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I have done this to create a series of "collection" apps for myself. One for boardgames, another for retro video games and another for manga graphic novels. Nothing super fancy but nice as a quick reference when I am at a shop and wonder if this is something I already own. I am a programmer...

I had an Atari 400 and I wrote my first software programs on it when I was 14. The program would keep a check ledger and print out checks too. Humble beginnings. I had Berzerk, Millipede, and Star Raider for games and Millipede was bundled with the computer which I believe I purchased at...

20 up sucks but I will take it. Charter (Spectrum) gives me 320 down no problem but up is only 10 which sucks. 20 would double what I have but 80 would be great for cloud backups

Yes, Google who would not play nice with its services on the Windows Phone now wants Apple to play nice, wow some nice irony.

All the channels that are going away do not bother me because I never watched them. I will happily take the discount and I would not mind if those channels do not come back.

I like the games from ButtonShy for stocking stuffers. I keep them in my travel bag as they are all about the size of a pack of cards.

I have an iPad and will be happy to toss it if 12L gives me a good tablet experience and Google and App developers deliver some good tablet apps. This has been needed for a long time. Hope it does well.

I mostly ignore these cars considering the starting price of $77,400. Unless they can make the same nice looking cars with the range listed in this story for under $40,000 I am seriously not interested and it is going to be a barrier for many. Cars like this are still virtue signaling cars for...

I understand the feeling of "It's simply too much these days" As a software developer, I find it impossible to tear away from my screen and keyboard. Some 10yrs ago I started playing hobby board games. Ars even has series called Ars Cardboard (https://meincmagazine.com/series/ars-cardboard/)...

This is a perfect phone for my parents who are still on a Pixel 2. My only complaint is the charge time. I believe they could have bumped that to 33W without a big price increase.

I am a Fig backer and I wonder if the game would have ever been made if not for Microsoft purchasing the studio. Same for Wasteland 3. 5yrs seems a really long time for the game to be developed. I am happy that both have turned out well but they also made it such that I will never pay to...

During the lockdown, I started reading several Anime series, and because of work, I have remembered the Japanese I had forgotten. This will be cool to watch and see if I can follow along with the Japanese and then watch the English version.

"Instant access to the sum of human knowledge has allowed far-flung, like-minded people to find each other and coalesce into supportive communities. But it has also enabled people to retreat deeper into their own ideological silos." Yep, well said especially the last sentence which has also...

Premise 3: [Non-white]-facing a white actor into a non-white role is a practice descended from racist precepts about who should appear on stage, especially as a leading figure. For example, skipping over Bruce Lee for the role of Kwi Chang Caine in Kung Fu and giving that character to David...

I do not understand the part about having access to "green space" as it relates to having good sleep. This article seems to double down on race but I am wondering if it is purely a poor vs not poor problem. I have to believe if the "worries" discussed are not the same for all poor so it would...

The only way I can see this to be mitigated is you have a 3rd party that pulls libraries and does some automated and manual scans of the code and you pay for the service before you download from that 3rd Party. The issue is that there are so many libraries they could only handle working through...

I was hoping for new on the tablets, nope, adding color, another UI update. At least it is supposed to use less CPU but still, nothing interesting.

The new table OS UI looks to be targeted at low end devices. Maybe they wish to complete with the Amazon Kindle. They seem to be handling this wrong. Unless you have an architecture where developers want to create apps and you compete with Apple, all you are doing is competing for the bottom...

Isn't this an issue with Android in general? Andriod Tablets suck because Google has done a crap job making apps run on the larger format. Watches suck because Google has pretty much abandoned the Wear OS. Why do we need anti-virus software on Android, because Google has done a poor job with...

20+ years of playing D&D I will pass and just use my plain old fancy looking resin dice. $40 would purchase me a new board game rather than a gimmick. If you can afford it, go for it they already have 20K backers. Stuff like this never excites me because the shine eventually goes away or it...