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SteamCMD doesn't strip Steam DRM - even with files backed up (which the Steam GUI will do, no need for SteamCMD), you wont be able to use them without an internet connection and authenticating with Steam every now and then.

GOG's bundles are offline and DRM free. You could store them on a disk, and 30 years from now reinstall and play on an airgapped computer with no authentication required.

You've always had the _option_ of paying extra for unlimited data, however its only in the past month or two that they've started offering unlimited data as standard (in select markets).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/stung-by-custome...

I'm all for the DSA as well, but this argument doesn't hold water. Any sufficiently large cloud provider alternative (ie. Google, Microsoft, etc) would likely be the target of similar government instructions. In fact, I bet they already are - they just can't talk about it.

And of course, it's already possible to disable iCloud backups and use a smaller provider or host your own alternatives. I already do, through Nextcloud, etc. It's not as fully integrated of course, but you bet that if it was, then the largest alternatives would be targeted all the same.

So, this seems like an alternative to things like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. What's the benefit of the banks? Bigger cut of the transaction fees somehow?

I must admit, I use Apple Pay whereever possible, I'll even temporarilly switch my browser to Safari if I see a merchant accepts Apple Pay, just because its so much easier than any other payment method.

This (or, PainStation v2) visited the student union at Abertay University a good 15 or so years ago. I played it on many occasion.

One aftertnoon I played with a particularly competitive friend of mine. I am also competitive. The game went on far longer than it should have, and I ended up with some pretty painful burns on the bottom of my hand and a large welt on top of it. I also had twinges in my arm for several hours afterwards.

Was a great time, highly recommended.

They're not non-existent, I work with a few myself. But generally I've found that they're single, live by themselves, and enjoy the social interactions of meeting coworkers in person. (Of course, there will be exceptions to this).

That's not what the OP claimed at all. Paper tickets still exist. A mobile phone is not requisite. People can choose the option that works for them.

No, that's the second link - generated data, separate from tweets.

Tweets alone generate petabytes of data a year.

https://ankush-chavan.medium.com/twitter-data-storage-and-pr...

Also, many people would disagree that stuff required to run a business is "mostly unnecessary".

It does not fit on one machine. Tweets alone generate petabytes of data a year, and other events are petabytes per day.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

https://ankush-chavan.medium.com/twitter-data-storage-and-pr...

You're not taking into account data, you're only talking about features. What about when the data no longer fits on the one machine? Or processing the data exceeds the capacity of the machine?

Data growth through user growth or just normal day-to-day usage is expected.

Just to clarify, Mindstorms has had many iterations. I believe what you're referring to is Mindstorms 1.0 (RCX). It's had three successors in the past 20 years or so - NXT, EV3, and most recently, RIS.

The most recent iteration is based on SPIKE Prime. It's the same hub, but with slightly different firmware. The motors are and sensors are the same but in different colors.

All Mindstorms iterations (including the most recent) are untethered. As is SPIKE Prime.

Essentially this announcement is that they are discontinuing the consumer-facing branding, but continuing with the education product, SPIKE Prime. Both products are actually identical, minus a few firmware differences. The number of motors and sensors included in the box also differed.

That may have been your intention, but your statement of "environments where people aren't curious" comes across as putting the blame on the people themselves. As has been stated elsewhere, often times engineering is lacking in bandwidth to do anything but meet the deadlines.

I don't disagree that the "environment" itself could do more to further making improvements outside of the assigned work - initiatives such as 20% time, cafe days, etc. exist in other companies. But I don't put the blame on the curiosity of the people themselves.

> The part that irked me here was I only got like 1 years use out of the software.

Surely it doesn't actually stop working after a year? ie. You can keep using the version you bought after a new version comes out. I presume it still does what you bought it to do?

You're correct, just checked my receipt, it was 16GB. I upped it to 32GB with my new laptop.

I bought my 2013 MacBook Pro with a 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM, with the highest specced i7 at the time.

I sold it last month to pick up a new 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max. I bought it with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD because I don't need anymore, 8 years later. And the i7 I had still beat out last years base model on Geekbench.

You're forgetting the set design in the first place. All the knockoffs do is copy the set with their own bricks.

The few other brick manufacturers that design their own sets are clearly inferior in set design. Even Mega has a long way to go.

