It wasn’t even blue on Windows 10, it was the accent color.

Unpaywalled direct link to paper [PDF] courtesy of the Unpaywall add-on.

I don’t know if the changes coming into affect today have something different about replaceable batteries, but the 2027 replaceable battery requirement has this as the exemption:

Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

(a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

(b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

The only thing there Apple could even pretend is “washable or rinsable”, and I’d be shocked* if they could get away with that.

*not that shocked

Fully half of the sessions I’ve sat down to play It Takes Two (from the same studio) I’ve been straight up unable to play it, because the EA launcher has been too jank to actually launch games.

That’s gone now thank god, but I still haven’t finished It Takes Two solely because of EA bullshit.

Please note that consent to personalised advertising is always required for use without a Pur subscription.

Yeah screw this non GDPR compliant website.

With that set up you could install Ark twice!

Since the title gives nothing away:

This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you’re required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It’s a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.

Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called “Better Offline”

This is exactly what DMCA was made to do.

That kind of sucks, but it should only be for a dev release

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-data/-/blob/main/images/splash-log.md

Blinx: The time sweeper

Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.

Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time”

Note to studios: there is no amount of potential, unrealised profit that makes it ethical to install malware on another person’s computer.

These guys are Canadian and I’ve always thought their tech seemed really creative and novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

After reading that whole article I feel no more enlightened.

They mentioned secure boot, is secure boot part of the exploit or does the exploit invalidate secure boot?

If it doesn’t fulfill the requirements it’s not any kind of solution

That’s a completely different statement

This article seems to have a bizarre assumption all the way through that the schools must use Microsoft 365.

Obviously Microsoft is failing morally and probably legally (what else is new), but the schools also have a moral and legal requirement to choose software which protects the rights of the children. Microsoft is sort of right in the way they surely didn’t mean; schools have the responsibility to not use Microsoft 365.

It’s a watermelon. It’s used as a symbol for Palestine due to it’s alignment with the colours of the flag

WD-40 leaves residue, it is not suitable for cleaning

Props for finally doing it, but a modding API was promised more than 10 years ago!