The Quest 2 was very limited by hardware. Yeah I agree a lot of the Quest 2 baked in games were novelty toys, but the beauty of it is ... you don't need to restrict yourself to the Quest. PCVR has a world of excellent experiences, some of which are AAA, e.g. HalfLife Alyx, After the Fall, or just some arcade style fun games that don't feel novelty at all like Robo Recall.

That's a distraction from the real issue here, which is that both political parties in the US don't like the kinds of things that are being said on TikTok, and really hate that the TikTok algorithm is promoting those videos.

There is a lot of stuff about Palestine, and about unions and worker's rights, and about the rental market. A lot of it skews socialist, fairly common European stuff but terrifying to American politicians.

They want an American company to buy TikTok and change it to promote conservative views. And when I say conservative, I'm including the Democrats in that, they are far to the right politically of where TikTok users are.

Modern CPUs adjust their performance based on the available cooling. The more heat that the system can dissipate, the faster the CPU will go, up to some very high limit that no consumer device ever reaches.

So these chips will run better in laptops with active cooling, and in tablets and phones with passive cooling. Maybe the OEMs need to improve their products, or maybe it's just an Intel-style room heater with some bonus computational ability.

The risk is that if the US behaves that way, it gives other countries licence to do so as well. iPhone sales are down 19% in China, and the government hasn't even banned Apple for consumers, just government use.

It will be interpreted as naked protectionism and responded to in kind.

The only diamond ring worth owning is a cutting disc.

It's not new, Windows has pretty much always been like this. The default install of Windows 95 came with a load of crapware and offers for dial-up internet. Which was actually kind of funny, because Windows 95 didn't have a firewall so if you did dial-up, you were pretty much guaranteed to have your machine p0wned within seconds.

Lenovo used to make some Xeon laptops with ECC I think. The main issue is that mobile CPUs usually don't support it. I think that's true even of Ryzen ones, despite the desktop models having it.

We have had the problem solved in the UK for a while now. Chargers tie in to pricing data, which is predicted a day in advance, and then delay charging until it is cheapest. Often the price goes negative, i.e. you are paid to charge your vehicle, if you are on a variable tariff.

Have a look at this website showing prices: https://agileprices.co.uk/

You can see that for 7% of April, prices were negative, and for another ~30% they were extremely low.

The changes won't just be needed for EVs, they will be needed for domestic solar as well. People are going to keep adding solar and batteries, getting to the point where they barely need the grid for much of the year, or at all. If the grid doesn't adapt to much greater changes in demand and lower unit prices, the operators are going to go bust.

They will need to transition from centralized generation to becoming distributors and offering convenience services.

If you read the summary, it points out that Google is in fact ready, it's the UK Competitions and Markets Authority that is causing the delay. Google's already-deployed alternative doesn't allow them to track you, all data is local and the API sites can use to target ads is properly designed to prevent it being used for identification.

I recommend you turn off third party cookies manually. This is just for the default off setting. I haven't noticed it breaking anything.

Probably just a case of them not really thinking about it, like we didn't before Snowden.

People seem to forget that most sites didn't bother with HTTPS and most apps send data in the clear before Snowden's revelations. That was when the push really started to encrypt everything by default, and browsers started warning about non-HTTPS etc.

China just hasn't had their Snowden moment so is like we were 10 years ago.

Yes and no. Automatically does sound like a step up, but the "and provide detailed info about the flight" is not a thing. You typically just give them your flight number and be done with it. I've been through this process a few times. The only time it has every been in any way complicated is when I was rebooked by the airline to a non-partner airline which then also turned out to be delayed and then KLM and TAP spent months bickering about who would pay me.

And yes there's lost / damaged luggage rules in the EU as well, maximum compensation limit is 1300EUR. That said this law seems to be more strict with its 12 hour window. AFAIK there's no legal mandate for delayed luggage in the EU, just lost or damaged.

You bought it Early Access. You don't get to consider your purchasing decision as a promise of the future. If you sunk more than two hours into playing it then you got some entertainment and your money's worth. Early Access is a risk you take to play an unfinished game. And there's no coincidence the abbreviation for Early Access is EA, both are equally likely to be turds.

No. If you want a finished experience, don't buy it in early access. If you are open to an unfinished experience then your ability to refund *after playing for a significant period* should be limited. You got what you pay for. You were entertained. If you weren't, well you should have refunded it earlier.

It seems like they did this only yesterday. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

I can't. None of them seem to give a shit. Which is why I as a boy get to decide whether to support violence and exploitation.