It’s more nuanced than that.

Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all. It’s trying to release a Disney-style animated movie, but only in adult theatres.

Steam is the 900-pound gorilla. Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue. Epic has a shit interface, but they take well-under half of the fees Steammdoes for the same game.

Gabe is not your friend. He’s a billionaire yacht-collector. Half-Life 2 wasn’t designed to be a great game. It was designed to launch a digital storefront that allowed Valve to rake in 30% of all revenue for games sold on the platform - which is often a larger percentage than is paid to the actual people making the games.

Why are we defending a system where the fucking checkout system is valued as much as the people making the games?

He even had a cameo in the second Iron Man movie.

OEM licensing isn’t the important part. It’s everything that comes with it. Subscriptions, cloud storage, etc. In my city, a bunch of field workers are being moved from laptops to iPads and phones with the next hardware refresh due to the price jump in laptops. Microsoft won’t have integrated Onedrive and SharePoint and full Office Subscriptions for them.

We already use third-party web apps that aren’t Microsoft (and are mostly hosted by AWS) for a lot of their work, so the only Microsoft product they’ll have is an email address.

Us abandoning the Windows laptops costs Microsoft hundreds a year per employee.

Just click the footer, check a box to make changes apply only to a single page, and do whatever the fuck you want.

In a “fault” divorce, it could allow people to use the obligation of a spouse to perform sexual acts as a way to assign blame in the divorce. Basically allowing one partner to claim harm and therefore pursue financial damages or even leverage in custody disputes because they were owed sex. It trapped people in situations where they were forced to have sex or face potential civil penalties if their partner refused a no-fault divorce.

It’s almost like incidents without video filmed from multiple people and widely shared online don’t get as much attention as nurses telling a story they were told about an incident we don’t have video of.

It’s really bad, but it’s also entirely understandable that it gets less attention.

Why should I care about someone’s equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?

My car doesn’t become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It’s a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.

3.2 trillion is a stupid amount of money, but it isn’t all liquid. A 440 billion dollar hit (nearly 14%) would be very, very bad for them.

With the memory and SSD fiasco going on right now, fewer people are buying new PCs, which impacts their sales. Combined with the Windows 11 fiasco, the massive gaming division investments going nowhere, and the AI bubble, they’re probably the most vulnerable they’ve been in decades.

Didn’t apple go to war with the FBI over exactly this? Or did I miss where they changed their tune.

Android has a feature you can turn on that adds “lockdown mode” as an option if you hold the power button, which requires a password. I just tried taking a screenshot, but I don’t think I can while in the power menu.

You can also just turn your phone off. Biometrics don’t work on a fresh boot.

You can’t really do that on a lot of modern appliances, because what fails isn’t user-repairable.

The gas dryer we had from the 50s could be fixed with a screwdriver and a pulse.

The electric dryer we have now that we live somewhere without gas has a $1200 controller board (that probably costs $4 for the manufacturer) that goes out every 2 years, so we end up paying a $250/yr maintenance subscription to get it fixed under the “extended warranty”.

Microsoft contracts with the Pinkertons for private security.

Yes - those Pinkersons.

NDAs to hide crimes are illegal and unenforceable.

They’re literally extortion.

It’s projectile weight. The common sizes of 9x19mm ammunition (what we usually mean when we say 9mm), are 115 grain, 124 grain, and 147 grain. NATO standard is 124, but most people shoot 115 at the range because it has less weight and it cheaper.

Lighter projectiles, all else being equal, will have higher muzzle velocities, but will also slow down more quickly and are more prone to wind shift.

That’s what people have said for years, and it’s a bullshit solution that shouldn’t be necessary. Word has had 40 years to address simple shit like this.

“Hey Word, I’d like to remove the header and page number from page 6 and only page 6.”

“Go fuck yourself user”

Sometimes you actually have to go to the top line of the extra page, select that break it won’t let you delete because Word is the fucking worst, and change the font size to be impossibly small.

I’ve worked for several small cities that had specialist officers for mental health issues, and they really were excellent. If more cities spent 10% of that Swat money on mental health officers, they would significantly improve public safety.

How so? I derive great joy from bringing joy to my loved ones. Love and happiness is greater when shared with others.

In the third book, he basically outright says he’s Jesus.

When Edmund and Lucy are told they won’t be returning to Narnia, Edmund asks if Aslan is also in the human world.

“Are you there too, Sir?” Edmund asks. “I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”