I'm also a user of reg.bom.gov.au, but that is not the same as the old version that you used to see by going to the home page bom.gov.au until recently. It's also not the new version that you see now. Oh and by the way, reg.bom.gov.au used to also have a non-https version hosted at beta.bom.gov.au, but that one now redirects to the new "canonical" version (not the reg. one). So confusing. Just for the records, the reg. one is my favourite UI. I have no idea why they went through so many versions, only to select the one that no one wanted.

Not to mention that most older threads are full of since-deleted posts from back when they banned mobile apps and people left in protest.

Maybe your brother is just like you?

did you take your pills today?

What's human slop? I prefer not to be lied to about who made a song.

I used to be on Tidal. During that time I was playing in a funk band so while preparing for a concert I went to a lot of funk artist pages on Tidal. Some of those like CHIC, Rufus, Prince were completely overrun with AI. I sent emails to customer support, they said they would look into it, never did anything. This was about a year ago and the situation is not much improved:

Rufus - look under "Albums" and under "Singles" - this account is so overrun with AI slop that it's hard to find the actual content https://listen.tidal.com/artis...

CHIC - a year later, the singles and EPs section still has fake stuff in it; they have cleaned up the albums though https://listen.tidal.com/artis...

Prince - this one looks fine now. It was still filled with AI slop just a month ago though https://listen.tidal.com/artis...

Since then I've jumped ship and went to Apple Music, it's not perfect by any means but at least I don't see this problem as much.

Of course Nintendo has the best original games catalogue, no doubt about that. This is also the reason why I bought my original Switch (I wanted to play Zelda, Mario, Animal Crossing etc). But some folks, unlike me, purchased the first Switch because of the mobile gaming aspect. Those people might be going for a handheld PC like the Steam this time around. I'm not part of that demographic (my Switch has left the dock only a couple of times in the last few years LOL) but I know there are people who want to play on the go and want something more than iPhone games.

Plot twist: it's a viola.

The violin will come next year when they can print even smaller.

ooops I got the numbers mixed up LOL - I meant switch 2 vs switch 1, not switch 3 vs switch 2 ahahah

It remains to be seen how sales will go in the long term. Nowadays there are a lot of portable gaming devices like Steam Deck and other handled PCs which offer more games and can run non-gaming software too if needed. I doubt that the Switch 3 can repeat the sales the Switch 2 had, because of the increased competition.

South Korean smart TVs capture screenshots every few milliseconds for corporate surveillance https://www.choose.tv/us/news/...

Same form factor, runs on Linux, you do whatever you want with the hardware, including installing a different OS if you want.
Plus it's got way more games (comes with Steam pre installed).
Even though some Steam games don't run on Linux yet, the ones that do are plenty.

This will not succeed because of being based on Xcode. Currently if I wanted to use AI assisted coding I could switch with zero friction between Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Firebase Studio, and a few others because all of them are based on VS Code and when I switch I can bring over all of my settings and most extensions. But this thing is based on Xcode so if I wanted to try it there would be a learning curve. Also based on my experience talking to many devs, Xcode is not exactly the most loved IDE out there. Maybe this thing could work for native iOS developers who are already forced to use Xcode anyways, but that's a relatively small minority based on what I've seen because so many companies are using React Native etc. At the end of the day, most dev teams adopt VS Code to the point that most internal training and tooling often assumes that's what you're using.