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I almost always look to ebay, or the local used sources (some secondhand bookstores have huge DVD/Bluray and CD sections, it's absolutely worth checking local shops). The prices can't be beat. And if you don't feel like setting up a Plex or Jellyfin server, or running Kodi, etc, you can get a...

this was an excellent article, thank you Ars team. I really enjoyed reading it!

Why just yesterday I was looking at my T-Mobile bill and marveling at how they're providing the exact same service I used to have but at a higher price. Obviously, since I am paying more now, that means the data I get is higher quality than it used to be! It pairs wonderfully with the...

Given how a lot of companies are run these days, they'd have to show a completion time of less than a quarter and a significant savings in time for the next earnings call before they'd even consider it.

My last two employers constantly questioned the pricing of vmware licenses. One of them was a... I don't remember the term, developer partner or something like that, where they were actively developing a version of their product that ran on vmware. They had hundreds of ESXi licenses, half a...

I see a few problems. 1) their search results have turned into pages of sponsored ads 2) SEO makes the search results even less useful 3) machine generated SEO spam is everywhere now, making the search results even less useful 4) the AI was trained on the internet and uses the...

Yes, I read the article. They’re not going to retroactively rename. They’re not going to introduce new processors with old naming schemes. That means either: we’re going to see mobile processors from AMD from different generations with different naming schemes, or, they are going to retire...

I want to say I blame the OEMs for even making this necessary, but it's AMD (and Intel's) fault, too. Mostly it's marketing departments. And what an awkward handful to type. Since they need a whole new naming scheme and they won't be retroactively renaming older processors, does that mean they...

I understand there's a lot of politics and money at play, but this is fairly close to home, and Centralia is also fairly close to home. And the gas boundary, according to the maps, isn't that far off. I would prefer they not try hydro-exploding holes in the ground to get the gas out, in...

This all just highlights that no part of any of this has ever been an “AI” and continuing to present it this way is misleading at best. It’s just parroting back whatever it has been fed, including nonsense joke posts, or making up its own nonsense, and Google (and everyone else) is too focused...

before Google we had... web directories with sites broken down by category. Yeah - there weren't yet so many websites that this was practical. Most of the sites had their own "links" section so you could go to one e.g. tech hobbyist website and find links to more of them. We eventually got...

I don't know that this is specifically relevant to the article, but maybe it is to the discussion: one of the things that irked me about Discovery season 3 was the whole idea that dilithium was fuel. I can't recall when this idea was first presented but I know it was heavily leaned on in that...

Seriously - I really enjoyed the first season, second season a bit less so when they started to bring in all the side characters and it took some time away from the main trio. By the third season there was so much mage political backstabbing drama going on, and it was such a focus of each...

So like… an AI robot dog with an AI gun, is that a risk?

Think of all the exciting things they keep talking about with the Pixel Tablet! I'm sure they are preparing many new tablet-related features for it at this very moment! They have certainly spent a lot of time continuing to talk it up in the press and at tradeshows and at conferences to remind...

I agree! Though I also feel the need to mention - and only with regards to GrapheneOS: a large number of banking apps work, and they specifically address this in their user guide. (Netflix might too, reports from late last year were that it was working but I haven't looked recently). Not sure...

One of the big “advantages” (depending on how much you like your android) the Pixel phones have always had is excellent AOSP support (Graphene, Lineage, etc). So if you’re an AOSP fan and like to run your phones with one of those builds instead, IMO a price drop on the pixel 7a is still worth...

I got the notice about the "incident" yesterday, and then today, somehow, got an "expiring warranty notification" email for a system that I don't recognize, have never actually owned and is not in my account's list of associated products. It looks like a legit email and even has Dell's correct...

Yeah, this has been a problem for a while now, and not just with Amazon. The home screen on my "smart" TV (runs an older version of Android TV) used to just display some kind of ad for whatever sponsored content it got from installed apps, regardless of age settings. Because age settings and...

Oh my gosh, they actually did it. There's four different Apple Pencils now, each compatible with different models and offering different features. I... I was just joking! I didn't really want them to do that!