ms_lane

You're fine :)

It's just weird to me I guess, someone in my age group who doesn't know the CNC games.

Allow me to introduce you to: an abstract concept of facebook-

People, separated by thousands of miles, tap messages into their glass topped smart rocks that can then be seen by other people with smart rocks - it does this communicating with big metal trees that talk to magic caves, where millions of smart rocks think about those messages and pass them over to other magic caves by a glass wire, which in turn pass the messages to another metal tree and over to other glass topped smart rocks for people to read.

Did you only start gaming in your late teens?

I know about the kool aid, but also for you-

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/the-conspiracy-theory-that-alex-jones-is-actually-legendary-long-dead-texas-comedian-bill-hicks/

Patents only last 20 years, You can copy the SNES dpad...

Steamdeck isn't a perfect example either, but it's better than here.

For a sticks-only (+ touch on the screen) setup, WiiU Gamepad is still the golden standard, centre of gravity is just right, stick placement is natural for the holding position with the grips, even the dpad and face buttons are comfortable.

They could call it Hicksville even... :P

Dual Pads - check

Ergo bumps on back of case - check

Not Intel - check

Symmetrical Sticks - check... but not like this - the center of gravity will still be out of whack and you'll get sore wrists after a while. They need to be up top, like the WiiU Gamepad and SteamDeck. (somehow Nintendo got worse between WiiU > Switch, Switch is terrible for ergo all round)

Lifespan per NAND cell, which gets exponentially smaller with each extra 'layer' per cell. SLC can do billions of writes per cell, QLC is ~1000 writes per cell.

It could be part of the truth, that their SPI is burning cpu cycles trying to read encrypted traffic, slowing throughput.

News Corpse are trashy as ever.