I'm not going to hand over money to Sony for killing off their used game market.

After 2028 rolls around, used PS4/PS5 physical disc games, that I can confirm will work locally on an offline PS5 (or haven't had an online kill-switch of some kind reported yet) will just have to do for my PS needs. Plenty of great games to last me however long I am still gaming. And yes I already buy Steam games so I admit a degree of hypocrisy, but it's the principle of Sony making this change, and the fact that they've already demonstrated removing digital game and movie content without compensation.

If this was a Star Trek episode, and the Enterprise encountered a tiny ship with a distress call, and brought Khan and his group on board, bad things could happen.

A billionaire with a yacht has many security concerns, and being boarded by someone who wants to take or kill valuable hostages and VIPs is one of them. It is probably standard procedure to not approach boats in this case.

If they heard a distress call and didn't at least forward the incident to authorities, that is terrible, but I suspect they did do that because another ship showed up.

In cybersecurity terms the tiny boat could have been... phishing (sorry)

Beware the lesson that app stores that appear may alo dissapear, along with app access you paid for

Make everyone buy new. All other “reasons” and “studies” are ostensible.

"Windows 10 is the last version of Windows" - Microsoft development evangelist in 2015

revealing that the tiny people are actually there?

I got lifetime when Google dropped their Google Play Music service. I used Play Music to have my entire music collection clouded, plus manage playlists and other stuff that I really relied on it for the car, walking to work, etc. When Google gimped that with the YouTube Music transition, I needed to replace that functionality, and Plex plus my NAS plus services they included with Plex Pass worked well.

As for the " restored music and photo library support in mobile apps" efforts to be funded by the price hike, we didn't ask for those to be removed in the first place. I don't use Plex for photos, but I had use cases for music in the main Plex app and not solely in the music-only PlexAmp app. We begged them to roll that back but they didn't, interesting that they have now reversed that decision.

In case something happens with Plex like if they remove too much functionality or somehow renege on lifetime Plex Pass, I now run Jellyfin in parallel.

Missions STS-51-L (Challenger) and STS-107 (Columbia).

Until policy changes from "safety at all costs" to "humans dying in possible one-way missions is an acceptable part of pioneering, fly it again tomorrow", you will have endless reviews, delays and cancellations on top of those already inherent in government projects. The government layer is probably the biggest reason, which is why alongside the government/NASA projects we have a private company that can get personnel to and from the space station at much lower cost, with boosters that fly themselves back and are re-used a hundred times, using technology, methods and continuous-engineering speed that seem to lap what NASA currently demonstrates.

The market dropped due to tariff mess in general, not some survey as this article alleges. The assertion that IBM dropped today due to some fear of AI economic effect is just wrong. It was the news of Anthropic threatening to eat IBM's own lunch, using Claude to help folks upgrade from COBOL, something IBM should have been able to do with its own AI tools.

Not a tax lawyer, but small businesses are usually sole proprietorships, which means the business is the person. With income taxes gone, the need to track business expenses for tax write-offs goes away too... the full tax is paid out of whatever account the small business owner decides to use to pay for the truck a the time of sale.

We've already see the model with the dawn of the smartphone. Everyone buys more and more cores with more and more storage and RAM to run the same apps they did ten years ago, some of it just to show your friends MyPhoneVersion = YourPhoneVersion + 1. And yet that more powerful hardware you keep upgrading isn't worth much for standalone uses. WiFi-only connectivity doesn't count because it's the same rechargeable 5% brick (I'm excluding standalone camera functions, for now, with 5%) without cloud services.

Bezos is half-right, both local resources and cloud being more in-demand are true. People will rely on cloud services but also rely on every-increasingly-expensive hardware that is needed to access those cloud services.

Local hardware resources will go up. Cloud usage will go up. Standalone usability of local hardware resources will go down.

"Thing is, the people making the movies are still making movies for the exact same demographic and you've aged out of it. A huge amount of movies are made for the 15-30 crowd."

There are more 15-30's people now than there were in GenX 15-30's time. If aging out is the issue for GenX, why are sales still not higher?

There's no way a full-screen ad should appear on a display that is used to replace once-physical buttons/controls. Unless the ad says "we've extended your subscription one month for free in exchange for being annoyed with this ad" it shouldn't ever show on a critical vehicle interface.

This should be a NHTSA rule that vehicle displays can't be used for ad-pushing.

Raises the question.

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Foil the hax0rs!