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You don't even need to drop down to a terminal -- there's https://github.com/dansomething/vim-hackernews (although it hasn't been updated since 2018) that interfaces with the API directly.

We’re also finally getting games that have genuinely good writing in them, not just writing that’s good for the sliding scale that usually applies to interactive media.

- Disco Elysium is a role-playing game largely about self-discovery and identity

- Kentucky Route Zero is a reflection on mortality and the true costs of poverty

- NORCO is a meditation on death and survivorship with meanderings into environmentalism and groupthink/cult thinking

> Correct. People (rightly) hate on the restrictive and profiteering nature of the App Store, but the telcos were even worse.

The now-hotly-debated 30% cut was seen as a reprieve from telco distribution and brick-and-mortar, where the retailer was taking 60-70% of the purchase price.

The issue with the Mini is that you'd usually expect it to be the budget option (since it has a smaller screen), but it's more of an Air with a smaller screen in terms of hardware and features, with a price to match.

You're thinking of Mozilla Sunbird.

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

The mall in Voorhees, NJ (a Philadelphia suburb) added some housing and support businesses within a close radius, and it turned a near-dead mall into a thriving space.

Also, the timing of the temperature: I've heard of good results if you start heating the water before assembling the unit, so you don't apply as much direct pressure to the grinds.

Verizon’s current HQ (which is in Basking Ridge) used to be AT&T’s corporate HQ; as far as I’m aware, no significant Bell Labs work was ever done there, and Verizon has never had any legacy with Bell Labs.

You’re kidding, but a working phone was found on the ground after the panel blew out of the Boeing a few weeks ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029806/boeing-737-max-9-...

I don’t think there’s anything in a phone that’d stop its core functions in a vacuum. The human trying to use it, not so much.

For social media that offers RSS (YouTube, Mastodon, and now BlueSky), I use an RSS reader.

If something important happens on Xitter/Facebook, it’ll get repeated elsewhere.

Wawa has generally good hoagies (they’re a Philly-centered chain, so I’ll use their vernacular), and above-average coffee. Their hot food is usually pretty disappointing, because they put all of it through convection ovens (vs frying/grilling/deep frying/baking as is usual).

They recently rolled out pizza in my area (northern NJ), and while I haven’t personally tried it, friends say it doesn’t hold up to what local pizza places can do, but it’s better than big chain pizza.

It’s using RT’s scoring, which tends to favor movies that are broadly likable over movies that are more willing to take risks that don’t connect with all of their audience.

A big-budget Hollywood blockbuster will have a high RT score even if it’s kinda bland. A filmmaker like Lynch will have a lower RT score, but the people who connect with his movies are more likely have a deeper experience than someone who connects with the blockbuster.

> As Windows continues its enshitification, and as Valve continues investing into its awesome Steam Deck, I do hope the trend continues.

The Steam Deck isn't without its faults: there's a dedicated "Special offers" carousel on the home screen, and there's been a full-width ad for the winter sale on the home screen for the past few weeks.

> Not really. People don't care about libre software, they care about software that works, is supported, and they don't have to think about it. The Linux desktop appeals to developers and hackers, so 4% is probably the best they're ever going to do.

Also, it shows the power of defaults and just showing up. Windows is as big as it is because Microsoft made the deals with OEMs 30+ years ago to ship their software as the default option. Macs would likely be an also-ran if Apple wasn't standing behind their hardware, both in terms of the hardware itself and the sales/support channel, as much as they are (just look at the relative success of their retail stores vs. the relative failure of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc., in the same space).

Games tend to ride the new release schedule more than most other forms of media (except maybe new movie releases in theaters), and there have been a few notable releases in the past few weeks. Apple had a big push with Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 4 Remake in the past few months; if you already own those games on Steam, you got the Mac versions of those games at no additional charge. Also, Baldur's Gate 3 (which is widely regarded as one of the best games of 2023) got a native Mac release in Q4.

As for it being a numbers game, neither Apple nor Valve release direct hardware sales numbers, so only they will know.

Fair use is an affirmative defense — you don’t get to make that claim until you’re in court (and even then, a judge has to sign off on the claim). And making a fair use defense ipso facto is an admission of using the work without permission (and thus making the preceding DMCA takedown valid).

