"The left looooved Musk when they thought he was one of them."

no they didn't, and you don't even know what the left is. trump defines the left for you, and musk was loved by idiot tech bros

He used to win these market timing games because no one was paying attention to huge short positions. You could quietly bet against a company, or, better yet, you could quietly amass a short position and then release stunning negative news that you had uncovered and watch the stock price tank.

These days it is more likely that online investors will notice a large short, and drive the price of the stock up until the person holding the short gets margin called and loses all of their money. The shorters then provide the liquidity you need to get out of the position. There used to be good money in shorting terrible companies, but in an age where hordes of armchair investors can drive the price of GameStop to the moon that strategy is just too risky.

In an of itself, that's a perfectly cromulant opinion to hold, but I doubt it's going to be shared by a bunch of people with Robinhood accounts paying electronically for the delivery of "freedfrom from techy surfdom". :D

Low quality PC to console ports have always existed (and vice versa for that matter.) Define broken - crashing your console?

I'm a game programmer, 20 years in the industry shipping dozens of games across the entire history of consoles starting from the PS2/GC era up to and including the consoles of today. Take it from me, the fact that console hardware is fixed ensures the experience of running games designed to push hardware to their functional limits is far more stable/hassle free.

If you don't wanna play games that do that, then this might not be as big of an issue. But the fixed hardware of a console simply cannot be discounted. Valve is not stupid for making a "verified on our console" program. The console platforms spend OODLEs of money ensuring that console games are by and large rock solid. (Counter examples not welcome, I'm just saying in comparison to the arbitrary hardware landscape of the Windows PC install base)

Also console OSes are designed for their main purpose - turn it on, play the game, stop playing the game whenever you like, come back to the game whenever you like. They're optimized towards that experience in a way that a general purpose PC struggles to do (admittedly Steam's big picture mode is pretty good, but you can't totally handwave away the fact that Windows is running in the background)

I'm not against gaming PCs, I have a nice one, it's my main daily game driver. (Also have a PS5, because I'm not only a developer, I'm also a customer!)

Be sure to hold a "No Kings" protest targeting Xi when you get there.

Let us know how that goes ...

"...but rather their bifurcated OS..."
Apple created the different OSes for different use cases that, Apple thought, required different user interfaces. They sustain it for this reason.

"...but are prohibited from doing them because Apple wants to sell you both an iPad and a Macintosh."
No. Apple maintains different user interfaces for different use cases, it is the touch vs. mouse UIs, the large vs. small screens, that drive the differentiation. I'm not even convinced Apple cares to sell you a Mac anymore, or an iPad. Apple sees both product lines as non-growth.

There is nothing wrong with hating Apple's approach, but claiming it exists for bogus reasons is something else. Apple thought Microsoft's approach was wrong, that integrating touch with mouse or touchpad was wrong. It appears they are trying to reverse course on that, but that's the reason iPads are worthless for doing work. Android tablets are also unsuccessful, tablet computers are limited to vertical applications and casual use.

People forget that tablet computers existed a decade before the iPad, it's good for certain things but creation is NOT one of them.

And neither is good when your hands are full doing other tasks. I'd love to see you do the dishes with one hand while holding your iPad or iPhone with the other, all the while watching videos on a tiny screen rather than paying attention to what you are doing.

These are the standards of iPad users.

SuperKendall told us all how the iPad was the ideal platform for content creation, and he would know because he was a professional photographer! So what's the problem?

... was how to disable it.

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

Available as a database, or a collection of individual pages. Mirrored and archived. There are torrents as well.

On the other hand, if your card got refused at that grocery line - would you go back? Likely not.

I doubt many such businesses would risk the customer ire by refusing some cards.

What I DO forsee as happening is some businesses that aren't time sensitive but routinely deal in high $$$ transactions not accepting some such cards. IE, (ironically) - airlines. If you're buying several thousand dollars worth of airline tickets the rewards (and in turn, the merchant fees) can add up quite a bit.

Maybe they're in another country? Here in the US a guy selling tomatoes beside the road is likely to whip out a Square reader attached to a phone and take credit cards.

I live in a small town and I can't think of a single business that DOESN'T accept cards. The last holdout (an old diner thats been there for decades) gave in about 7 or 8 years ago and got a reader.