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As an English person, I can categorically say that industrialization didn't start in London. It was more the north of England and the west midlands.

Hashtags are called hashtags because it's a tag with a hash character in front. In British English, pound is never used for # as we already have £ for the currency and lb for the unit of weight.

Yeah, if you don't get the "there are new mercenaries available" notification each month it means the AI has them all. Hopefully, this is something that'll be changed in a patch, as I don't know of any way to get around it at the moment.

It's all down to the mercenary units. If you don't purchase any and your rival purchases all of them, then you'll find yourself vastly outnumbered. My top tip is to make sure your tax revenues are high enough to keep the best mercenaries in your service. Also, one set of good mercenaries can...

When I first started using MAME, I was surprised at how many arcade machines used the Z80 as a sound coprocessor. Sega used it for the same purpose in the Genesis/Megadrive.

Surely, the whole point of open-source is so that everyone is free to use it? I fail to see why Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. making money from it is a problem. Hosting cloud services costs money, and that's what they're charging for. Having an open-source project that brings in volunteers...

You can already do this on the Quest (thanks to sideloading being supported): https://sidequestvr.com/app/125/virtualboygo

The Quest 3 works with any keyboard. However, it has an additional feature where in can track your physical keyboard in virtual space. This means you can still see the keyboard in an immersive VR environment. That's feature is limited to specific keyboards, but Vision Pro lacks that feature...

This is a good comparison from someone who's covered VR for a long time and flew across the Atlantic to pick up a Vision Pro (so certainly isn't biased against it). He says that as soon as you try playing one of the few games available now on the Vision Pro, you notice how the hand tracking...

Watching live sport in VR is something that's been around for a while. You can watch NBA on the Quest right now: https://www.nba.com/news/2023-24-nba-vr-schedule

The US had certainly abandoned all pretence of precision bombing when it came to bombing Japan. The Bombing of Tokyo seems to have been mostly forgotten, but killed an estimated 100,000 people with incendiary carpet bombing. Then of course, there were the nukes.

FYI. There's a VR remake of Myst available for PCVR and Quest (not sure about PSVR) that got very good reviews.

I prefer the Android way. The always-on can be kept simple and not distracting amd you can tailor the information that's useful to glance at. The Apple solution seems low effort in comparison. As it happens, on a Samsung you can use all the same widgets on both. I've just never felt the need...

No, I see the always-on display, which on Android is separate from the lock screen. I only see the lock screen if I press the unlock button or double tap the screen.

My point was about Android. Maybe the lock screen is useful on iOS, I've no idea. However, on Android there's a dedicated always-on display and I always unlock my phone to see notifications. That's because unlocking and seeing/managing notifications is so easy in Android. You don't need a...

That's not the lock screen, that is an always-on display.

My point is that I don't see the lock screen unless I have to do a pin unlock. I can arrange widgets how I want on my home screen, and it takes no time to unlock my phone and see my home screen. If the time to get to the home screen is the same as to get to the home screen, why bother with the...

I'm all for always-on display widgets. It's just widgets for a lock screen that I never see that seem pointless.

That's all specific to iPhones (with Face ID) requiring more actions to unlock. On my Android phone it's one action, thumb on screen, and I'm on the home screen with all the widgets and app icons I could want. I don't see the point in setting up my home screen how I like it and then also having...

Samsung seem to have figured put how to have the same sensor without the legal trouble. That suggests that was possible for Apple to avoid all this in a reasonable manner.