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Like I said, it was shit. But just having it exist means they're not doing the whole prude thing too much.

I mean, there's some in the Witcher 3, and they let you choose your dick/vagina in cyberpunk. The options were kind of shit, but it means they aren't that afraid of adult content.

It's possible they're telling the truth and think some of the content just wasn't good.

I just use the "white" as warm as possible most of the time. All the ones I've had allow you to choose by color temperature instead of hex.

There's a lot of research demonstrating that external factors have a pretty major impact on criminal behavior (nutrition, socialization, etc during developmental years, as examples). So society plays a role.

If you're interest in reading, Robert Sapolsky's Behave is pretty long and a little heavy, but a great, reasonably broad view of the things that make us tick from a bunch of different lenses. It's tied-ish with Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow as my favorite non-fiction, and looks more at social factors like the example above. I haven't read Determined yet, and really doubt it's going to convince me not to believe in free will, but his underlying base of knowledge is legit.

I'm not sure if they've mapped every multitouch gesture to the Vision Pro out of the box, but it's something they can and should do in time. There's a lot of potential there.

You could easily have some of the same gestures do double duty as remote inputs on TV interfaces, since it's all context dependent on where your eyes are, and there aren't that many to map. But swipe up down left right to navigate a TV interface would get old I think.

I do actually think they should (I understand developer relations/contract reasons they don't) straight up give you emulators apps can't distinguish from the TV/iPad/iPhone on both MacOS and Vision Pro, and take action against developers who try to artificially block you from using their apps on other devices. There are things that won't work, but most will, and I think letting developers artificially segment it out when it's all basically the same chip now is kind of bullshit.

I understand that. My point is that "look and pinch" effectively maps perfectly without alteration to touching a point, or touching and dragging.

It's not that you can't also do a virtual remote to handle TV apps, but the interaction they intend is a lot closer to a tablet. Defaulting to TV would teach developers bad habits. You'd end up with more interactions more limited than they need to be.

That's insane.

It's also worth noting that they're both Japanese companies, and Japan has different views on IP than the rest of the world. I don't really know enough to go into detail, but it's entirely possible something a company from the US could laugh off is enough to get action taken in Japan.

Trademarks can become genericized if you don't actively defend them.

Copyright cannot.

They are the entire market. No one reasonable is buying anything over $100 that isn't iPad. There's nothing remotely competitive.

Pretending $50 junk machines that break in months, can barely handle Facebook, and only exist in the third world is the same market is laughable.

Using it to generate code isn't inherently bad (outside of copyright concerns). Especially in "stupid amount of boiler plate" languages/etc.

But the problem is that people are lazy. They don't bother understanding the output, making sure it does what you want it to, etc. It's not that different than people copy pasting code from reference material. Part of the beauty of software development is that you don't have to solve every problem someone else has already solved. But you do need to know what your code is doing and why.

Copilot is a shortcut to code that "works" with less requirement to know what's happening.

Some of the screenshots look borderline identical.

Maybe start by not making people who don't want babies have them...

lol does he think "pokemon but good" is some ground breaking idea no one has ever thought of? It's all about execution.

Ignoring that the similarity is almost completely aesthetic.

I'm guessing you'd hit interference at some point.

But also latency would be bad and you almost definitely couldn't synchronize them well.

Yeah, nvidia has done pretty reasonable at upscaling with DLSS. It's not native, and it doesn't look native, but it looks a lot better than FSR and a lot better than TV upscaling.

It's the CPU I'm still worried about. Apple Silicon does beautiful with ARM, but I think actual ARM designs are going to be the biggest limitation to the capability of a new switch. They're competing with really nice Ryzen-based chips on the other consoles.

I know what sub I'm in, and while I don't pirate anything, I'm not going to argue the ethics at all.

But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I'm not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren't credible if they're lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you're actually the real service isn't cool.

lol I can't. I have favorite series I go back to a couple times a year on audiobook.

I'm pretty sure I read everything Karen Rose has written at least 3 times last year, I read CJ Archer's Glass and Steele twice, and there are a bunch of others. Most TV shows I space out a bit though. (Except the Good Place. It's just so forking delightful.)

Doesn't seem like "'pirate'" needs the quotes.

Bypassing the DRM might be legal, but if you're openly advertising piracy, you lose plausible deniability and make it very easy to get your device blocked from sale.

And they scammed people by telling them they were actually paying sling/whoever.

For the same reason androids are dominant in global market share. Because $5 pieces of shit in the third world that make no profit are the lion's share of that number.

If you're buying a tablet, and aren't buying a $100 piece of shit subsidized by Amazon, there isn't a single price point where a reasonable person would even remotely consider an Android over an iPad. Android is a terrible tablet OS with terrible support from apps, and the hardware only sounds OK on paper. Every iPad from the entry level up completely shits on every competitor on the market at a comparable price point.