tony

Meh.. it's not that hard. Get something that's libredrive compatible and run makemkv on it. Not had a failure yet.

The real downside is that blurays (esp. HD ones) are too expensive to get a decent collection.

I'd argue some magazines are basically ad pushers wrapped around a thin layer of minimum effort articles.

Hell, most of them, when I think about it.

Google, though.. ads are their core business.

Strikes me as way too early. Large parts of the country are stuck on copper because upgrading to fttp is deemed too expensive (I am, and I'm not exactly out in the sticks). Maybe in a few years .. I'm lucky I restarted my line when I did.

Lik my mother. She has WiFi provided by the building manager. Doesn't own a mobile phone and just uses her landline for talking to people.

BT already tried to 'upgrade' her but they wanted payment and a monthly fee.. She told them to F off.

So apple got away with imessage then..

I've been getting it on and off for a couple of weeks and that's my experience too.. you get a 'we want to enable this exciting new feature' and you click no. They'll ask again.. which may push me to use firefox more.

I don't get it on a pixel 7 either.

Probably something added by a vendor..

It's more about bing being built into windows I think.. but I suspect they may get away with it just because it has little market share despite being built into windows..

So apple is saying they don't have 45 million active monthly users in a market of 750 million people and a 34% market share?

I'm sure 'most of our customers don't use our product' isn't what they were going for..

TBH though I suspect the EU will see through it - the purpose of the gatekeeper legislation isn't really about numbers, it's about market power - no one company should be able to dominate with a proprietary system. Which is precisely what apple is trying to do with imessage.

They've been talking about replacing NTFS for a long time. 10 years ago they put ReFS in the server builds and.. show of hands anyone using it?

I think they were trying to make ReFS compete with things like zfs but 10 years later it still doesnt support compression, encryption, quotas or booting..

I once saw a drinks bot at a festival.. Just a conveyor belt that moved the glass past various incredients and dispensed them at the right time. It was quite cool. Also the drinks were free, which made it cooler.

Something like that could be made commercially, if there was demand.. trying to make something using AI and robot arms just looks like overengineering for the sake of it.

You're not really tied these days because PD exists (and where that's not possibly they'll install dialysis machines in homes), but yeah a quality of life improvement to just have a portable thing.