If you’re buying any Apple product on specs, it’s not for you. 😉

As someone who had an iPod Touch and a Gen 1 iPad ganked by OS updates, I have serious doubts about that.

$599 here, but I also live in a state with no sales tax.

But that’s the 256GB version. 512 is $699.

Of course I have 24TB free on my NAS soooo…

Still not spending $600 on an Apple branded Chromebook.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-neo/indigo-256gb

13-inch MacBook Neo in Indigo
A18 Pro, 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
Apple Intelligence
8GB unified memory
256GB SSD storage
U.S. English Magic Keyboard with Lock Key
20W USB‑C Power Adapter
Two USB-C ports, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Support for one external display

OR… OOOOOOR…

$330:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/dell-dc15255-laptop/usedc15255hbtshqzk

Yeah, yeah, fanboys are going to go “A18 Pro” vs “AMD Ryzen™ 3 7320U with Radeon™ 610M”

But on the other hand, 15.6" display vs. 13", 120hz vs 60hz, 512gb storage standard vs 256. 65w charger vs. 20w.

Goose it to the AMD Ryzen™ 5 7520U with Radeon™ 610M and it’s still $570.

Prediction - eWaste in less than 2 years. It will only live through 1, maybe 2 OS updates.

I think what PRS is stating is that Valve needs a license for the music to even display the game in their store, which is utter nonsense.

They aren’t claiming the games are infringing, if that were the case with something like Forza, they would go after the game publisher.

It looks like they are trying to say Valve is infringing by having the games in their store.

One question:

"On your first computer, how did you open a program?

Load “*”,8,1 ✅

program.exe ✅

Double click the icon ✅

“Program? Is that like an app?” ❌

I can’t help but think there’s money in acquiring all these completed assets and coming up with a story based single player game around them.

The creative part is already done! Pop it into a non-GaaS structure and see what happens!

I’d have LOVED to explore the world of Brink and it was set up to be another Assassin’s Creed Assassins vs. Templars vibe… and it all fell apart…

Wasn’t that also the name of a Microsoft Surface device? 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Neo

https://youtu.be/ekg45ub8bsk

Weird, I recently bought that same phone and did not have that problem. Why?

“Do you want to transfer your files from another device?”

No.

Just no. I don’t need your help, I can do this myself. Previous phone is backed up to my NAS, I can restore what I want from there.

I see a new phone as an opportunity to leave stuff behind. It’s on the NAS if I REALLY need it.

It’s definitely a shitty hardware thing.

“Now updating, please wait!”

I mean, technically not “down” but not exactly usable either. 😉

Fiber gear is a little different and I’d rather deal with this than the bullshit data caps and price hike games with Comcast. 😉

The dodgy WiFi gear from my fiber provider requires a hard re-set at least once a week. I had to do that just today.

And when your Internet goes down, you can’t even work locally.

Genius!

I’m sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.

What could possibly go wrong?

Youtube link so you can get to the transcript and such:

https://youtu.be/NU040CTdJI0

Sega hired a junk removal company to get rid of dev kits and cartridges as eWaste.

Instead, they sold it to the guy who got raided.

Sega accuses him of buying stolen material.

“Holographic Storage” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Data_Storage_System

Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!

Can it really be an infringement if there’s no physical source though? That’s the question.

Say someone does an online comic strip, I download the images, re-format them for print, and sell a print version.

There is no physical version to bootleg, the only reason a physical copy exists at all is because I put the time and effort into making one.

Same with the “Calvin peeing on things” car stickers. King Features and Bill Watterson could absolutely produce those themselves, but don’t. Watterson refuses to license the character for anything.

At the same time, they also haven’t gone after the people who are producing them.

For gaming, lets say you have a title region locked to Japan but someone sells an unlocked pirated version.

Should they be able to sue for a product variant they very well could make but are choosing not to?

There’s the whole “no harm” rule, if they aren’t being harmed by selling to people who are not and never will be their customers…