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I wonder what they think about their Pipeline Punch customers. Specifically, how much overlap is there with, y’know, the memes?

Will it not add artificial slowing regardless? I think the controversial aspect of this strategy is that it doesn’t care about the state of the battery, it just counts cycles.

Apple throttled (and continues to throttle) device performance because going full power draw on a battery with higher than specified internal resistance will just end in a device shutdown.

They do this once there’s a first unexplained shutdown. So that takes your actual battery health into account. In contrast, Google says “200 charges should be enough for anybody” and imposes its policy no matter what your actual battery looks like.

Eh.

Username checks out.

I don’t know, since I didn’t have to specifically buy anything to get that throughput. So, in my case, it cost me nothing.

It was just an ISP-provided router and an older Mac Studio. I didn’t check but there’s a good chance the wireless link actually supports even higher bandwidth; at the time, I was bottlenecked by the 1 Gbps connection to my ISP.

USB-A, FireWire and that video output converged to Thunderbolt, which also means I can connect several displays to e.g. a 2021 MacBook Pro. The separate headphones and microphone jacks got merged as well. After the whole Touch Bar brouhaha, the card reader and HDMI also made their return.

So the one connector we did lose is Ethernet. Which, to be fair, is a bummer indeed. Luckily, we can easily push 1 Gbps over Wi-Fi nowadays.

It’s been a while since I last touched Rust, but there’s a discussion on whether to commit Cargo lockfiles to version control, and the consensus is basically that you should do it if your crate is primarily a binary, and, conversely, you shouldn’t if it’s primarily a library. It acknowledges that code at the apex of the dependency graph should follow different rules than everything below it, and this kind of reasoning could apply to licenses in similar ways.

That’s the most sensible thing I’ve read all day. I think much of the reasoning for Cargo lockfiles could apply here as well.

I don’t deny that Old Prey was an innovative game. But stating that everything that wasn’t Doom was stripped out while implying that nothing else was added in feels a bit disingenuous.

What aspects of the newer Prey make it more like Doom than the older Prey? To me, that’s kinda like saying, “System Shock was just Wolfenstein 3D 🎶 in space 🎶”

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No ethical consumption under capitalism, amirite?

People wanna buy phones though.

It depends on whether you’re using apps that require Play Integrity attestation, like some banking apps do.

If that’s the case, consider the humble iPhone!

Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.

A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.

It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that as an Xbox owner, you’re automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That is, if a port is released at all.

These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.

Can I ask where the material difference is to a game that requires a Day 1 patch download to work? With a Game Key Card, that patch is simply very large. You can still sell the game, just like a standard cartridge. And the Switch cartridges never had infinite shelf life to begin with, so they’re not suitable for archival either.

I went to the HSBC Main Building, rode up the escalator to the retail banking department, and, after some waiting time, asked one exceptionally well dressed clerk for a simple checking account. Mostly, I wanted one because it makes paying for things easier in some specific corner cases. (Fortunately, 95% of the time you’ll be fine with just your Octopus card and any old contactless credit or debit card from wherever you’re from.)

After clarifying I wouldn’t be drawing a HK salary or taking profits from investments in HK securities, the very polite agent let me know that her company wasn’t terribly interested in accommodating me.

I think that’s fair, because there’s like at least half a dozen reasons this business relationship could go bad, and not a lot of upside for the bank. I wasn’t devastated or anything; I was pretty much just curious if it was possible at all, and under which circumstances.

When I went to ICBC in China a week later, I walked out of there with an account and a debit card in my name. Chinese banks just have a lot less abuse to deal with, I’d imagine.

Cool. But, how much better is this than just getting an IC card and pay-as-you-go?

This was me at HSBC in Hong Kong.

Granted, I neither live nor pay taxes there, so… fair

That’s a good question, since it doesn’t have a trivial answer. Zelda is basically three or four different types of games in a trench coat tunic.

There’s the open world adventure that the original Zelda established, which is probably best represented by BotW.

There’s the 2D tile-based action puzzler, the quintessential of which is probably LttP.

There’s the 3D “interconnected small rooms”, which got its start with OoT and was so successful that to this day players are arguing that the newest two games are not really Zelda even though they stick to the original concept much more closely.

Finally, there’s Adventure of Link.

I finished BotW 100%, and am currently nearing 100% completion with TotK. Here’s what I would do if I were you.

Get the BotW demo. It’s free, and it contains the entire first portion of the game, the Great Plateau.

Play that, and when you’re finished, read the story synopsis on Wikipedia or wherever. Then acquire and play through TotK.

The Great Plateau gives you about 80% or 90% of what’s great about BotW in a tight, controlled package. If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid V, this is basically Ground Zeroes.

TotK is so amped up over BotW that there’s no “tutorial inside area” that showcases the mechanics of the full game, it’d basically be a carbon copy of the entire thing.

In terms of gameplay, this should give you something pretty close to the full experience.

Edit time! Looks like the BotW store demo was not actually generally available, let alone “free”. Since you’re only hurting for time, not money, you could still get the cartridge version of BotW and sell it after completing the Great Plateau. The rest of my reply should still apply.