That’s the thing, I don’t want to invest that time. If I’m looking at the rating of a movie, I’m already interested, I just need to know if I’m likely to enjoy it or not. Whether it’s rated 5.8, 6.1 or 6.4 doesn’t do anything for me at that point, whereas the RT score answers that question perfectly.

I find Rotten Tomatoes much more useful. Knowing that 90% of critics gave a favorable review is infinitely more helpful for my decision to watch a movie than its IMDB score.

And what shall be the threshold for criminalizing simply being a sick fuck?

And when that happens, it’s not that features like fiber to the home or port forwarding are gone, but they could be locked behind an extra fee. Want direct access to your own network settings? That might come at a premium. Even access to certain websites could become conditional on paying more, or worse, dictated by someone else’s agenda.

They can do that right now. If this new wireless option is standardized, it would seem less prone to ISP shenanigans to me. Just a question whatever functionality makes it into the standard in the first place.

Might just be to indicate when it started happening. They could have written “M1” and still cause the same confusion, and I believed that’s what the model is called.

The nice thing about hiking your prices by 50% is that unless a whole third of your users quit, you haven’t lost anything.

It does.

Resistance is futile.

The whole concept is different. I’ve just started trying it and the gist of it is that it’s basically only the app drawer, but on steroids. There is no home screen to arrange, you simply set favorite apps that show up first. Anything else you select by scrolling through the alphabet, which seems quick enough if you know the app name you’re looking for.

I can already tell that I would love it more if favorites were redesigned a bit to use the initial space better. But this would betray the simplicity they are trying to achieve.

I didn’t know there were that many tech reviewers.

It just means they’ve survived the first part of the bathtub curve. To me that’s a bonus.

I use an app on my phone that lets me use it as a touchscreen and keyboard for my Linux media PC. I have no idea if it will ever (be able to) support Wayland.

Hardware can’t fix what’s broken in software.

I’m missing comment navigation like Sync for reddit used to have, with buttons to go between the root level comments.

It wasn’t, popularity waned slowly over the years.

When you drive back down, the car is going to regenerate the energy back into the battery, you might find that you recover a considerable amount.

On the flip side, going up needs additional energy to begin with, so overall it’s bound to be less efficient than its typical mileage.

As much as you can afford. When it comes to technology you can’t go for the budget options without truly feeling the consequences.

That was true when the modern smartphone was a new concept. Since then, cheap models (a little above the bare minimum) have steadily become better and these days, aside from photography, will do anything the more expensive ones can. Which have also gotten much more expensive than they used to be. Unless you need specialty features like folding or S-Pen, it’s not worth it.

That PC is on Ubuntu LTS so it didn’t come to mind. The app I’ve been using is called Unified Remote and was generally pretty neat, not so much about tying my phone to the PC.

I use an app to control the mouse and keyboard of my home theater PC from my smartphone. Will that ever be able to work?

I always found this to be a bad example. 15 people out of the 51 on that page are playing the game they’re in a boycott group for. That’s a clear minority, even if that had been representative of all 1557 members.