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trying to tell us that in a couple years we'll have a full-on AI film

To be fair, he never said it would be any good.

We need a US Community on Revolt too not just Lemmy

Never heard of it before.

What's the elevator pitch?

"We don't like the proposed new Coke recipe, so we're switching to drinking raw undiluted sewage instead".

There's a direct quote from the company.

According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th:

"Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

I'm also in Europe.

Presumably the same tariffs will apply to PlayStations and Xboxes too (both made in China with components from Korea, and the former being a Japanese company).

Also, most PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

American gamers aren't going to be overwhelmed with cheaper choices.

They're definitely creatively stale, but they're also undeniably good at what they do. They have by far the best selling console of the last generation, and are the only console company to consistently post healthy profits on their operation.

Is it a bit naff that their next generation of games will almost certainly be yet another Zelda, yet another Mario, yet another Pokémon? Absolutely. But if their next Zelda game is yet another best-selling critically acclaimed success, who are we to say that they've got the wrong approach?

Depends what you're after. I'm a Thunderbird user, but if user friendliness is the aim then Geary is quite good.

Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.

I guess it could have been four people ordering 2000 cars each on back order?

Or perhaps one person ordering 8000.

That person's name? Nole Ksum. You've not met him. He goes to a different school.

Ah, the great beige era. I miss beige computers.

Sort of.

Both Network Rail and LCR have already been working in this space for a long time; this is more about increasing the scale than about doing something new.

Reading is an interesting example; all those big towers and blocks that have sprung up around the station in the last decade? The vast majority are on what was previously railway land.

Orwell's Animal Farm would seem like a good way to go. Not having any Orwell in a dystopian literature class would seem like a miss, and Animal Farm's heavy parable style sets it apart from the others in the list.

Off beat suggestion: The Lorax by Dr Seuss. It might be interesting to study dystopia aimed at younger children as part of a full exploration of the genre.

Possibly somewhat on-the-nose, but It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is fairly timely.

Back with the classics, perhaps The Trial by Franz Kafka. Very effective and highly distilled form of dystopian text, boiled right down to its elements.

Shout out to The Last Man by Mary Shelley, which is a contender for the first true dystopian novel (certainly one of the first worth remembering).

There's also just no real incentive for them to do it. The number of devices running fully de-googled Android forks are miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everyone running devices with non-standard Android but which still uses Google Play Services and the rest are just as valuable to Google as the ones running stock. And it suits Google to have the small ultra-privacy hobbyist market still running Android forks, even de-googled ones, rather than moving on to something else entirely.

For as long as it's still under the Apache licence, they're still obligated to release the source under the terms of that licence. They'd need to change the licence to stop providing code; which as you say, they could do, but that would also kill AOSP entirely overnight so is a bit of a bigger problem than the one described in the OP.

I know a Candida!

It's actually surprisingly a relatively common uncommon name. Crops up a lot in certain Catholic communities as it's Latin for "white".

Is it possible? Sure.

Even then, not really. Not legally, anyway. Open source licences require that the user be provided with the source code (if requested) alongside the binaries. If they roll out an update to Android (to code which is under an open source licence), they have to release the code at essentially the same time. Rolling out an update and then withholding the source code for an unnecessarily long time would be against the terms of the licence.

Yep. Feel like I see more Ioniqs than anything else, although things are gradually diversifying.

You don't know that. The people of Kepler-452b might well be suffering under a truly awful automobile industry.

BYD is eating everyone's lunch at the bottom not just Tesla.

It's not just BYD. SAIC (whose main international brand is MG) isn't far behind, Chery (whose main brands are Omoda and Jaecoo) are starting to get about too, and there are myriad smaller Chinese marques.

Chinese cars in general are really hitting the market hard.

Ironic coincidence of the name aside, it appears to be a legit bricks and mortar university in a town called Elon, North Carolina.