Here in my area of the US, a residential class Starlink subscription would cost $90. A compatible 1 gigabit symmetrical fiber connection would cost $59 a month, assuming that you can get one in your neighborhood. If not, you'll probably end up paying similar price to Starlink for slower non-symmetrical Comcast cable connection once you add all their insane taxes and fees.

I'd imagine that the less developed countries are getting a much cheaper Starlink intro rate than we do to bring in business. Then they'll raise their rates once they have a solid customer base, just like most ISP's would.

Yeah, you can also find 90% of the popular TikTok crap on YouTube Shorts if you really want to watch it. Even if the service dies, the content will not.

Facebook's fact checking always sucked, though. Valid posts got flagged as false positive "fake news" frequently.

Letting the community police itself is probably a better idea. Hell... we do it here, and it usually seems to work OK?

It's probably going to be more like we paid an auditor to send us a form to fill out with basic security practice questions, and we then gave them the answers that they wanted to hear. Then they send us a certificate saying that we could put their logo on our product.

You know, it will be pretty much like every other SOC audit you've done before. Other than having to provide a few screenshots of some select cherry picked functions where the senior engineers actually did what they were supposed to do, there isn't any real third party verification. Nobody is going to let them dig into that crap back-end code that we outsourced to Bulgaria that's probably filled with security holes.

Most major corporations weren't doing much meaningful work towards CO2 emissions reduction anyway, and were just posting the occasional greenwashing price to pretend that they gave a damn about the environment. Pretending that your product is "recyclable" while knowing that most recycling centers can't actually do so was a personal favorite of the packaged goods industries, for example.

Now that Trump is back in office, they don't even feel the need to bother with the frequent greenwashing statements anymore. Sure, they'll occasionally post something about helping the environment, but only when it also helps to improve profit margins doing something to reduce energy costs.

While the GPU complexity and GPU power usage has gone through the roof, the actual GPU rendering performance has only been improving by about 20% a year for the past 5 years. It seems like they're running headfirst into a giant efficiency wall.

This could actually be useful in games like Palworld, where you might need a build a raid party to take down some boss characters.

I don't want to give random people on the Internet access to my private world, because they'll probably steal stuff out of my bases. And my actual real live friends have no interest in this game, which kinda kills that option.

The XPS brand name also has some negative baggage associated with it. I'd imagine that many of us have bought some supposedly "premium" built Dell XPS laptops in the past only to find that they were cheap plastic garbage that fell apart in 2 years.

Hey... it's kinda hard to feel bad exploiting the stupidity of people who aren't smart enough to go to google.com to use their favorite search engine.

If anything, I gotta give Microsoft credit for making things "easier" for them.

The weird thing about that statement is that Microsoft already back-ported most of their integrated Copilot AI assistant crap into Windows 10.

If they really wanted AI to be a real selling point for Windows 11, why in the hell did they do that?

Linux game support has really improved a lot, thanks to the Steam Deck making SteamOS far more mainstream.

If they're like me, they're probably just rotating through the streaming services on a monthly basis to catch up on their favorite shows. It doesn't seem like any of the streaming services have enough quality content on them to justify having a year round subscription anymore.

Considering how hard Apple has been pushing Apple Intelligence in their commercials, I can't imagine it remaining an optional download in iOS 19. They really want people sending those custom emojis to each other to boost interest in upgrading the older phones that can't support it.

"Work" is a relative term. You need both a TV, a Soundbar/Stereo, and a Streaming hardware platform that supports Dolby Atmos for this to work right. Then you need the various streaming services to support Dolby Atmos for your chosen platform, and THEN you finally need the content itself to support Atmos.

Because of all these requirements, maybe 10% of the content that you watch will actually be in Atmos when you try to watch it. If the content is more than 5 years old, it's practically guaranteed NOT to support it. With brand new content, maybe it's 50/50 depending on the streaming service?

I'm sure that adding a third competing spacial audio platform along with Atmos and DTS-X isn't going to help adoption.

On the bright side, the IDDQD and IDKFA cheat codes still work, so I was able to mow down the monsters with the rocket launcher pretty quickly.

Bummer that there is no full screen option that I could find.