I think they’re pretty different cases.

Amazon’s one was essentially a side project for them, likely fully funded in-house using their R&D (research and development) budget.

In Nate’s case, it was their entire product. They received funding from investors purely for the AI functionality that didn’t actually exist or work. They specifically claimed that it did work, which is how they got the money. They spent all the investor money and had essentially nothing to show for it.

They already factored in some amount of tariffs into the US price. It’s not really that it’s cheaper in Japan, but rather it’s more expensive in the USA. It’s also US$65 cheaper in Australia, for example, and even cheaper in the UK.

(keep in mind that advertised prices in Australia and the UK include tax, so you need to subtract the tax to compare with US prices)

The tariffs are just a lot higher than everyone expected. Nintendo were probably preparing for a 20% tariff, not a 54% one.

Maybe! I’m sure there’s loopholes of some sort.

This is a rare case where a piece of consumer electronics is going to be quite a bit cheaper in Australia compared to the USA! Usually stuff costs more in Australia.

The Switch is currently US$450 and will probably go up with tariffs. Meanwhile, it’s listed as AU$700 in Australia, which is AU$630 before tax (all advertised prices include tax), which is US$385.

I imagine this is going to happen for a lot of devices. I’m an Aussie living in the USA and I never thought I’d see the day when buying stuff in Australia would be cheaper. Australia has better consumer protection too, around things like repairs/refunds due to major issues even outside the warranty period.

Do you not like reading the truth?

Absolutely. The console is manufactured in Vietnam, which now has a 46% tariff. I really doubt that Nintendo’s profit margin is high enough to allow them to just eat that cost.

I loved the explosion sound, and the “oh no” when you click the undo button. I have the Windows versions of KidPix on CD somewhere.

I don’t see any mention of torrents in the article?

Yeah this is the part I don’t understand. Does the remote not have onboard storage?

At work, quite a few people use Logitech mice, but the IT security team had to block Logitech Options because Logitech added some sort of AI functionality to it without adding a killswitch for enterprise customers… On the positive side, people learnt about alternative apps to reconfigure the mice that don’t have any of Logitech’s bloat.

iTerm added AI stuff but at least they added a killswitch (a setting in a plist file I think) to force it to be disabled.

Nvidia has been open-sourcing their drivers, but it’s been taking forever.

It’s been taking forever because they’re moving a lot of code into the firmware to keep it closed source. It’s essentially a brand new driver that takes advantage of newer firmware.

That’s one of the reasons the open-source driver only works with Turing (2000 series) and newer cards - they don’t want to spend the time updating older firmware to handle the open-source driver.

You don’t get a new Emoji by creating a change .org petition lol

You need to write a proper proposal and send it to the Unicode consortium: https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html. If it gets rejected, it’s four years until you can reapply for the same Emoji.