There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.

I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.

I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD

Money of which only a small part goes to the creators.

If you actually want to support the creators, do it via a more direct method than paying Google to send a few pennies their way.

Narcissism is a powerful stimulant ;-)

Also, if this is your definition of magic then...yeah...

So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political?

Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it.

Not all things are political and making them so actively makes the world worse.

I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.

I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.

Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.

I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.

/s

Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies.

There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing.

I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid.

Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you.

These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.

If you want to pretend the rush to AI won't lead to more incompetent chefs in the kitchen than we already have (which is too many as it stands) then feel free, but acting like it's some kind of "party" people are being kept out of is daft.

Standards exist for a reason, not just to make people feel bad for not meeting them.

Corporations and governments do consist of people and people do care...but it's also the case the being a cog in a large organization does have a tendency to induce stuff like "I was just following orders" or "It's not my problem, someone else needs to fix it" :-/

Unless the problem is Apple fans having too much disposable income, in which case I guess this is an excellent solution XD

I'm guessing not.

No matter how you paint it, this was probably rather excessive on the part of the police.

Have you ever tried to "train a human"?

They don't work that way, not unless your "training" involves so weird torture stuff you probably shouldn't be boasting about.

Maybe try ask some teachers (of both adults and children) how it works with people...