Sure, just like other brick and mortar stores can refuse to give you backups of a DVD you own.

As long as the installer works offline this is just as good. It's up to you to store it in whichever format you prefer so that you don't lose it - hard drive, thumb drive, DVD...

If you nuke your computers hard drive with the installers of your games, or you step on your blu rays with games and break them, then you lose access to them. As it's always been, no matter the format?

Cool, but it's missing trackpads and Linux...

I never knew how much I needed the trackpads until I played on the deck - unlike with the joysticks, I can actually play FPSs!!

I'm not a lawyer but, I know when you file for a patent you can do that in just one country or internationally (which is significantly more expensive). Skimming through the Wikipedia article it seems to be talking about that, but first you need to have filed for the patent internationally and not in just one country.

From what I've read about this topic, it sounds like this is a patent active in Japan only.

I'm not talking disingenuously, I'm all pro-electric. In fact it looks like my next car will be a Taycan, unless something changes unexpectedly.

But counting engine rebuilds as an inevitable matter of life is rather disingenuous too. My other ("hobby") car is a 1977, so that's 47 years now, and still on the original engine and transmission. This is not an uber-reliable statistical anomaly: it's an unreliable piece of shit (a handmade sports car from a small manufacturer) but despite that, the block is still solid and original. Engine rebuilds are not common, unlike batteries which have an ever-degrading chemistry no matter how good they are.

And I strongly disagree on good design being a single point mass of over 700 kg concentrated in one block. The "skateboard" around suspension components and chassis is the most common design for a reason.

Fair, but in its lifetime, the maintenance for my 20-year-old car has cost less than one single battery swap. Last year was a bad one and it cost me £500 between maintenance and repairs. A battery swap for a Tesla is well, well above 10k. A Taycan's batteries cost about £20k to replace and it's nothing to do with being a Porsche; it's just how much the batteries for a long-range EV cost to replace. They are expensive, and scattered across the whole floorplan so replacement is a nightmare.

I agree that the motors are pretty bulletproof, but total cost of ownership is still unfortunately quite comparable if you keep an EV for the long term. It's just a different "payment plan" for the maintenance, where you get hit with one single massive bill after X years. This is worrying because people might choose then to scrap a perfectly good car with a damaged battery - it's the EVs way of programmed obsolescence.

1. Turn on
2. Open desktop mode (in power menu I think)
3. Open terminal
4. Type rsync <source> <destination>
5. Press enter

Hahaha so funny and edgy lol

Or, you really enjoy a hobby but your hyperfocus makes you research the hobby instead of doing it. E.g. you like photography and your hyperfocus kicks in researching places to go take photos, or gear to buy... Or you spend hours choosing the best cycling route until it's too dark or the weather changes and you go "What happened to my beautiful afternoon??".

My hyperfocus tends to kick in whenever the ADHD gremlin inside my brain chooses, not always when I'm doing whatever I enjoy. I wish that was always the case.

HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.

I think 60 fps at 4K with raytracing are maybe PS6 specs, not PS5 pro. I hope I'm wrong, but I'll believe it when I see it.

It's okay. You did the same as me but skipping the steps where you spend the money on a switch, and then leave it in a drawer when you get tired of games that play at 27 FPS, which you're lucky if you manage to get with a 20% discount after tracking them on dekudeals for months.

the shutdown command was a warning not a request.

Such wise words.

This assumes everything works fine. It's probably an edge case, but on my Nexus 6P an update somehow messed with my encryption keys, and the screen lock pattern that I'd used for over a year stopped getting recognised. I can't remember the solution but I vaguely remember having to factory reset. Whatever the solution was, it wasn't too different to what a thief would do... I was bypassing the screen lock after all.

I think you meant new iPhones* don't have it. There are new models coming out every year with a headphone jack.

You can still get a Sony Xperia 1 VI, or a 5 VI, or a bunch of mid range devices with headphone jack. There are offerings with headphone jack, so if you want one, you can get one.

Now the problem is we love to complain but not put our money where our mouth is. Has the lack of headphone jack made the iPhone sales suffer? No, they've gone up. Does Samsung sell fewer Galaxy's? Nope. Is the Xperia range a massive success because they have a headphone jack? Not by any stretch of imagination...

...because most people don't actually care enough to vote with their wallet instead of yapping away while they buy a jack-less phone anyway.

I probably should have written padel/pickleball. It's similar to padel tennis but with a hollow ball, it's been gaining traction at a crazy pace in the US and slowly making it into Europe. It's been slowly taking over padel, which used to be The Sport for office workers who want to make sure they're practising a sport, want to make sure they can tell you they're practising a sport, but they don't want something that will get their heart past 130 BPM.

No hate though - if it gets people doing a sport it's a good thing. Just don't tell me every day that pickleball is the best, we need to play pickleball, when are we going to join you for the pickleball match, you need to play pickleball because the CTO of this other company is coming so therefore it's work - this has actually happened to me, etc.

Padel crew are a bit less vocal, but not by much. I feel this is a bit country-specific. When I lived in Spain, padel was the rage, and in the US it was pickleball. In the UK I don't see much of either.

Nowhere near as much as people who do CrossFit, people who play pickleball, or air fryer owners.

In most of Europe, the prices of Model 3's match pretty well those of the Polestar 2. The difference in build quality between those two is night and day. The Tesla feels like a Chrysler/Dodge Neon in comparison, with leather being the only concession whatsoever to niceness.

The fact that in Europe somehow they're "premium" and not budget cars within their category blows my mind.

Also while they're repairable and they have that going for them, Google also promises 7 years of updates, so they're not even unique on that selling point.

It's hip to like Kagi because it's not Google.

I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can't remember which one. I wasn't exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.

Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?

I know you've said "almost", but there's a free search engine in there where you're not the product...