Series X is my first Xbox after lifetime with Sony and Nintendo. There are barely any new games on next gen consoles so I'm using this opportunity to catch up with Xbox back catalog. Backwards compatibility is so nice that I ended up doing unexpected playthrough of Final Fantasy XIII among some other oldies. I also ended up doing loads of split screen gaming with my gf - started with Halo but we're on second BG3 playthrough (after going back to Divinity 1&2).

Wipr because it has no subscription bs and has proper block lists for my country.

You could convince Elon to do this by telling him it would be terrible for internet preservation.

Dang, that's a bummer. Let's import some russian natural gas.

That's because ChatGPT and the likes use machine learning to calculate odds of word combinations that make up a plausible sentence in a given context. There are scientific studies that postulate we'll never have enough data to train those models properly, not to mention exponential energy consumption required. But this is not the only application of this technology.

It can do statistics and probability incredibly well. Chatbots are gross waste of that capability but it's proving to be quite capable in areas where lots of brute force computation was required before (like in biotech).

AI is math, statistics specifically.

I can't recommend this enough.

I'm not sure. IIRC pricing structure that pushes you to upgrade to high tier hardware was there under Jobs as well. And they'd solder RAM if it was a thing back then too - they always purposefully gimped base models.

Apple has been like this for ages now though. They succeeded despite of it, not because of it. What OP is suggesting (I think) is that there's less positives and those historically outweighed Apple's anti-consumer practices.

I use couple of devices that are nearing end of support - iPhone XS, 1st gen Apple TV 4k (which is iPhone 7 essentially) and they perform admirably well. iOS 16 was pretty bad at times but it was mostly resolved with iOS 17.

Straight to Nintendo Guantanamo.

Cannot unsee warning.

I know white splash on everything is supposed to be rain but I can't help but see seagull poop everywhere.

Those caps are a way to cull the weakest parts of society. I too have hurt my dick on them but have learned to deal with them.

Why not browse your subscriptions through subscriptions section? I understand that it's annoying that you can't make it default on startup in the app but it's there.

I'm just loving the amount of bad press Microsoft is deservedly getting.

Microsoft thinks that their own games barely need advertising or hype because they're available on Game Pass anyway. They're forgetting that those ads would be Xbox ads too. And so the death spiral continues.

I thought right was for immigration because it means cheap labour.

You don't consider it a show because you think it's aimed at teens but it's actually aimed at grown up women. Give it a shot, plot is tastefully over the top and production values are pretty good. I cried at the end of The Originals and I'm not ashamed of it!

Vampire Diaries had multiple spinoffs and out of those The Originals were quite successful, Legacies less so. Legacies was most procedural so there's that.