This is a great point - no one makes the entire SoC themselves. For example, Asahi notes that the PCIe controller is derived from Synopsys: https://asahilinux.org/docs/hw/soc/apcie/ Considering Synopsys itself only…
I replaced some parts on my M1 MacBook Air. For 90% of the parts it’s honestly pretty easy to work with. You just need a few screwdrivers. And I sourced all my parts from eBay. The documentation is excellent:…
Which itself is a dupe of the original reporting on this by 404 media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742
It’s been stunning how often this story is reposted from various news sources across Reddit and Hacker News. Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece is just verbal framing around the…
Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers…
It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually just the first step - to propose an…
Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan…
Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...
You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.
My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and…
In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other…
I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#... The…
Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like…
In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.
I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out…
> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to…
Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a source posted by another commenter,…
I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique…
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that…
The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal”…
Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as…
> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the…
This is a great point - no one makes the entire SoC themselves. For example, Asahi notes that the PCIe controller is derived from Synopsys: https://asahilinux.org/docs/hw/soc/apcie/ Considering Synopsys itself only…
I replaced some parts on my M1 MacBook Air. For 90% of the parts it’s honestly pretty easy to work with. You just need a few screwdrivers. And I sourced all my parts from eBay. The documentation is excellent:…
Which itself is a dupe of the original reporting on this by 404 media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742
It’s been stunning how often this story is reposted from various news sources across Reddit and Hacker News. Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece is just verbal framing around the…
Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers…
It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually just the first step - to propose an…
Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan…
Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...
You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.
My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and…
In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other…
I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#... The…
Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like…
In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.
I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out…
> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to…
Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a source posted by another commenter,…
I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique…
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that…
The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal”…
Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as…
> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the…