There were not 600,000 preorders. You can tell by the fact that they announced 600,000 preorders. If there actually had been they'd have announced "more than a million preorders." That's how it works.

Why are your poor business decisions my problem as a consumer? If I buy a game (license), I should be able to play it forever, live service or not. I don't care that you only licensed music in it for X amount of time. License the music for the game for all time or don't license it at all! This wouldn't fly for any other medium, could you imagine? We're remotely disabling your blu-ray disc because our licensing deal to put product placement in your movie ran out.

If you don't want to keep the servers going, you should be forced to release all related source code in the public domain.

Bold of you , to imagine that by that point in a few decades, that lake still exists.

Does this signal a change in Microsoft's strategy of releasing bad operating systems?

The issue is too many people don't look at political party plans, they simply adopt a political party as their identity. They are not republican (or democrats!) because GOP propose plan with item 1,2,3, but rather because being republican is part of their identity. Once that happens and facts goes against that political party, it make the brain analyze it as an attack against identity, and use defensive reaction mechanism to protect identity, chief among them wholesale rejection of facts.

This is not only the republican which do that, but republican happens to be associated with right wing / authority / strength as an image (not necessarily a truth just an image) and far more likely currently to have the facts going against them.

They (conspiracy theorist from r/UFOs) take

1) a long period of time (the first "case" is from july 2023)
2) they take various profession and places mashed together
3) various situation mashed together (missing, suicided, murdered, one guy missing stating he did not want to live with his brain deteriorating etc...)
Then suddenly they find out there is a dozen such a case.


The thing is I would be not be surprised if you take so many different places, and people, over so many years, and check for disappearance/murder/suicide you would find similar number, but nobody will make a CT over your random white collar guy.

Quick, move all the scientists into electrified rooms to avoid the sophons!

In his new role his main job will be dealing with government leaders around the world, including Trump (assuming he hasn't aspirated a Big Mac and fries by then).

I can't wait to get my refund from the companies that charged me for the tariffs, he said sarcastically.

What does physics have to do with deciding to use them?

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Does setting the default browser in the settings not fix it? I also fix Windows users' issues and I haven't seen this one, but that's because their comptuers are so locked down. In my mind there's the default browser in settings and if you uninstall the current default, it changes to another or at least prompts the user to set a default like I've seen with filetypes. Just let me blame Windows :)

That's some serious Stockholm syndrom if you welcome that change. Why can't Microslop be expected to make Microslop software work with Microslop software? Is it really this hard to just have and use a default browser?!