People will often pick a movie or tv show because of one or more actors in it, because they enjoy their work. Some shows with a bunch of no-names succeed, but let's be honest, star power is a thing. If you steal that star power from actors, what do they have left?

More likely it's included as a freebie with the steam machine. Just like Steam itself was included with Half Life 2 back the day.

I agree, but the people sending in the DNA don't have murders in their past, and so they're not stupidly handing themselves to the authorities on a platter. It's that nice-as-pie extended family member they don't suspect of anything untoward who's getting caught for a murder that may have been committed 20 years ago.

Watch the user count shrink when they're asked to pay.

My first computer had 1kb of ram (ZX81) but I did end up fitting a 16kb ram pack in order to run more software and games on it.

Yep I think you guys missed out on the 2L turbo due to emissions regulations, and only got a 2.5L non-turbo? A pity, because the 2L turbo is an incredibly nimble little car.

I have an original Impreza WRX I bought new, and a Forester I bought earlier this year. Both came with cassette decks (since replaced with new-fangled CD players with a USB socket), and none of this full screen entertainment rubbish. They're both on about 100,000 miles and should last another 20 years. The Forester doesn't even have ABS or airbags, but it's a nice comfy ride.

Nowadays cars are smartphones crossed with xboxes crossed with ankle monitoring devices.

First off, kids will just find lesser-known social media sites that aren't blocked. Or they'll all install some free multiplayer mobile game that has public chat and use that to communicate.

Second, isn't Mozilla adding some kind of free web-based VPN to Firefox?

Third, I'd bet on many kids knowing more about the internet and getting around the rules than I trust a bunch of politicians to dream up and enforce those rules.

This is not going to open up any markets for your produce in countries with much stricter food safety regulations. But those countries will probably be happy to ship even more of their safer food to you.

GLWT. All my novels have wordplay and puns in them, none of which will translate.

My previous house had panels 15 years old which were still producing the same daily power when I sold the house as they were when I installed them. My current house has a system that looks even older, and works fine.

In some areas I guess you could get 10mm of dirt or something coating the panels, but here there's very heavy rain on random days in Winter which will wash your car away, let alone a bit of grime.

... but in which direction?

I usually try out an LLM by asking for a list of 5 ten-letter words with the same letter at the start and end. The one I tried last night gave me a mix of 9, 10 and 11-letter words with none of them having the same letter at the start and end. I could have got better results by throwing darts at dictionary pages.

I hear the biggest issues are multiplayer games incorporating certain types of anti-cheat ... which are also the sort of games I don't play or care about.

Everything I've tried works perfectly well - and I was very surprised that a game as complex as Elite Dangerous works flawlessly.

I never bought into that device. In fact, I have never bought or owned any kind of hardware that needed a server to function (well, apart from Windows on a couple of my PCs). Smart devices - not a smart choice.

I used to use SPDIF but on my recent Windows machines I found that only allowed stereo connections, not 5.1. Using the cable with 3 x 3.5mm jacks on each end in '6 ch direct' mode sorted it.