It is if you compare it to a regular controller, but from what it offers - touchpads, back buttons, hall effect sticks, gyro, full remappability etc - it’s more comparable to something like the PS5 Edge and those are almost twice the cost.
At this point selling PCs without ram & storage is starting to sound like a reasonable thing. Especially as they claim it’s “upgradeable” as one of their major selling points and it uses standard DDR4 ram and NVME SSDs, so many people interested have spares from old builds collecting dust.
Got bought up Branch, and the original dev left when they refused to open source it as promised.
Granny Smith, Honey Crisp, and Golden Delicious weren’t enough?
I’m sorry you look so old. I do too, I basically never get carded, and really never did. My friend that’s actually a year older than me still gets carded every single time, and he’s 36.
At the core it’s just a website, if you are able to get online to require an age check, you’ll be able to access the system to generate the tickets - aka, electronically signed certificates.
the app works on any device – phone, tablet, computer, you name it. -https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817
[EDIT] Oh, and the phone app should AFAIK, work offline, kinda in the same way a 2FA code app does.
And I tried to simplify how the system works for you, as you apparently don’t know anything about it all. Reading an article that doesn’t explain it is hardly going to help. Here’s the actual full statement the article is badly referencing.
And here’s the diagram straight from the EU design documentation.
Steps 1-2 are “You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government.”
Steps 3-4 is “They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18””
Steps 5-8 is “and you give that to the website.”
Note especially step 3 - “The link between the user and provider is cut”. After that point, the provider can only tell the website that the ticket it valid, it cannot tell who it belongs to. So the website doesn’t know who you are, and the provider doesn’t know what website you are accessing. All they have is “Is adult: True.”
You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government. Who gave that ID to you in the first place.
They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18”, and you give that to the website.
They fucked around and found out, and got embarrassed.
But if you aren’t running the newest Call of Warfare: Modern Creed 7 at 4k 144fps with a computer that costs almost as much as a used car, you can’t call yourself a real gamer!
Although by stopping users right after the search with a scraped LLM answer, they won’t go to other sites like they used to which could serve google ads for them, resulting in less money. Not to even mention the long term issue that with no more traffic or revenue, the websites the AI uses for information will die, making the AI useless.
“they simply sold the older, less pure gold bars in New York for what they were worth in U.S. dollars as gold prices were reaching all-time highs, then pocketed the cash and bought bars that met their updated weight and purity standards in Europe, as prices conveniently pulled back.”
-https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-04-06/bank-france-sells-its-129-tonne-us-gold-reserve-then-buys-it-back-europe
It’s good to know that Trump won’t do something if he needs the permission of Congress for it first. I’m sure he follows those rules very well, and would never break them.
Speaking of that, has anyone seen the official declaration of war and authorization of military action against Iran anywhere? The Congress seems to have misplaced it somewhere. Must have gotten lost in the mail.
Even worse, she might have also done the terrible crime of wearing something tan and that would have seriously damaged the reputation of the United States.
super-resolution based on extracting subpixel information from a sequence of low resolution images
So basically DLSS for spy satellites. Kinda neat.
A lot more on X (320k followers and 110k views on the latest episode). And those are the livestream platforms, I’d imagine a lot of people use something like Apple Podcasts or Spotify to listen to them afterwards.
The 5V5A supply is optional, the Pi 5 alone works perfectly fine using a standard 5V3A USB-PD supply, it just limits the maximum combined USB port current to 600mA.
But technically they are still in USB-PD spec: it’s apparently okay for a charger to support 5V5A, and a device to “prefer” to use that if it’s available. It can’t be required, but as said, the Pi 5 works with 5V3A, so it isn’t.
It’s still dumb, and they should have just used 9V3A instead and paid the dollar for the stepdown circuitry like everyone else.
If it’s anything like the solution planned in Finland, the waste is placed in copper containers, transported in pretty much bomb-proof vessels, and the facility is kilometres deep underground split into multiple separated chambers that get filled with concrete (or bentonite to be more precise) once they are full. The result is a solid block that will survive basically forever and the only thing you need to do is not go dig it back up.
Another good one is Onkalo in Finland.
You can, if you allow personalized ads.
Not that I believe for a second not allowing them changes a single thing, they just don’t show it.