A lot of people in the comments are misunderstanding how this works. It's only a 24 hour timeout for unverified apps, not any apps coming from outside the Play Store. Presumably any big developers making legitimate apps can would just pay the $25 to get verified, so you can just download and install the APK. If you really do want Google to fuck off and let you do whatever you want to your phone, that's when you have to wait 24 hours. Is this amazing? No, I'd much rather have a way to pass some kind of test that proves I know what I'm doing, maybe involving a USB cable and developer tools, but tech support scammers often trick people into pasting commands into their terminals, so that's not foolproof. If it really bothers you so much, you can always run a custom ROM. There's a reason I refuse to buy Android phones that have bootloaders I can't unlock. Even though right now I've decided a custom ROM is more trouble than it's worth, I want to have that option to escape in case Google makes a brain-dead decision at some point in the future.

The modern WINE / Proton experience on Linux is not at all comparable to a badly done Mac port. There are definitely some frustrations involved in playing Windows games on Linux, but my experience has generally been that if you can get a game to run at all it does in fact run 100% correctly. Actually, for Tomb Raider (the 2013 one) I tried to play the native Linux port, and it was such a buggy (graphically) mess that I went and made Steam install the Windows version, and that not only ran correctly, it actually performed a bit better. The rest of that trilogy played perfectly under Proton as well.

Not really, there are some frustrations, mostly to do with anti-cheat, but the games that run perform almost identically to the way they do on Windows. Occasionally there are buggy driver updates, but I used to get those on Windows too.

Seriously I'm tired of all of this discussion of what "filmmakers want," what about what I want? What I want is bright, clear pictures all the time, loud, clear dialogue, and quiet audio effects and music. Call me tasteless, but most of the time I have no control over ambient lighting and need to keep the volume under control to avoid disturbing people I live with.

Y'all are drawing the wrong conclusions here, it's not that Google is totally giving up on gaming on ChromeOS (although it was a halfhearted effort at best), it's just that the underlying OS for ChromeOS is being transitioned to Android so they're abandoning everything that won't work on Android. At that point people can just play Android games, and Google can get a cut of all the sales through the Play Store.

From a site owner's perspective, there really is no difference. The bot is still taking my content, giving me nothing in return, and then presenting it to their users with at best just a tiny link at the bottom nobody ever clicks.

You already have a trusted intermediary between you and anybody you pay online: your credit card company. Neither Apple no Google have meaningfully convinced me they are doing anything for me besides saving me typing out the card number. People seem to be getting much more worked up about who can see their credit card numbers than they need to be, the entire purpose of a credit card is to allow people you don't fully trust to charge you for goods and services. If a bad actor gets your card it you can just report the fraudulent transactions and get a new card. Now if you're using a debit card it's another story, but you've gotta be a special kind of stupid to use a debit card online. If you really insist on it, at least go through a virtual card platform and set spending limits per-merchant.

One way or another, the first lesson of any programming course aimed at students that don't already know a different language is going to involve them copying a bunch of code they don't understand, running it, and then having the teacher explain what each part of it does. I don't see how omitting the "public static" really helps, because one way or another students won't understand most of the "hello world" program their teacher gives them until the teacher breaks it down, and they're going to have to learn about classes and the public and static keywords pretty soon anyways. Now, this would make it easier to write one-off utilities in Java, so I'm actually all for it, but the headline is dumb.

It should be acceptable to get an F, learn from your mistakes, take the class again, and have that grade go away. Failing a class just shouldn't be a big deal. Students should be able to push the boundaries of what they can do, and sometimes reach their limits. I failed a classes in college, and that experience really taught me a lot about myself, and made me a much better student. The problem is that GPAs expect flawlessness throughout the whole educational process, not just in the end result. So, my great learninge experience significantly hampered my ability to get into a top grad school, making pursuing a master's degree pointless. If overall GPAs and transcripts didn't go beyond the confines of a single school, an F wouldn't be nearly as big a deal, and students would be a lot more willing to take risks, and learn better because of it. If you can demonstrate that by the time you graduated you met the same standard as a 4.0 GPA student you should be considered equally to them for the purposes of grad school admissions and hiring.

Tell me you've never left the US without telling me you've never left the US.

I keep seeing this brought up in discussions on in-flight WiFi. The thing is, seatback phones used to be fairly common, back in a time when phone calls were a much more common way to communicate. As far as I can recall, people making long, loud phone calls on planes was fairly rare. Now that so much of our communication has moved to text-based formats, it's hard to imagine people would actually make that many calls on planes.

Cheap, fun, and purley cosmetic, the way NFTs should be. Most of the hate for NFTs comes from people trying to make them into some kind of investment and shoehorn them into places they don't belong.

Already a huge number of parts on aircraft are subject to testing requirements and mandatory swaps after their service life is up. It's hard to imagine batteries and the associated meters would be any different. As part of the certification process the manufacturer will work with the FAA to develop maintenance standards that mandate testing and replacement at specific intervals and then airlines using the planes will be required to follow them.

Seems useful enough, but I don't get why Intel would be the one to develop this software. A tool like this should be either tightly integrated with the phone, the OS, or preferably both. Sure, Intel has plenty of experience making Windows software, but it's hard to imagine they could do better than the similar features already built into Windows. What does this have to do with CPUs anyways. Are they going to artificially lock it to only run on Intel machines or something? Also I really find software like this is better when integrated with the phone OS and carrier. Being able to directly access your phone's messaging backend is amazing, because you can access your messages even if your phone is offline. Same for pictures, I'm going to want some kind of claud backup for my pictures anyways, so I might as well just grab them from there if I want them on my PC, no need for dedicated apps to sync directly between my phone and PC. Notification sync is also worse than just having a desktop / web app for every service I use that properly syncs its own notifications with the mobile app.