But a pair of sunglasses is a better form factor than bolting a camera to your helmet or t-shirt. It's not revolutionary, but it is better.

PIckup artists are the most obvious use case?

I would think it's people recording themselves doing activities who don't have a hand free to take out their phone. Maybe athletics and athletes: bikers, climbers, skiers, or really anything.

Or people taking lazy travel videos: just walking through an interesting area.

I've owned a few Rokus, and the whole reason you get them (or fire sticks) instead of Apple TV or just getting a new TV is because it costs about the same as a Big Mac Meal. For $150, what's the point?

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse.” There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak, 1984

  Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see. — John C. Dvorak, 2007

  iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it. — John C. Dvorak, 2007

  The Apple iPad is not going to be the company’s next runaway best seller. — John C. Dvorak, 2010

  Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores. — John C. Dvorak, 2012

Get over it. That was big, a company Sony had just bought out, 25 years ago. The people responsible didn’t work for Sony stvthr time and anyway are since retired.

I was waiting and waiting to play Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge! I'm just hoping they add Barbie Horse Adventures!

Eric S. Raymond wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", which inspired Mozilla to make their browser open source. For some reason, this means they name their extended support releases after him.

Slashdot is still convinced that "correlation isn't causation!" is this amazing insight that researchers have never considered, and that all science is therefor invalid.

rms helped popularize open source, but he didn’t begin the movement. He’s just a figurehead, and one with way too much baggage after repeated defense of pedophilia and a colleague who made repeated trips to Epstein island, even after mit told him explicitly to stop. It’s time to forget the joker ever existed.

Yep, and it wasn’t even Sony, it was at a rival company that got bought out after the rootkit was made but before it became a scandal.

Most US population centers are in places east of the point in their time zones where the sun is overhead (or due south) at noon, and being a bit west is better than being a bit (or very, for New England) east. This means that DST is mostly the right UTC offset for the wrong reason: Boston should be on Atlantic Standard Time year-round, but Eastern Daylight Time is a name for the same clock setting that is already used there sometimes, so that's easier to legislate. Of course, the people who live west of their true noon line don't think permanent DST would be good, but the fact that we should have no DST and a different map is too nuanced for the position that there's got to be a single simple answer as to how to fix everything, regardless of the situation.

Wow, people still ready penny arcade in the year of our lord 2026?

What’s next, a link to stile project?

While I’d have no real problem with meta being banned for those under 18, or just their business model somehow made illegal

They weren’t selling drugs. They weren’t killing opponents. Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn’t something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.

Quick google says Tolkien co. allows fanfiction, but not if the authors are trying to sell it at a profit. That a fanfiction author did self-publish his fanfiction book, then sued Amazon and Tolkien for ripping off his plot, and lost the suit because he didn't have rights to publish in the first place.

Isn't that what you'd expect? Is there more going on?

I don't think this is trying to get back into the US market. OnePlus is banned because it's part of a Chinese corporation. OPPO is... that corporation. It's not going to confuse any regulator who found something to complain about with OnePlus. This is more likely a mundane tactic of being liked in Europe for phones and wanting to expand that reputation to the parts of the organization that sell other consumer electronics.