I dunno who told you the Wii U was 720p-only. Mine ran at 1080p all day, every day - albeit some games used upscaling to reduce the graphical workload.

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

It’s Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it’s a fair bet they’re going to have something you want at a decent price.

You’re saying you can’t buy to own anything… at Amazon?

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they’re probably taking some sort of loss.

forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now

I mean, apart from…

Google doesn’t track everything. The browser determines your interests locally; the only information shared with Google (and advertisers) is which broad topics you’ve recently shown an interest in.

i have parties

I read this article from top to bottom and didn’t find a clear explanation of why you should disable this feature.

I’m not going to complain too much about a free update, but it does seem that Sonoma is mostly about updates to Apple’s bundled apps (which I don’t use), and doesn’t do a lot for the OS itself.

One gallon = 4.55 litres, if you were wondering whether your bladder might be able to hold it.

There are a lot more Europeans online than Americans (not to mention a few billion internet users on other continents), so when Americans post temperatures exclusively in Fahrenheit it comes across as kinda thoughtlessly parochial.

From the article:

Amazon has bet big on AI, with the company unveiling a new, AI-powered version of Alexa alongside updated versions of its Echo Frames and Carrera smart glasses last week.

Gotta say, this meme is pretty relatable - I’m sure most of us have encountered kids whose entire answer to every problem is “communism”.

I was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.

It’s screen-on time, and ten hours is quite normal for the Poco F2.

The update was impossible to revert (though TP-Link said “Ok write to our support and we’ll give you the downgrade file” no fuck you).

That doesn’t sound like it was impossible, it sounds like you just didn’t want to do it.

This is the sanest Spectator article I’ve ever read.