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It’s not even just about shoving AI into everything. That would be bad enough but this feature is literally useless, and it isn’t as if Microsoft doesn’t have a plethora of other features people want them to work on.

How about inventing Windows airdrop? Or spend some time unifying the UI so it doesn’t all look like it was developed by two separate teams working independently. Nah, let’s just build some spy software.

Hell I’d even accept them spending some time making a non-shit version of Teams

I don’t really understand who this is even aimed at. Anyone who needs to keep records of their work to refer back to already uses some kind of record keeping system such as version control or ticket creation. When I’m doing that I don’t need to keep a record of all of the ancillary actions I’m doing.

Web browsers have history, files can be reverted to previous versions in Windows already, as I said version control software exists (Github is even owned by Microsoft) and there is already software such as Shadow play.

Who exactly is going to be using Recall that doesn’t already have a perfectly good, and actually dedicated, solution in place?

That’s an easy problem to solve you just hash the database. Blockchain is good at solving the problem when you don’t have a reliable central authority but if you do have a reliable central authority there’s no point adding blockchain to it.

And we already have the reliable central authority, we have the original database.

Right but the planets being in particular locations in the sky doesn’t really result in astrologists saying a particular thing is going to happen. They basically just make something up and then decide that’s what the planet says. They could basically just ignore the positions of the planet and it wouldn’t really make any difference.

Otherwise history would repeat every couple of decades.

Yeah and the director of the FBI sells guy healing crystals.

Oh yes blockchain the solution to the world’s problem. Provided the world’s problem is that the current solution works too well and we don’t like that.

We need to back this data up but that doesn’t require anything anywhere near as complicated and over-engineered as blockchain, we can just have something as simple as multiple servers.

I’ve seen code where all the comments were simply URL references to tickets on a now deleted Trello board. Great, real helpful thanks.

Right but my point is they would just submit the request to the host server. If the original is taken down then all the federated service will lose the comments as well.

If the host server just straight up ignores turkey then they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon and say mastered on is a rogue element. Better you just remove the offending comment

Blue Sky isn’t in a country that is closely allied with turkey. They could have totally ignored these requests but then Blue Sky would have just been banned in Turkey

I sort of feel like that’s not really relevant. How would being decentralised make any difference, the government would just go after the server owners regardless of who they are. If the server owners didn’t honour the takedown requests turkey would just ban the server IP and no one would be able to access.

Federation isn’t a solution to every problem

It’s not about discussion. There isn’t two opinions here there is the fact they’re not doing that and me explaining why they’re not doing that.

It’s not more powerful than the steam deck.

The steam deck is a portable computer the switch can only play switch games. Those games are hugely expensive, and the price is controlled by nintendo who infamously never decrease their game prices even after 10 years.

But I repeat myself.

Seriously I just explained why they don’t have a choice, and you’re like, nah they’re still going to do it, even though I literally explained why that can’t happen. Did you even read my comment?

Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.

£1,585.73

Not bad for 16 years I guess.

Technically it isn’t.

The company has a price for the product, importers import the product at that price (sometimes the importer will also be the manufacturer, but that doesn’t actually make a difference as far as the calculation is concerned), then some official shows up and demands an import tariff, the important pays the tariff.

The shelf price is calculated as the total cost to the importer + a profit margin + sales tax. The tariff just gets lumped into the cost for the importer. Sales tax doesn’t make a distinction about how the price is arrived at.

It would be worth it if it cost $50. Of course it never would cost $50.

It would be worth it if it cost the same as the first switch and if the games weren’t so expensive. There is a price point at which it is actually a good value product, but it’s so far beyond that price point now, even without tariffs.

Haven’t they already announced the price?

If they tried to spread the cost amongst everyone no one would buy the switch is already borderline unreasonably expensive. Limiting the price increase to only the tariffed country means they’ll only lose out on the American market not the everyone else in the world market, which is bigger.

Monopoly was around before pong.