If you’re old enough to receive full Social Security benefits - you’re too old for a political position. House, Senate, Governorship, or Presidency - it doesn’t matter.

Hell, I think in the same way that regular cognitive tests are required for seniors who still want to drive, they should also be required to pass a similar civics test before being allowed to vote.

I had this pop up personally, thankfully my Apple account itself is old enough to vote - so that was the extent of the age verification.

Still doesn’t bode well for younger generations though.

Tesla had every opportunity to make the Cybertruck the modern-day DMC-12 (DeLorean); but it feels like Elon and the dream team fell out of the decision tree and got every wrong branch on the way down.

I wonder how long until he packs it all up again and moves to Florida?

Dude, same (well - I only had one, but yeah).

I held off for as long as I could, but eventually went from a 15in Sony Trinitron monitor to a Dell W2405 - which at the time was actually not a bad decision, but I do wish I kept that CRT.

Maybe in the early-to-mid 2000s; people couldn’t GIVE them away!

Nowadays, not even the most bougie neighbourhoods could afford to…

100% this, leave the first generation to the professionals (eg. reviewers) to find all the obvious flaws - then pick up the 2nd or 3rd iteration once they get most of the kinks ironed out.

Give it a couple of months and they’ll figure out a way to solder the GPU chipset and VRAM onto a donor board with a modified BIOS.

With any luck, the market will be flooded with these hybrid graphics cards and absolutely crater Nvidia’s revenue & valuation (triggering a similar crash in the US and elsewhere).

It does feel like we are barrelling headfirst into another gaming industry collapse, doesn’t it?

Between the whole soulless, overpriced, MTX-riddled “AAAA” crap crowding out the top, tonnes of AI-slip flooding the bottom-end, and the antagonism towards physical media - it seems like it’ll only be a matter of time.

Especially given how there is a literal lifetime’s backlog of quality titles from half a dozen console generations - gamers could survive an ice-age. Developers and publishers can’t.

You’re not agreeing with her, she’s agreeing with you - as it is her world view that’s changed, while yours has remained consistent.

So animal, mineral AND vegetable?

I’m in a similar situation. My workplace has been heavily pushing implanting AI tools into our daily workload, but I’ve struggled to find a more meaningful use beyond a technical search engine: eg. How can I calculate x in the most resource efficient way?

Renault had seemingly given up on hatchbacks for the Aussie market, it feels like only a few years ago the Megane and Clio were all over our roads.

I can’t particularly blame them, though. We have something like ~5% of the population of Europe in about the same landmass, our regulations (ADRs) quite onerous, we drive on the other side of the road compared to continental Europe, and the logistical costs of sending a finished vehicle from Europe to Oceania makes it quite difficult to compete economically against Chinese, Korean and Japanese brands.

I say this as someone heartbroken, who absolutely adores the designs of European marques like Peugeot, Renault, Alfa Romeo, Abarth and Citroen - they are all undeniably cool.

Did you?

Overnight, Ukraine’s military reported that, without explanation, the Starlink satellite communications system, produced by Musk’s SpaceX but managed by the US government, was no longer working at speeds greater than 100mph.

That effectively rendered most of the drones used by Ukraine to strike behind the frontlines inoperable…

Given it’s a game from 2004, it should be relatively easy to decompile, so if you’re the kind of person happy to tinker - it could be a great project to self-host and try to get done yourself?

That way the only cost is time, and a little bit of electricity.

I only just looked up some of the basic requirements, as it’s piqued my interest in trying to decompile something myself over the Christmas break!

Circling back to thank you for the candid, in-depth response.

Canada and Australia aren’t all too dissimilar, it seems.

Rampant speculation was ultimately responsible for our similar housing bubble here in Australia too. It’s taken a lot of political fortitude to introduce the necessary policies here to try and thread the needle to keep housing affordable for the population, without completely cratering values and destroying millions of owner-occupiers.

We are very lucky that our primary Conservative Party largely self-destructed last election cycle, and is too busy fighting off an insurgent far-right party to lose any threat to our (notionally) left Government.

I truly hope you guys can find your own safe path out of that minefield.

Their ability to bomb* the oil depots is probably related to their starlink/starshield access. 🥺

Yes: Doom (2005)

It’s not a great film by* any stretch of imagination, but it is a guilty pleasure of mine.

With Starbucks, they just need a name - not necessarily yours.

My of my uni friends used to pick ever more ridiculous names just to hear them call it out when his drink was ready.

Aussie here, what’s the primary cause for your house price bubble?

Here it was a stupid LNP policy to funnel investment dollars into land banking via negative gearing coupled with a capital gains discount; we are only now starting to roll back changes from 25 years ago.

We’ve lost an entire generation’s wealth to greed.