With removable batteries is that there is actually a legitimate reason for getting rid of them, in that it’s much harder to waterproof a device with a removable battery.

I’d still like to see the option available, but I can at least understand why it’s not from a practical standpoint. The only reason carrier locks exist is to increase the cost of change for the end user, making them less likely to switch providers.

Uh oh. What did Ubisoft do this time?

They only talk about BG&E2 when they are about to be raked over the coals for some heinous shit they did.

He was a raving homeless man who frequently masturbated in public and antagonized anyone who would approach him. However, beyond all that he was one of the smartest people in the ancient world and lived life never comporimising his principles.

Its the best when you buy an LP and get a download code for the album as well.

I listen to LPs mostly when I want music to be the primary thing im doing. There is a whole ritual involved with putting a record on. Whereas, sometimes I just want to listen to something while I’m doing dishes or driving, and then playing an MP3 over a Bluetooth speaker from my phone is just infinitely more convenient.

This is an interesting take. Historically, the main benefits to console gaming were 2 things:

• Consoles are cheaper than PCs

• Games require no config and and are guaranteed to be compatible

Nether of these is really the case anymore. For the price of a PS5 or a Series X you could get a midrange gaming PC with similar performance.

Regarding complexity, we kind of met in the middle. Long gone are the days when you could just pop a disc in the tray of your playstation or xbox and start playing, every game requires an install now. And on the PC side, you very rarely need to configure settings to get a game to a playable state. Hell, you dont really even need to manually install drivers anymore.

Of course, as the article points out, none of this applies to Nintendo and those consoles are still worth buying.

My guess for the future is that if Microsoft and Sony are going to hang around in the hardware space, they’re going to make something akin to the steam deck, but locked to their own storefront. And then they’ll wonder why people are still choosing PCs over their hardware.

Im sure that there are cases of both.

Some people probably wouldn’t work if all their basic needs were met.(No judgement, i’d definitely consider it myself) And some billionaires probably are hard workers(although that is definitely not why they’re billionaires)

Should the machine’s operating system be calculated in the storage too?

No, you dont understand. All the historical records of that period I’ve seen dont have black people doing things.

What do you mean fantasy movies from the 80s aren’t historical records?

Yes, but its rare, and even more rare will I buy something.

If I see an ad for something that im actually in the market for, and I want to support the person that runs the page or presents the video, and I know that the person is going to get a kickback if I decide to spend money, then yeah, I’ll click their referral link and shop around.

I honestly thought it was older than that.

I was sure the game came out before my 20s but I looked it up and you’re right.

I don’t blame HR for wanting to make their jobs easier, everyone else does that too.

I blame HR for not taking time to think about problems that could arise by having a computer judge if a person will be a good fit at the company, which is a famously difficult task, even if you’re intimately familiar with the role you’re filling and all the people your potential hire will be working with.

In all those cases, it was mostly the better product that won.

Microsoft won with PCs in the 90s because its office suite was the best. Apple and Google were lightyears ahead of BlackBerry and Palm, and Facebook was a much better user experience than Myspace.

Google is going to lose this battle because their model is simply less useful than Copilot or ChatGPT(and those aren’t really great to begin with)

I also want this as a canvas print. If you find one, let me know where.

It’s the comic sans of art movements. It works really well for what it was designed for (eye-catching, inoffensive, and simple) but its both overused and misused in enough places that people have soured on it over the years.

All this is true, but I also want to add that the soundtrack for this movie is also incredible.

To be fair, the alcoholic menu us typically like this too. 95% of the menu is beer, wine, or vodka and some kind of syrup.

I had the same thought. I thought kiwis were smaller than pigeons.

Someone didnt watch the video

Computer engineers will try to get 2 things running on anything that could be described as Turing complete. The first is Conway’s Game of Life and the other is Doom

I get what you mean, but my statement wasn’t really about how someone can escape the matrix by seeing enough advertising to realize that its poisioning society and wanting to escape that.

Its more that people would still talk about their commercial products even if there werent ads for it. Thats just a human experience thing.

Advertising muddies the water a whole bunch here because someone has taken that moment of human connection where you talk about a tool that fixed a problem you had, or some food you tried that was really good into something to make money.

Basically your choices are:

• Talk about the things with people and ignore the commercial implications.

• Be riddled with anxiety over a conversation accidentally making a few extra dollars for CocaCola or Amazon.

• Somehow totally dismantle the capitalist system and remove the profit incentives from human conversations involving things you can purchase.

TLDR: you can’t totally avoid capitalism so focus on your own happiness rather than worrying about who might be making money from the things youd be doing anyway.