GTA 5 PC added anti-cheat at some point and those usually do end up breaking Linux compatibility. I don't see GTA 6 launching on PC without anti-cheat also, because the public lobbies in GTA 5 were an absolute mess of people doing crazy things like turning your character into a toilet. I doubt Rockstar would want a repeat of that.

Also, the other thing they hate even more than cheaters is people using hacks to get free shit. The new game will probably be even more heavily monetized than GTA 5, and those Shark Cards ain't gonna just sell themselves.
 

For a game where a big part of the appeal is the driving simulator aspect (screwy cartoon video game physics aside), 30 FPS feels like a slideshow. There are certainly genres of games where it doesn't matter as much, but high-speed action is kind of the whole point of GTA.

Or just take the phone you already have out of your pocket and use that instead? The main advantage of using smart hub/speaker devices is that you can program them to know what room they're in, so you can say things like "lights on" and just have it activate the lights within that room. But at three hundred doll hairs per room to do that with Apple hardware, that'd be a nope from me, dawg.

I'm honestly still pretty happy with the Echo Dots that I got from some Black Friday sale an eternity ago. They were cheap enough to put one everywhere I wanted smart lighting control and besides setting kitchen timers, is really the only practical use I've ever found for such devices. For anything else, it really is just less hassle to use my phone.

I'm assuming you forgot about the time their cars were wearing out their flash storage modules.

Presently, nope. Apple is yet again insisting that one of their new devices does not actually need 3rd party developer support to succeed. If your smart devices are from an unsupported ecosystem, you'll have to do the usual sort of workarounds to get them to play nice with this thing.

Probably via activating the defrost elements on equipment that is stupidly designed without hardware failsafes in place. Yeah, in the old days you'd expect there to be one of those bimetallic limit switches that physically cuts power to the defrost element, but now you've got software monitoring a sensor instead. Add a little malicious code to ignore the output of the sensor and suddenly Oh lord Jesus, it's a fire!

You do know this is an option you can just turn off? Also, the way I assume it works is that it "learns" your charging habits and won't do anything that ends up with you having a dead phone in the morning or a non-charging phone when you're actually plugging into your car or at a Starbucks to charge, because it uses location to determine if you're at home.

It could end up being an issue if your life doesn't follow a routine schedule, which again, is why it can be disabled. I suppose you could argue that the default setting is annoying, but that's true across the entire tech industry - no matter what OS you go with, you're going to have to dig into the settings and turn off someone else's ideas for how they wanted you to use their product.

I dunno, why aren't more people vandalizing devices that can snap your picture and upload to the cloud (to a database the authorities can search with no oversight) while you're actively in the process of committing what would likely result in felony charges in most states? The reality is Flock cameras have negative scrap value (they're essentially e-waste), and if you're really intent on picking up garbage from the streets, you might as well stick to the kinds of trash that are perfectly legal to collect and dispose of.

Non-destructively vandalizing the cameras (e.g.: putting a plastic grocery bag over them) probably has a better chance of being interpreted as a "protest" if you get a sympathetic judge, but you're still just as likely to get caught. People messing with Flock cameras is one of the lesser crimes that police tend to actually take somewhat seriously. There was a story recently of a cop that actually put up a fake 3D printed Flock camera so he could stake it out and catch someone when they tried to vandalize it (and it worked, they caught the guy).

This. So much this.

I'm a night owl. I hate mornings. Screw forcing me to get up an hour earlier every year because people can't just turn on their damn headlights or bring a flashlight with them. Hell, they could rename noon to "Central America o'clock" for all I care, just pick one time standard and stick with it all year. The difference between DST and standard time will all sort itself out in adjusted scheduling anyway. It's not as if there's a law that says work, school or store openings have to start at specific times.

I'm quite a bit older than Gen Z and even I think AM radio is a waste of spectrum. We've got cell phones now and supposedly Starlink is even capable of providing cell coverage from space. The cell networks are also quite a bit more resilient than people give them credit for, too. Last major hurricane we had here (Irma), I watched the weather radar on my phone throughout the entire storm. Power went out, Spectrum was down, but the cell service stayed up the whole time.

Also, AM radio just sounds like absolute ass. I don't understand how anyone would willingly subject themselves to that when you can get a crystal clear audio feed via modern online streaming. I get it, it was an amazing achievement in its day and a necessary stepping stone to better technologies, but please just let it finally die.

Brainrot social media probably is bad for kids. Lots of stuff out in the real world is bad for kids, too. That's why parents are supposed to do this thing called "parenting" and not let their spawn have access to things that aren't age appropriate.

It absolutely baffles the fuck out of me that so many parents just said to their kids "here's a smartphone, don't do anything stupid with it" and then went all surprised Pikachu faced when their kids went and did the stupid anyway - exactly as anyone with a half functioning brain could've predicted.

If Trump thinks AI is so "super intelligent", why doesn't he ask his favorite LLM for a plan to lower gas prices?

The problem with a flat tax scheme is that it's based on consumption rather than how well the whole capitalism thing is working out for you. I usually like to mention how many iPhones Elon Musk would have to buy in order for him to have paid the same the same percentage of his income towards sales tax as someone making the average median income (it's somewhere around 10.4 million iPhones), but a more down-to-Earth example would be if you happen to know anyone who is of limited means and spends a ton of money in gas because their vehicle is a bit of a gas guzzler. That person is paying more of their income towards road taxes to travel the same distance as someone who conceivably is paying nothing in road taxes, because the person paying nothing was able to afford an EV (assuming they're in one of the states that hasn't implemented a separate EV tax).

Of course, I wouldn't fault you for assuming that the reason the road taxes in my example aren't implemented fairly is because we don't just make everyone pay by the mile. That seems all well and good until you realize that some people are using the roads to commute to their minimum wage job flipping burgers, and others are using the roads to pull down a nice high 6 figure income. Shouldn't the folks who are getting more benefit from the upkeep of the roads have a greater obligation to pay some of that forward (since they're deriving more benefit from the infrastructure and also have more to lose if it isn't properly maintained)?

Lately, that means dumping money into more films for a franchise where the horse hasn't entirely been beaten into an unrecognizable bloody pulp yet.

At least it's just entertainment *shrug*. I'm fine with just re-watching from the back catalog if they don't produce anything good, and if they raise prices on content that actually is otherwise decently entertaining - I'll raise the Jolly Roger. Really, when it comes to companies getting all late stagey with the capitalism, movie studios aren't what you need to worry about.