Yes, I saw the alternative link. No need to point it out to me. Still find the broken main site exemplifies many issues with the Internet today.

The paywall on the article is broken, with "undefined" in place of the price in every instance on the text. I'm not on a VPN or doing any crazy monkeying with the site. Just Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin, connecting direct over my home Wi-Fi.

Almost seems appropriate to get a tollbooth on an article about an Iranian tollbooth.

That's where this is all going anyway. If the age verification is nothing more than "state your age" when you make your user account then people will type in whatever they want. Then the politicians will say "Well, this age verification isn't working because there's nothing legally verifying the response. We need to add a check that identifies the person so we can know they are telling the truth." And then they will say "You surely will implement this into your OS, right? You already put the age check in we asked for before, we're just asking that be fixed to make sure responses are truthful."

Wouldn't a breathalyzer lockout on a car's ignition be a better safety feature than taking away their license? I mean, it's not like you have to scan a valid license to operate a vehicle. Taking away theirs would likely just result in a bunch of unlicensed drunk drivers behind the wheel.

The money is a refund of lease money the French company paid the U.S. earlier. Not taxpayer money.

Do people still want that? I thought everyone wanted their group chat to be "appy". Not like an IRC convo or vBulletin.

If Apple was serious about simplifying manufacturing and lowering costs on that end they would have used an existing 13" laptop chassis for the Neo, instead of designing one just the model and making a bunch of color options. Not like a case designed to handle the cooling solution on a higher performance M-series Macbook couldn't work with the A-series iPhone chip.

Besides snarky commentary about falling literacy rates, I think the old keyboard with the written labels looks classier.

Glyphs are language-agnostic, but they ate a language of their own people have to learn. I'm sure all of us have dealt with a person who doesn't recognize the combined Play/Pause icon, know what a pencil button represents, or know what a menu of three vertical dots is for, because they are not a frequent user of devices or apps that have them.

First one, then the other.

AI companies hoping by then there will be enough platform lock-in and hassle to transition to human-powered production they don't try and go back.

So we went from "the next Xbox will be able to play PC games" to "the PC will soon be able to play Xbox games"?

Remember how that last article mentioned the bots leaking private information about their owners? And now all that info is leaking into a Meta property...

I'm more inclined to believe they noticed him but didn't consider it of any consequence. Just like the crew of the Enterprise walking around the Borg ship. They don't care you're there until you start blasting stuff.

Every kid knows enough from TV, video games, and riding a multi-speed bike what "shifting" is. Turning a key does not require a driver's ed course. And yeah, learning the systems on paper did teach me about driving a stick shift. I learned how the clutch literally disconnects the engine from the transmission through the throw-out bearing actuated by the clutch pedal. This allow me to use the gear shift level to move the shift forks, changing synchronizers connecting the input shaft to different gear sets in the transmission (or direct to the output shaft, as common in 4th gear of a 5-speed).

His advice was more tips for timing and pedal feel. It helped, but it was like 10 minutes tops.

The terms and conditions they agreed to with their Apple device purchase in sure.

Mmmmmmm. Walled garden. Tastes like a well-polished boot.