Generally, Macs get about a 7-year life span before they are considered 'vintage' and then don't get updates. The inclusion of the 2020 Intel MacBook Air is pretty offbeat though. My work switches out their PC laptops every 5, so 7 seems pretty fair to me. Shrug

A place i worked at in the 2000s, we shipped a 'gold' CD FedEx to Ireland, some one room office, so we could claim the same tax benefit they are penalizing Apple for. We were a small company, so I'm sure others were doing the same thing, especially the big boys. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it's not like Apple was the only one doing it.

My company makes wifi APs. We source chipsets from multiple manufacturers, mostly due to price for products in certain countries. Qualcomm is the most expensive, but usually has the first products to market, like we're using in our WiFI 7 boards. They are difficult to work with, getting fixes takes forever if they even do it, despite proving it's their radio at fault.

Not really Google. Tobii has been doing eye gaze and tracking since 2001. Granted with either separate device or built into a unit. A close relative has been using their devices for many years

I think if you searched back in /. you'd see a post every year that proclaimed this was the Year of Linux on the Desktop. Seriously. It's not going to happen at this point and it's ok. Really!

For some time now, Nokia has not manufactured phones. The Nokia name is licensed by HMD Global.

From the Nokia phone website:
"Nokia Corporation is not a manufacturer, importer, distributor or retailer of the Nokia-branded products offered by HMD Global Oy."

Personally, I would not have licensed the name, but I guess they are making some good monies off of it.

What is this Perl 5 you are talking about? Anything past 4 was added fluff and sent people packing to Python.

I played for a ridiculous amount of hours, till they started doing the hats. Then came the crafting and I moved on. Loved the vanilla game. Good times.

provided your company didn't block install of the game bar. yep.

I find this a little odd based on what I'm seeing in the computer parts market. Prices are coming down, availability is better. New products are being introduced. Heck, Steam Decks are flowing out like a river now. No, I'm not a supply chain czar, just my $.02 from what I'm seeing in the US.

You know there are plenty of detailed 3rd party trackers out there now? We don't need a ./ post giving the current value or when it drops/goes up. It was post worthy when it was new. Sure there are some newsworthy stories here and there now, but at this point, seems like a more investment story than a ./ story.

Are these canned posts, where they just plug in the values? Next week it will be down, then back up. Yawn.

I was on the Stadia beta, I have 400 abs up and 100 down, hardwired top line gaming rig. Resolution/artifacts was pretty bad, and the Assassin's Creed game I played was playable, but not something I'd pay money for. It's like you have a blu-ray but watch it on Netflix. The quality isn't as good, but the convenience is great.

I personally don't know anyone using Nvidia, Google, or whoever to stream games. Can anyone share their experiences?

Will everyone migrate back to IRC?

I've had every Xbox model since the 360. Everyone has worked fine till i got X Series X on launch day. Powered on then powered off immediately. Sad face, had to ship to MS since Best Buy has no stock, and they won't cross ship. Big sad face.

Yes the naming is ridiculously bad. Xbox one, Xbox one X, Xbox Series X. I can imagine soccer mom trying to remember the correct one at the store.