Shinzo Abe has thoughts on this.

5 years ago, I said that that games were the only thing keeping me on Windows. Steam's cross-platform work is good enough that I can't even say that anymore, but I've since gotten into 3D printing and Fusion360 is just so much better than the other free alternatives.

Turns out modern dogs exist because wolves were once afraid of the dark.

I did watch the video. I'm not qualified to comment on the real-world feasibility of this engine design, but the video was painful.

Bad: it uses one of those those terrible text-to-speech programs to read the narration.
Worse: The narration sound like it was written by a poorly-trained AI

There's certainly a lot of room for compromise. By an "easily replaceable battery," I'm not looking for a plastic-cased battery like the old Star-Tac, or like laptops all used to use. I'm not looking to carry an extra battery around with me and swap it out midway through my day. I don't think that's what the law is talking about, either. I just want something that, after a year or 2 when my phone doesn't hold a charge very well, I can easily take off the back, buy a replacement battery, and change it out on my own kitchen table without requiring an absurd list of tools or risking permanent damage to my phone.

Make the back panel of my phone out of aluminum, not glass, and screw it on instead of gluing it. And once the back is removed, the battery and its connector should be right there, without having to take off a bunch of other stuff to get to it.

Just a gut-feeling guess here, but I imagine the most common phone repairs are screen replacements and battery replacements. The screen is always going to be tricky. (Which is why I'm pissed that Motorola stopped making their shatterproof screens.) But battery replacement can and should be made a lot easier.

We aren't going to make it, are we?

I realize you're joking, but the more I keep hearing the elites pushing us to eat bugs, the more I think, "Maybe there really is something to the whole, 'Our leaders are secretly Lizard People' theory."

They kept that 2 pixel border all the way through Windows 2000 and ME, got rid of it in XP, and then with Windows 8 decided to keep going and eliminate borders around most windows too.

I will certainly agree that Windows 7 was the high-water mark for stability and usability, the move from Windows 8 to 10 was a definite improvement.

I will understand if, like so many of us, you either completely skipped Windows 8, or have blocked it from your memory. (Or possibly spent the Win8 era blackout drunk.)

Not to be confused with all the STD variants, caused by mounting wenches on plagues.

If you build a firearm yourself and don't serialize and mark it, then it can't be sold or transferred at all, even to a gunsmith for normal work

If you have the skills to build a working gun yourself, what would you need to take it to a gunsmith for? If it's one of those all-plastic, "Probably this won't explode, maybe," jobs, then you just print a new one if it breaks. Any modifications you want made to it, just edit the files rather than have a gunsmith do it.

If it's the most typical 3D printed gun example, where you print the serialized part and buy a parts kit to assemble, you're probably going to learn enough about the gun during the build process to make any necessary fixes, including buying replacement parts if needed. If you want a part modified, just disassemble the gun and have the gunsmith modify the part.

If you're talking about a fully-scratch build, partly 3D printed gun like the FGC-9, (for everyone who's reading the comments just looking for the right search terms, you're welcome,) see paragraph above, but more so.

I'm curious what things would sound like with the Swearing slider set to none, but everything else maxed out. Kids these days can't call someone a Jew faggot without also throwing in 4 F-Bombs.

You know gamers are just going to see this as a new toy to play with. Intel might as well set up an official Achievement Board to save people the trouble of making an unofficial one.

And by the way, thanks for the reminder of why I stick to single-player gaming these days.

I could be remembering wrong, but I believe the 1GB RAM / TB disk recommendation is if you're using deduplication.

Which reminds me, I need to see if that Alphastation in my basement still powers up.

And, if so, put the thing on Ebay. I'm sure someone somewhere thinks it's worth something.

Your sig is remarkably appropriate to the post.