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Actually the reason is it was the cheapest DVD player for ages

PS3 was also the cheapest blueray player at the time, but the weird architecture impacting game availability and lower demand for blueray movies prevented it from gaining the same popularity

Depends on the provider. Many only allow a single use of the provisioning code.

Some providers does however let you create a new one whenever (meant to be used when you replace devices)

Gmail started at 1 GB, which was massive compared to anything from 1-20 MB at most hosts, and they made a point of storage per account growing over time until they jumped to 10 GB

Some Sony phones have that type of sensor

TiVoization

The number of decommissioned but still usable batteries are growing fast though, and plenty of storage sites use old battery packs, both from cars and home energy storage and stuff like it

And isn’t delivering there either

then people Microsoft go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud,

Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files

They can still collaborate old school way. You can publish static mirrors of git, then take email patches lol

Is it a mobile SoC?

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Prediction: some collector of old gadgets will set up a computer room with dystopian vibes (old broken CRT screens, various anachronistic electronics, etc), then have their VR/AR glasses repaint the room as some futuristic base, and pretend they’re living in some cyberpunk world

Tldr escaping reality, but pretending you’re escaping another reality

Solvable by moving the locking mechanism out of the port and making one that you can retrofit to any cable

They really just need to demand that open formats are implemented in parallel with any proprietary ones, with no artificial feature/performance disparity allowed.

That kills any incentive to keep the proprietary ones locked down because eventually the open formats will be available throughout the ecosystem and users will have devices with support in the entire pipeline. Then users will simply no longer want to deal with the locked down formats for long and nobody will want to sell them.

The apps run at less privileges than device management apps. They can’t do any of that

On a company device the owner (the company) is the end, and you’re just given the task of operating it.

It varies between jurisdictions, but in general, you better believe they have every right to investigate any suspicions regarding how company assets (work devices) are used and whether their agents may appear unprofessional when using official company communication channels (literally your work phone number, which is used in RCS messages).

In plenty of places there’s still privacy rights for employees, but their main purpose is generally preventing overbearing surveillance and protecting your personal data contents in personal communication channels (like if you’re using personal webmail on a work device).

I sold my Ouya and have an original Steam controller still

Even as a Linux desktop it would mostly just be interesting for devs and people doing relatively lightweight 3D design work (especially because it will take a while before other distros support it), I don’t see it competing against regular desktops.

Any company who depend on their employees having a decent GPU will likely want to be able to upgrade/reconfigure new orders at will, and will prefer a tower, and they will prefer the quick repairability of a tower. Those who don’t are increasingly ok with using mini PCs.

Rumors is that the original Zen CPU SoC in the Steam Deck was also the leftovers from another canceled project by “a major OEM”, so it’s plausible. Sounds like Microsoft planned a handheld Xbox much earlier, which years after the Deck turned into the ROG collaboration, could have been related

The secret trick is that they can do both.

The actual software target is their Steam Linux Runtime container. So all you need to install is the container environment, and if your 3rd party OS does that for you then you’re already done.