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I believe the intent of the original "Hide this game" was (and still is) only to make it easier for you to organize your own library by controlling what you see. What they added recently was "Mark as private" and that keeps a game visible to you in your library, but prevents others from seeing...

I thought this too, but as far as I know all the processor ever sees is a Steam purchase for $amount and an order number. That's all I see in my bank app. That implies the threat is, "Remove the games we want gone—so we can be certain we aren't processing payments for things we object to—or you...

Related to just getting Elon himself: A few days ago some people were passing around a screenshot of the bot being asked about Elon and Jeffrey Epstein and the bot responding in first-person from Elon's point of view. I'd actually say it looks like the bot is regurgitating a PR statement...

I mean—fair—his productions weren't very factual I guess. Except Cannonball Run.

To be honest, which eight years is kind of relevant. The last decade or so has really plateaued what hardware and software you need to "get by." Eight Mac years in 1997 to 2005 was a 200MHz PowerPC 603 on System 7.5 (upgradable to 9) in a world of 2000MHz G5s on OS X 10.4. That's most of the...

Not that I think splitting into two companies who focus largely on "narrative things people stream at their leisure" and "non-narrative things people stream when it's timely※" is bad—I think it's actually good—but it is extremely funny that they are splitting into Warner Bros. and Discovery in...

I'd be surprised if many people here were opposed to physical media at all. The Ars commentariat likes physical media. I like physical media. I have much physical media. But "just buy it on disc" is a borderline non-answer to "which streaming device tracks me and/or sucks the least?" Leaving...

The part that kills me about MLB.tv specifically is that it used to be better. Particularly if you lived in Canada. Local blackouts are optional to the local rights holders. Many did not previously enforce them. Rogers holds the "local" (read: all of Canada※) rights to Jays games, but until a...

May be worth highlighting in the Siri section that—unlike a lot of devices—an Apple TV isn't always listening. It has a mic in the remote which is activated by a button on the remote.

Interestingly that link is the second result on Kagi for me (a sub-hit on the first result, technically), above the 'News' section. It's the sixth result on Google for me. All results are below 'News,' and I have to scroll my screen to see it. It does not appear on the first page of DDG or...

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran it too. Found by a user on BlueSky, but I'm pointing to the book list page specifically (though it is paywalled, you can see enough of it to make out).

The part I find kind of fascinating is that it's specifically the last five books that are real. Wonder what caused that? Some other people on BlueSky are indicating that a lot of the summer supplement contains references to seemingly non-existent publications or quotes that aren't traceable to...

That was my experience when I stopped using Google's web search. The thing is that I know there are alternatives, and how to use them. I suspect a lot of people just search using "the search bar." And for those people "the search bar" is just whatever the default in your browser is. And that's...

Over four days and four pages later and you're still arguing about a joke most people just didn't find funny? You must be fun at parties.

Yeah, between this and reading that some people believe the use of em dashes—a particular affect of my writing—is a sign of an LLM, I'm having a real Rick Deckard (Ridley's version) moment.

Some people just prefer good jokes. ¯\(ツ)/¯

This is an amazing pair of posts to make back-to-back. An answer to your second post is the AppleTV. Is it the be-all and end-all of streaming boxes? No. Does it work well in its lane, without all the issues that Roku devices have? Absolutely. The interface is fine. Frankly, you spend orders...

The things you learn when you run an adblocker... Anyway, the thing about Calvin's dad vs a chatbot is that Calvin's dad is having fun. He knows the answer to Calvin's questions (or at least knows what he doesn't know). He knows—at a basic level—how the world works. He knows the world didn't...

I think if you're going with the "explanation for a persistent kid" route, you need to follow the example of Calvin's dad in Calvin & Hobbes: start plausible and lean into ludicrous. That's fun! Just saying it's a line in a movie, when it isn't a line in a movie isn't fun. It's just dumb...

Yeah, to be clearer, Yasuke's personal story is good an interesting. I found the emotional beats more stirring on their own than Naoe's story. I just don't think his story locks in very well with the central story of the game which is driven from Naoe's perspective. If the game were just Yasuke...