I'd use Steam a whole lot more if more titles natively supported linux, the amount of voodoo I needed to do to even get Deep Rock Galactic to work under Linux took a few hours of my time to troubleshoot, it should not be that hard.

When an Apple pundit makes the claim of " 'Most Significant New Apple Product' of 2025," The most significant of this year, a year that has only just begun then you know Apple is truly scratching for ideas, Dont ge tme wrong, macOS, the Apple silicon macbooks are great products, maybe not worth the coin they charge for them but still good products but it just seems to be largly re-hashing the same old stuff, the current Macbook air's are basically an iPad in a clam shell with a keyboard, the light weight OS and energy efficient hardware is basically a rehash of Jobs era concepts with a iterative development. The touch bar came and then went when they pretty much decided that it added product complexity without delivering much benefit.

I want to see Apple really bring something revolutionary to the table like an iPhone or an iPod I mean they have the money to spend on R&D, they just need to take some risks.

I renew my 90 day certs every 7 days, keeps the sliding window happening and its all scripted, I need not touch a thing.

There's no need to verbally bash Trump, its redundant.

Thankfully here in Australia we have the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman for Comms provider complaint escalation, its not perfect but it looks to be better than whatever the fresh new level of hell that this looks to be turning out to be.

All fun and games until you build the git repo against your own site and you need to subscribe to the New York times to access it...

It'll be the first time the open source community begs for them to close it back up....

I was a Amazon Prime subscriber for 8 years, I cancelled my subscription in April due to the near 40% increase in annual costs, glad I did by the looks of it, was already getting tired of the self promotional garbage every time you hit play on a show

You dont have to reboot a linux system, you are not forced to, but you probably should when a kernel update requires it, high uptimes used to impress me - now they terrify me, anything more than 90-120 days makes me nervous.

I solved this issue by cancelling Prime entirely, my membership runs out in two months, in Australia its going up from $59.00 per annum (to date no ads) to $79.00 per annum (with ads) I told them where to stick it and cancelled my renewal.

I already did that with Netflix when they jacked up the price too. I've kept Disney and Britbox

If I wanted to be really pedantic, LOAD "$",8,1 would not work as you would expect.

LOAD "$",8 would load the directory catalog(ue) correctly.

and IIRC LOAD "*",8,1 will load the first Program it finds, if you have multiple programs on the one disk then either the loader would need to be first or you would have to be more specific, e.g. LOAD "PACMAN",8,1

China has been making chips for the US for decades and now the US is upset that China is making chips? If the USA gave a crap they'd have kept all their chip manufacturing on shore but they wanted it cheaper and done by the lowest bidder and NOW they're upset that China is making their own when the US has cracked the sads with them?

I am not a China supporter but this just sounds petty and juvenile to expect them to adhere to directives from the US because they aren't getting their own way just because the US is throwing a toddler tanty and trying to impose sanctions it knows full well will not work against a Country that they were PAYING hand over fist money to not 5 minutes before to do on their behalf.

That this is excluded from non-US customers, I mean, we should not be funding US community legacy content providers, Why not have those community led stations gather revenue via traditional methods like most radio stations do through commercial advertising? or even Government grants?

Which half of X? the / half or the \ half? :)

Back in the old days rather than running a business for the sole purposes of lining the pockets of share holders with money, you re-invest some of your revenue back into building the business, if your customers want to consume services you build your own network or wholesale access to a network with the appropriate contention to meet those services. more customers = more money = more reinvestment.

If I build a road I am not going to get money from Toyota or General Motors just because theyve built a bigger car, the general road users through registration levys and the like go into the construction costs that will get absorbed over time.

A company that invests nothing into its own infrastructure/product will eventually be worth nothing.