I didn’t even know there was a 4!

I’ve bought very few microtransactions and the most satisfying was the Delorean Time Machine from Back to the Future in Rocket League

Didn’t enabling audio mean you couldn’t have 4 players connected while in use, though? But, if you’re using headphones you probably don’t have more than one player anyway.

Just to clarify, “you” in this case refers to companies and marketers, not consumers. Looks like this news website is for marketers/SEO industry people.

It looks fun, but that price is going to be something to make me pause

Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return

“It is my conviction that all of this should have been a part of the Thunderbird universe a decade ago," Sipes says. “The absence of web services from us means that our users must make compromises that are often uncomfortable ones. This is how we correct that.”

Desperate for cash and the money from Google might be going away soon because of the antitrust case? Can’t take them on directly in Search; this honestly seems like one of the better ventures for them to go to. Still, 10 years ago would’ve been better and Mozilla squandered some of the goodwill they had in recent years; I’d be a little more reticent about moving my digital presence over now.

I liked this read when considering legal ramifications for hosting content. It is U.S. focused so it might not be applicable to someone in another country.

When you say the BIOS update works, are you seeing something on the screen? If you connect the computer to an external monitor do you see anything?

In a sense what they’re describing here sort of already happened almost 40 years ago from Captain Midnight knocking HBO off-air.

Yes, like I just learned about gearhead.town which is focused on vehicles (cars, motorcycles, etc.), which is an idea I’d had myself but I’m nowhere near skilled enough to operate an instance right now.

My question is more, if I want to comment, how do I decide where it goes? I assume if I’m replying to a specific comment on a post, my reply will just show up there, but if I’m making a top-level comment, can I choose which community it goes in, or perhaps send the same comment to every community? Maybe a comment is appropriate in one community but not another.

How does it handle posting comments, deciding where to put them?

That seems pretty logical

This blog post is from December 23, 2023. It looks like there was only one newer blog post, from November 2024.

They had a fairly detailed blog post a few days or weeks ago about the rollout. The plan is to bring it to open source but they’re still working on issues with it that are easier to control on their own servers. IIRC the code for it is actually in the open source version but disabled. I think they said if you know what you’re doing you could go into the code to enable it but it’s unusably slow right now, or something like that.

I was using it by 2020 for sure, so it predates the macOS and iOS feature. This was most handy in ERP software we were using that had most info display in unselectable windows. Really annoying when you wanted to copy something like a part number or invoice and put it in an email. This got us around that, and when macOS added the feature it still didn’t help us since these weren’t images.

The Power Toys link says it’s based on Joe Finney’s Text Grab, and at the bottom of its GitHub page it links to the TextSniper app as the Mac version, with an affiliate link. I’m guessing that means the Mac app was inspired by the Windows program.

No, this predates having it on either iOS or macOS by a year or two. I still found it more useful because this doesn’t require using images; the vast majority of my usage was when working for a company that had stupid ERP software where much of the data was displayed onscreen but couldn’t be copied.