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Most likely, they simply thought the machines would live long enough to be the next guy’s problem.

Wouldn’t the business license say still be for Twitter, with a DBA “X”?

Well, that’s it, boys. We’ve gone full Blade Runner.

Yup. Could’ve been a future where they went from Xbox 360 to Xbox 720 to Xbox 1080 and so on. They probably got scared that some of the audience would have thought that the Xbox 720 would only do 720p, then crapped the bed.

That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.

Haha! Physical media has been “slowly going away” since before UHD existed as a format. Just keep buying whatever format you like and distributors will keep it going. Look at all the catalog titles and niche (often limited special run) titles still being added to UHD.

“You won’t believe character #3!!!”

Unless these people paid a premium for this kind of “smart” device vs. the cost of a basic version.

Are “product” (PM, PO) and “engineering” (people who write the code) one and the same where you work? Or are they separate factions?

The extra fun part is when it starts bitching at you for filling up the cloud storage allotment that you didn’t know you were using.

The school could switch to a K12 comms provider that actually meets the needs of the school’s end users (you). There are good options out there that enable easy multi-channel (email, SMS, voice, Twitter, etc) messaging through like two button clicks.

Or, even worse, they want to apply some of the rules, cherry-picking bits and pieces of a framework without truly understanding it.

Obligatory “DDG is Bing without Microsoft’s tracking.” Just calling a spade a spade.

Interesting! Did your results have that copilot summary thing? I get most of my answers there without having to visit a handful of ad-laden sites myself, though it also cites its references in case I don’t trust the summary.

Have you just, I dunno, used Bing?

Gonna be an unpopular opinion, but for me Bing is more useful than DDG. Note that I didn’t say, “better”… I know that increase in relevance of results for Bing stems from the fact that they roll all my historical info into what they serve up.

Actually true. They hooked me in the golden era of rewards points and I’ll be damned if it isn’t way better than Google now. Bing image search is especially great. Even their copilot thing (RIP Cortana) is useful.

Would it be possible to add (smoother, in some cases) integration with music services? Imagine one library that could reach into Spotify, Tidal, etc. all in one player.

Hey, hey, now! It doesn’t just write full emails from merely a single sentence… it also summarizes full emails down to one sentence on the other end.

I went the route of a physical collection, but man do they make it difficult unless you get a commercial player that is likely to have ads and doesn’t integrate well into a home theater setup.

What? Where are you seeing this issue?

I grabbed a Panasonic UHD player and it’s been a dream. Zero ads, HDMI control so I can use the same remote that works with my TV and receiver, it has full Atmos and Dolby Vision support so the quality is amazing… truly the whole package. And it’s available everywhere you’d expect.

I came to the comments hoping for the same thing.