IT dingus from Germany who’ll move to Australia soon™
I was at a large electronics retailer here in Germany recently and a new Xbox Series X was 599€ (launch price was 499€). A digital-only PS5 was 499€ (launch price was 399€).
The hardware hasn’t changed at all, apart from minor revisions maybe, since launch mind you.
Half their ego is just money
Two assholes fighting over what is more or less pocket change to them, big woop
I’ll tell you once I get that cheque
Good for him I guess
Is it really this hard to just say “no” to Microslop? You’re realising that it’ll hurt the country and its population (as well as the environment and by extension literally every single person on earth), why the fuck would you put you own personal wealth first?
I don’t get that mindset.
Good for him.
Ever wanted to live in the environment depicted in the Black Mirror episode Metalhead?
No? Well, tough luck
Well, in my experience Android DAPs tend to be so underpowered they can’t even run their stock version of Android smoothly.
I’m not subscribed to any video streaming sites, too pricey for just watching one thing once in a while. As for audio, I have Tidal and so far it has been quite good actually; but if that ever changes I’ll just revert back to physical media/piracy.
Steam sales tend to be pretty good, what’s even better is that keysites tend to drop the price accordingly.
Apple TV+ isn’t too bad IMO… IF you use it on an Apple device, everywhere else it’s shit
I’d be more concerned about the lack of a dedicated DAC in a device promising high fidelity audio
Look, I don’t care how many sides it has as long as it doesn’t get stuck on everything.
Well, it’s a good thing I can’t afford a new car anyway…
No touchscreen is tough I’ll admit. I’m sure you’ve already looked at the FiiO M3K, that one even has a Rockbox port.
I can recommend the FiiO X5II as a no-thrills modern-ish player (it’s basically a hi-res iPod). It’s 10 years old but you can change the battery pretty easily and there are options to mod the firmware yourself.
I see someone is late to the nostalgia-bait articles party… You know that dedicated music players are still a thing now? You don’t have to always use a fucking iPod.
I do like iPods mind you but there are better modern alternatives if you want a daily driver. It’s nice that they want to talk about solutions for people who want to get away from their phone I guess, but a 20-year-old device is not the solution for most people.
What was that about Windows K2 again? Ah, who cares
Wow, a mysterious set of updates that’ll fix everything, without any release date or explanation?
Yeah nah, it’ll be great if it works out but something tells me it might just not. Taking on SteamOS… Good luck with that.
At least they’re still trusting their software engineers to use it. My employer hired a bunch of people for their “AI taskforce”, the leader of which can’t even be bothered to use a password on his vibecoded SQL database full of sensitive company data. And you can bet your ass he’s getting paid three times as much as anyone in the IT department.
Best thing is that they’re expecting us to take care of their mistakes.