The playtesters who have been invited to try many hours of supervised playtest all report that the game is pretty devoid of content beyond the core mechanics. It's missing a ton of stuff that their own AAA title AC:BlackFlag already had, or they have locked it away during the press playtest sessions. Of course playtesting can't cover storyline or plot development, but what they did cover was a janky and mostly boring repetitive mess.
Apple fought and fought Right to Repair for years. They lobbied carefully in parallel to write something that would be weak as soggy toast, get approved in legislatures, and they could then come out crowing to the incredulous iZombies that Apple supports Right to Repair. No, they supported exactly the weak laws they helped write, and nothing more.
When anyone else talks about "well, Right to Repair means NOT using your parts, or NOT asking your permission to use your parts, or NOT paying you through the nose to use third-party tools, or NOT paying you through the nose to use third-party parts," then you can really see how Apple feels about anything that is really about your right to repair what you own. Or think you own. Or was told you own.
And that has nothing to do with POTS in and of itself, and everything to do with spending the time and effort to eliminate as many possible causes of downtime as possible.
But you also ran into issues like 'unable to make a long distance call because all of physical pairs of copper between cities is already in use.'
If a game isn't going to sell consoles, there's no reason to leave money on the table by not making it cross-platform.
If a game is going to sell consoles, have an exclusivity window.
...or SmartTube, which also supports SponsorBlock.
What I'd really like to see is an alternative YouTube client that supports Invidious, so you can move your subscriptions off of YouTube's servers. Invidious works pretty well in a browser window, but an app that runs on Android TV, talks to an Invidious instance (I run my own; it's pretty easy to do), and includes SponsorBlock support would be great. I might even be willing to cut a few bucks loose for such an app.
It's really weird to see WIRED writing this up now, when I was talking with some guys doing a startup in Seattle around this concept back in the '90s. It's a slightly higher-tech version of the embedded road treadles that detect your approach to a traffic signal. They were just saying to replace the capacitive or fluid pressure setups with light/lasers instead. Yard perimeter security, structures analysis in buildings and larger aircraft, and so on. Get it sensitive enough, you can use a loop of it to pick up speech on the other side of a wall.
Sure, we need to fit EVs into the existing gas car paradigm.
By the same token, though, let me 'fill' a gas car overnight by connecting to my home gas supply so that every morning, I'm driving away with a full tank, rather than having to stop at a 'gas station.'
That said, I do think that a requirement that for every two gas pumps you have you must have 1 150kw or better charger would solve a lot of problems. Start out with places with 16 pumps or something, and then require places with 12 pumps in a few years, then 8 pumps in a few years, etc etc.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison