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Comment Re:Yes, there are good android tablets (Score 1) 67

Great fucking tablet (non-FE was, at least) - only problem is no DV :(
Ended up getting a Lenovo for that... but it's a flat-out inferior tablet compared to the Galaxy.

There is no Great Tablet That Does All The HDR Goodies My iPad Does, sadly.

The biggest damn shame on the Galaxy, is that gorgeous ass screen is wasted by only being able to do HDR10+

Comment Re:I am shocked. SHOCKED! (Score 1) 33

Sure, that's the real reason. It's not the nominal reason- which was to prevent the monopolistic abuse of EU citizens by Big Bad Apple.
i.e., Apple's monopoly was costing Europeans more than they would otherwise pay.
And this would be true- if there weren't a middle man to step in and do exactly what they did to the same exact captive market.

Comment Re:Exhaustive? (Score 1) 50

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Federal law (and common law) govern the issuance of subpoenas, and there is no such thing as some kind of right to infinite discovery.
The 4th Amendment protects against unreasonable subpoenas as much as it protects against unreasonable search and seizure- this is a matter of Supreme Court precedent.

This has nothing to do with privacy legislation.

Comment Re:Who asked for this (Score 1) 74

Broken was perhaps strong of a word.

I'd clarify with "runs like shit"
Borderlands 4 being the most recent example, where it ran fine on my PC, and like shit on my XBox.

With the vice-versa (which I feel used to be more common- performance usually isn't the problem, there, it's control interfaces)

Comment Re:All I can say is... (Score 1) 74

You're probably either correct, or correct enough.
As in- I'm sure the Newell's have controlling interest, either way.

Like I said- minor nit.
Private company != don't have to answer to shareholders. As a shareholder of a private LLC, I do have shareholder rights, and the Board and officers do have a fiduciary responsibility to me.

Comment Re:Not high end (Score 1) 74

Good for you. Maybe Valve could have provided 2.5 Gb for those four markets across the US.

There are a lot more than 4. The company I work for serves 4.
Hell, my local market (Seattle) has >1Gbps available (and ironically, we're not one of the providers)

As I said, >1Gbps internet is common, now, and ya- it would have been cool of it had come with a 2.5Gbe interface- though, it's got Wifi6E, which can handle well over a gig, so at least there's that.

We offer 2Gbps for ~$70 ($840/y). The prices are pretty reasonable.
I take it you don't live near a major metro area?

Comment Re:Exhaustive? (Score 1) 50

Allow me to clarify.

If a subpoena asked me for all of my logs in a certain time frame, I would still fight it- because that is not how subpoenas work.
A subpoena must not be overly broad, or overly burdensome. It must also be specific and pertinent.
It is normal to ask for too much, and to have it fought down to less.
In this case, the judge has granted the request for too much.

The plaintiff doesn't know what they're looking for- so they're trying to cast a dragnet to find it. It's a fucking fishing expedition. Patent troll tactic.

Comment Re:My wishlist for Steam Deck (Score 1) 74

1. Child controls - allow me to password-restrict store/purchases and limit play time.

There and functional. I've used them when handing it over to my niece to play with.

2. Easy way to switch accounts.

Ya, I'm actually with you there. With standard Steam Big Picture, this isn't hard- on the Steam Deck, it is.

3. No ads, no tracking, no AI bullshit. Just games.

I mean, Steam.... is a Store. Advertising is.... part of a digital store.
Really, I feel like it satisfies this requirement just fine.

4. Make it very clear what is and is not compatible. Don't be shy rejecting things that run like shit.

It does. Great On Deck is your list. About ~200 of my 1700 games are Great On Deck.
Do other games work? Absolutely. But Great On Deck is their promise that it runs well, including controls and performance.

5. Convenient charger and visible battery level for controller. I don't want to police charging controllers and if kids run the battery out, I don't want it to ruin my evening.

I have an old Steam Controller. Charging is easy- it's like any other USB peripheral.
As for indicator... you're SOL, there. Or were.

6. Let me connect keyboard to it.

It has a USB port. You can connect a keyboard to it. And a mouse. And a webcam. Anything linux supports.
You'll need a dock/hub, of course, since it only has one port.

Comment Re:All I can say is... (Score 1) 74

Minor nit to pick.
I'm a shareholder of a private company. Private company does not mean no shareholders- that's a single proprietorship.

In practice, privately held LLCs are beholden to the same kind of shareholder pressure that a publicly traded company is- just without the game of Court Of Public Opinion added in.

Comment Re:Exhaustive? (Score 3, Insightful) 50

You can't. The order is fucking absurd.

It's like suing the phone company and getting them to provide transcripts of every call that ever went through their network so you can sift through them and look for infringements/crimes.

This judge is off their fucking rocker.

I deal with subpoenas regularly, professionally.
If I ever got one that asked me for all of my logs on anything, I would fight it until I had exhausted every option.
FWIW- that has never happened. They've always been tight in scope.

Comment Re:At least they are consistent (Score 1) 44

You entirely missed the point.

A Generative Pretrained Transformer network is just a decoder.
If a base64 decoder produces original lyrics, who committed the infringement? The person who fed the input into the base64 decoder, or the author of the base64 decoder?

You can try to simplify this all you want- but it's not simple, which is why the legal field is struggling with it.

If you enter an entire set of lyrics into an LLM's context, and ask it to complete the last word, has it reproduced original lyrics?

The output cannot be severed from the input- because the output directly mathematically derives from the input.
We can move around arbitrary lines where we consider it infringement or not- but that's not the real answer to the problem. There must be a more general solution come to, and people who are more willing to engage their brains than you will get there eventually.

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