Until they see a trailer for a game that looks interesting, click through to learn more about the game, and find that it's available for (say) Linux, Windows, and NES. A lot of games from smaller studios get released on PC first, or PC plus an unlicensed release on a long-obsolete console, while the studio awaits approval to obtain a devkit for the major modern consoles.
Now if you read any review for any of the PC gaming handhelds you will unanimously see people saying Windows is the problem here. It's the barrier.
Unless they start selling pre built PCs
Does this include things like Steam Deck?
on a best buy shelf
If you refer solely to physical distribution through big-box electronics store chains in the United States, what's so special about that sales channel?
Likewise, a lot of people use obsolete Mac computers, and a lot of people (including myself) use obsolete Nintendo Entertainment System consoles.
As I understand it, the "obsolete" label applies to a video game console once its manufacturer is no longer certifying new games for it. For example, Shakedown: Hawaii is the last Wii disc game in Europe, the last Wii U disc game in North America, and the last PlayStation 3 game. See list of last licensed games by console.
You are technically correct that the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 does not apply because Ryanair operates in Europe, not the United States. However, the United States is by far not the only country with a disability discrimination law. Ryanair is headquartered in a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, a European Union member state that has its own disability accommodation law framework. So let me address the spirit of coats's question:
Say someone can't use a smartphone without setting it to use large print. If Ryanair requires its customers to use an application that is incompatible with large print setting, what recourse does the customer have under Irish law?
I would think you're exaggerating about the Google stuff, but this past week they decided I wasn't an adult and "need" me to upload my state issued picture ID (Driver's License) and my credit card information to "verify" my adult status just so I can continue to upload my shitty but fun songs on Youtube.
What country? I seem to remember some countries have instituted policies that require "social" web applications to thoroughly verify the age of all users. Australia, for example, passed such a law that takes effect next month.
One alternative to YouTube is uploading your "shitty but fun songs" on your own website.
And using the wifi of an airport in a foreign country would also be definitely a bad idea, security wise.
How so, now that almost all web and native applications use TLS to communicate with the server? An attacker running a packet sniffer on a TLS session can see the connection's IP address, the server's hostname, the size of communication, and nothing else. This would amount to "A user connected to Ryanair and received a data volume typical of a checkin."
Following that logic, your phone is a browser and the apps are bookmarks with special permissions.
This is the case for many applications. Both major smartphone operating systems' included web browsers support progressive web applications (PWA). These use a service worker, a script cached on the device that acts as a proxy to cache a particular site's pages, scripts, and data and present them to the user even while the device is offline. They grant additional permissions to bookmarks on the device's home screen. For example, Safari for iOS allows a website added to the home screen to use the Push API to receive notifications through its service worker.
However, a lot of service providers maintain a native application for iOS and a native application for Android instead of relying on a PWA. Based on my recent conversation with UnknowingFool, this includes at least Grab, Doordash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Favor, Grubhub, and Postmates, and these providers are thought to have (unstated) good reasons for doing so.
Turn off AC comments again you cryptofucks, 99.9% of AC posts are fucking garbage
Otherwise you'll spent years there and have zero benefit for the things you did and risk you took.
Unless you're an Uyghur Muslim you probably won't be enslaved there, you can put your money into foreign banks and then you will still have benefit unless the risk catches up to you.
Capitalism is NOT about the rights of the wealthy.
Capitalism inherently means literally only one thing, capital controls the means of production. Who has the capital? The wealthy. Who therefore has the right to control? Yeah. That's right, the wealthy. Capitalism IS about the rights of the wealthy.
If I buy something, I OWN IT. Not you. As I own it you do not have the legal ability to put ANY contracts on it. Your belief that you can sell it but still somehow prevent me from doing with it what I want is anti-capitalist plutocrat philosophy.
Capitalism is about control of PRODUCTION, not about control of stuff you bought. That is orthogonal to capitalism. You have to have the right to own property for capitalism to exist but that doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want with it.
Rental agreements are different
Rent seeking is orthogonal to capitalism as well, because it's not about production. Hell, it's barely even about ownership, since you can sublet.