> The only Apple content I pay for is Apple Music, because it’s so damn convenient and I listen to way more music when I have it. I used to put my own music files in the exact same app, though, and that worked fine.

You can still do this, but you have to use a Mac or Windows PC to do so. It’ll sync your music up as part of a cloud library that exists alongside Apple’s licensed music. It’s the reason I go for their service vs. Spotify (which will let you sync music locally to their app, but doesn’t have a cloud library).

Cliff’s Notes has a strong fair use claim, because they offer basic criticism and surface-level commentary alongside their summaries.

It’s the obligation of the developer to make sure their game runs acceptably on supported platforms and on systems that meet the stated requirements.

If Valve is offering supplemental support on top of what the developer is offering (eg: running Windows games on the Steam Deck via Proton), then its Valve’s obligation to keep things running, as the developer has never committed to keeping things running outside their supported platforms. That said, additional support from the developer (eg: Microsoft/343i for Halo, Respawn for Apex Legends) to get games running on other platforms is always appreciated.

A key detail here is that Xbox 360 online games were and are playable (as long as their individual servers are still running), while this network shutdown will disable any ability to play unmodified 3DS or WiiU games.

Fan patches and system modifications will keep things running, but I assume that the population that’s both willing and able to apply them will be sharply limited.

> There are huge elevation changes in a seismically active area and its not clear that they'll ever figure it out.

That same issue applies to any high-speed project that's not air travel, regardless of if it moves along asphalt or rails and if it runs on or below the ground.

In my experience, it is. My podcast app of choice doesn’t have that permission (I don’t even think it asked for it), but it has the ability to bring up the system audio output selector widget and do AirPlay.

If anything, I usually see this for apps that want to do playback via Chromecast/Miracast. The well-behaved apps wait until the user interacts with Chromecast output, the iffier ones ask on first launch.

Hardware Kindles (and the app) used to support TTS for accessibility, but the functionality was removed at the request of publishers (who wanted to sell audiobooks).

> Part of it is the ubiquity of advertising

This cannot be overstated.

I like to watch my local hockey team. To (legally) access their games, you must pay $30/mo (or have a cable TV package that includes it). Once you pay the entry fee, you're then to subject to _near constant_ ads for gambling: at least one gambling ad every commercial break (and which translates to ~10 ads just during periods), betting lines and bookmaker logos in scorebugs, full-screen takeover ads with reads during breaks in play, ads for on-network shows covering gambling more in depth, etc.

Oh, and at one point the team had a sportsbook _inside the arena_ (it's since been replaced with a different sponsor).

It's completely taken over sports broadcasts.

And if you don't have a feed reader installed, that modal will send you to the App Store, with "RSS" as the search term (at least on macOS).

You don't even need to go that deep -- just give me a filetype-based icon, file name, and last modified date, and that should be enough for me to choose. And if they want to be simple, include the option to always keep the most recent version of the file (which is going to be the right answer in many cases).

> They later extended it on the Xbox 360 to allow you to link in your Windows Vista machine to stream your MP3's straight to it

The Xbox 360 expanded on the feature in some neat ways -- if you had an iPod or other portable player, you could plug that in via USB, it supported generic DLNA shares (so you could play music from Kodi/XBMC running on a PC), and some (most?) games would flag cutscene audio vs. in-game audio, which would allow the system to pause the user-provided audio and fall back to the game's soundtrack for cutscenes.

> the green bubble is a mark that indicates you are talking to someone with an apple device

The bubble color was and is a signifier of transport layer only; I've personally had situations (generally with spotty or very poor coverage) where individual messages go over SMS even for conversations on all Apple hardware where the rest of the conversation is going over iMessage.

The 5-second wait is the issue, not the means it was obtained -- a fixed wait time either wastes the user's time (by making it take longer than necessary) or is prone to bugs (if the awaited task takes >5 seconds, then the end of the timer will likely break). The better question is _why_ a 5-second wait was necessary, and there's almost certainly a better way to handle that need without the fixed wait time.

If you still have the serial from that CD copy, you can plug it into Steam and redeem a copy (and also the expansions, depending on which version you bought).