I got lifetime when Google dropped their Google Play Music service. I used Play Music to have my entire music collection clouded, plus manage playlists and other stuff that I really relied on it for the car, walking to work, etc. When Google gimped that with the YouTube Music transition, I needed to replace that functionality, and Plex plus my NAS plus services they included with Plex Pass worked well.

As for the " restored music and photo library support in mobile apps" efforts to be funded by the price hike, we didn't ask for those to be removed in the first place. I don't use Plex for photos, but I had use cases for music in the main Plex app and not solely in the music-only PlexAmp app. We begged them to roll that back but they didn't, interesting that they have now reversed that decision.

In case something happens with Plex like if they remove too much functionality or somehow renege on lifetime Plex Pass, I now run Jellyfin in parallel.

Missions STS-51-L (Challenger) and STS-107 (Columbia).

Until policy changes from "safety at all costs" to "humans dying in possible one-way missions is an acceptable part of pioneering, fly it again tomorrow", you will have endless reviews, delays and cancellations on top of those already inherent in government projects. The government layer is probably the biggest reason, which is why alongside the government/NASA projects we have a private company that can get personnel to and from the space station at much lower cost, with boosters that fly themselves back and are re-used a hundred times, using technology, methods and continuous-engineering speed that seem to lap what NASA currently demonstrates.

The market dropped due to tariff mess in general, not some survey as this article alleges. The assertion that IBM dropped today due to some fear of AI economic effect is just wrong. It was the news of Anthropic threatening to eat IBM's own lunch, using Claude to help folks upgrade from COBOL, something IBM should have been able to do with its own AI tools.

Not a tax lawyer, but small businesses are usually sole proprietorships, which means the business is the person. With income taxes gone, the need to track business expenses for tax write-offs goes away too... the full tax is paid out of whatever account the small business owner decides to use to pay for the truck a the time of sale.

We've already see the model with the dawn of the smartphone. Everyone buys more and more cores with more and more storage and RAM to run the same apps they did ten years ago, some of it just to show your friends MyPhoneVersion = YourPhoneVersion + 1. And yet that more powerful hardware you keep upgrading isn't worth much for standalone uses. WiFi-only connectivity doesn't count because it's the same rechargeable 5% brick (I'm excluding standalone camera functions, for now, with 5%) without cloud services.

Bezos is half-right, both local resources and cloud being more in-demand are true. People will rely on cloud services but also rely on every-increasingly-expensive hardware that is needed to access those cloud services.

Local hardware resources will go up. Cloud usage will go up. Standalone usability of local hardware resources will go down.

"Thing is, the people making the movies are still making movies for the exact same demographic and you've aged out of it. A huge amount of movies are made for the 15-30 crowd."

There are more 15-30's people now than there were in GenX 15-30's time. If aging out is the issue for GenX, why are sales still not higher?

There's no way a full-screen ad should appear on a display that is used to replace once-physical buttons/controls. Unless the ad says "we've extended your subscription one month for free in exchange for being annoyed with this ad" it shouldn't ever show on a critical vehicle interface.

This should be a NHTSA rule that vehicle displays can't be used for ad-pushing.

Raises the question.

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Foil the hax0rs!

from TFA -

"This year, Broadcom started sending such VMware users cease-and-desist letters, telling organizations to stop using any maintenance releases/updates, minor releases, major releases/upgrades extensions, enhancements, patches, bug fixes, or security patches (except for zero-day security patches) that VMware issued since the user’s support contract ended."

So if you kept your perpetual license and didn't buy a new support contract, they're making sure you haven't done unauthorized patches since you stopped paying. Maybe they have an online licensing system that phones home with patch levels, you report too recent a number and you get flagged for audit?

The solution is not technology and nanrobots, it is salt water. Daily saline rinse can solve sinus infections because they can't take hold. I know it looks weird, but it's literally just a plastic container and adding salt to some warm water. My wife's twice-yearly (at least) sinus infection rate went to zero.

Probes should be widely funded... not only can probes be more on-budget, they are much less expensive. For example the Mars Pathfinder mission for development and launch was under $300M, while a shuttle launch in that time period was at least $1.5B. So you get many times the scientific discovery for a fifth the cost. Once you remove crew concerns, the possibilities go way up and the costs (particularly with human safety and requirement to return to Earth) go way down.

...like I didn't, here are snippets from Wikipedia:

- NotebookLM (Google NotebookLM) is a research and note-taking online tool developed by Google Labs that uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Google Gemini, to assist users in interacting with their documents.

- NotebookLM can generate summaries, explanations, and answers based on content uploaded by users. It also includes "Audio Overviews," which summarize documents in a conversational, podcast-like format.

- In addition to text files, NotebookLM can process PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and Google Slides. It can only process videos that have a transcript or subtitles attached as it cannot extract transcripts from videos that lack it.

"a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies."

If we're talking a neighborhood of 200,000 people, some AI-based counter should be able to determine that, should be 200,000 or fewer.

I'm reading over some of the 5.2 and from the perspective of someone who played 1st edition Advanced D&D in the early 80's a lot of it seems like complicating fluff that would make the game less fun. Are there groups that stick to a previous edition, even perhaps 1st edition? I still have my 1st edition Player's Handbook, DM Guide, Monster Manual, a bunch of modules, a smooshed World of Greyhawk box set, and a pile of Dragon Magazines.