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It could be more interesting to look at all the consoles, not only the playstations.

N64/PS1/Saturn: 146 million units sold worldwide

GC/PS2/Dreamcast/Xbox: 214

Wii/PS3/Xbox 360: 275

WiiU/Switch/PS4/Xbox One: 338

Switch 2/PS5/Xbox Series: 150

So since only the last generation has lower number of units sold, it seems to me that the market for console is either only recently declining, or the cycle is much longer and people takes more time to buy the new generation.

Re:Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:24AM (#47245522)
> it's great to know that USB-C ports can just be replaced that easilly

Yes exactly! To me it's surely the biggest win. It's very easy to break them when the power chord is plugged in. I'm really pleased that we will now be able to fix them without having to change the whole motherboard (which surely very few people do because of expansive and how ridiculous it sounds)

Re:The state of Linux music players in 2026 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:16AM (#46777461)
There is a lot of choices in that area, but for me every time there was something I was unhappy with. So in the end I just wrote my own. It works exactly like I want, and it was a fun project to do anyway.

Next stuff I want to add in it, is the automatic translation of lyrics (maybe with the deepl api).

Re:Rouille – Rust Programming, in French on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:29AM (#45773163)
It would be LISEZMOI.md
I really don't understand the hostility here. The digital euro seems like a good way to reduce the power of companies like visa and mastercard, and reduce the fees too. If the government is providing a way to pay freely in a digital way, why would I pay a company to do the same (or worse, see the last scandal between the card companies and steam)?
Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:58AM (#45081932)
8 years ago was the first time that person encountered a problem with btrfs. But that wasn’t the last apparently:

> My last Btrfs filesystem died randomly a few days ago

Re:What to Expect from Debian/Trixie on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:11AM (#44669336)
Thanks for the feedback!
Re:What to Expect from Debian/Trixie on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:56AM (#44668551)
Does someone know if there's an increase in memory usage for Gnome or if it's about the same? I am wondering if I can update an old computer with only 4GB of memory.
Some people support this law, not because they think those pesticides are harmless, but because other EU country can still use these pesticides which give them an economic advantage. I don't understand while they are not instead asking for a European law to ban them. So every EU country would play with the same rules.
Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:20AM (#44603058)
I frequently use the Switch's power brick to charge my Thinkpad, as it's smaller and so easier to transport than the Thinkpad's original power brick.
Re:Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful on Saturday May 17, 2025 @11:52AM (#44015154)
>Australia was the first country to widely support chip/pin

Do you have any source on that? I find it rather surprising.

Re:Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:02AM (#44002874)
Not moving straight to a more recent version, but still cherry-picking some parts of them. You can see some functionalities from Lua 5.2 and 5.3 are working in Luajit: https://luajit.org/extensions.html
Re:A programming language made for me on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:11PM (#43975238)
Do you know if there are some professional games that have been made with Odin and released on steam or on game consoles?
Re:Simple Web Server on Monday April 14, 2025 @02:23PM (#43684491)
python3 -m http.server
Re:Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:55AM (#43264438)
Does it means the delta chat messages appears in the regular mail inbox?
Re:Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:50AM (#43193487)
The winning submission kind of remind me of the Eagle mode file manager where you can zoom into a directory to see files in it and keep zooming to access subdirectories.

https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/emvideo.html

I don't know, but the parent's link article says:

>"I spent 20 years in the Navy, most of it in the hot spots, like the engine rooms of ships—110 degrees is nothing on a ship," he says. That environment may have caused an increase in heat shock proteins, which were able to limit the spread of tau and prevent the onset of Alzheimer's. The scientists studying Whitney aren't sure if that's all, or even part, of the explanation. But they are hoping that the paper on Whitney will encourage other researchers to look for answers.

So instead of going to work for the navy, one could just go to the sauna daily.

Edit: turns out that it might be true: https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/46/2/245/2654230?log...

If going to the sauna daily is all it takes to prevent it, that would be quite a thing!
Re:Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:40AM (#43010435)
Nekoweb is great too !

https://nekoweb.org/

Re:Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that on Saturday December 28, 2024 @05:44AM (#42530067)
> I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?

You can read review of journalists you usually agree with, ask for advice from your friends, check if you liked other movies from the same filmmaker, check if the movie has been displayed in your favorite movie theater or in the movie theater you dislike (but okay, won't work for netflix movies).

Re:Itch.io Taken Down by Funko on Monday December 09, 2024 @07:28AM (#42365629)
I'm also looking to move my domains out of gandi but stay with a european registrar. Did someone try netim customers' service? They say on their "about us" webpage that the company is still owned by the founders, so I would think the enshittification hasn't started yet. But if some have experiences to share it would be nice.
Re:The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:57AM (#41856669)
That's for C++ not C
But you vote for someone who is going to nominate a commissioner. So it is just indirect election.
This tax doesn't exists any more in France, it has been removed at the end of 2022.

https://www.gouvernement.fr/actualite/fin-de-rideau-pour-la-...

Re:Building a USB SNES Controller on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:29PM (#39059169)
Can only recommend the iBuffalo SNES controller too, I have two of them and they are quite good. Didn't know the brand stopped making them, it's a pity.
Re:In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:17PM (#38884271)
Couldn't you book with another ticket seller? Like trainline.eu?
> Germany - the most vocal proponents of wind/solar - is the most polluting country in the whole EU.

Are they? Looks like it's Poland who is generating the most CO2 for electricity production.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...

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