I’d argue the opposite. We need more things to be free and standardized. There is no universal way to send a file, store a file, send a text or picture message for example. Email, with a basic design that’s over 40 years old has had to fulfill all of that itself, and does so reasonable well, all things considered.

Th gb Mega Man games got colorized DX releases for the gbc, and they look and play great.

"Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

Unfortunately, for the enthusiasts who had a left-aligned or vertical taskbar in Windows 10, you would have to settle for the fact that Microsoft’s data shows such users are really small when compared to the number of users who are asking for other newer features in the taskbar."

100% of the users that are smart enough to care about moving the task bar are also smart enough to turn off all optional telemetry. This sadly a part of why tech companies are making products for the dumbest people and pushing away power users.

I watched it twice and I couldn’t really tell. It’s switching between scenes so fast I can’t really focus on any part. I am on a phone too, so it’s small.

Prices are high everywhere, so while it’s way more expensive than it was, McDonald’s is still pretty much the cheapest option.

A large value meal costs ~$9, and there is a 20% discount for using the app at $15, so if 2 people go or you bring some home it’s ~$7. Every $60 you spend nets you free happy meal too.

Meanwhile a local place charges $20 for a burger and fries, no drink, before tip. The grocery store is up to $8.99 a pound for hamburger meat, so while it is still cheaper to make it yourself, by the time you include cooking ingredients it’s pretty comparable.

It’s an accounting thing. They can deduct the value of the hardware over its expected usable lifespan. So they have to replace it after 4-6 years even if it’s still working fine. Sometimes they sell it used, and you can buy it pretty cheap, but dollar for dollar, consumer grade stuff that’s current will usually consume less power and game better than a 6 year old server. Now if you need a home NAS or VM host…

Trump also changed the depreciation law as part of the BBB, so I think companies pay less tax by buying this year. https://www.bdo.com/insights/tax/one-big-beautiful-bill-act-expands-100-depreciation-expensing-opportunities

If you have a high refresh rate display, Lossless Scaling is life changing. It’s a $5 app on Steam and it can take any application and introduce frame generation. It requires a decent gfx card, but it doesn’t need to be a recent one. It works on Linux now too, or at least on the Steam Deck.

The use case for me is primarily for older games that are locked to 30 or 60 fps, including PAL region games locked to 50 that normally have microstutter. Games from the PS1 era at 120 fps with geometry correction never looked or played better. But even some newer games are fps locked and can benefit. It also makes the app full screen eliminating my need for Borderless Fullscreen too.

When the truth is paywalled and lies are not, is it any wonder how our democracy turned out this way?

It dismisses the notice and lets you keep playing. But then it pops up again a few seconds later if it still detects motion.

They also prevent you from catching Pokemon above 40mph, which is annoying when you actually are a passenger.

Use of AI should be disclosed the same way 3rd party DRM and EULA agreements are. And similarly it should mention some details. People are free to boycott Denuvo if they want, but people are also free to buy it anyways if they want. Disclosure is never a bad thing.

Soul Calibur 3 has a campaign mode that’s really good. It’s single player, but my roommate and I played it co-op by each making our own characters, choosing their movements, and then playing the fights for our characters.

Champions of Norrath 1&2 were made by the same devs, but in the EverQuest universe instead of D&D and are worth checking out too.

Baulder’s Gate Dark Alliance 1&2

Edit: For a different vibe, Super Monkey Ball Deluxe is a lot of multiplayer fun too

Valve did such a good job learning from the original Steam boxes too. The controller was weird, but the best parts lived in in the Steam Deck and the new controller. The incompatibility issues with the original Steam OS showed how critical getting Proton right would be to the Steam ecosystem. Multiple hardware configurations for each SKU made it harder to verify compatibility, so now they have just 1 for each hardware type. A dedicated Steam Link box was kind of a waste, but now Steam Link works great on Android TV, Android phones, and on Steam itself. And then they built Remote Play Together on top of Steam Link, which is amazing.

Many other companies just abandoned their failures, but Valve took the time to analyze the “why” and salvage the good parts to them. No company is perfect, but kudos to them.

The smart thermostat that came with my house has that “feature” and I hate it. If I don’t walk past the thermostat for a few hours, it assumes I’m not home and then lets the house turn into an icebox.

Alternatively, just grab a free toothpick from a restaurant and use that to clean the port.

ChatGPT is quite good and it’s not in my face at all, it’s just in a bookmark I access when I need it.

Copilot is hot garbage, and it’s plastered all over Windows, Edge, and Office.

I haven’t tried the Samsung AI, but it won’t let me forget it’s there.

OP absolutely has a point. The more in your face the AI is, the more garbage it is.

Do it from their website (settings then account)so that you can fill out the exit survey and tell them why.

People yearn for the time when a man could work 40 hours a week and afford to support an entire family, and buy a home, and buy some nice appliances, while still getting vacation time.

That time was factory work in the 50s. But it wasn’t the factory work they want, it’s the wages. They don’t realize that factory work now is the conditions you mentioned plus less wages than McDonald’s.

Custom Android ROMs based on AOSP, which is the open source parts of Android. I used to use LineageOS back in the day.

Before buying a phone, make sure that it has an unlockable bootloader and a custom ROM of a recent Android version. Note that some phones have multiple versions for different regions and some might not be unlockable, while others are. For example many Samsung international phones are unlockable, but none of the USA models are.

Note that many commercial apps like Netflix, Pokémon Go, bank apps, etc. will refuse to run if your bootloader is unlocked. It also permanently trips Samsung’s Knox.