“The new console unfortunately is not backwards-compatible.” -> riots

…versus…

“The new console is backwards-compatible because it’s an upgraded version of the old console.” -> riots

Japan never got a front-loader with bonus connection problems and extra empty space in the carts.

Some of the first-gen ThinkPad Edges had a touchpad that presses in to left-click… under very light pressure. I considered it unusable; constant accidental clicks. Luckily I only have to service them, not do work on them.

Keep them around. I was playing with and testing some ~15 years old mobos for work, and they would not boot from any USB3.0 stick I tried. Same images on an 8GB USB2.0 stick booted with no problem.

Name and shame: Biostar motherboard

I think 48/50 states have been considered to be in at least moderate drought, for a few years now.

Latitudes and then XPS are the business-class, I think. I have a couple XPS Studios that have long outlived their usefulness. Integrated video, that’s why they survived the bad BGA era. ;)

RubberElectrons beat me to it, but EyeMed Vision Care, LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Sunglass Hut, and Target Optical are all the same company, Luxottica.

Glasses from Armani, Brooks Brothers, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Persol, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban, Tiffany, Valentino, Vogue, and Versace, are all from the same company, Luxottica.

https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-are-eyeglasses-so-expensive-20190122-story.html

Taste of the boat?

sudo make-me-a-sandwich-cookie

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I caught my son using Linux PC and Android tablet at the same time… he was just using the microphone in Gboard to learn to spell out what he wanted to put on his signs in Minecraft Java.

I wonder if this is similar to when weev & Goatse Security “hacked” AT&T by discovering that their website for managing iPad accounts was so poorly designed that you could just change the account number in the website’s URL to access other people’s accounts.

…and you have to be a Nintendo Switch Online member (or go to New York Nintendo Store) to even purchase it. Scalpers…

It collects sleep-tracking data for you (and Nintendo’s partners) to view, like other devices in this price range and beyond.

IIRC Samsung devices default to a Samsung web browser labelled “Internet”. You wouldn’t want to disable the “Internet”, right?

iOS seems even more egregious, where it’s internally using Safari no matter what browser you install, giving the illusion of choice.

I used to use Game Genie to make replays of already-completed games more difficult. By getting more entertainment from what I already had instead of buying new games, I was obviously stealing from the game publishers.

This; works on Mull; there is no submit button, it just constantly refreshes the results and thus is slow AF from continuously juggling the data.

Let’s just say “many!” The game is also proven Turing-complete so you can build a general-purpose computer within it, if you like.

My quick description of MtG to interested non-players: “One of the original CCGs, created by a math professor, like chess but you build your army from a pool of tens of thousands of pieces which is then randomized. Richard Garfield somehow patented turning cards sideways. 😅”

sudo make-me-one

Japan also got Game Boy Light, which is a Game Boy Pocket with green EL backlighting (like Indiglo).

I can’t even get this Brother to scan to a flash drive in its own USB port. It acts like it’s successful; it scans and no errors show up… but the files just aren’t there. Tried multiple USB drives and made sure they were formatted to FAT32 in a sector size that Brother recommended in the manual.

Printing to it from Debian was even easier than expected, though. Plug it in, it shows up as a networked printer, and you print to it.