And Nintendo proved this right by making successful games on underpowered systems. The switch it’s basically an Android tablet from last decade sold with crazy markup but talented game designers make compelling games

Sure, in the store they have 3rd party do lazy shitty ports like this https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/jello-run-switch/ but I feel it has more interesting games than the photorealistic ones on PS5, except the masterpieces by insomniac studio, but those can also be played on PS4 or PC

The PS5 doesn’t even have a browser because they’re scared of exploits

Why not just have some hardened Firefox with auto updates instead of licensing a browser from a company specialized in exploitable browsers for consoles? Nobody uses netfront, why Sony and Nintendo are so obsessed with it?

So the Xbox one series (aka Xbox one 2) has zero dedicated games?

I’m disappointed, I expected a meme instead it’s spam 😢😢😢😢😭😭

There was a patch to rename it as murderfs

Main difference is that one is an evil war criminal while the other is a “good” war criminal

From mobile it’s an incredible hassle to choose “English” hidden in a list with 5000 obscure languages. There should be an option to reduce the list to the 2-3 languages I can speak

The Mac BIOS can update during a standard OS update without indicating that you’ll brick the machine if it powers off for any reason

I hate Apple, but my Lenovo does exactly the same. It fucking installs BIOS updates automatically without any warning. Once, after a reboot it was hanging too much on a black screen and I thought it just froze, so I forced a shutdown by long pressing the power button. Luckily the BIOS restored via the fallback, but that wiped the TPM for some reason and because windows 11 on laptops automatically encrypts the drive with bitlocker I might have lost everything (luck again, I’m part of the 1% of the bitlocker users that actually keep an offline backup of the encryption key)

At least (I’m guessing, never bought any M1 Mac and will never do it) apple should be smart enough to disable the power button during BIOS updates, and maybe postpone the update on a low battery, leaving the danger only to desktop users

They’re continuing the embargo for what? I see no danger coming from Cuba nowadays

Is it something actually open source if

1. It requires a proprietary backend, kept secret

2. Not a single pull request is approved, all contributions are ignored for years, then finally rejected

3. The issue tracker is kept secret

?

But meanwhile lose all credibility. If you don’t want to commit to a specific piece of hardware, don’t sell it. A $5000 whiteboard with a $600 yearly subscription AND that requires paid Google workspace subscriptions for each user (100 employees=$12000 each year) will NEVER be ultra popular. They already knew from the beginning that they wouldn’t be possibly move millions of units of this and they would just cash in from the subscriptions.

All files generated on this devices are proprietary and saved on their servers. As of now, it’s not possible to get them and open on a computer. When they pull the plug, they’re all gone.

For example, when Twitter died and they sold all the forniture at the auction, they had more than an hundred devices like this. https://bid.hgpauction.com/past-auctions/herita10216?term=Jamboard

Maybe the new management kept some of the boards, but here they spent half million in hardware + 60k yearly for the software licenses + another hundreds of thousands for the required Google workspace accounts for the users. And for what? For e-waste that ends with no drop-in replacement. Now corps need to quickly find an alternative and they need to pay extra to convert the generated files to the new platform.

Behaving like this will definitely hurt future sales, as Google will be labeled as the supplier that suddenly disappears without a drop-in replacement.

There are a lot of other companies that discontinue and render the purchased hardware a brick within a short timeframe, for example Cisco, but at least they have an upgrade path and not “we exit the market, good luck”.

Reading this comment seems like they cater the Japanese market and the rest of the world is an afterthought