From a current 3rd-worlder to a future one, welcome to the club! Our generalissimos also love their birthday military parades, as do yours! 3

These ovens are apparently complex and hi-tech. They reportedly operate like pressure cookers, can be monitored wirelessly, and can be programmed for particular dishes. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stripes.com%2Fbranch...

Really? I have had no problem running Zoom for years on Ubuntu.

... which just ditched MS for software in public service. The northerns are the most reasonable when it comes to public service IT. (For context: I live in Germany and they're both to the north :-) )

Not necessarily. Since most of the injuries are apparently due to burns it is not unreasonable to think that a large percentage of those taken to hospital will not survive even in a very good hospital. I don't think it need be taken as about the quality of Indian hospitals.

Economies require population growth. From the perspective of not having to compete with others for land, resources, etc., a more manageable population size absolutely is preferable.

Hell, remember when Covid lockdowns had most people at home? Traffic was light and gas was cheap. It's the only part of that situation that I actually kind of miss.

USDC isn't decentralized. It is not permissionless: USDC can be frozen by Circle (the issuer). Per TFS, the Shopify/Coinbase transactions are reversible so you're going to have fees for counterparty risk. What exactly is "everything that crypto stands for"?

That's a likely cause of failure of both engines, but there are also reports that the landing gear was still down and the flaps in take-off position, which would have accelerated its descent.

No, we know it did not happen that way, Nothing abnormal happened on the runway. The plane took off but stalled and therefore descended past the runway into an area full of buildings, where it crashed and caught fire.

Not next generation. And people did notice.

Ah, the Game Gear. When through batteries like Charlie Sheen on a coke binge and while it technically did have a color display, it was like the worst cheapest passive matrix garbage panel imaginable. If that wasn't bad enough, the library of games kind of sucked, too.

If that "we have X at home" meme was a thing back then, Game Gear would've had one. I'm sure by now though, there's at least a few of us olds who fondly remember playing a bad port of Sonic the Hedgehog instead of finishing their homework. I wasn't one of those spoiled kids though; it took a lot of begging just to get my folks to finally buy me a NES. Even then, my games library was more-or-less the local VHS rental joint.

An iPad or Android tablet with a screen you can actually see and boatloads of free-to-play games, is the real innovation since then.

Except it's not. It's a modern PCB for the original vintage chips, which means you could go through the entire hassle of transferring everything and having it still not work in the end if the problem was actually a faulty chip.

Don't get me wrong, there's certainly some failure modes that genuinely are attributable to a failure of the PCB itself. But realistically, that mostly comes down to hardware that was stored in less-than-ideal conditions. If you've kept your PlayStation 1 in a nice climate controlled closet and it no longer works when you feel like scratching that nostalgia itch, the failure is most likely a bad component, not the PCB.

I was about to comment that people are getting way too excited about this, but the Kickstarter campaign really hasn't raised all that much. This seems more like a "because they could" thing, rather than something there's a huge demand for. Personally, I'm fine with emulation; I already have enough tech crap and not enough room for all of it.

This is basically the tech equivalent of a Bernie supporter voting for Trump. You may be protesting that you didn't get what you wanted, but you'll end up with an end result that's objectively worse than just tolerating the enshittification of the side you are already on. If you hate Google taking away your custom ROMs, you're going to really hate Apple's walled garden and everything it entails.

Plus, you better absolutely love Liquid "ass" (see Apple's YouTube thumbnail flub if you didn't get the reference), because this fall they're cramming that UI change down everyone's throats whether they want it or not. That's probably gonna drive me back to Android, because as much as I prefer avoiding Google, I'm not willing to suffer through a miserably bad UI out of principle.

... my government has spent on shitty proprietary software is patently absurd. This being Germany were people should know better but deciders and their digital culture are still stuck in the steam age. Maddening. Germany and Europe as a whole is way to slow in appointing FOSS as it's primary source of software.

You seemed to have missed that Counter-Strike has been a thing for a little over 24 years.