Everyone gets a tracker!!!!

I mean, really? Really? The government's own policy is to not wear health and fitness trackers because they can and are being used to track people's locations and exposed quite a few "secret" locations around the world where there happened to be concentrations of people doing workouts and training in remote bases and small camps of soldiers/special ops units who were maintaining their fitness and readiness.

More of the do what I say, not what I do....

Games are $80 not $90. And that is still a huge discount from what games cost back in the 80's, 90's, 2000's when adjusted for inflation. NES games in the 80's were either $55 or $39.95 at discount. Inflation adjusted that puts the games at between $120 - $165 for the NES at launch.

The SNES games were $59.95 at launch, which inflation adjusted would be $140. Even PS2 games which were DVD based stamps (i.e. much cheaper to make than NES/SNES/N64 cartridge style) were $50 - $59 at launch, which is still $90 - 108 inflation adjusted.

So yes, games are still not as expensive when adjusted for inflation as they were back in the 80's, 90's, or 2000's.

So much wrong with your statements. Just to start, the original NES was released in 1985 at the price of $179.99, which inflation adjusted to today would be over $530. The SNES in the USA was released for $199.99 in August 1991, which inflation adjusted to today's price would be $470....

Show me a single modern phone that will use 20W of power using it's CPU+GPU capabilities. They are all much lower power, lower performance chips that will typically at most use 8W (think about this logically, you don't have a phone that has a heatsink and fan capable of dissipating that heat of the high performance parts used in the Switch 2).

I mean, seriously, this is not that surprising. It seems like Nintendo delayed the hardware 1-2 quarters to allow for more time to produce more of them ahead of release, and even imported many of them to the USA at least two or so months in advance to avoid all the tariff uncertainty.

I guess the only surprising things might be how quickly it sold out in the USA. Japan was almost certain to sell out, given the pre-order "disasters". But the USA selling out typically being Nintendo's largest market was not as certain. That said, the backwards compatibility and essentially upgrades to 4K+HDR capabilities, was pretty certain that it would be a good seller, even at the higher price point than people had been originally anticipating (I believe fans were hoping for a $350-400 range, but given that it has essentially sold out within 2-3 days of launch across the country at $450, it shows the market could support that price).

If "Lumen" is the same as "Quantum", then since I was forced to drop my slow-but-rock-solid DSL for the quantum "upgrade" a year ago, it's been neither "stable"
  nor "reliable." (And a double fuck-you for blocking *INCOMING* 25. WTF is that all about?)

And the hits just keep on comin'

We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!

> Since Ubuntu Server doesn't typically have any Wifi drivers baked in you need to (hope that you can) use your LAN port or otherwise sneakernet the required packages across

Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but I just did a 24.04 server install two weeks ago. I was expecting to have just that problem when I did the initial setup on my workbench (currently lacking a hardwire after an incident with the puppy), but it supported my USB wifi dongle OOTB.

Has Heroic made it possible to paste a password into the store login yet? Last time I tried it on my Deck, a couple months back, it was a non-starter, since I couldn't be arsed to transcribe the 32-character random string from Bitwarden on the on-screen keyboard.

There was a github issue open for a while, but it seemed to be being ignored.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstor...

And on top of the flag on your Credit Card account, it will also put a flag on your Ubisoft/Steam/etc., account and they may also simply terminate your account causing you to lose access to all the content you have "purchased". You might want to read the terms of service you signed on those accounts, a credit card charge back is many times specifically spelled out as being a breach of terms of service which they can then terminate your service entirely.

No, it prompts with data files and archives (though Zen doesn't seem to recognize any of the handlers, so "Open With" is empty, which is weird) but executables don't give me the option, which is still half my annoyance. But half is better than full, I guess, if Manifest V3 forces me to switch back...

Nah, Zen, like Vanilla Firefox, just gives me "Save File" and "cancel", at least with installers.

What a pain in the ass..

Do any of those those Firefox-derived browsers let you "open" downloads directly from the "download file" prompt? That and not having to confirm "dangerous" downloads were the simple but "killer" features that sent me to Vivaldi some years ago.

It's hard to say with this one. I agree that at least this appointment has some enthusiasm about the overall subject. I'm not sure of the "business" side of it though. Trump still has the mindset of running government like a private business, when it is far from it. Hopefully this appointment recognizes the difference. Heck, I think it will slam him right in the face day one when he realizes that they don't have a budgetary plan that can survive more than 1 year, which makes dealing with things that take multiple years pretty hard to do....

My parents needed me to explain what I was laughing my @$$ off.