It’s worth it if you can get it for cheaper than an AYN Thor, and always worth it if you have anyone you know who also still uses a DS/3DS because of local wireless multiplayer.

The tradeoff with a Thor (or the couple of other ds emulator handhelds) is that you lose out on local wireless multiplayer (emulators might eventually support this in the future, they only do WFC via WiFi at this time) and the specific hardware gimmicks of the 3DS (3D, stereo cameras, perfect input latency, etc.) but you get access to GC, Wii, WiiU, PS1/2, PSP, Switch 1, and Steam/PC games.

What’s the reason behind its sudden resurgence despite it being an “old” console as the Switch lineup has replaced it?

This is gonna sound like nostolgia glazing but really the DS era was Nintendo at their finest and the absolute gold standard of handheld gaming and a serious platform for handheld technology of the time. Stuff like streetpass could have easily been utilized for some amazing technology in other platforms like smartphones. The 3DS gets access to all of that + its own 3DS library of games, which is why its the most optimal console to buy.

95% of that library will never see the light of day again because they relied on the specific hardware the DS/3DS offered, the main one being the two screens. It would be impractical/impossible to remaster most, and Nintendo is still wary of attempting to emulate even a handful for their virtual console due to the aforementioned hardware and a bunch of PITA development required to make it work well (see the MelonDS forums of how long its taken to get to a solid state).

It’s been in high demand ever since they ended production because of that reason, and it continues to climb due to limited supply.

Does it have to do with physical game ownership?

No, you should homebrew your 3DS to make it incredibly more viable to use and everyone uses big SD cards to hold all of their game ROMs and data.

Also I use Jellyfin btw.

You shouldn’t be talking with the amount of hilarious CVEs jellyfin has also had lmao

EDIT:

Literally a critical RCE a couple of months ago lol: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-35031

Your downvotes are meaningless, please don’t run Jellyfin publicly exposed without at least some form of secondary ACL whether it be a full blown VPN or just a lazy reverse proxy login like authentik.

And please run inside a non privliged container. Either use uidmap or go rootless.

I’m pretty sure there are multiple hackthebox machines based around jellyfin because of how notorious it used to be with bugs.

There’s a reason why soviet era technology was infamous for its use of plywood stalinium.

There’s also a reason why post industrial american technology is infamous for its use of chinesium totally legit made in USA stickers.

People are gonna hate this answer but the best products are made in a properly competitive market.

The USSR had state owned OEMS that ultimately relied on deals with foreign manufacturers to jump start their success significantly later than their international counterparts.

The big 3 US OEMs lobbied congress to block foreign imports to protect their inferior product in the home market (multiple times, notably against Japan and recently China).

They’ll just get auto blocked by the great firewall then lol

Haha I remember watching independence day for the first time and thinking “oh damn they’re gonna infect the aliens with a disease” and then Jeff goes “computer virus” before tapping away with his laptop.

tbf though I consider that movie the king of blockbusters for the absolute massive list of wacky tacky bs that occurs pretty much the entire runtime of the film lol.

I don’t know why people forget even the first moon missions had a quarentine trailer/chamber used by the astronauts for this exact reason.

They were pretty sure they weren’t gonna find microbial life on the moon but they sure as hell weren’t gonna take the risk in case there actually was.

I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?

You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group

And how do peers know it comes from them?

This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.

PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.

On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.

The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.

The stuff that gets banned on .world news gets posted to .ml news and the stuff that gets banned on .ml news gets posted to .world news.

You need both to get everything, otherwise you end up with too much of a bias from one instance.

Someone here mentioned a while ago that some house spiders learn your active hours and typically come out to hunt when you’re either not around or asleep.

I usually ignore them because I’d much rather deal with occasional corner cobwebs than literally any other pest hanging around.

Spiders are the only thing not interested in my food.

Whenever evil antagonist broadcasts his evil message on every major advertisement screen and TV in the world (and PC/mobile device), with full audio.

https://youtu.be/jSFeBYchRFs

Sorta relevant lol

EAC Linux v2 runs a systemd service that stays active just for the length of a protected game session, alongside eBPF programs written by Epic that watch for tampering and cheats.

For players, this means a stricter boot setup, so Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 need to be on, the kernel has to be signed with a key Epic recognizes, and several other boot and kernel settings come into play.

EAC checks all of this only when a protected game launches, and failing the check brings up an error, not a ban. Players can also keep a separate boot entry for protected games and run their own keys elsewhere.

So I guess MOK is not supported? That would make it impossible to play with Nvidia drivers because they need a MOK for signing.

Using eBPF is actually a pretty neat idea, but I guess MOK would be too easy of a bypass because you can sign your own kernel modules and just do whatever in kernel space.

It’s way better than a crappy kernel module but I wonder if hackers will actually abuse this for access over windows, especially when the Android version is also right there without any significant anticheat.

They’ll replace the latest foldable hinge technology with low grade sand because Apple made theirs out of low grade sand.

EDIT is this actually a service? If this exists I’ll fucking do it, I swear

It technically is for a lot of PC repair shops that don’t otherwise advertise it, but I remember some ye olde Craigslist posts offering such a service back in the day lol.

I’d honestly do it for free if I knew you in person lmao.

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

Here’s the full blog post.

They didn’t mention much about the attack chain itself, but they did mention it was capable of targeting both android/iOS and windows.

Uh no, most if not all of the paid indexers are not worth it compared to just waiting for an open invite from a quality one.

Not even the gold tier quality ones allow paid entry AFAIK. They only allow people who are long time seeders and uploaders with reputation.

The one thing you might have to pay for is a VPN in case you want to torrent on public indexers, which is often worth it because not everything will end up on private indexers, and you usually have to wait a couple of months before you can join a solid private indexer.

Obviously there’s a hundred joke comments about using Linux but it if you already had a ventoy USB lying around, it would unironically be faster to liveboot a distro, install libre office and then prsent your pptx (or log into google slides and do the same).

Unless something has changed, this setting was entirely worthless during Win10

Too lazy to check but do they make any portable music players that support opus and not just mp3?

My Nintendo DS (Moonshell) technically supports vorbis, but it struggles with its 4Mb of memory sometimes lol.

Nah that dude is just a post Unix purist about to launch into a 3 hour talk about how Plan 9 is (not was) the future.