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Music industry doesn’t care how much he profited, they live in a fantasy land where someone buying 10 pirated CDs for $5 is a loss of $300 for them, because without piracy they would have obviously bought the real ones for full price instead.

They got the first shipment of manufactured controllers - one estimate is around 40k based on some import data - and sold them out in minutes, then started taking backorders.

Also combining multiple things is kinda the entire point of an AI image generator, how many videos of gymnasts made out of pasta you think there were in the training data?

You’d think with budgets of billions, they could afford to build them near lakes/rivers in sunny areas, and do their own cooling and solar. But apparently that major component of a datacenter design - cooling and power - is rarely taken into account.

is it so much more expensive than manufacturing a HMD 2660, which does more or less the same things and retails for approx. $100?

Yes, extremely so.

HMD will manufacture millions of them with partners they have been using for a decade, they will each skim a few dollars to cover costs and profit and still do fine.
Commodore will manufacture a fraction of that volume using parts way more expensive as they buy less of them, and they still have to cover r&d and tooling costs from that lower volume.

That is why kickstarters (and pre-orders) are so damn useful, as that allows you to get a start at covering those costs before you even manufacture anything.

Well, bought the trademarks at least. Commodore as a proper company hasn’t existed for over three decades, the name has just been bouncing around from one company to another.

There’s another Commodore in Italy too though. Not sure what’s the deal with that.

I once registered a Subway account without a gender simply by modifying the registration form as the only validation was marking that input field mandatory in the HTML.
You couldn’t actually use it as it would crash the app if you did as it couldn’t handle the gender of the user being null :)

OS has hard blocks to stop the installation of browsers and social media apps. We guess it has some kind of app store blacklist, as the device FAQ confirms, “Users are still able to sideload apps outside those that are blocked, using APK installer files, but Callback is designed first and foremost as a calmer, more intentional phone.”

I would prefer none, but there’s AI being forced on us everywhere these days.

I’m not saying she should have a Russian accent while speaking English - she is a spy, that would be stupid - but that Scarlet Johansson is pretty rubbish at speaking Russian, which her character should be perfectly fluent in as that’s her native language.

Though rarely it has to. Someone speaking multiple entirely different languages usually can’t pronounce them all like a native speaker no matter how good they are, so small issues are perfectly acceptable.

It only really becomes a problem when movies try to convince us that it’s supposed to be their native language, e.g Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.

A lot of wealth is based on perceived/theoretical value. Most of it, in fact. Let’s say you own a car or a house, their value is based on what someone else is willing to pay for them, but you can’t know how much that would be before you do. Heck, even bank notes are technically just “worthless” IOU’s backed by a government.
That doesn’t mean your net worth is zero just because you don’t have cash on hand.

Shares are (in reasonable sale quantities) more factual, because they are essentially based on buy offers: if you have one SpaceX share, you know it’s currently worth exactly $160.13, because someone has offered to buy it for that amount.

And this is entirely ignoring the fact that you, like Musk, can turn the “perceived” value into “real” value extremely easily - it’s called a loan. Musk got a cool $13 billion one back when he bought Twitter.

End even if you did use cookies, the banner is only required when you want to track people using them, purely functional cookies don’t need a banner either.

Yes. Post-microsoft Nokias are/were made by Human Mobile Devices.

Bring sold to a narcissistic Nazi for 44 billion?

Especially when:

"Safety was not compromised by this incident because all pilots at Air Canada undergo mandatory recurrent training every six months to validate their flying competency, including a flight check with a certified Transport Canada check-pilot every 12 months,”

Dude has passed at least 32 trainings, 16 flight checks, and has 900 flights under their belt. At this point it’s utterly irrelevant what certificate he was missing 16 years ago.

My ISP tried to push me to accept their wifi routers with the plan, they would have been free for 6 months and then only 14€/month, i.e 168€/year. For two TP-Link Deco routers that are less than that to buy new.

But hey, they would upgrade them every 5 years for ““free””!

Interesting. Here in Finland you are spoiled for choices, and half of those support direct bank transfers from basically every Finnish bank too.

The missile knows where it is at all times, because it knows where it isn’t.

(Link, if you are one of the lucky 10000)

With how shit Google is these days, I kinda wonder if Yahoo could dust out their search engine from two decades back and it would just be… better.