Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.

And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.

Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.

Any examples?

If they included mounting and made it easy to mount your own speakers sure.

Or just killed by reality. Just because it has been (hypothetically) invented doesn’t mean that it’s easy or even possible to manufacture at a large scale and/or at a reasonable price.

But why, some say, the Switch? Why did they choose this as their goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 98 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

They choose to go to mod a Switch. They choose to mod a Switch in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…

Yes, I think that’s the point. They just wanted to play PS3 games, they would probably just buy a PS3 for cheap and be done with it.

But this person obviously thought it was more interesting to mod a switch to do it and I fully agree.

This person is the same type of person that makes DOOM run inside a PDF, or something else weird.

Through the magic of some basic research I found out that the image was likely taken in Somerset, UK

Here is a bigger image.

And here is an image supposedly taken in Somerset, UK. https://www.dreamstime.com/outdoor-outlet-mall-street-somerset-uk-outdoor-outlet-mall-street-somerset-uk-november-image130692146

The photo looks to have been taken around 51.1280652, -2.7406081

Apart from the fact that the location is wrong, it looks quite possible that the white signs and lines are photoshopped. Not that it really matters anyways, but right should be right.

Edit 1: it might actually be real:

~~https://www.totalguidetobath.com/shopping/clarks-village-introduces-texting-lanes/~~

~~https://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/12606739.somerset-shopping-centre-introduces-texting-lanes/~~

Edit 2: Just noticed that article was published on the 31 march and I found another article that confirms that the image started spreading since then: https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2015-04-01/text-lanes-introduced-in-shopping-centre/

Unfortunately I was unable to find the original post by the mall.

TL:DR: It’s an April fools joke from 2015 by a shopping mall in the UK.

FYI: You can still use windows offline and without an account if you use Pro or Enterprise and I assume education edition.

Oh, I didn’t know they mentioned vscode specifically.

In that case I’m sorry for disturbing.

Technically it could be argued that they attempted to implement it, even if they failed 🤷

Any details?

Just saying the catch phrase “Embrace, extend, extinguish” doesn’t give any context or information whatsoever.

Doesn’t the internet ridicule everyone who slips up though?

Worst mecha ever.

That depends on your criteria for success. It is hilarious which should elevate its status somewhat.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

Considering that any server with one of these is likely to have two of them, that’s quite a lot of heat to dissipate.

A cpu also generally needs to be kept cooler than a space heater.

My home server has a row of surprisingly powerful and small fans and that’s just for a few years old dual Xeon system. I have never personally been (knowing) near a GPU farm but I have been behind a crazy ass router (Cisco ASR 9000 something) that’s like 10+ U. The airflow behind the router is crazy.

384 threads is fucking bizarre!

I would like to see the fans needed to cool this in a 2U or even 1U case. They must be comparable to a leaf blower…

Maybe someone just forgot to run copy running-config startup-config lol

No, that’s fortunately not correct. TLS certificates issued by our CA are valid for 2 years and that works perfectly fine in all the browsers I have ever used.

Did she commit any crimes against humanity then?

You know that’s a very serious accusation right?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I’m on your side mate.

I’m equally annoyed when people want civilians to die no matter who.