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GDPR only covers PII, this is a randomly generated ID that changes on every install on the OS.

You can mix it with other info to track a user, but it's not enough to de-anonymize someone on its own.

(weird ID, by the way. 16-digits makes sense, but I would have expected it to be hexadecimal)

it's the decimal representation of a 64 bit integer

Why not both?

We still need rotating mass to keep the grid stable, which means either building giant flywheels, keep burning gas or bring nuclear into the mix.

One of these can also produce a ton of energy when needed, the other two cant.

We can and should build more renewables, but we can't risk grid stability!

What kind of dystopian horror is this?

I'm using one to write this very comment

You can use a Python library/tool to control them (https://github.com/sbidy/pywizlight), which means Home Assistant supports them out of the box.

In my setup I have Home Assistant running on an N100 mini PC and that's what I use as an HomeKit bridge.

If possible I'd use ZigBee or Z-Wave bulbs (or even better, switches) though.

I was worried it was that WiZ, luckily it's not Their bulbs are one of the few WiFi bulbs that don't require an app to operate (only for the initial configuration)

IMO only the first season was really good, while the second one was very bad, I almost wish they had cancelled it after the first instead.

That wouldn't feel very idiomatic - you can do it but would feel wrong

At first reading the title I thought it was a new camera in the FX line (along the FX-3 and FX-30) and I was very confused to say the least

That's your bias and not the language fault, everything works pretty much the same across every OS, I haven't developed non-UI C# apps on Windows since 2018 (because of course you need Windows to build WinUI and WPF apps, but you have options on macOS and Linux too)

That's basically modern-day Java, with Lombok and other tidbits.

I wouldn't call Lombok "modern", more like "a terrifyingly hacky way to tackle limitations in the language despite the unwillingness to make the language friendlier" and a far cry from what source generators can do in C#

.NET Core 1.0 was released cross-platform 8 years ago though, there's a ton of new devs for who it has always been cross-platform

This has been the case in Italy since 2018, but I'm OK with ISP-provided ONTs to be honest, as long as I can use my own router.

The problem here is that the ISP will try to avoid giving any kind of support (even when the problem is on _their_ side) if you opt into BYOD.

AFAIK it's also the primary IDE for Sony and Nintendo SDKs

that's just the first step for getting Doom to run

So unaffected people can't disagree with it because it's not even a nuisance for them? That's kinda selfish.

By the way, many developed countries that have running water and where people also speak English are affected too (and don't think there is no outrage in other languages), including (but not limited to) Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia, Cayman Islands, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco and even San Marino, which is basically a neighborhood in Italy.

Thanks for the polite comment!

When did they do this? As I remember they did not promise free upgrades, but was forced to provide them anyway for some games because of the backlash.

It's been a while, but I think it was with Horizon Forbidden West

PS4 controllers

I agree this one needed a bit more nuance. I understand they wanted to incentivize the new controller features, but it's the fact that the PS5 is technically capable of using those controllers (since you can use them for PS4 games) but Sony chooses to not allow it that's anti-consumer. Also since you can use PS4 controllers to play streamed PS5 games on PC or PS4 itself.

How did they raise the price of consoles?

In August 2022 they increased the console price by ~10% pretty much all over the world except the US. Microsoft did the same in June 2023.

None. My country is supported by PSN and I have an account as I've owned multiple PlayStation consoles, but does it matter?

Even in more recent times, the entire PS5 life thus far has been riddled with consumer-hostile behavior (promising free upgrades and then walking back from it, forcing people to use the new controllers even if the PS4 ones are perfectly capable to play the new games, increasing prices of games and consoles, bullying companies so they don't support cross-platform play etc)

No. They sold the game worldwide, and the FAQ explicitly said linking an account was worldwide, then they switched on the requirement and changed the FAQ.

Except it's impossible to create a PSN account in a lot of countires, countries where it was possible to buy and play the game and now it's too late for a refund, so people are stuck with a game they now can't play anymore.

Then they proceeded to gaslight people ("it just takes 2 minutes").

Then they withdrew the game from 177 countries (out of ~195 depending how you count), so people not only they couldn't buy it anymore, but people who had already bought it lost access to it.

It's a shitshow, they completely destroyed players' trust with this.

I don't think they deserve praise, they just acted in defense of their bottom line. The game was losing players and it was being review bombed because of this change, while losing players' trust.

I'm sure they would have maintained the requirement if they could, despite the backlash. But money got in the way.

For me it absolutely doesn't, that's why 16 GB is the bare minimum for me. But setting me aside, my fiancee only does basic office work and web browsing (elementary school teacher) and she had to upgrade to 16 GB too since 8 GB wasn't cutting it with more than a couple dozen browser tabs open.

The problem is it doesn't

We can own guns, we just don't want nor need to.

To be fair, this is the kind of breakage I'd expect from macOS, but never from Windows

Probably a stupid question, but wouldn't this be assembled in loco? I guess 3000 lb is the weight of the full system with all the blades in place and disk bays full, not the weight of the empty rack.

In Italy, in 2005-2007 text messages were WIDELY used by teenagers in (like me at the time) too - they weren't free but really cheap (4000 for 2€/month) so pretty much everyone used them.

Then a couple years later... gone, replaced by WhatsApp.

In some way I secretly hope that the EU is waiting for DMA to come into effect in March to declare Apple as non compliant and hit them as hard as they can.

The ability to disable the "news" panel is already in preview, it will be released by march

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/wind...