nintendo has mario, zelda and metroid, playstation has horizon, god of war, spiderman, etc.

xbox has halo and gears of war. while they are good, they are not as good as the competition.

this is why ms bought bethesda and now they want activision

newsflash: you don't need to install turbotax on a computer. go to turbotax.com

people use graphical interfaces because they don't want to type for things. i'm not sure people (particularly older citizens) would like to type to the OS. and a lot of people don't like to talk to their computers instead.

I predict chatgpt will be integrated with windows in less than a year.

having said the above, imagine if you could give natural english instructions as a script.

for example "install latest nvidia driver and disable all optional components" or "change my dns to 8.8.8.8"

it could allow non technical people to write automation scripts... and make some jobs redundant i'm afraid

firefox when? i sometimes close and reopen firefox after using 14 GB of ram

is there a public hosts file that we can use (or any other tool) to effectively block this traffic?

nah, they will compare your public ip with the device id of your tv app / device. they can perform geolocation or see if it's a different ISP. they don't need to scan anything in your lan

thanks, my own (quick) research pointed out to the Mikrotik 4 port version https://www.servethehome.com/m...

supposedly as long as i don't enable any custom features i would get 10 Gb switching speeds

now off to wait until frontier does the deed. they have just started to announce that they are "coming" to the neighborhood

which switches/ethernet adapters/connectors are you using? i'm looking into foolproofing a home to support 10 Gb. hardly likely when using a laptop, as i don't think any laptop will come with such speedy adapter (that actually delivers that performance)

unfortunately it does not work without installing an extension (desktop) or app (mobile). if it were browser based i would use it

you can still buy a permanent copy of office, a videogame on a disc, and a cd (or digital song permanently)

i do agree that companies would prefer if you subscribe to permanently milk you, but it's up to the customer to decide as they still have a choice

pay people to have kids. pay a lot of coin. problem solved

pay women to get knocked up

great if you are focused on a minimalist desktop with high performance, but that file manager does remind me of windows 3.1

yes, people care.

the idea is that you should not need to download a third party app that is only compatible with users of said third party app. if apple adopted rcs that means the default sms app of either platform will work and mms will effectively be killed

i would switch to imessage on android if that was possible instead of rcs. it would actually be funny if apple decided to provide imessage for android instead of rcs support.

the USB one has actually got some merit. at the company i work at we identified several cheap wireless usb dongles (for use with wireless mice for example) contain trojan code that sends all your input to China/Russia. therefore it's company policy to not use wireless/bluetooth devices on company laptops (outside of wifi)

in addition to everything mentioned in the summary, google assistant is better at understanding you in english if you have an accent. plus you don't need any hardware as you get the same assistant quality with android