"deadly" is not the same statement as "as deadly".

I find it similar to the two currently in-vogue uses of the world "Metaverse" - you've got the crypto/web3 people using it to describe a world where NFT's are usable and recognised across software (ie. Armor you buy in Call of Duty is useable in Battlefield), and Facebook/Meta, trying to build a social VR environment not entirely unlike the vision of Ready Player One.

It's entirely probably they'll merge at some point if they haven't already.

I find this pretty funny - I can't imagine carrying more than two cards around with me on a daily basis. In fact one is just a backup.

I do of course have many more cards; one of the downsides of the credit system in the US is how you have to game it to improve your credit. But for the most part those stay in the drawer.

You still can, but that's for pentests _targetting_ AWS hosted infrastructure. They've always frowned upon using AWS to target _other_ services, however.

Literally everybody in my company (a large enterprise) uses a laptop as their main workstation. They work with them docked at their desks, but then unplug them to take them to a meeting room, a shared working space, etc.

Outside of work, 90% of people I know have a laptop as their main computing device at home. Very few have a desktop PC - those are the PC gamers.

Your anecdotal experience doesn't match with my anecdotal experience.

I believe the money owed to Apple is a seperate concern, raised from their apparent breach of contract.

At the time Fortnite was available on the App Store, the Apple In-App Purchase mechanism was the only contractually allowed method of purchase, and for the short time Fortnite enabled purchases via other methods, their contract with Apple was breached. As a result, the judge ruled that Apple is owed 30% of that revenue - money they would have gotten had those purchases been made via Apple IAP.

In addition, the judge ruled that Apple was well within their power to terminate Epic's developer relationship and App Store access, because of this breach of contract.

This new injunction only takes place in 90 days time, and doesn't nullify any power Apple has to determine who they wish to allow on their App Store. As a result, they are seemingly choosing to not permit Epic back on the App Store, again, due to their initial breach of contract.

My interpretation of this this new ruling is that Apple isn't entitled to money raised through other payment methods going forward, as likely the App Store developer terms of service will be revised to reflect the new state of the law. However I'm sure this will become clear in due course when we see the new terms.

Except, Google Reader died in 2013, and RSS lives happily on. It's rare I come across a website without an RSS feed.

They don't advertise it, but it's there - I presume because whatever CMS they use supports it (WordPress, etc).

It's not popular, and I do worry that what you state will come to pass, but I remain thankful that nearly a decade later, it hasn't yet.

Focus can be set automatically in the desired field using Javascript, and tricks can be done to hide that field too - ie. set opacity so it's transparent, etc. You can make it work pretty smoothly for the end user.

Some of the original Yubikeys worked this way, and there are some barcode scanners out there that emulate keyboards too. I've seen some web based implementations go to great lengths to hide this fact.

I find this funny - Dogecoin has as much value as Bitcoin. It still takes energy (and therefore money) to mine, and the resulting "coin" has value - that being how much someone is willing to sell it for, and how much someone is willing to buy for it, driven by factors such as mining cost as well as speculation. The only real difference being the name of the coin.

If they're worried about price influence by social media influencers, this is also a problem for other coins. Elon tweets, and the price of BTC varies. It's not just "meme coins" that's susceptible to this.

The logic that's been applied here is highly suspect to me.

You're not wrong, but neither of those devices come with any games (unless you buy a flashcart, which is piracy).

The Playdate cost includes 20 games by (relatively) well known indie game developers.

Temescal, Macarthur, Lake Merritt. Piedmont and Rockridge are pretty good too, but on the calmer side.

Downtown Oakland is like downtown SF - I wouldn't go there for nightlife either. I'd go there for shopping.

EDIT: The blocks around 9th and Washington is pretty lively. It's like a giant party from 6pm onwards.

I moved from SF to Oakland last year during the pandemic, and honestly, Oakland is just as great as SF for restaurants, bars, and nightlife... as long as you have a car or method of transportation.

I used my own cable modem with Xfinity for this very reason.

The more annoying part is if your cell service is with Xfinity Mobile - their sim makes your iPhone automatically join Xfinity public hotspots, and there seems to be no way to turn it permanently of. It comes back on periodically.

The performance on these hotspots is terrible.

Sounds good to me.