Comment Re:I'm considering switching more (Score 1) 85
Ubuntu, however, is awful.
There are literally hundreds of Linux distros out there.
Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 2) 172
Also, a movie about a war veteran getting mistreated, and critical of the anti-war movement.
And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!
Comment Re:Who is this for? (Score 1) 124
Not for you, but for them to track your kids.
Comment Re:A step in the right direction (Score 1) 124
It's absolute insanity that folks throw away $1k+ phones because we can't easily swap out a $25 battery.
Indeed, because even if it's not user-repleaceable, any phone repair shop can do it. (It's also crazy to buy a $1k+ phone in the first place, goddamn, there are fine options for much much less.)
It's absolute insanity they removed the headphone jack to force us to buy / replace battery powered headphones or an adapter.
It's annoying, but adapters are cheap. I'm not going to lose sleep over $5.
It's absolute insanity I have different chargers and cables for at least five generations of this crap laying about. Pick a damn standard already.
They did, the whole industry uses USB-C now.
Comment Re:Not the first time (Score 1) 122
And there was "Project Star Trek": back in '92 they got System 7 running on a 486. It was shelved as Michael Spindler pushed for the PowerPC instead, but it existed.
Comment Again? (Score 1) 50
a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game
But Tomb Raider: Anniversary is already that, and still looks perfectly good. And if you want it more strictly faithful to the original, there's the recent remaster. So this is absolutely unnecessary.
Comment Re:Author seems unclear on music technology. (Score 1) 19
The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis.
Not exactly, it used the Z80 to control the actual sound chips: a Yamaha YM2612 (which does FM) and a Texas SN76489 (which is a simpler PSG). And this setup, in the right hands, could produce absolutely excellent music.
Comment Re:Corrections (Score 1) 19
The man really had no shame:
Brian Schmidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bobby Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Google is the new Jeeves (Score 1) 30
Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world's go-to search engines.
That's sort of what Google does now. You try to search, it gives you some AI-generated overview of the topic before providing links. It's occasionally handy but most often infuriating.
Comment Re:Make it make sense (Score 1) 27
It can't, that's just "synergy", the idea that one powerful brand can boost another. In reality it just causes confusion and incorrect assumptions.
Comment Re:Nuclear reactor technology (Score 4, Insightful) 75
If people treated airplanes the same way, they'd say: some planes have crashed before, so we must never fly again.
Comment Re:The underlying issue (Score 1) 152
So say we all.
And if we all were not brothers of metal, would we fall?
Comment Re:The devil is moving parts. (Score 1) 44
I'd trust the durability of every other part more than the durability of the screen itself.
Comment Re:I've seen this movie (Score 1) 163
Rumored to be plagiarized off a low-budget '70s film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
Comment Re:Some might, I won't be. (Score 1) 45
That was just an excuse. They had years to cut the prices before the tariffs happened. And cutting prices quickly used to be the standard.
