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Not that creative, though. Everyone is trying to make you rent stuff you use on a daily basis, from cars to basic office software. Rule of thumb: if they push it hard, it's a great deal - for them.

Certainly not ideal, but reasonably simple: 1) Bluetooth and/or WiFi rather than cloud, unless really necessary 2) Fork the app to a legacy version that at least keeps doing what it's always done, no maintenance, security be damned. Still better that update-crippling.

No. All cables should carry data, the burden should be on the OS. Ask me, don't assume.

This was an interesting read. Thanks. I'm still convinced this is a Gillette blades situation, but I can admit it has its complexity.

Good point. On the other hand, I understand laser printing ink is not Gutenberg's ink, but... it's ink.

"With most claims of bricked Brother printers coming from people online, it’s impossible to confirm the accuracy of the reports and whether or not user error or the selected cartridges are factors." Impossible, really? Get one and do a test? Journalism?

This is the thing. Google is probably the best crawler out there, but their "post-processing" got so bad that anyone* can take their raw search results and present better user-facing search results than Google does. This is objectively crazy. *anyone who knows what they're doing, like Kagi and DDG.

What a disgrace.

4K is pointless in most use cases and software-assisted 4K is especially pointless since the same can be achieved by TV hardware, with less artefacts in the way. The TV industry needed a new digit-based bullet point to (try to) avoid commodification and the gaming industry shouldn't have chased...

Does anyone know if the user needs to have admin privileges or be The Administrator account? I'm assuming the former, but you never know.

Any explaination of the 25-years-old rule?

Is it gray market or is it counterfeit? Not the same thing and definitely not the same implications.

I think I understand the battle we're looking at and I'm not sure I like the fact that the Linux Foundation is siding with Amazon. Given the current context (Amazon et al. offering SAAS commercial services based on Free Software) I am saddened to admit that I'd recommend the creation and wide...

but I can easily imagine things that I wouldn't want to count as part of my biography, things that I don't feel are part of me in a sense that I embrace. I lost her at "feel". Feel is uncontestable. Feel kills any conversation, any debate, because you can't question what the other person or...

What is often overlooked is the revenue value, rather than the source. In 2022 it was $593 million, 81% of which from Google. $220 million of which spent on software development. $220 million dollars to take Firefox from v.96 to v.108. GTA4 cost half of that to develop. Come on.

Firefox user since it was called Firebird, Chromium is just for web dev work. But this news is not about me, nor about the kind of people that read Ars. This said, I'm curious about one thing: why do people believe that Chromium, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc. won't be affected by this? Is the...

I'm definitely not defending the "outdated" bit. My point was just that it makes perfect sense for copyright to expire on content for which people still have interest (financial or otherwise). Like it eventually does and like patents do. You can still package and sell stuff that's in the public...

True, but copyright is a tradeoff. A timed exclusive, to use gaming language. It's just a very very long time, because copyright today is extremely tilted in favor of right owners (not content creators) at the expense of the general interest. 15 years is a suggestion of a different tradeoff...

Uninstall the Facebook app immediately. It's basically a data endoscope.

I'm late to this party and honestly surprised to read an article essentially suggesting that the GDPR's flaws are that it's too harsh and too wide in scope. Opinions and points of view, fair enough, but no thanks.