I think when they moved to the M series they had trouble providing enough PCIe lanes. Not that I ever really trust Apple to ever offer non-proprietary storage again, but moving the storage controller to the SoC probably avoids any PCIe support they'd have to think about.
It'd be nice if there were a way for me to contribute directly to a film as if I had bought a ticket or something. I watch a lot of film, and I absolutely would pay after watching many of them.
Oftentimes I also find myself at the end of something and thinking "meh, that was okay" and then days, weeks, months later that film has stuck with me for some reason. I don't have the money to buy a Blu-ray or digital copy all the time, but for those that stick with me I have no problem chipping in $10 or so.
Game devs are notoriously bad at integrating outside of the game loop. There's also the issue that there's over 15 years of games that support achievements and most of them will never be updated to a new API. The Steamworks API has been reverse engineered for a long time by pirates. People really don't realize how vendor locked in games are on Steam. It's convenient, but don't think for a second that you own the games.
This is why I recommend people look into Statamic. It's absolutely smaller than WordPress, but it's set up for the professional community so there is an environment of plugins, themes, etc. It's also built on top of a Laravel foundation, so you're not stranded having to do things "the WordPress way".
Is it really absolutely unacceptable? This is not like ye olden days where you'd buy a Compaq and it comes preloaded with actual trashware. The only things preinstalled that I would consider ads are shortcuts to apps like Spotify, Facebook, Grammarly. All stuff that's very easily removed in less than 30 seconds.
I quite like Windows 11, and to me it feels like the most uniform and stable version of Windows thus far. The claims of it being bloated with ads surprises me, because it has less ads on a fresh install than Windows 10 and most Android phones.
It's still a highly customizable platform and overall backwards compatibility is unmatched. If I'm honest, I hated working on Windows in the 7-10 era as a developer. Doing anything from the command line was painful, you were forced to use clients like PuTTY, there was no built in package manager, and development tools like VS were so unstable. As a .NET developer that also does a bit of frontend work, the experience is completely different.
The recent forking of Advanced Custom Fields is just a smoking gun for where his priorities actually lie. Matt is part of a small group of people who have made a significant amount of wealth from an open source project. The project itself, however, has stagnated over the past 10 years. The community's reliance on plugins like ACF is a complete failure of the development of core more than it is the tyranny of private investment.
Fond memories. I was a teen and gifted a laptop that had USB ports, a floppy drive, and no working CD drive. I used Plop on a floppy to boot off USB and install Windows XP.
The argument is that platforms like Steam encourage developers to implement vendor lock in features. It's something that's more likely to happen with something like software vs standard media like music.
How about games that require an account in order to play at all? It's not a new concept and has been around for at least 15 years. Additionally, by modern games relying on matchmaking and lobby systems, almost any multiplayer game over the past 5-10 years is unplayable without an internet connection.
Also worth noting that PowerShell is completely independent from Windows now. Not only can you install it in almost every other platform, since it's .NET you can embed the runtime in any .NET application. It's incredibly powerful.
VS2022 is actually pretty damn slick. I use it on the daily and it's much more stable than any previous version. It's still not as fast as a text editor (I _do_ miss Sublime's efficiency), but even going back to 2019 is extremely hard.
I'd honestly give 11 a valid shot, probably with 11 Pro. It's by far my favorite version of the OS over the years, and I've been a user since 3.11 days. These days, Windows 10 feels old to me.
It does take a bit of customization on first start (I like to align left, disable search, tasks button, copilot, etc), but it's been by far the most stable and consistent Windows I've used since probably 7.
I think they mean that cleaning services will passively do inspections, but past cons have marked their rooms as being already cleaned in their system. They do manual inspections during Defcon because they can't rely that cleaning services have gotten to their room.
I will probably be switching to Electron unless the project gets any sort of meaningful update. The releases on their GitHub are still v2, while the packages available on NuGet are v3. There hasn't been any code changes in the past couple of months. For the Blazor integration, it's actually broken completely for Linux (and maybe macOS).
Overall it does save on build sizes and RAM a bit, but I'm not sure about the long term viability.
Last night I released v0.9.0 of LANCommander, a self-hosted digital game platform. This latest version introduces the new launcher that I've been working on for the past 5 months!
I think some clarity that has been missing to your point is that this isn't an issue that Affinity can't edit raw photos, but more that if you switched from Lightroom to Affinity you're going to be missing all your edits for all your photos, which makes it a non-starter for anyone who doesn't want to or can't redit all of their RAW files.
The DS's firmware could also be written to by bridging SL1, a point on the board accessible by removing the battery cover. This was used before flashcarts were popular to write FlashMe. It was an alternate firmware that allowed for booting files from a slot-2 device such as a GBAMP.
There needs to be more configuration, which I don't know that CEC supports. I think it's fine to have a mode where it fits 80% of scenarios where your STB remote can control your TV and sound bar, but doing anything other than that is so limited.