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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:41PM (#50345825)
Apple could eat the console market alive with the Apple TV. The hardware and performance is there but they don’t seem to care about it.
I've yet to see an actual premium EV akin to the ICE cars from Lexus, Acura, or Genesis.

In fact that's my problem with all EVs because EVEN Lexus, Acura, and Genesis is not sticking to their premium quality when they release an EV version of their ICE cars. The Lexus ES ICE is legendary. The Lexus ES EV looks like a plastic coffin with 2 tablets. It's probably the zeigeist of car designs and/or my taste but I feel all EVs look the same without much personality. Not even mentioning the chinese brands because Geely, Leapmotor, BYD etc all look the same to me.

Say we have a Lexus LX 600 https://www.lexus.com/models/LX Why does this car can't be released as is, the same design and same interior but with an EV drivetrain?

> Same reason poor schools mandate uniforms

The top 6 countries in the annual PISA test are all asian countries where uniforms are mandatory in public and private education (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, HK)

Re:Private Jet plane crashes in Florida on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:55AM (#50336186)
It looked like a missile https://streamable.com/lg0on2
>The Greens are a niche party in the UK

Are they really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U...

Last year they did open registration before christmas
> Some EU countries even charge you a copyright tax when you buy a smartphone per gigabyte because they just assume that you'll fill every gigabyte with pirated music.

I live in Hungary where this is common but it's more like a "you pay tax for storage which goes to the labels, in turn we don't prosecute piracy" https://www.artisjus.hu/english/copyright-in-hungary/

Mind you we have a hungarian private torrent tracker with 400k users and 2.7 petabyte of data running since 2005. Virtually everyone is using it in the country but no one really wants to shut it down because at this point it's also a cultural archive.

Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:50AM (#50314044)
Yes if you jailbreak it

It removes the region lock and you can set the system language to english. The eShop was shutdown already so that doesn’t matter

I live in Europe: My only “concern” about chinese cars (and I don’t mean chinese as in Volvo) that I am not sure you will get parts and service in 10 or 15 years. More than 500 unique models were released in the first 6 months of 2026 alone [0]. It’s like the wild west of Android phones 10-15 years ago. Brands you never heared about, never updated Android versions etc

0, https://www.carscoops.com/2026/08/chinese-automakers-lauchin...

Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:54AM (#50271569)
> Most people here probably have around $5-10M in assets given we’re mostly in tech

Nothing against you OP but this the perfect highlight how out of touch HN can be from the reality.

Re:Show HN: Encarta 95 Web on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:12AM (#50257372)
I still have my boxed copy of Encarta 2001. The interactive world atlas was the best feature! Miles ahead of everything at the time. Multiple layers of stats from population to weather to languages etc https://youtu.be/zsbShjlh6xk?si=4U47LILUmKPfXgPY&t=320
Also there is security. I think, I just guess, these old 16bit file formats are all exploitable to some extent
Installed MS Office 2.0 some months ago with it just for fun. It actually works pretty well apart from the dictionary files, for some reason those are not recognized

https://files.catbox.moe/dy4bqy.png

I’ve used it for a week just I was curious:

1, is it good enough for modern day to day word processing (mostly emails)? Yes it is

2, can the modern word processors (Office 365, LibreOffice, Google Docs) recognize and open the files created with it? (doc, rtf anything but plain text) Yes they can

Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:29PM (#50248627)
Only the 512GB version gets the full fledged A20 Pro CPU (6 core 7 core GPU), the 128 and 256GB version only gets the 5 core CPU.
Most people prefer censored internet as long as it aligns with their political leaning. Maybe that wasn't the case 15 years ago but it's pretty much true nowadays. I myself consider this as a fact.
Re:Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:00AM (#50230694)
People should really read the whole thing (well at least the last chapter) because it's not as simple as "vibe coders made meg go away".

The writer equally hates ZUN, vibe coders, and AI haters (Bluesky crowd)

And if not then the TLDR is basically: ZUN made the games for japanese people. Western people wanted to play the games. Reverse engineers came along but they relied on community funding. Now the community is taken apart by vibe coders but the same community is not willing to fund manual labor. Also the community is still paying for ZUN which enforces the status quo of not bothering with english releases.

You can close both menus
oof it has nothing to do with Picasa which was a library manager and looked like this https://static.filehorse.com/screenshots/photo-and-design/pi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M

This is just a vibe coded image viewer, nothing else https://i.imgur.com/uBxUj8d.jpeg

Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:12PM (#50224700)
Trickle-down AI economics here we go! Suuurely it will work this time, any minute now don't worry about it.
Re:One Must Fall 2097 Remastered on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:31AM (#50221608)
You don't even need to look at the code or anything. This ultra-verbose readme is the perfect sign of AI. 34,000 characters lol
Re:OBS Studio 33 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:47AM (#50220012)
'download_count' is part of the REST API https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets
Re:OBS Studio 33 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:26AM (#50219262)
Why are the binary releases hosted on a 3rd party site and not on Github?
Then you watch The Birds (1963) and you wonder if are we birdwatching or are the birds watching?
Re:OpenSSL 4.1.0 on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:10AM (#50208430)
> Dropped Windows-on-Itanium (VC-WIN64I) and Windows CE (VC-CE) targets from Configurations.

What a throwback. afaik Windows Server 2008 R2 had Itanium updates until 2020 and paid support until this year. Pretty good run to say at least

Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:28AM (#50194390)
Don't need to buy the game.

Make a JP Nintendo account and download the demo (not available globally) https://store-jp.nintendo.com/item/software/D70010000010547

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