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But why do they care? You're paying the transaction fees. They're getting their money. If anything isn't it good for the payment processor to get more transactions?

It's a real transaction. Nobody was deceived, the money really changed hands, and the payment processor got their fee.

If I own a physical shop I'm allowed to buy stuff from it if I want, why isn't that also the case for an online store?

I'm not saying it isn't against the ToS, but I agree with OP it isn't obvious why it should be and it seems like almost everybody would test at least one real transaction at some point.

Message from Spooky23: says they like eating apples

Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries.

I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.

Yep. They obviously learned nothing from killing Xbox overnight.

As an IT person I can guarantee this rebranding is going to cause confusion that will waste my time.

That being said, Coke killed Coke Zero and seems to be doing okay I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like there has to be some weird cultural problem at Microsoft where nobody wants to speak up about obviously bad ideas.

They destroyed the entire Xbox brand overnight and hampered any chance at recovery with a stupid confusing naming scheme... now it seems like they've learned nothing from that?

Yep. I've been an Xbox player since 2002. Huge Halo fan. Thousands of hours on 3 different generations of Xbox. I still have my Halo 3 special edition helmet. I keep up with gaming news and listen to multiple gaming podcasts every week.

But even I can't reliably name the last two generations of Xbox without a pause. I always have to stop for a second and think it thru because the naming scheme is so abysmal.

I work in IT support helping customers with this type of thing and this specific problem you just described still trips me up regularly.

And it's been like that at at least 3 or 4 companies I've worked at so it's not just this specific organisation.

And the New Teams removed the ability to copy formatted chat logs with timestamps! I used that every single day

Eternal Disney Vault

What's the advantage over a MacBook? Supports more external displays or something?

"Digital" has become this weird overloaded term with a second meaning that means "no physical media". You see it mostly in videogames, "bought digitally" means buying it from Steam or another online store as a download, as opposed to a physical disk.

Obviously you're right and and literally every commercial* videogame ever released is digital in the sense that it's binary information, and the movies that person was talking about were already digital on Blu Ray.

You can kind of justify it as literally correct if you infer the context of "digital" referring to the method of transferral, rather than the method of information storage - I.e when I bought a game disk from a shop, the game was transferred to me physically on a disk, but when I bought one from Steam it was transferred digitally. Doesn't really apply as much for this situation tho.

(*I almost said every videogame ever made, but I suppose Tennis For Two and some other experimental games ran on analogue computers)

Exactly. I feel like this author doesn't realise how long ago 32 bit was replaced. Only specifically retro gamers are still playing on PCs that old, and they're probably not online.

I'm surprised the launcher still supported any 32 bit operating systems this long.

A bit clickbait. EA is still running a store and you won't lose your games, it's just a new app and not called Origin.

Also the bit about 32 bit PC users having to buy a new one is a bit overblown. Who's still using a more than 20 year old computer as their main gaming rig?

That's so cool!! I'm kind of sad I mostly missed that era of computing. Always thought the ZX Spectrum was a cool system. It's neat that writing your own software was accessible and practical all the way back then. I'll probably buy one when I have the money and room to collect that sort of thing.

There's something that seems very satisfying about loading software from tape, too.

That's what I love about coding. All you need is a computer and an idea and nobody can stop you creating it.

Yeah. Looking at stats without context of their audience is what caused the Xbox One disaster. They saw a huge number of hours on Xbox 360 being used for watching streaming shows, so they thought that was all anybody cared about, ignoring the fact that their audience still bought the device as a game console and that alot of those hours were relatives and housemates.

Almost all scam calls originate in India. It's absolutely an indicator.

I warned people not to buy games on Stadia. I specifically told them this was going to happen. Nobody should trust Google for anything long term at this point, ever.

*AI has generated more imaged than humans took in the first 150 years of photography

"The FF 91's 142.0-kWh battery pack is rated for an EPA-estimated 381 miles of range "

That's... pretty terrible. That's only 609km. The 438km-rated Model 3 battery pack is 66kwh. I could understand this vehicle being somewhat heavier but that's only 64% as efficient. Even compared to the Model X, which is also an SUV but gets 348 on a 100kwH pack, it's pretty awful.

Train an LLM to turn plain language prompts into your engineered prompts ;)

This is interesting but I was hoping for some examples of what the 'programs' do

This site has been more useful to me as the only site I know of that doesn't have https, for testing things, rather than as an example domain.

"because it's so comically inept and petty"

This is precisely why I did believe OP. This is Elon Musk we're talking about.

The only hope for change is for the EU to force Apple to implement RCS. It should frankly be a requirement to get your phone certified onto any mobile network.

I just checked and this book is 100$ AU. Why so expensive?

Hell, I'll do it for half a million and upgrade them to a 486.

Same!

The rumour is not true, despite reddit's insistence. Windows exposes it's version is a series of numbers, and even if it didn't, Windows 9 could have returned "Windows Nine", "Window v9" or loads of other things.

" I did really well in school and college but over time I've realized it was mostly due to being able to remember most things pretty effortlessly"

Same! They thought I was a genius in primary school but I ended up a loser adult with a dead end job. Turns out I just liked technology and was good at remembering facts and names for things.

You seem to have just re-stated what the other person said.