Nintendo encourages people to break its proprietary docking protocol

Yhere are few movies that are So Good that it's worth paying a small fortune to see them in a theatre when they'll be streaming in 3 months.

We're going to fuck you over with inflated ticket prices, concessions, ads, bag searches (in case you smuggle food), premiums on good seats, and any other way we can think of nickel and diming you. But you're going to like it right? Wait where are you going?

The kind who gets to play golf, wined & dined with the salesman, not the poor bastards who are stuck with the consequences.

It's kind of worse. It's like paying someone else who will facilitate *you* maintaining rented virtual computers running *your* software.

I'm convinced from having done a lot of cloud development that the best solution in a lot of cases would be to buy a rack computer and run the software on the rack. The cloud could still be a front end for it, security, load balancing or whatever, but just deploy stuff to your own machines and if you need to scale, then buy more machines. It will cost less and won't be harder to administer than if it were all in the cloud. Moreover, it's easier to switch away from the cloud entirely or another provider when the core of the software has no dependency on it.

I'm sure it's not just laptops but a general malaise across most print media. I can't remember the last time I bought a magazine. I know I purchased stacks of them in the 90s, not just computer ones but other subjects. In the early 2000s I still bought a few but mostly for cover disks. I think the only other magazines I bought were some magazines when I commuted by train for a bit. Not just magazines but news papers. I used to buy the Sunday Times in the UK because it was literally an inch thick with so many sections & magazines that you could read it for the rest of the week.

Then the internet took over I could read stuff for free whenever I wanted and it was always relevant up to date as opposed to buying magazines which were at least a month behind what was happening. I still read the occasional digital magazine because I have an library app which lets me read them for free, but honestly it's more effort than its worth.

The funny thing is this site receives a lot of traffic but minimal effort has gone into keeping it up to date. I only recall one UI revamp when it sort of went web 2.0, but not by a lot which is what we have now. It must be profitable, or aught to be profitable.

Its like claiming medical ethics laws are stifling the advancement of medical treatment and drugs, because you cant test on patients without their knowledge and explicit consent...

They might very well be, but its a limitation society is willing to accept over the protestations of drug companies.

Much like allowing a mental patient to shave your balls with a razor.

The only person bringing SpaceX into this is you.

Why does there have to be any comparison at all? Why does there have to be a perceived competition between what Blue Origin are doing here and what SpaceX are doing over there?

There is something broken in western news media and social media, in that everything simply *must* be a race or a competition, and if one entity in the perceived competition is behind then they shouldn't even bother - it doesn't matter that none of the actual entities themselves see themselves as being in a competition or race, they dont matter, its an external thing being forced on them by observers.

The concept that an entity can be entirely about their own milestones, rather than judging their progress by measuring against another entity, is rapidly becoming an impossibility in many peoples minds.

You see it all the time, with SpaceX being used as the thing to measure against - someone hops a rocket, oh but they are a decade behind SpaceX so why are they even bothering. Someone launches a new rocket but its not reusable, doesn't matter than it meets all the internal requirements of the project and the project sponsors, its not reusable so they are so far behind SpaceX so why are they even bothering. Blue Origin launches a sub-orbital rocket, entirely meeting their own internal goals, but its not orbital so they are so behind SpaceX, so why are they even bothering...

Not everything has to be a competition.

Well there is Redox which is a Rust based OS. But even in Linux there are efforts to use Rust for certain things in the kernel and also outside. I doubt anyone wants to rewrite for the sake of rewriting but if there is code which is especially vulnerable or important for security then it's a candidate to consider using Rust instead of C.

Is it Lenovo's crappy drivers? Or all the bloatware they shove on their devices? Or the default power saving settings? Because there are a lot of things which might have nothing to do with the operating system, and a lot to other factors that happen to favour SteamOS in this case.

Physical controls don't move around, can be felt and operated by someone with muscle memory and they give positive feedback when they are operated. Haptic or touchscreen controls have to be looked at. If someone is looking at the screen or a flat surface then they're not looking at the road. While it is reasonable for automakers to remove some controls, when they start interfering with core features - indicators, headlights, volume, wipers, wing mirrors, horn, brakes, drive selector, aircon/heater, demister or anything like that they're putting lives at risk.

Tesla is the worst for it and it seems only the threat of bad NCAP ratings is making them having second thoughts. They recently reinstated the indicator stalk for example. But other automakers do not have to follow and I don't understand why they are. If the cheapest, shittiest car on the road can have physical controls, there is no excuse for anything more costly to omit them.

And all the Google stuff on Android. Unsurprising I guess that Iran has basically turned off internet to the outside world because every single phone in the country is potentially leaking information on the user.

Snowden's "revelations" were nothing of the sort. The US, China, Russia, Iran, France, UK and everyone else has and always have developed exploits and tools to compromise and spy on allies and adversaries because its in their interests to do it. This was known before Snowden betrayed his own country by revealing American means and capabilities.

But conversely in a war, it behooves countries to exercise common sense and lock down the potential for compromise and information leakage. Probably Iran should have done it sooner IMO, since Israel probably has probably compromised a lot of phones and devices used by government and military services.