TL;DR: All the stuff you think is capitalism is really about a specific form of capitalism with other things added on. Capitalism is NOT inherently about free MARKETS. You can have mods on capitalism to try to make it make the freest possible markets, but they aren't the soul of capitalism. Rich people controlling stuff is.
If capitalists want to produce a product that's hard to repair, then consumers can choose not to purchase from them.
This is ignorant. There are lots of reasons why consumers would have to buy a product which is hard to repair. For example there's no credible alternative, use of a specific product is all that's supported, it's mandated by an employer, the manufacturer has driven competing manufacturers out of business, etc. This is why we have antitrust and warranty laws.
The very essence of capitalism is that those who control the capital control the means of production. Everything else you think is necessarily part of capitalism isn't except for private property ownership, as you can't have capitalism without that. The right to purchase a competing product means absolutely nothing when there is no competing product, when a specific product can be mandated, when the alternate products cannot reasonably be maintained or there are deliberate incompatibilities, etc etc. It's really truly sad how few people around here know what capitalism is, means, and does.
as a sponsored Google result
This is the problem right here. Why is Google not considered an accessory? Google received consideration to disseminate it and the either employed no or insufficient oversight. This is not simply user-provided content which was posted without their cooperation.
Of course, American car makers would never be subject to this kind of government intervention, investment or market distortion
In the US it primarily works the other way around, the automakers intervene in the government by having their lawyers write legislation and then paying congresscreeps to sponsor it. That's how we got the regulatory landscape we have with e.g. the chicken tax, and the differing standards for light trucks.
Government intervention in the USA is kind to the big 3 automakers and primarily fucks over consumers, like how California is now making owners of heavy diesel RVs get smog tests every year even though their contribution to emissions is barely measurable. It costs each owner $250 to get the test and another $35 or so in filing fees to accomplish... fuck all. Plus it creates an additional trip which starts with idling for at least fifteen minutes (or up to half an hour, depending on the ambient temperature) so the wet sleeved diesel engine can come up to temp before I set off. My neighbors must really enjoy that. Also then there's the fact that DPFs reduce soot but a) increase the production of PM2.5 soot and b) increase CO2 emissions. DEF+SCR good (except that the DEF injection systems are typically pathetically fragile) but DPF is bad but still mandated.
Apple created the different OSes for different use cases that, Apple thought, required different user interfaces.
There is no reason why applications which choose to implement both types of interfaces can't do so. There's also no reason why users should be limited to one type of interface or the other. Both things coexist completely peacefully on Android. You can connect a mouse to your tablet (or even phone) and treat it like a desktop system with shitty storage (practically all phones, it takes a lot of power to have fast storage.)
People forget that tablet computers existed a decade before the iPad, it's good for certain things but creation is NOT one of them.
The primary use case for tablet computers in olden times was data entry and acquisition, for example the military used their magnesium-case gridpads to do inventory.
The larger address space can be useful in some applications
Such as high-resolution image editing and high-definition video editing. Compared to a web browser, these aren't quite as amenable to splitting an application into numerous "content processes," each with their own separate 2 GB RAM.
but most applications are already bloated and having bigger pointers hasn't improved matters for this bloat problem.
For a while, Linux supported an x86-64 ABI called "x32" that limits each process's address space to 2 GB so that more pointers will fit in the processor's data cache. It didn't become popular, in part because of a need to load three versions of the system libraries: 32-bit i686, x86-64, and "x32". In addition, porting x86-64 applications to use less pointer-heavy containers gave most of the cache advantage that "x32" would have provided. This includes switching from linked lists to gap buffers (or other dynamic arrays), from B-trees to T-trees, or from pointers to indices in a pool. Rust in particular has encouraged use of appropriately sized indices as a workaround for the borrow checker.
For systems that want to access more than 2GB-4GB of physical RAM, there has long been PAE/PSE-36 that permit mapping 64GB physical address space to a 32-bit virtual space.
There's a widespread misconception that a 32-bit operating system is limited to 3 GB of physical RAM. I think this comes from Microsoft's practice of requiring drivers for 32-bit Windows Server to support PAE as a condition for certification, but not drivers for 32-bit Windows desktop. I seem to remember 32-bit desktop Linux being more PAE-friendly. PAE and content processes are how Firefox for 32-bit Linux managed to hang on this long.
No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
