Sony never actually made "Compact Flash" cards. They made XDQ, CFexpress Type A and Type B cards. Compact Flash is effectively a legacy format and that market very much is dominated by Sandisk.

in the XDQ and CFexpress space there were a lot of new entrants into the market. Among some of the best are OWC and Angelbird, both of which can punch above Lexar's weight. Sandisk is effectively not competing in this space. They produce only bottom tier cards with their Extreme Pro being about 1/4 of the speed of the heavy weights, and their Pro Cinema line being better but not great. Lexar can match performance but get dominated by OWC on price (historically, not sure about now). Sony are competitive with the high end in this space but nothing to write home about.

No one here is talking about memory sticks. The memory stick was abandoned 7 years ago. We're talking CF express cards and SD cards in Sony's Tough line.

I mean it's a nice guess, but back in reality land a quick google search could have shown that they are price competitive with other CFexpress cards in their class. Yeah you'll find cheaper, but pair that with slower. Many people need memory cards that actually meet performance criteria. For "nobody buying them" they certainly had a very complete product catalogue spanning many different types, mid end to the high end, from last decades capacity, to current cutting edge.

If no one was buying them then they would consolidate their product line, not cancel every possible related storage device type. Your theory doesn't just fail occam's razor, it fails the drunken pub test. It makes no sense.

Then you make the claim and use discover to prove. Your "more likely" case still demonstrates complete negligence.

I think age verification at the OS level is a good idea, if it's implemented in a safe, offline, private way. I've explained my idea a few times using two enclaves to perform pattern matches, which I won't get into. The reality is some services should know your age, if a clerk at the convince store can tell if you're 18 before you buy a rub-and-tug magazine, or beer, why can't OnlyFans, or Fetlife?

Let me be clear, I'm talking about sensible, offline, secure, and private age verification. The system will know you're between 18-30, or 30-45, or some other bracket, and not know how old explicitly you are.

Stallman won't mind, he's always said Open Source is free, as in beer. We have to stop associating Open Source with Libre Source, since giving your software out for free, is different from publishing the source code. I've said many times I support Open Source, but I don't think you have to give your work away from free, you have every right to charge, but the user has the right to verify.

I probably give LibreOffice more money in donations a year, than a basic MS 365 license would cost me, and that's fine because I like the product, and the mission. There are plenty of Open-Source products I use, that I donate to because being Open Source does not mean you're Libre Source. Open Source is about being accountable, verifiable, autiable, trustable, not ripped off and abused, and that's where the problem is.

I like to break the terms down, so I'll say: "Open-Source", "Open-Audit", and "Free", as three different statements. You could be "Open-Audit", and "Closed-Source". You could be "Closed-Audit", and "Open-Source", but charge for the software, there's nothing wrong with that. We need to stop mixing terms together, to spite how they may have been used in the past.

Hate me? Motherfucker if I caught my children smoking they'd be out on the street, disowned, and I'd be in the bedroom making a replacement for their sorry asses. Parenting isn't about letting young idiots (which they universally are) who are incapable of making good choices do whatever they want. That's "bad parenting". It's the reason we don't treat kids as adults in the first place (and one of the reasons selling this stuff to them is already illegal).

You're missed the biggest benefit: You can quickly identify those people who make poor life decisions.

That's a misnomer, you still should bring cash. It's not that plastic isn't widely accepted. For a long time it's actually been more widely used in Western Europe than it has been in the USA. It is *CREDIT CARDS* that are not widely accepted (and still not in much of Europe). Most of Europe runs on debit transactions. Yes it can be confusing to see two overlapping circles and confuse the Mastercard logo (red and yellow) with the Maestro symbol (red and blue) or the Cirrus symbol (light blue and blue).

Come here with your fancy Mastercard / Visas and you may not even be able to buy something at a major supermarket even in a very digital country. And god help you if you have an Amex card.

That said things are changing Mastercard has announced it will discontinue Maestro and that is forcing countries to massively rollout card readers capable of reading Debit MasterCards and VisaDebit cards, and since they have the same underlying technology as credit transactions, that will mean credit cards will very soon become far more widely accepted.

This is a case of a captive audience. If in general machines don't accept credit cards then the complaints will fall on deaf ears. What are you doing to do, drive to a different supercharger and hope for the best? Call roadside assistance when your battery runs out? It's one of the situations where you get to force your customers to do what you want.

That is coming. Quite a few cars on the market support auto-negotiation of the charging. It does work for Tesla... at Tesla chargers. Great if you have a monoculture, not so much if you live in Europe where there are literally close to 100 different companies offering charging infrastructure.

That said most of them offer "network" style subscriptions, which is to say you apply for something like a Shell Charge card and you can tap and go literally anywhere. Yeah it would be nicer for the car to do that automatically, but really you need to stand next to the charger to plug the cable in anyway so it's not like tapping your charge card at an RFID reader is a hassle. So far I've yet to find a single charger that didn't work in my "network" of allowed chargers.

Would charging for access have stopped the work on Wayland?

Says who? Not me... are you reading the right thread? Maybe we should ban Slashdotting under the influence of alcohol or whatever hallucinogen made you come up with that post as well, save you from yourself.

You'd be very wrong. Sony hasn't made camera sensors in a decade. They spun off Sony Semiconductor Solutions as an independent company back in 2016. Also Sony makes a loss on Playstation, but you are close to correct there, 60% of their profit is gaming. A lot of the rest is music and film, followed by professional gear.

Most of the storage / memory business is neither designed nor manufactured in China. There's nothing to design here. It's a chip bought from *Korea* or Taiwan slapped into a small plastic case.

Literally everyone other than you from the looks of things. Certainly everyone who has a Sony video camera professional or amateur, or a Sony mirrorless professional or amateur all of which I wonder if you know about...

I guess that answers that question. This sounds like a *you* problem.

Yeah the company that made $81billion selling products you don't know nothing about about is "dead". Gotchya buddy.

I shudder to think at the amount of compute required to fill a 930GB CFexpress card full of video.