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Seriously, the pass Valve gets from allowing a gambling empire to piggyback on their API and profit from the lootboxes that fuel it is crazy to me. "Yeah they might have a pseudo-monopoly but their product is good, I think the 30% cut is fine." would be laughed at in most other sectors. They barely even try for their market position, people just rejected competition and scream it's not Steam because "I don't want multiple launchers"

Even if Star Citizen released tomorrow, exactly as Chris Roberts envisioned, everything was flawless, how many players could they realistically attract? It feels like most people who will ever want to play Star Citizen has played it. I'm worried what's left for Star Citizen is to keep monetizing their existing playerbase, not that their current playerbase is going to run dry of funds anytime soon.

I was working on a Rails project and had a YouTube video playing in the background, its a 49whr battery and the CPU can easily burst above 15w and usually sustains around 7w plus backlight and all the other components of a laptop, a sustained power draw of 15w while doing development work isn't unusual.

Heavy doubt on the sold to another person story. This sounds like a file was orphaned from its database entry and re-indexed. If you wipe your device like it was supposed to before you sell on your device, the data would be gone and it wouldn't have a remote source like iCloud to sync from either.

Hasn't been that way in a decade. If you use nand flash there's a huge chance you're using trim which will periodically overwrite "not in use" blocks to avoid a write penalty later as writing to an empty page is much quicker.

So was asking her to reconsider 2 days before the demo, how blatant can you get

I can't fathom such a bad decision as asking someone for permission to use their voice and doing it anyway after they say no. It's almost like NYT is currently suing them for unauthorized use and they should really not be making such an amateur mistake.

Lenovo claimed 28h on their last arm laptop, real world was more like 10 for light tasks and 2 to 4 for heavier work like development

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chip laptops are only just getting there. Last time I tried to daily it maybe 6 months ago, they didn't even have hardware rendering on the GPU, everything was rendered on the CPU. Ubuntu and Armbian have custom images for the x13s, no idea about the Volterra but it's much worse than the windows on ARM experience for that laptop and that's saying something.

I still won't believe it until reviewers get hands on. In October 2022 I wanted an efficient laptop for web development but didn't want to grab a mac, so I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X13s with the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which Qualcomm made similar promises about and it lived up to exactly 0% of them. The main draw, the battery life was worse than my old Blade 14 that ran Fedora, windows on ARM and their current emulation continues to suck, every so often core services would just not work. The Linux support is only just barely getting there, Ubuntu and Armbian have custom images, where a lot of stuff still doesn't work. The camera will never work because of proprietary blobs and the battery life is way worse than windows, no suspend, audio barely works, etc. And those aren't just problems of Lenovo or that thinkpad it stems from the platform. I ended up buying a macbook a few weeks ago and it was 2 years late, should have got it in the first place.