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Never ceases to amaze me how many people are evidently afflicted with severe glaucoma, or must be using a display with a backlight brightness rivaling the intensity of the Sun.

There’s a similar thing happening in Australia with another brand from a different company. I wonder if they’re connected somehow or using a common supplier.

…but not old-timey enough to call it a “background” instead of “wallpaper”. I still wish Apple hadn’t bowed to the Windows terminology there. You don’t wallpaper a desktop!

As frustrating as the removal of OtherOS was, it’s completely different from the 8K issue. OtherOS was actually available for years after the PS3 was released. The article is about a vaguely advertised feature that was never present in the first place. And just to validate the lawyer-deriding...

Would’ve been a lot more exciting if they had painted half of the cars red and used the other half to run Tesla’s driving software

We don’t even need to bring statistics or research into the prostitution argument. It’s much simpler than that: porn is legal, for the time being at least. If the only real distinction between legal and illegal is “performed in front of a camera,” then clearly the law isn’t very rational to...

I’m surprised that the Justice Department is so keen on a jury trial and Google is not, anyway. We see juries get things wrong all the time, most recently in the Google vs Epic case - where Google actually probably should’ve won, had it been a bench trial. In this situation, if I were Google...

It does seem like the whole ad campaign was a bit ill-conceived. Of course, had they gone the other way and instead targeted men with ads promoting abstinence, I suspect that they would be receiving widespread praise right now. Is the goal to defeat the patriarchy or to become it?

I miss TCM. It was, somewhat ironically, the only cable channel worth watching most of the time, and then Comcast took it away and required you to pay for the sports package add-on to get it.

You’re gonna need a lot of power splitters

I love how one of their executives actually said something accurate and intelligent for once, and it gets completely ignored/forgotten within the space of a couple of years.

Maybe I misread, too - I thought the 1.50 euro was for the emulator itself. Maybe it is for the app store, though.

1.50 euro per year? Charging a fee, especially a recurring one, for something that, in realistic terms, will only be used to play pirated content seems kinda icky

Not from the start, just since the development of agriculture and the rise of civilization

On a side note, it’s interesting to see how PC master race ideology has evolved. With self-superiority firmly established, mere supremacy is no longer enough. It’s now time to appropriate from other ecosystems. It’s entered the “Lebensraum” stage.

Isn’t ugliness usually Mini’s defining characteristic?

It’s unbelievable how shoddy the Windows update process still is in this day and age. I have a 2011-era Mac running 10.12 that I still use sometimes. When it restarts, most of the stuff I had opened is still there, even when the restart occurs due to the system locking up from being completely...

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I live in the US, and I have an unlocked phone, and I can’t even access the network selection menu unless I’m traveling in Europe or Australia. So I would assume that a lot of people are in the same boat and have no way to actively change their network. On a...

Microsoft probably just feels that the technical challenge of creating future Xbox hardware is beyond their ability. To be sure, they’re quite capable of handling the computer engineering stuff: processors, graphics, high speed storage, etc. But the most difficult part is just too much for them...

Yeah, I was kinda thinking something like spraying jets at the arms. But I guess that probably wouldn’t be very accurate either as the power of the jet spray doesn’t really have any counterpart in the actual problem.