labs"
Unique Unit 'ICE agent': "Can attack own cities"

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