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Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:52PM (#50262026)
They want those users to upgrade, I don’t see the problem.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:52PM (#50262008)
If the rumours are true (about AI capabilities) it’d be best to wait yes.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:54PM (#50200167)
Read the article, it’s not Sony it’s Bein the ones who have the soccer broadcast rights.
Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:47PM (#50199413)
It’s still happening every time there is football, at least they now seem to lift the block when the games end, when this started sometimes they took 12 hours after the game ended.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:09PM (#50185982)
Yeah it did not do well, but it’s my favourite game of the year so far.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:19PM (#50185278)
Destiny will go on.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:18PM (#50185272)
They lost their way when the doctors left.
Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:21PM (#50047436)
Not sure how will they rip it in days though, it won’t be on Blu-ray and it’s going to require a new firmware.
It’s been years since that, sheer incompetence.
Seen them yes, but the polls say otherwise, if elections were to happen now the majority of the parliament will be composed of the current opposition parties.

This term started with the wrong foot anyway, there’s a feeble majority that included a right wing party from Catalonia that based their political support to the governing left just based on the promise of judicial favours (pardons for crimes related to the Catalonia independence movement/crisis). It’s precisely that party that voted no on the emergency decree they wanted to have regarding the housing crisis.

Like I said, in order to avoid this mandate they turned their rentals into short term ones, the law had a loophole which made everything worse.
Last time they touched the housing laws one of the brilliant things they did was to force the owner of the flat to pay the expenses for signing the leasing contract of their tenants, before that change this was paid by the tenant. What happened is the landlords switched from long term rentals to short term rentals because they did not modify that clause for those type of rentals, so the tenants got the worse outcome: rental contracts of 11 months instead of 5 years, which also opens the door to massive rent increases every 11 months or eviction instead of just the inflation rate of the year under the other contracts.

They also keep increasing the difficulty of evicting non paying tenants, taking a lot of rentals out of the market because owners are simply afraid of not being able to evict a non paying tenant, or making prices increase to account for that risk.

It’s a district, which includes the park but also very expensive properties.
The current government has only worsened the situation and now somehow they want to be the champions of fixing after almost 8 years in power. They are not fooling anybody.
Re:New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:51PM (#49898485)
They don’t make much money (if any) selling hardware.
Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:58AM (#49894483)
I noticed the Quick Look animation (space bar on any file) is very sluggish, at least on my M2 Max.
Re:Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:40PM (#49859280)
No those came later, it was the colored translucent iMacs that got them back in track, then the iPod.
It’s on the headline if you visit the link.
Some are building new fabs, example:

https://news.skhynix.com/en/fab-facility-investment-2026/

It's not an overnight thing obviously.

Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:11PM (#49767721)
You reminded me of this tweet I came across recently

https://x.com/tylerglaiel/status/2099382887045108154

Title is “highest single core score” so it’s the highest of every cpu tested on geekbench so far, not just of the subset of Apple CPUs.
That might be true but they do all those pieces with every iPhone launch. They just churn out content a lot during iPhone launch period.
Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:56AM (#49722959)
It only works in one of the 3 lenses though.
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:20PM (#49718335)
I linked to the tweet that has the video because if you are not signed in you cannot see the whole thread of tweets.

I can see the individual tweets in the browser while not signed in though.

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:47PM (#49717900)
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:58PM (#49703049)
Weighs less than Quest 3 on the first review I saw? They also said weight was better distributed, not as heavy in the front area as others.
Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:35AM (#49692774)
iPhones have been using it for its ProRAW format since 2024.

It has 3 options:

JPEG Lossless (most compatible)

JPEG-XL Losless

JPEG-XL Lossy

Re:PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:20AM (#49643283)
Kojima owns the IP, they also own Death Stranding, unlike other partnerships where Sony owned the IP.
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:13PM (#49635261)
12GB of ram and double the memory the bandwidth over the previous model.
Re:AirPods 5 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:12PM (#49635242)
Sound quality is worse when transmitting and receiving over Bluetooth, when I use the AirPods for calls on the MacBook I switch to the microphone on the MacBook, they will hear me better and I will hear them better since the AirPods will use all the bandwidth for outputting audio only.

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