Why bother? Nostalgia? Just to add some perspective here, when the US first discontinued the small penny, which was half of a cent, it was worth roughly 15 cents in today's money. The large penny, (which got smaller at point) which was one cent, was worth more than today's quarter at about 30 cents.

So back then, prices were incremented by more than today's quarter. There's no reason we can't simply do the same today. We may as well even get rid of nickels and dimes while we're at it. A nickel and a dime today won't even get you a slice of pie.

So then go build a shitty product and then tell us how well that worked out for you. Make sure it's worse than what your competitor offers.

It's inconsequential for the most part. If it went to Apple instead it would be spread out to shareholders through dividend payments. Large developers that are publicly owned companies may do the same themselves. Either company may invest the that money in something else which pays it to some third party that now has it. This only changes who is doing the distribution and who might be on the receiving end of that. There can be further downstream effects from this which may be more or less beneficial than some alternatives, but these can't be accurately predicted with any degree of reliability.

If the desired goal of the legislation was to reduce prices for consumers then it failed to achieve that goal. Saying that it's still good anyway just for other reasons is only shifting the posts.

Exactly.

Imagine all the flip-phone hipsters being denied boarding.

No shade, it's probably better for your overall wellbeing to use a flip phone.

And the hipsters have Leica 35mm mechanical cameras if the need arises.

> it's also in the user, as he got a mail during his stay

People check email on vacation?

What an odd thing to demand.

Would the $20 ONN sticks from Walmart work better for you?

I have an puck-style device of theirs which is just an Amtel SoC with GoogleTV Android on it. Probably doesn't get updates but then you don't let them have unfettered access to the Internet either.

I've sideloaded Jellyfin, SmarTube-Next, etc.

I used to have a half dozen Fire sticks and have removed all but one, in a kid's bedroom. They haven't banned Jellyfin ... yet... but aren't they dropping Android as well?

Can you still log onto their website prior to flying, download the QR code boarding pass image to your phone, and use that to check in without the need for any app?

If the QR code is what the gate monkey needs, then the QR code is what the gate monkey gets.

Electric vehicles are a great idea, and battery technology is catching up to market expectations. However, trying to force everyone into an electric vehicle earlier than they can afford or they want is a recipe for disaster. Put the money into technology research and stop trying to force the issue at the government level.

Forget 2026. The big three look like they’re still struggling to sell last year models off the lot. As every new car lot can attest.

Not sure what the big three conceded to sell in North America, but it ain’t cars at $50K+.

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

Gotta love it when they try and use innocent terms like "headwind".

As if it's some kind of natural organic event in Capitalism causing this and not a couple of greedy dicks pissing in the wind at each other.

1 in 8 humans on this planet (including third worlds), are PC gamers with rigs equal to at least a PS4 in performance?

I'm just gonna stand waaay back here and let you pull that evidence out of your ass. Guessing you're still counting Billy Mitchell in there too.

Based on their history, Windows 12 will be decent*, but then they'll shit the bed again when they try to get everyone to upgrade to Windows 13. I don't know why they do it this way, but it's been a consistent trend for decades now.

* For a Microsoft product.

Uh, who you talking "we" there, Kemosabe?

I seem to recall us training those robots in the Model T-101 factory to do a slightly different mission at Skynet Automotive. We will be lucky if we maintain control of those nuclear weapons.

Who knew James Cameron could be as prophetic in 1984 as George Orwell was writing 1984..

I don't think Sony is subsidizing the hardware. Both Sony's and Microsoft's consoles are basically PCs. You could put together one with similar performance for around the same price. Both are 8-core Zen 2 CPUs and RDNA2 graphics integrated on the chip with 16 GB of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU. Nothing particularly special and AMD sells APUs that are even beefier with more modern cores if you wanted an integrated solution. Unfortunately they're not selling them as a standalone product so you'd have to buy an entire system with one in it right now.

I don't think the PS5's design is particularly good. To me it's trying too hard and I'd have preferred something more basic. If you really like it you could just 3D print a shroud that looks like a PS5 and put it around a PC built with a microATX board.