it’ll be covered on screen 73 of the ‘agreement’ required to use the device.

i remember getting my first one. it was an amazing time. played a lot of games back then. not so much now. i just can’t keep up with the upgrades, so i just play older ones every now and then.

a modern equivalent would be moving from an old pc with hdd to a new one with nvme ssd.

the consumer always loses when industries consolidate into relatively few players.

you should be able to ‘rufus’ an installer for that. the instruction in the ‘new’ minimum requirement dates back to 1st gen.

i just directed someone to a 12th gen laptop (i5-1235u) with 16gb ram and 512gb nvme at dell for $430 in a ready-to-ship configuration, search their site for nn3520gsbbs to find it.

i had just looked that up on verizon here. you can configure it to be whatever you want (with some limits), and it’s what gets sent with your phone number for caller id to compatible mobile devices/plans and to landlines with name & number caller id capability.

if they put all their tv/cable channels online and had a comparable ease-of-use of turning on a tv and flipping channels (without jacking d+ rates up–except espn; sports channels should be separate), they’d see a huge influx of subs and higher long-term retention of them.

but, they won’t do that. they have the cable and satellite companies by the balls, and they squeeze regularly. gotta extort higher overall profits from that dwindling customer base–and they do.

but I just don’t get who was using it.

way more than you realize. i’ve been supporting home users and small businesses for thirty years. i run into wordpad users frequently.

wordpad has always been gimped to keep it from taking any sales away from word. if microsoft wasn’t worried about wordpad, they would have tossed a spellchecker into it back in the 1990s (when wordpad replaced write) and it would, ya know… still exist (in upcoming versions of windows).

wordpad gets kicked to the curb because microsoft thinks they can sell a few more office subscriptions if the most basic of word processors wasn’t included with windows.

meanwhile. notepad, the basic text editor that lacks even the basic formatting features found in wordpad, gets the spellchecker users have wanted in wordpad since windows write for windows 1.0

surely they could have shaved-off 500 megabytes out of… what? 150 gigabytes… of game content and media just from better compression or optimization of those files.

if they had actual sales or revenue to brag about, they would have.

it’s sc2000’s tracks that always get stuck upstairs here

or they leak rumor of a tencent deal themselves… either to try to get a wild unexpected offer from somewhere, or to disguise the fact their real intended buyer is actually worse than anything you’ve thought about tencent.

watch the reddit ipo be a catalyst for a stock market crash.

if the films go as planned, the fifth one will hit theaters late 2031, he has ‘ideas’ for two more after that.

and then you’d have the 30th anniversary re-re-release of a re-re-remastered first one… so, maybe, the 2060s?

right after they put in locking display cabinets for all the game discs here…

yea, they steam has some drm-free games available… but steam is a drm platform… one that also helped normalize one-time-use codes and tying ‘purchases’ to a non-transferable online account. valve did more to shred the used pc game market than any other company.

i don’t play ‘new’ games, i don’t have the hardware for them. most my gear is older salvaged stuff that didn’t cost me anything to get. between constant rent increases and the cost of groceries these days, i simply can’t afford to upgrade unless i get lucky and salvage something useful.

that would be awesome.

win2000

google isn’t the only company selling android phones.

just spitballin’ here, but maybe the easy ‘fix’ is to change the name of the app?

i wanted to like arkanoid and its variants on the c64, but all the ones i uh… ‘acquired’… used joysticks, not paddles; and joysticks are just wrong for that type of game.

super breakout on the 2600 was the game in our house when i was a kid. mom was the champ, though, forever and always. aided by the weeks of practice she got ahead of everyone else as she’d get it out and play at night before santa brought it

we used to do some warranty work for hp. more often than not, the part waiting for us was the wrong one.

a 15in model with 12th gen 1215u, 8gb and 256gb ssd sold last week from multiple u.s. sources (dell direct and hp via walmart) for $250-260 this past week.

399gbp is about 500usd, totally plausible for a ‘sale price’ on a reasonably-spec’d (such as no discrete gpu) 17in model.

The machines corporate executives are going too far, we need to shut them down.

hell’s zipcode is 48169… so not yet

makes sense. each handheld represents a single platform and hardware config to target. PCs vary wildly in both hardware and software.

wikipedia says they lost ~ 900m last year (net).

they’ve been on a non-stop buying spree, the recent ipo, and vultures hold a fair chunk of the company. there’s probably more than a little pressure to get the books in the black by ‘any means necessary’.

same. haven’t had to ‘google’ on google in years.

i had one of the early ‘netbooks’, a 10in model. slightly shrunken keyboard to fit the form factor. it sucked for typing.

probably better off with a tablet and one of those cases with integrated stand and bluetooth keyboard. and you wouldn’t need a bottom-of-the-barrel model, either, to keep with a $300 price point for everything.

$299 ($229 if your store has it on clearance), gets you a full-fledged 15in laptop at walmart with i3, 8gb and 256gb ssd.

he co-founded deepmind, which was acquired by google. he also worked at google itself (left last year). he knows a fair bit about google and its inner workings, especially in regards to ai tech integration into its various properties. so more than just a ‘competitor’ or ‘businessowner’

windows 8 ‘with bing’, and ‘starter’ editions of earlier versions, are the ones that came to mind.

pricing would change, you think they’d let you run ‘apps’ for free?

they’ve already done various low-cost or no-cost (to the oem) windows editions that you can’t change wallpaper, or default search engine, stripped out utility programs included in ‘regular’ editions, and even one that limited multitasking, disabled some network functions, and had hard limits on ram and total disk space.

the last one you “buy”, anyway.

they’ve been wanting to do a subscription windows since they did some limited testing of the concept back with win7.