Other than foldables, I think phones have basically settled on their generic form factor. Rounded corners for comfort and fall protection, a small hole punch for the front camera, and buttons only on the side.

In the past, it was about the creative things you could do with bezels as they got smaller and smaller. Now that there are effectively none, there’s not much more left to do. Fingerprint readers moved under screens, camera bumps are here to stay, and everything has USB-C.

Foldables are really the only form factor with room for improvement right now, but then I have to ask myself, do I really need more screen? I don’t even know many people outside of kids and the elderly who even use tablets these days, why do I need my phone to become one?

Currently available in China only, coming to India eventually, no word on availability in EU/NA/any other part of the world.

Lines up with news of OnePlus exiting most of their global market.

Sad thing is all these companies near certainly passed most of the costs onto consumers

Nintendo explicitly said they did. They opted not to increase the asking price of the Switch 2 but did increase the prices of the Switch 1 and accessories of both consoles to compensate.

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-pricing-update/

No way any customers see refunds from that. I doubt there will even be price reductions with the tariffs no longer in place.

You’d think you’d want it recommending porn in that case to use later as blackmail.

And yet the “free” market can’t be trusted to correct itself and fill the gaps if we allow a giant megacorp to fall.

It is admittedly more secure.

A stolen card can be used for tap to pay, with not all transactions requiring a PIN with a card. A stolen phone cannot if they don’t have your phone’s PIN or biometrics.

And most phone tap-to-pay apps will also randomize your card data in the transaction to prevent your information from being tracked or compromised in the event of a large-scale data breach, like what happened with Target in 2013 and hundreds of retailers since.

A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.

Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.

Yeah, that’s how much I used to pay for Google Play Music+YouTube Premium together.

For just YouTube without ads, I’d maybe consider it for, like, $2.99 because I’d like the convenience of being able to use it on my Chromecast again, but $8/mo is just beyond the pale.

Wow it’s so much cleaner. And we can just turn this on all the time?

I doubt that is the case, as there are other games with comparable content that are published on Nintendo’s store.

This is basically just a non-answer that doesn’t say much of anything at all. It could just as easily be one of the ratings organizations to blame, based on that statement, which seems likelier for the reasons others have mentioned.

I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.

On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.

I’d just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don’t want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won’t stop at a toggle. They never do.

Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.

That’d be my guess.

I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

Surprised to see so much Odyssey content in this movie (Sand Kingdom, the T-Rex from Cascade/Wooded Kingdom). I would have thought they’d be saving Odyssey for a third film, particularly since this one also appears to be eating some of Sunshine’s spotlight.

And I know that Sand Kingdom was a brief backdrop in the first movie, but there’s a difference between having it as background set dressing vs. actually going there for a protracted scene in the movie.

Yep

https://piefed.social/c/games/p/1656295/nintendo-switch-2-sales-stumble-over-christmas

Knew this sort of thing would happen eventually, glad I made the switch away a while back.

When Nova was bought out by Branch, we all knew it couldn’t lead to anything good. But it sucks to switch away, and I know people kept using Nova because they could say “it’s not doing anything sketchy yet.”

With this news, seems safe to say that “yet” is finally “now.” Tim to switch if you haven’t already. I’m happily using Niagara now.

Seems a bit dangerous to make X-ray Glasses without sufficient shielding