Sounds like a problem with your limited musical palate. :)

"Next track" is your friend. It takes notes.

I spend a lot of time on my motorcycle. I would love it if Spotify had enough integration with the microphone to open up AI-driven conversational control.

"I like this track. Please add the artist to my follow list."

"If this artist has additional tracks similar in energy and tempo please queue them for me."

"Please ease up on the alt country. I know I listened to a bunch of Dead South but it's getting a little much."

"If you play this artist for me again without being asked, cancel my subscription. I'm serious."

Build two 49 MW centers, 6 months and 6 miles apart.

Drug dealers solved the money laundering casino reporting threshold problem decades ago.

"They make so little it doesn't matter if they make nothing."

Alright then.

Well, there's honest, and then there's not being mentally prepared to operate in the modern business arena. Even honest people consult lawyers. Naivete is not a virtue.

Since buying the original XBox I've personally picked it every generation. But perhaps not for the reasons MS would prefer. I've always bought consoles as both gaming device and multimedia player. XBMC, all the way to Kodi on my series X. PS always lagged in that regard.

I don't buy a lot of games. Less than one a year, and none since 2024. I'm the owner of what MS might call stranded hardware.

And now the Apple TV is so good I haven't turned on my XBox on in months.

So I get it. Guys like me freeloaded cheap hardware thanks to the game buyers, but we don't contribute to the revenue streams.

I'm 55. I have a decade of alcoholism with uncontrolled sky high blood pressure accompanying it. My doctor once pointed to my liver enzyme chart and said, "Your liver is very unhappy with you." Then he pointed at my ECG and said, "See that little bump there? That might be what kills you." I had 18 months with a cocaine problem. For two years I partied hard including every psychedelic I could get my hands on. I spent 40 years out of shape, sometimes ridiculously so.

I'm in good shape now, and across the board my numbers are great. ECG is clean. I'm comfortably retired, and at the gym every day. I'm healthy. If you looked at the snapshot at this moment in time you'd think things could hardly be any better... but I know the damage has been done. I'm on borrowed time.

So if I'm going to spent a few uninterrupted hours on MS Flight Simulator, or slashing my way through a few zones on D2: Resurrected, I'm not going to sweat it. In the pantheon of self destructive behaviour this doesn't rise to the level of consideration.

What makes this an American website? Seems pretty well traveled by folks from most English speaking nations. I, myself, have only visited the states.

Stealing something because you don't like terms you are being offered is not a noble act. And patting yourself on the back for it says not much about Sony, but a great deal about you.

I have in my past been a pirate, although not recently. I don't pretend it was anything other than simple theft. Own it.

These past two years have radically redefined what it means to be a military superpower. Nuclear weapons aside, all conventional forms of projected power are either obsolete or under significant pressure. And each time a new advancement is democratized, the problem is compounded,

I say "problem", but it's a problem for some and a relief for others. Small powers move to the middle, and so do great powers. The advantage of hundreds of billions in annual military investment is evaporating. And the barrier to entry is shrinking. Theoretical military matchups formerly seen as decisive, one-sided routs are not guaranteed except in that they will be immensely costly for the traditionally well-equipped.

It's like all the chess pieces are being returned to their origins, and the game starts over with different rules.

This... is going to be interesting.

"Are checks sent through the mail vulnerable to theft?"

Yes.

My guess would be that Apple waited to raise the price in order to not sabotage their launch hype. Reasonable investment.

Talk about a perfect case of misapplied mathematics. It's just nonsense. It's like extrapolating your car's fuel economy from the first 100 meters of driving. Briefly mathematically correct but completely wrong in all real ways.

"It's very important and cannot be skipped, but the danger is not imminent" is a perfectly reasonable classification for risk. You used the word "emergency". They did not.

You would be amazed how many things continue to operate in this middle ground. Like an absurd number of bridges in the United States.

Everything in tech has historically gotten better and cheaper. I paid $1000 in early 90s dollars for 4 x 4 MB of ram. That's $62 per megabyte. My 128GB kit would be unreliable slow and cost me $8 million, not even counting inflation, if what you said was true.