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That targeting would make sense if it were a cheaper consumer-focused device like the Neo or Air. Leading with the $2,800 high-end device makes it seem more like they're hoping professionals will make use of it. I'm not sure how well that'll pan out.

Now we can all ride around like Nute Gunray:

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mechno-chair/Legends

Yep, upstream and downstream O2 sensors. The '96 I drove in college developed cracks around both. My cheapie self just patched them with JB Weld

Now Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare do it

I'm still not over the fact that the spectrum for both the Treo and the Pre was shut down before I got a chance to carry them. My teenage nerd self dreamed of carrying a network-equipped Palm device when I grew up.

(Yes, what came after was so much better. But it still would've been cool to hang around that era for a bit)

Especially when combined with competitors' bad decisions. A lot of the stuff Microsoft pulled with Windows 10 and 11 made the Mac platform look attractive.

We'll find out when the hands-on reviews start coming in. Right now, we're seeing Apple's carefully-curated press photos & renderings

At least you can replace it if that becomes a problem. Firmware built into the TV itself is something that you're stuck with.

We've had those in the US for several years now, and they work really well.

I did encounter an upside-down one yesterday. That was... counterproductive.

It would have been cool if the article included a photo of the new map:

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

I feel like that term could also be used to describe Wes Anderson's filming style. The static shots and dead-centered framing are as much of a deadpan comedic character as anything happening in the scene.

Frustratingly, I haven't even had that in-store experience for a while now. You do the same app-based ordering process, but on a big tablet. If there's an issue with your order, it can take several minutes to get near enough to an employee to get their attention.

Gotta' love it when a possible answer to an LLM-related question is "Death."

Yet they continue to be manufactured.

If I bought one cotton bag and used it for my whole life, the argument would seem silly.

In reality, a household can easily gain 5-10 new tote bags a year as businesses hand them out as swag or with legitimate collections of items or paperwork. There's no way to use them all enough to justify their manufacturing.

The point the article is making is that the "use fewer plastic bags" thing was well-intended, but it incentivized an alternative with too many tradeoffs. Businesses could order a ton of bags, and feel like they were being "environmentally friendly" by handing them out. But in reality, they just flooded the marketplace with so many bags that didn't need to be made in the first place.

That's a fair distinction. I suspect it would mostly mimic the way things played out with Android & ChromeOS. A corporation made the most polished and usable Linux distros ever, and it split down the exact lines you mentioned:

- The OSS Faithful, who mostly ignored it and didn't count it toward "The Year of the Linux Desktop" - The normal folks, who use it without knowing anything about the underlying Linux baseline

This distinction is baked into the design of the OSS movement. The goal is to build usable computing that doesn't depend on a corporation (though alliances may be made at times when incentives align), and any corporate encroachment is fairly seen as antagonistic to those goals.

All that being said, none of this really serves Microsoft. They have a fantastic OS kernel and hardware support already (even if they throw crappy UX on top of it), and their chief differentiator is their long tradition of backwards compatibility. This locks enterprises and users into their ecosystem, and pushing a Linux distro would only give customers an opening to look elsewhere.

Working fine from Firefox on Android over PureTalk (small MVNO using AT&T's spectrum).

If Microsoft stepped any further into the Linux world, the OSS community would run far away.

There's already a precedent for massive backlash whenever Canonical or Red Hat build something proprietary or upstream a change that favors their business goals instead of the larger community. Given Microsoft's well-documented "Embrace/Extend/Extinguish" approach to open competition, no one would trust them.

You guessed it:

It's another incomplete clone of the Tiger-era macOS user interface.

I miss that generation of user interfaces too. But it's nearly a trope that every desktop environment project claiming to be "elegant" is really just copying peak Apple (including the cursive "hello" with various translations).

Never!

*walks away backwards, sipping from my $12 Stanley knockoff the whole time*

I've spent years chuckling over the description of William Taft as "America's greatest President by volume."

Are there any faith traditions that *won't" immediately denounce this sort of thing the moment it arises?

If religion is a search for truth about the world/cosmos, then integrating a hallucinating LLM is working against it.

He was easily my favorite part of that movie. The scene where he preaches his way out of getting The Black Spot lives rent-free in my head:

https://clip.cafe/muppet-treasure-island-1996/but-its-not-hi...

(aside: Someone needs to upload a better-quality version of this to YouTube)

I'll take "Yes/No/Cancel" over the "Discover Windows 11/Remind Me Later" pairing that pops up on my arbitrarily non-upgradable PCs every month or so.

I always assume it's more for the challenge and accomplishment than anything practical. The results are always neat, but rarely anything you'd actually use for general-purpose computing.

I still miss the UI on my old Kindle Keyboard, which only showed the book list without an attempt at curation/upselling.

I can simulate it by staying on the "Library" tab, but it tends to forget halfway frequently.

Plot twist, they just bolted one of these onto the back of the cubesat:

https://www.goldrecordart.com/product/sku/PFplat1

I can't even describe how many spots this hit for me.

...and that just triggered a memory of the ModBook, a pre-iPad aftermarket conversion service that turned white MacBooks into large tablets:

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

> Apple is now due to release Macs with proper touch on them.

I'll believe this one when I see it. "The Year of the Touchscreen Mac" has been confidently predicted for almost as long as "The Year of the Linux Desktop."