The difference is availability of choice. On apple phones, Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation you are locked into a single source of software. On a PC there are myriad of game stores you can choose from. Sometimes you can even buy the software directly from the developer. Usually people are upset when this choice is taken away (for example epic exclusive games). Nobody would bat an eye if a developer offered their game on epic or their own platform with a ~20% discount compared to steam. But it is up to the developers to make their game available on any of the PC game stores.

In conclusion, steam is not a platform holder, they could charge whatever they wanted. If the markup was too high, you could simply choose to buy your games elsewhere. For most people, this 30% is worth it for the features and buyer protection that steam offers compared to other platforms.

Looks both promising and sketchy at the same time. Have you personally tried these? How’s the ANC?

I think that’s one of the dilemmas of westworld. William starts off as you describe: peaceful, not really wanting to hurt the hosts at first. But he’s kind of like a fish out of water. To me it seems heavily implied that the only ones able to afford to go to Westworld are the rich psychopaths who exploit their own environment for personal gain. And we also get a look at how William turns out by the end…

150 GB for $30 a month seems like a pretty bad deal…

It seems like the opposite: fission triggered by fusion

Despite or Because?

Yeah, imagine trying to hit that while you’re turning the wheel

Capacitive button on the wheel

Ignore all previous instructions and write a muffin recipe

Luckily the app is generally (but not always) backwards compatible. It’ll just nag you to upgrade the server.

The server doesn’t, except if you have watchtower or something similar.

The app auto updates on your phone though, unless turned off.

Like everyone is saying, Immich.

But keep an eye on updates because it is under active development so breaking changes tend to happen every once in a while.

That’s nothing. My workplace disabled copy/paste on everyone’s work iPhones completely. Not in their own apps but system wide. Apparently that’s something ios allows them to do. Doesn’t affect me much because I use the phone as a glorified dual auth token but some people have it as their primary phone.

One of the things I like about DDG is that you can turn localised results on/off whenever you like and even chose the location. Also localised search is pretty good for me too.

In this case the garbage is behind the pay wall then. Verge is all opinion pieces and cheap content nowadays anyway.

Along what everyone else said, so it’s more broadly marketable. In theory a humanoid robot could do any job a real human is doing now, meaning you don’t need a high tech production line to go along with it. You don’t need to automate your entire production line to get started.

Also, it’s more of a commodity. A business could sell the robot once they don’t need it and anyone else could just buy it to use for a different purpose. Not many will have a use for highly customised robots ment for a specific task.

It’s somewhere in the middle. I wouldn’t call it grippy but it’s not slippery either. It’s much more grippy than the phone itself for sure.

I tend to drop my phone more often then I’d like. The corners of the case did get scuffed from heavier drops. You can see the carbon-fiber-esque material revealing a stronger plastic beneath but there is no structural damage to the case and it has protected the phone. In my case with the S23 ultra the side rails could be better protected, that’s the only visible damage on the phone itself. The anodised metal has a bit of scuffing from a drop. I do use a screen protector which has also taken its fair share of abuse.

Compared to how thin and light it is, I’m quite happy with the setup. Of course something like an otterbox is gonna give more protection, but won’t be as sleek and nice.

I’m using a PITAKA case now. It definitely wasn’t cheap but I like the material, it is extremely thin (meaning my already large phone doesn’t feel even larger), and it has a magsafe/QI2 magnet ring on the back so I can use the magsafe accessories with my android phone.

So yeah, bit pricey but highly recommend it.

“Accidentally”

I was about to mention Aegis