Very interesting - and charmingly presented with the little demonstrations!

So this will affect Reddit and Lemmy too, presumably?

Congrats on missing the point and making it about yourself instead

I tried playing Fire Warrior a couple of years ago - it’s dreadful. Reviewed poorly at the time and hasn’t aged well.

Saying it’s a basic, linear FPS and shouldn’t be judged against genre-(re)defining greats is one thing, but even on those terms it stinks.

Fun! Only thing that sticks out to me is that three 5¼-inch drives seems excessive. Would’ve been nice to have at least one of them be a 3½-inch instead, but that’s just a nitpick.

(I’m assuming they’re just blank fascia plates either way.)

Right? If it still works then it still works.

If the article was talking about anything other than tech/software, we’d be praising its longevity.

A rare, levelheaded take.

The changes are fine. Nothing earth shattering, nothing wildly or fundamentally broken, just a visual update to better fit with Google’s new material design language.

They’re shutting down Assistant everywhere, in favour of Gemini.

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was seen as just one of several possible theories, rather than accepted fact.

Right. There’s plenty to criticise Apple for, both in general and for chasing the AI trend, but looking at it purely in terms of user privacy within AI features they’re miles ahead of the competition.

As someone who was dating (and found my wife!) online around that time, it was Tinder that marked a watershed moment.

Tinder gamified dating and made it accessible to everyone with a smartphone, which at the time was itself experiencing massive growth as a platform. The image of online dating changed almost overnight from awkward questionnaires and ‘lonely hearts looking for the one’ to swiping right and hookups.

I suspect the answer is because computer monitors evolved from televisions and video monitors, which standardised on 4:3 and, later, 16:9 for media viewing.

There was a brief period during the switch to LED when 3:2 and then 16:10 looked like they could take over, but 16:9 made a comeback and monitors have remained mostly in lockstep with modern TVs ever since.

oglethorpe?

Horrendously editorialised, too; it’s written in such a way as to specifically get people riled up. Tabloid-style rubbish.

For players, the length of play you’d likely get out of a single credit.

For owners, the amount of money a given cabinet could make, on average, per week.

iPadOS also has an extensive set of accessibility options and exclusive apps like Staybl, which is specifically targeted at people with hand tremors.

Both funny and sad how quick folks are to comment just so they can dunk on Thing They Dislike, without bothering to look past the headline that misrepresents the point of the article.

‘Bluesky bad, updoots to the left’ mentality that I naively hoped had been left behind on Reddit.

YouTubers - especially large channels like this - constantly A/B test with different thumbnails and stick with whatever one drives the most traffic (no pun intended) to the video.

You might not like it, but it’s unfortunately the reality of operating a content creation business on an algorithm-driven platform.

There are plenty of channels I follow that make fantastic videos, but sometimes you have to tolerate the shitty thumbnails because that’s just the reality of the system they’re operating within.

If anyone else is wondering, I’ve not found a verbatim quote of the steps but I did see an article that mentioned the consequences. It seems like you will be able to turn this off but it will disable Voice ID:

anyone with their Echo device set to “Don’t save recordings” will see their already-purchased devices’ Voice ID feature bricked. Voice ID enables Alexa to do things like share user-specified calendar events, reminders, music, and more. Previously, Amazon has said that “if you choose not to save any voice recordings, Voice ID may not work.” As of March 28, broken Voice ID is a guarantee for people who don’t let Amazon store their voice recordings.

If you do not want to set your voice recordings setting to ‘Don’t save recordings,’ please follow these steps before March 28th:

Am I the only one curious to know what these steps are? The image cuts off the rest of the email.