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Its like the Rodger Rabbit shave-and-a-haircut bit, but for internet losers.

This is making it pretty obvious that they are literally trying to kill the PC as a concept.

The actual functional difference between a cheap “value” phone and a premium “flagship” phone has never been smaller than it is today. There was a time when you actually got different capabilities, actual real-world performance improvements, and longer battery life. Now the cheap phones sometimes offer BETTER features (notably, battery life) because they aren’t running as much stupid bullshit that you don’t want.

Replaygain 2.0 plugin for Musicbrainz Picard. Fix volume while getting your tags in order.

This doesn’t re-encode the files but tags them with information that tells your player how to adjust playback.

You can do it without revealing your real identity.

I cannot even imagine giving a social media platform enough information to even do this. Maybe just don’t?

The reason Amazon survived is because they WEREN’T running a dozen different ventures. They were an online bookstore and people kept buying books. Amazon benefited from the crash because that was when they started buying up servers to build AWS. Prime was just free 2 day shipping on books when it launched.

Most of the information that you get about terrible people comes from terrible people because that is who knows them. Should we discount Trump accusations from Epstein because they came from a known pedo? No, pedos are the people that Trump hangs out with because that is what he is.

Yep. Even a lot of the cheap little game consoles and shit you get from China run some variety of Linux.

1. You don’t.
2. Easy. The device constantly captures images of the user and checks them against the user image on file
3. By scanning a government issued ID and checking against an online database with poor security.

So much better listening to music I chose and actually enjoy.

Oops, we accidentally ripped you off, again.

Roblox literally monetized unsupervised access to children as a premium feature.

The difference being that the Hindenburg was a perfectly functioning rigid airship that had a lot of inherent risks due to the nature of its design.

AI isn’t good enough at its actual job to be in this position. The risk of AI is people pretending that it works when it doesn’t. It would be like if you made a blimp and filled it with carbon dioxide and people kept buying tickets and just sitting there waiting for it to take off.

Agreed. I still have to get into the terminal pretty routinely to do things that don’t have an effective GUI (let alone a touch capable GUI) and that would just be a deal killer for any kind of mass market handheld device. The steam deck is the closest thing that I can think of to something that could sorta be considered a proof of concept for Linux consumer devices and that took a LOT of money to develop and a massive built in revenue stream to support.

If I got a free wish for a new valve product it would probably be for a vertical Gameboy pocket (or even folding Gameboy advanced) sized hand-held steam deck with a sim card, radios, and a mic. Probably only about a hundred people would buy it, but I would be one of them.

The idea is that there is already a bunch of shit developed for Linux so you aren’t really starting from zero. But yeah, I agree with your overall assessment. No one is going to be making hardware for this.

I remember when narrow viewing angles of an LCD screen would cost you ratings on a review. Good move marketing it as a “feature”.

This article starts out by observing that Zuckerberg committed enough crimes to be sent to prison under existing law and then argues that the only solution is more laws?

How about we just start making rich people subject to the same set of laws as everyone else?

Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.

I’ve tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.