The game’s made with 100% real free trade humans? Sounds good.

Can’t wait to read the same headline for the Robo Taxi and androids.

His cringe is almost as bad as his evil intentions.

The Dishonored franchise deserves better than this. One of the original creators was looking to buy the rights for it off Microsoft not too long ago. Hopefully it’s an ongoing deal that can save it before Arkane’s sold off.

They’ll become useless plastic when the eShop servers inevitably shut down. They have less functional longevity than an NES cartridge.

They may be an entry point for water and dust yet my current 3.5mm jack equipped Xcover 6 Pro is IP68 rated at 1.5m of water for 35 minutes according to GSMArena. I’m not exactly looking to go snorkeling with my phone any time soon either so it’s not like it’ll be a concern for anyone in the vast majority of use cases. I’ve had water splash on it occasionally over the years and it never caused any harm either.

I can’t really talk about what the PCB footprint of a 3.5mm jack is but if it’s something that already comfortably existed on most previous phones along with micro SD and Sim card holders until very recently then I doubt it actually matters. Keep in mind phone manufacturers are incentivized to hold back on as many features as possible if it means they can cut down on BOM costs and make an additional sale through apps or accessories down the line.

Comedians are modern day jesters. They can call bullshit to the faces of powerful people and say the things no one else would dare. It’s probably not much of a stretch for them to do the right things too if they’re given the reins of power.

I see it as a question of convenience, economics, and waste. It’s so easy to plug and play a jack without worrying about your headphones’ charge level or pairing them. No aux ports also means you have to pay a USB C adapter tax for one that may eventually break or get lost and it forcing you to pick between quietly listening to your audio and charging your phone. I’ve personally saved about $60 USD a year on average by not having to swap out dead Bluetooth headphones as well.

I get it if you like the convenience but it really wouldn’t kill these phone manufacturers to keep such a useful legacy component in the hopes you’d buy some additional accessories from them to fix a problem they created.

How hard is it for them to include a DAC and aux port in their phones? They’re tiny! I tried using Bluetooth headphones with the OnePlus 5 but the poor sound quality and constant need to recharge and replace due to their batteries dying every few months was exhausting. That experience was enough to drive me back to the exceptional reliability of plug and play traditional headphones with a Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro.

I don’t care how easy it is to replace the batteries in Fairphone’s new headphones. Their ethos should compel them to include a jack for those who don’t want to waste rare earth metals.

All the surveillance of a house arrest without ever having committed a crime in the first place. Fantastic.

Just wait until some cars get hacked to accelerate as fast as possible because we just had to have telemetry in them for surveillance and profit.

Bringing coffee in is a power move if you’re employed already. It says “my time is just as valuable as yours and I intend to make the most of it regardless of what you think.” As someone who just interviews to keep his skills sharp at this point, it’s not the worst thing you can do so long as you don’t make a big deal out of it.

I’d be more offended if they require you to prepare a slide deck of some useless example you probably made up anyway. That’s working for free and I won’t do it.

I just finished GTA IV on the PS3. For a game that’s satirical of America’s love of guns and violence, it makes some very poignant statements of war and the bitterness one gets from having to live through it. I still have The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost & Damned to play through so I’m looking forward to the themes the story has there.

I wasn’t much of a power user to begin with but the Calc and Impress programs felt almost the same with some minor UI changes that take some getting used to like having to open a pop up settings menu rather than check the tools ribbon.

If you’re familiar with pre-Office365 software then it’ll feel a little intuitive already.

Looks like Dr Phil with long sickly hair.

Can’t this be solved with legislation? I mean, all they have to do is say “no vehicles may be sold within our borders if they attempt to communicate with any servers.” Vehicles never did this 15 years ago and it’s insane they operate like massive phones with wheels now.

AI contributions are gonna ruin the stability of so many long term projects.

We’re one step closer to making Dwarf Gekkos for the battlefield.

Can’t wait to pirate this fucking game when a crack comes out. It’s not like anyone can actually own a copy.