Bungie wasn’t a Mac exclusive company. They were a Mac first company. Oni, the game they made right before Halo, was released to Windows and PS2 after it was released for Mac. Halo could have had just a big of an impact without being owned by Microsoft.

If Bungie stayed independent, Halo might have been a one and done game and they would have moved on to other IPs though.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/french-riot-officers-trial-accused-beating-gilets-jaunes-protesters

ACAB is ACAB the world around.

The terrifying thing is, body cams probably did change how cops interact with people. They were that bad before. There’s also been a few times when a cop their forgets to turn off their body cam or arrives late and got in some trouble.

If you actually owned the car and the software on the car, then you could set the feed to be stored offsite somewhere. Even if the cops knew it was being recorded, they wouldn’t be able to get it deleted. Even if they deleted the local copy, they wouldn’t be able to know how many backups there are.

A camera that faces both the driver and front windows by default, but only stores it where the owner wants it stored would be nice. Making it a default would change how cops interact with people.

Not if the equipment gets unloaded in the black market.

Sony still seems especially bad about this. They fought for decades to have the dominant physical media format, from Betamax, to Minidiscs, to Memory sticks. They would eventually win with Blurays by selling the PS3 at a huge loss and now they want to abandon physical media?

360 was fine on paper, but the RRoD plagued it.

Wouldn’t that have been the Golden Horse Armor?

Sony is a weird shitshow of a company. Too big and too many departments and branches, with no one knowing what the other is doing. Back in the day, as Sony Electronics was developing their first physical MP3 player, Sony Music was lobbying to make MP3s illegal. Department heads shift to a different branch and shutdown anything their predecessor was working on.

24+ hours? Wow.

Steve Ballmer also once said “Developers” over a dozen times at a conference. That was weird, but he was too rich for anyone near him to tell him that.