I used my Amiga 500 and the Action Replay module 3 in combination with CrossDOS to analyze and gain access to MS-DOS software that was protected somehow one way or any other. It amused me that the Amiga could read/write to FAT formatted discs, but PCs could not read Amiga formatted discs.

I think it was about two years ago. I woke up in a dream into another dream, and in that dream I owned an Amiga 8000, which looked a lot like the Amiga 1000 or the Amiga 2000 in the way that the LCD replacing the then-CRT stood upon the cabinet.

Back in 1987 I got an Amiga 500 with Kickstarter 1.2, and I didn't replace it with a x86 PC until around 1995. In the dream, the Amiga was THE go-to gaming system. The IBM compatibles had been focusing on the business segment, and didn't add stuff like VESA graphics support for games. That gaming segment was for the Amiga, and the headstart with the Agnus.

It's just so sad, that the brass of Commodore let an expensive consultant convince them to hire him as their CEO, at which point he entire company tanked financially, followed by several short-sighted cutbacks.
Both before and after that dream I've been imagining how the gaming scene might have been today. Agnus, Denise and the other co-processors in the Amiga had launched the Amiga into deep "space", evolved into perhaps not backwards compatible systems at first, but in the long haul constantly being (as far as I saw it) 8-10 years ahead of any competition.

Here in Denmark the iPhone price point entered into the 5-digit Danish Crowns range, which is a threshold for me that don't want to cross.

So I am happily plugging away on my iPhone 6, wondering whether I'll stay in the ecosystem when it breaks someday. I just draw the line when the newest generation iPhone costs more than a new decent gaming PC.

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Then Denmark, where I live, is the exception for payment options then. The national debit card, Dankort is almost always combined with VISA. When paying with the Dankort part, there are no payment fees, unlike when using it as a VISA card.

Besides, isn't Cirrus-Maestro usable as a Mastercard? Netflix accepts Mastercard.

Over the past two or three years it seems that Netflix has been able to secure international streaming rights to series and movies, titles which in the US would be spread across over half a dozen paid services. Living in EU I remember 3+ years ago using proxies and VPN etc to bypass geolocking so I could watch the US Netflix material, which became more and more of an uphill battle. Today, though, it seems it's the other way around, and it doesn't seem Disney+ will hit EU before 2021, let alone NBCUniversal or WarnerMedia. Prime and HBO already have a presence in EU, but Netflix is still king, and there's no way I'll be subscribing to 10 different services to get to watch the stuff I want. Me subscribing to the aforementioned 3 services (Netflix since circa 2014) also meant I didn't since turn to piracy, as it was usually already available on Netflix or the others. I do not like the idea that more and more streaming services pull their content to their own servers, ultimately meaning you'd pay $200 per month in xx amount of time from now to be able to view interesting content legally.

This is only the US release date, with 2021 being an estimate on the global timeline. US population is 4.3% of the World's. Netflix is already entrenched internationally, and likely wont hit as hard as the article suggests when Disney+ launches.

Republicans?

Anyone know whether this is a worldwide problem, or only with US published studies/sites? Because it frustrates me with places like hospitals in the US, that every link down to the vending machines has to turn an individual profit, instead of looking at it as a whole.

For the smartphone I might concede the point to the SE, but for truly minimalist I still am rocking my Sony W850i with two fully charged backup batteries.

This likely will be frowned upon by the shareholders, who see their payout shrink, and force the telecompanies to compensate by hiking up subscription prices.

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The missing headphone jack is a huge dealbreaker for me, so I will stubbornly keep rocking my iPhone 6 for as long as it takes.

5. Chinese firms will ship tech to countries in defiance of a US trade embargo.
Given the current POTUS I'm happy that his reach is only so far, and that it's optional for sovereign nations on whether to adhere to the US trade embargos or not.

And I fear that this wont begin to change, as long as top government keeps their belief that science is opinion and not fact.