It doesn't carry a common household name famed for quality, performance or bragging rights and it was too expensive before RAM made the price stupid.

The price as it is puts it I to a luxury item category, not everyday essentials. Not even mid-range.

Maybe that's their plan. I'll pass.

So you mean to say that under the veneer of innovation and technical advantage there's no ruthless anticompetitive practices, tax avoidance, sabotage, disinformation, bribery, political lobbying, orchestrated bad acting and shameless exploitation of any and all loopholes?

I agree. Big US tech companies are definitely on the cutting age there.

On the whole of it, what I'm reading here is that, as usually American companies that get away with murder in the US bitch and moan about the same nasty tricks not working in the EU and they are just having a tantrum.

I worked for a large multinational company. I know how many US executive approach HR matters, EU compliance, anticompetitive practice. They just have a meltdown when the way they learnt how to cheat and have their way doesn't suddenly work.

Maybe if US politics wouldn't gut regulators that are there by the people and for the people "Big Tech" wouldn't feel so wronged because they'd be set straight from day one. In the EU there's plenty wrong but they still care to get it right.

Oh no the evil EU fined Google a billion dollars. They will all have to skip the new paint job on the super yacht.
Cry me a fucking river.

Is his massive funneling of funds into right wing German politics running around by all these nasty EU/German laws?

Just because you are online does not give you the right to call people names in other countries. You can spread your hate and inappropriate behaviour in person so why does does so online supposedly exempts?

Personally I think it's harsh but Germany is a different country with their own laws. Respect them.

You can say you have a degree in something but if you let AI write up all your work then what do you actually know really?

You're there for an education. Cheating on it is only leaving you uneducated.

Better to get a low passing grade off your own back than a high mark for what you didn't do... don't cheat yourselves out of an education.

So glad that effing Biden was stopped before he could weaponise government against it's own people and allies.

...and is that the fresh scent of swamp water I'm smelling this fine evening?

They need to invest in his crypto bullshit or give his sons some good investment tips.

You can buy the president if you got enough money and he doesn't pretend like that's not possible. He'll talk about how beautiful and wronged your murderous people are if you have sufficient business for him.

Sorry. What I meant to say is that Trump is draining the swamp. Dunno how I got those mixed up!

The first thing I did with any game I could was move it to the HD on PC. When that wasn't even an option for consoles. I'd resort to making a CD image of media I owned just so I could run them off a second hard drive.

I didn't buy a Playstation for years and year become of the atrocious load times. I hate wasting my time for games to load and to read from CD/DVD. These days I avoid HDs and SSDs because god have us NVMe...and when some of us have read speeds of 5000mb/s Sony is ditching optical.

It's like they were debating if the car should still run on steam. Of course it was inevitable they would eventually stop.

If they still want to do media why not just sell NVMe sticks? Or go cheap and slow SD cards like Nintendo.

Let the users vote with their wallet. Make a PS6 with optional NVMe upgrade that you can move your games to (that only works with the official Sony BS firmware) and see if people prefer it...and ideally without having to get gems or whatever other pseudo gambling garbage you have to simply change their system theme. (That was so lame)

I guess they don't call it the Paystation for nothing...

https://www.theguardian.com/en... What's this to do with social media? Wait, was this article written by a 14 years old? Did they believe the arctic sea ice melt is causing the social media ban?!

This is so confusing.

...and long walks, eating vegetables and genetics don't really have any brand names like Starbucks or beans that were shat by monkeys to grind. So why would the said association mention right?

People are being shovelled shit at day in and day out...to come out with 5(!) cups of coffee as potentially beneficial for hearts as opposed to the (nearly)free alternatives...one does try to find humour in it.

I thank God every day. For making the world wonderful and it's ruler's wise and just.

I believe in the Orange Jesus, he who hasth draineth thy swamp of the pestilence known as democracy. Keep not the spy vans from accepting him in your heart.

Shall we say a prayer from the church of pseudo shaksperian atheism?

"Let thy blessed ICE officers rain down heavenly justice upon the unbelievers for he hasth woneth all elections. If thou doth not have evil in thy heart, or mobile phone, his purification needs not bother for you are pure in thy acceptance of his means justifying all ends that serve him."

Go now and sing the holy songs laying blame at Crooked Hillary, Hunter Biden and celebrating the piousness of his holiness sons' destined crypto riches.

Can yous smell that? Of that sweet sweet reflecting pool swamp scent. An ICE patrol in every voting booth, an ICE squad checking every voice over the airwaves that will not vote for him. A little amendment to all voting systems and ID checks that determine who is a fake Chinese vote and who isn't. Sleepwalking I to the new and improved insurrection 2.0...

...and how does that compare to drinking 0 caffeine and having a healthy lifestyle? Can that reduce "heart risk" better than drinking FIVE cups of coffee??

What does the heart association say about that?!

Love tape. That thing everyone now suggests is old and clunky...but at a per TiB cost with a shelf life of 20 years in good storage? Seems like an ideal secondary backup mechanism...

When faced with the "cost" of such an outcome how much does mitigation worth to you?

Friendly word to business owners and senior managers; if you haven't tested your ransomwate recovery mechanism and proved it works just assume there is none.

...and no I don't know the details but I can tell you it was preventable.

When you don't have to build a toaster to make toast it becomes fun.

Very few people enjoy the art of craft. Programming is no different.

Getting the benefit of craftsmanship is a lot more appealing than making the effort to learn how to produce that benefit yourself.

As AI becomes more capable, accessible and cheap the limits will be our understanding and creativity. I do believe the best AI today can code in Rust too...and as Linux lends itself we'll to AI and headless automation it will continue to dominate and maybe one day will finally bring about the Microsoft apocalypse.

Indeed. Many people misundertand ADHD and think it's one thing or another. Parents lose their minds when their kid can do one thing for hours and yet do not do their homework.

Some ADHD can exhibit hyper focus, some lack of focus in most things, some have a nearly infinitely shifting focus. Bad cases forget to eat, go to the loo and or sleep...the specifics are more individual than some script that any person with ADHD behaves in mostly the same way.

Learning to curb and mitigate the impulsiveness does help andt that's mostly the opposite of what attention algorithms do. Constantly feeding impulses to already impulsive individuals results in even less control and discipline.

Crack to an addictive personality if you will.