I only use the Switch undocked when I travel so the better battery life will benifit me better. But I know what you mean about Xenoblade.

People have been predicting the death of consoles since the 90s, and the death of handhelds for at least 10 years. Yet the sales numbers and profitability continue to prove these people wrong every time. Look at the PS4. Handhelds is something that Nintendo always nails. Home consoles not so much, the Wii was lightning in a bottle, unless they know they have the next big successful gimmick like the Wii they should stick to handhelds. The Switch is the right strategy they need for now.

Not sure if troll or not? Nintendo has basically given up on the home console business. The Switch is a handheld (a market Nintendo has always thrived at) with a dock. They dont have a dedicated home console anymore, they don't need one, they games they want to make work on their handheld which is hugely successful.
Why should they port games to their competitors? Because you dont like the majority of it's library? Many people disagree with you and are voting with their wallets. Welcome to capitalism!

If all these ISP's just closed up all their offices in California and moved them all inland or to the east coast with a big middle finger to Jerry Brown? They could just say "we don't operate in California, screw your laws"

And people are surprised there was a backlash on political grounds? That film was asking for trouble.

Many Android phones have better storage and battery than any iPhone so why buy an iPhone at all?

Does anybody know what Larry Sharpe's position is on Net Neutrality?

That interview made me more interested in buying a Tesla not less. Investors are weird.

Privacy IS absolute. Once Government breaches privacy and introduces surveillance you by definition do not have privacy anymore.
Same goes for free speech, free speech IS absolute, once you have restrictions on speech, speech is by definition restricted and not free.
This is a big reason why establishment parties left and right in all 5 of those countries need to be kicked out. Trump and Brexit are not loud enough warnings.

That IS what Australia does. They just sacked their Prime Minister over this issue.

There are open source command line tools that let you rip MP3's straight from YouTube.

This is Government, which is run by partisan politicians.
The right wont accept solar and wind and the left won't accept nuclear.

They're all built in China.

I really dont trust Intel to build secure chips anymore, but god damn the name "whiskey lake" is incredibly intoxicating.

Buying a new phone every 4 or 5 years make sense, new tower frequencies in your area, new features but even now that is becoming less and less necessary. 5g will be the next time a new phone is necessary. This however is a joke.
The Pixel was not even a cheap machine, why anyone would pay that much for a Chromebook is beyond me, the entire point of Chromebook's were that it was so lightweight that it could run on ultra-cheap hardware.
Now 5 years later it's an expensive paperweight? Has anyone got Manjaro running on one of these?