Not counting USB Mini. It is not the later USB Micro, no, it is the USB Mini that I associate with PS3 sixaxis controllers. The GPS unit I got for motorcycles also uses USB Mini, at USB 1 speeds.

All of this reminds me of an incident that happened this year. A youtuber was investigating a likely scam, got invited into a private group chat and downloaded its history. He ended up uploading a compressed version to Google Drive, for further analysis down the road. The automated process found images that can be attributed to Germany around eighty years ago. All of the Alphabet related services were flagged for removal, not allowing the user to even log in. That is Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive. The owner did have a hard time as he could not get any further info from Alphabet or its subsidiaries, and it was not clear what he can do to atone for his crime and be a good citizen anymore. His channel is not large enough, does not bring enough monies, to have a dedicated person to help him in this ordeal.

Most people associate GPS with GPS navigation based on road maps, with the software correcting location such that it is always on top of a road or street. I do understand your pedantry. Let me add a note the maps used for navigation using GPS systems (or equivalent) have had road speed limits for some time already, and if not they default to max speed allowed for the type of road. You probably will get a default 20mph/30mph in any city street that is not wide.

I may have been thinking about consoles rather than PC. Not everything you buy on a PC store can be used in the future, I do agree on that. A game that requires Games For Windows or Gamespy or SecuROM or somebody else's server or anything similar that has died for activation/license check/any other reason definitely does not work anymore. Games that require DirectX3 or Glide may not even work in modern computers. Still, it amazes me that I think I can download very old games from Steam that may not not have a store page anymore. I know, not everything is in there. I just wished that media outlets would just stop selling stuff if they are bound by a legal contract while allowing the consumption of such media by the users that paid for a lifetime license in the past. There is no need to revoke access to existing users.

As far a I can tell, with most games, even if the storefront is not able to sell new licenses, the user can still download the game as many times as he wants. I could theoretically go and download and play Forza Horizon 2 if I want to, as it is in my library. There are exceptions, though. Just check The Crew.

I do not understand why the licensing deal does not work the same way with movies and books.

From what I understood, the mission of the app is to rate dates using only women's opinions. The idea is that it is hard to trust someone that you need such a database. It is after all, easy to focus only on your strong points and to lie in the internet. It is kind of a registry of potential sex offenders without a trial and, without a doubt, heavily biased. There is no appeal process, based only on subjective comments coming from one side. The dates are not supposed to know what the Tea database holds, so if somebody registers you and adds a warning label, you probably should stop using dating apps altogether.

Regarding the technical side of things, the app tries to match any profile you give through image search or profile match in various dating apps and social media. There may be false positives. The Tea app is not held responsible for this situation nor any of the wrong or out of date comments of its users.

Let me add some extravagant ideas.

In the ye olde days, there were not as many distractions after dusk. Some got bedtime action after candles were blown. Nothing else to do.

Child mortality has been reduced a lot. It was normal to aim for three or four kids, and one may die early. Nowadays you set for one, and most likely they will outlive you.

I know people that started working at the age of 14. Now it is normal not to start working before 25. It delays few things a lot, including the access to the vile money.

Having a local community makes it wonders to get alike mindsets. Having a car, or even forced to own a car, means things are not local anymore. Couples may come from different upbringing. Also, TV poisons the mind of the young, giving them bad ideas.

Force military service showed you a world without women around, at least in the past.

Healthy population means that people do less alcohol and fewer drugs.

It looks like the air travel companies cannot just give the service of transporting people around the globe anymore and be profitable at the same time. They have become a financial institution that profiteers when you get into unrelated debt; it does not sound sane to me. I know that car dealers also have become like that too, pushing buy on credit schemes (with the extra insurance that only benefit them).

https://www.theregister.com/20... tells that Cadence, where Intel present CEO worked before, was pleased to pay a noticeable fine due to breaching US export lines with China. That is the farthest I can agree with POTUS.

Since Google Reader was killed several years ago, I ended up trying Feedly on my mobile. It works just fine for RSS, although you can see some early extra features you did not ask for, like AI summaries. I understand Feedly owners need to get some income somehow.

Finding RSS feeds has been made difficult. So let me give you some comments on the evolution of some feeds. Slashdot readers may be interested to know that XKCD renders correctly in the app. The alt text of the comic appears through a Hover button in the app. Ars Technica and The Register are sending RSS feeds that are very useful, no complains there. Major news outlets in my country have been sunsetting RSS as they have been erecting paywalls, with RSS being a leak of information. The ones that are still offering RSS have reduced how much information is sent through the feed. Instead of sending the whole article without any adverts, they are sending just the first one or two paragraphs. One specific news outlet provides all of their articles in the feed, including all of the junk clickbaity ones it is known for. The actual news I may be interested are given in chronological order, making it hard to notice really important pieces of news. I enjoy reading about videogames but I know of one specific page that may send you ten articles about a new game with titles like "How do you get all of item X in game Y" for many different items X.

I just scroll few articles every day as I do have a curated set of feeds. I feel proud to tell myself that was everything I wanted to know from the internet for the day.

I had to double check the new icon for the external drive. For a moment, I thought it was the sign representing lavatory for one legged persons. After a second thought, I see it is a cable. The old icon for network drive reminded of children.

70USD is expensive if there is a lot of more money to be placed in the game. The worst offender are the "surprise mechanics", what the people named as loot boxes. On top of that, games that are online focused may have a "battle pass" or "sessions" that has a paid tier and that is time bound. FOMO is a thing that drives sales (so you cannot wait for a GOTY version of Call of Duty). And to insult anybody else, there are preorder bonuses that may be fictional currency you can use to gamble or three day early access for bragging rights.

At least we do not have codes to activate online features anymore, as disc based games are not popular anymore.

If I search anything on Bing on my Windows laptop, I get an AI result as the first result. The same with the Android phone. I may not like it - it takes effort not to use AI.

The thing that worries me is BNPL for recurrent payments like groceries. Klarna allows you to split a bill from Asda, a supermarket in the UK, into three payments. If you have to delay payments on your groceries, you definitely are not financially healthy or your priorities are not in the right order. Waiting for Klarna to go bankrupt is not an option, it is a bet.

I know the last two generations of Xbox are kind of x86 centric. If the hardware was not as different, then the OS is what made it different than your usual PC. No antivirus that I can think of, no risk of anticheat software/malware that may be used as an attack vector. The recent story of the portable ROG Xbox Ally told that while in "game mode", 2GB of RAM will be made free for the game that is in the foreground. That sounds like an OS that is doing too many things. Having to cater both games and work is going to be difficult if you keep adding too much bloat.

BTW, let me propose a new marketing name for the OS: MS Windows Xbox Omega. Cannot think of anything more ridiculous.