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One of my issues with this is that the market is often pretty slow. With a lot of things, it feels like the market won't have resolved it until I've been dead for 150 years, and, t…

I was curious about this, so I looked it up just now. It looks like the project providing UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 5 is abandoned, and compatibility with newer board revisions is …

I assume these would be batteries that are relatively robust in terms of cycle count, like LiFePO4.

I more meant that, from Apple's perspective, somebody who downloads an app from the App Store is a user, and somebody who posts an app is also a user. Different use cases, obviousl…

Are developers not users too? In my mind, people using the App Store to post apps are also users of the App Store.

Is it? Is there a paper that covers this? I would've thought it should be mostly seamless, since it's being fed the entire conversation all along anyway.

Gemini models are at or near the top in several categories, though, so I'm not sure the takeaway is that they're shamefully far behind.

I think some of them do a better job of limiting their cruelty to their job. Jobs allegedly spent years lying about whether his daughter was his daughter. That's not necessary for …

> In many countries car is not something essential thanks to public transport. Is that true in many entire countries? It seems like most of the countries I've visited, there are us…

That's what gets me too. I've been tasked previously to help a young relative with budgeting, and there were so many "It's only $x a month!" items we found that it was ridiculous. …

> It’s not this complex everytime, luckily I'm glad it was straightforward when it come up for me. In my case, I was dealing with an airline based in my county of residence, and I …

That's interesting, and I did not know that! For those asserting that Kimi identifying as another model is evidence of distillation, is this evidence that Claude was distilled from…

I agree. I honestly think it's strange that it's often viewed as "good enough" to get a refund. If I paid $5 for a movie, I did that because I want the movie more than the $5. If I…

They also have cut off people who paid, though. It's currently being paid for and had another cutoff for Ukraine in early February.

I do always think it's interesting that the "bad" guys like EA had, for a long time, much friendlier store terms (refunds) than Valve did. I also never thought that it was very nic…

The guy in charge of it has demonstrated that he'll cut people off from accessing it on a whim, though, so it's not really cheap and easy access for the entire globe. It's access f…

If you want to see it outside the context of tech forums, you can look up the industry reports and see the numbers yourself. There are some media types that are dropping, obviously…

> I doubt that they will go back to where Sony are now. I agree. However, I do think they would get some positive attention (and some accompanying sales) if they were to backtrack …

Xbox has an interesting opportunity going forward, that I expect they'll fumble. Interest in physical media has actually been on the upswing, and, with Sony announcing their plans …

Yeah, it definitely requires some luck or planning. I mostly meant that all simply to say, I think that, with Blu-ray physical media, the odds are pretty good you'll be able to wat…

> What happens when those servers go offline? Funny enough, if you keep your PS4 on an old version and jailbreak it, you can just go in and activate the license yourself. No intern…

For what it's worth, if it was a PS4, they only require internet access the first time a Blu-ray is played. And, I don't mean the first time a specific Blu-ray is played, but the f…

The AI companies seem to take the viewpoint that everything on the internet is free, except their stuff. It's okay to hammer some random website with AI crawlers, ignoring robots.t…

Games at a certain point in their life are cheaper on console. At least, physically. I remember being shocked at this years ago, because I expected PC to be cheapest. But, a few ye…

Doesn't Steam do that too? For a long time, offline mode in Steam didn't work for many people, and, when it did, it wasn't reliable for being offline for long periods of time. Is t…