That’s almost literally what the rest of the sentence says.

This is probably a Russian bot trying to cause some more division in the US. They saw that Graham’s death was polarizing and they pounced.

Big improvement, unfortunately.

Yuck, definitely.

I don’t, but that seems like a pretty easy thing to calculate. timeanddate.com (or your local weather service, probably) will give you times for sunrise and sunset on any given day; just:

• subtract an hour from the sunrise and sunset times on June 21 to find out the earliest sunrise and latest sunset to convert to permanent standard time, or
• add an hour to the sunrise and sunset times on December 21 to find out the latest sunrise and earliest sunset to convert to permanent DST.

Unless you’re in the southern hemisphere, then flip those two.

So if you’re in New York:

• On permanent DST, the sun rises around 8:15 AM and sets around 5:30 PM on the shortest day of the year. (Longest day would be the same as it is now)
• On permanent standard time, the sun rises around 4:30 AM and sets around 7:30 PM on the longest day of the year. (Shortest day would be the same as it is now)

Add an hour per time zone going west to figure out what the times for each time zone would be. Also, New York is pretty near the center of what the UTC-5 time zone would be if it were just a straight longitudinal band, so if you’re near the eastern edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour earlier than that, and if you’re near the western edge of your time zone it’ll be about a half hour later than that.

Personally, that 4:30 summer sunrise sounds brutal. Almost as brutal as the 4:30 sunset that they currently have in the winter. But I dunno, I feel like I could adapt to anything given enough time.

I’m originally from Indianapolis, which is in Eastern but practically on the border with Central, so the winter solstice would be 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM in permanent DST and the summer solstice would be 5:15 AM - 8:15 PM in permanent standard. But I’m in Auckland currently, so worldwide permanent DST would actually line me up pretty nicely with my friends back home, which could be cool.

Former Hoosier here (Indy). I miss the people we left behind in Indiana, but I do not by any means miss the government. Braun is a wannabe Trump whose only saving grace is that he’s really bad at it.

I get where you’re coming from, but court orders are one of the few things that actually does change anything for this administration. Not always, never perfectly, and of course he might try again, but it’s something.

No, they’re probably doing it too. They definitely did it in mobile phones, suing Apple for having phone call ringer silencing tech in their phones for instance; I would be surprised if they aren’t doing it in gaming too.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m not even saying I disagree, but I don’t think those move the needle on public sentiment like the Sony and Microsoft stuff. “Well, I don’t pirate Switch games, so my console won’t get bricked.” vs “Hey! But I buy physical copies of games!” and “Hey! They’re laying off a bunch of people, and I can imagine how that would feel.”

Honestly, what Sony is doing to capture platform lock-in isn’t substantially different from what Nintendo did. They were just quieter about it, or maybe they phrased the announcement better, or maybe they just get away with it because it’s not as visceral.

I don’t know how big a hit they actually took from that. If you ask the average gamer, I don’t know if they even are aware that it happened. I think the Sony physical media thing and the Microsoft layoffs have broken containment much more than the Palworld thing, though I don’t have any evidence of that.

I mean…on one hand, it’s pretty easy for Steam Valve to be doing well. They’re the only major platform that’s released a new console this year (except for Nintendo), they’re the hardware manufacturer with the biggest recent success (except for Nintendo) in the Steam Deck, and they’re the only major platform without any well-publicized egg on their face (except for Nintendo). It also helps that they basically own the entire PC space outright, where the other platforms are fighting amongst themselves (except for Nintendo).

But that brings up the Italian-plumber-with-a-powerup-that-turns-him-into-an-elephant in the room. Nintendo has been doing really well, too; and while, since the Wii, they’ve largely abandoned the power gamer space to the three players mentioned in this headline, the Switch 2 was a crazy release.

Obviously, Steam has made a lot of great bets that have paid off, they’ve managed to keep up customer goodwill by limiting anti-competitive behavior and focusing on good product and service over vendor lock-in, and they’re clearly the least anti-consumer player in the space right now. But Nintendo’s strategy of “make the games so compelling and polished that people won’t care about the lock-in” is basically the polar opposite, and it’s working too; so I don’t know how well we can draw conclusions about the industry from this.

Ooh, active hostility toward people who might consider switching. Another bold strategy.

MacOS doesn’t.

Anymore.

Windows doesn’t.

Anymore.

The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

So you think making it harder to use is the right path for greater adoption? Bold strategy.

No one […] should want

The moment you’ve written those words, you’ve already lost. Because they obviously do want it, and operating systems have supported it for decades, which means it’s perfectly reasonable for people to expect it to continue.

“Grim” says ye.

“He he hee ha haw ha haaa haaaa heh haa ha ha ha hee haa haaaa haaaaw…!” says I.

I’ve tried that. For me, it’s also about the app ecosystem and the way multitasking is implemented. But also, perching a Bluetooth keyboard on my lap while the tablet was up on top of something else just separated things in a way I couldn’t reconcile in my mind.

How do you write anything long-form on a tablet? You seem to live a different life than me, if you find laptops redundant.

Or that Framework goes out of business.

Even if they do, they use mostly off-the-shelf components, and the designs for the stuff that isn’t are open-sourced. You can still repair them even if Framework doesn’t exist.

The tech debt always gets paid one way or another. Either preemptively, as part of ongoing maintenance; or after a data breach in the subsequent lawsuit and settlement; or in the slow, inexorable trickle of increased infrastructure costs and lost business from slow dependencies and ineffectual bandaid solutions.

It’s just newsworthy when it happens to companies.