And? Hypertext isn't 'the internet.' It's a logical extension to the concept of a page reference.

Says the person still posting on slashdot.

And yet when Sony removed Linux support for the PS3, a change that affects 'virtually zero of their customers,' Slashdot was calling for lawsuits.

My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.

This doesn't pass the 'would you say the same thing if it wasn't your baby' test.

You're right, they could have made that choice. However, they would have priced themselves out of the market, as while they would have gained a small uptick in 'I want a cool Linux computer' sales, they would have faced a massive loss in 'I want a game console' and 'I want a Blu-Ray player' sales, which were the two primary drivers of PS3 sales.

Console price is king. There's a reason Sony's entire console launch presentation for the original PlayStation at E3 in 1995 was, and I quote, '$299.'

You can find it on YouTube, if you're interested.

Unless the watch can initiate chest compressions and AED functions, simply calling emergency services when you lose your pulse isn't going to accomplish anything.

And then they pulled the Linux support when they realized how many people were buying PS2s for Linux, and not buying games, thus costing Sony money under the 'razors and blades' paradigm.

The problem here is that when you turned on the TV for the first time and clicked the 'I accept' button, you agreed to the recording, and probably agreed that you'd be responsible for letting anybody else who might be in range of the TV know that they're subject to recording.

Is that going to hold up in court? Who knows, but can you afford to spend the money to find out? Somebody eventually will, and you'll get a coupon for twenty bucks off of a new TV as the settlement.

Yeah, my bad, I just automatically assumed this would involve a transfer switch to avoid backfeeding.

Ah, silly me, I thought this would require installation of a transfer switch to avoid backfeeding.

And even if all it's good for powering is your fridge, well, congrats, now your fridge's contents can survive a power outage.

I used to run a custom home theater setup with all sorts of remuxing and transcoding setups, then I found Infuse for AppleTV. Just point it at an SMB share and it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, as is.

Yup.

The Switch 2 has an argument going on between 'full cartridges' that actually have the installer and game data on the flash cart, and 'game key cartridges' where the only thing on the cart is the digital license, and when you insert it, it downloads the game from the Nintendo cloud, and the GKC lets you run it.

Which means you can loan/sell/give the GKC to somebody, and now they play the game, but without an internet connection, the GKC itself doesn't do anything for you.

Xbox discs since the One have been both; the install media and game data, plus the license key. I suspect PS5 discs are the same, probably PS4 discs. Hell, maybe even PS3 discs.

You're gonna die of something, so make your choice.

That isn’t really true. Let’s say I have a service where I sell dirty filthy smut. You want that dirty filthy smut. I require you to set up an account. So I know what account name you have picked, if it is “WankerWeasel” I can guess that it is the same WankerWeasel as is on SlashDot and maybe other places, but that is a guess. If I look at the IP address you use to connect to my web server I can assume I know roughly where you are, although Private Relay makes that a pretty bad guess (I’m in VT and everyone that looks at my Private Relay IP address is going to think I’m around 400 miles away in MA. Which doesn’t make me “hidden enough” if I don’t want it known I’m in the USA, but hey, Apple didn’t promise me that, plus the farther they drag the traffic the more latency gets introduced). In the future when you use the passkey again I’ll know it is the same identity as was used before, and very likely the same person. I still don’t know if you are the same person as is on SlashDot. I definitely don’t know what state you live in, or if you are in the EU what country. If you are on a smartphone I probably can’t figure out your movements if you use Private Relay unless the passkey continuously leaks the address (i.e. in future verifications not just creation), and even then I’ll only see it on login. If Private Relay also covered that traffic I wouldn’t know any thing about your travel habits.

So sure you making an account gives me some ability to track you, but not really much to correlate you to any other existing data I might want to link yup so I can leverage my vast store of citrus treat preferences to advertise at you at a higher success rate. Folks always looking for ways to blame Apple

Yeah, they are (now) the big guy on the block, so many root for failure, and point and jeer. Plus on slashdot they are frequently seen as the enemy of open source even though they do frequently contribute patches back to various things, or entirely open up works they do internally.

That said this is an Apple screwup. I’m pretty sure it was an accident not an intentional privacy leak so they can “look good” but still gather privacy data. It is at worst a bug someone noticed prior to release and it got filed as a P1 or a P2 and got demoted to a P2 or a P3 so the product could ship, and once shipped rather then being treated as a “fix ASAP” it got treated as “that can’t be a block ship bug by definition, because we shipped with it, so P2 at best, why should we block a future product for a bug we already shipped?”, so it is sitting in someone’s radar backlog and it hasn’t gotten fixed despite being fixable (maybe the private relay folks and the passkey folks have a disagreement on how to fix it, but it doesn’t seem like it is a hard fix, either have passkey ask PR how to route traffic PR can’t recognize as “web traffic to reroute”, or PR has a mechanism to mark non port 80 port 443 traffic as something that PR needs to reroute and passkey isn’t using it, but should -- maybe it is a little deeper, maybe PR doesn’t have a way to encapsulate non http(s) traffic and passkey’s protocol isn’t “enough like” http to work, so a general VPN needs to be used, and Apple’s private relay partners are not up for general VPN, and Apple hasn’t solved the busness side of that yet, not even the minimal “only VPN a few protocols from processes that have the right entitlement so it can be used on a case by case basis for things like passkey but not magically give everyone a free VPN that Apple has to pay for if they use it for bulk data”).