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?

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.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

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

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

I’m on your side mate.

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

It’s very clear sometimes who wants suffering and who actually wants peace.

Highwayman in my ass.

Of course you don’t participate in peacekeeping missions. You guys don’t want peace. You quite obviously want war.

Well, they believe that they are the world police.

Windows has a built in firewall, so why install a paid one?

Obviously recall is bad but for fuck sakes don’t use company property for watching porn.

We don’t know for sure yet.

For example here is a study seemingly published by the department of subdomains and acronyms: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11773639/

RESULTS

We included 39 studies in the main analysis and 12 in the subgroup analysis. Of these, 2 were longitudinal observational studies, 9 were cross-sectional studies, 1 case report and 27 were cell/in vitro and animal studies. All human studies were conducted in adults, and about half of them had a low risk of bias. No significant incident or prevalent risk of lung cancer or other types of cancer was found in the never smoker current vapers population. However, there was substantial biomarker-based evidence of a significant association between e-cigarette exposure and oxidative stress, cellular apoptosis, DNA damage, genotoxicity, and tumor growth, particularly following acute exposure. We did not find any age or sex-based differences in cancer risk, and findings on race and education-based differences were insufficient.

CONCLUSIONS

There is substantial evidence that e-cigarette exposure is associated with biomarkers reflective of cancer disease risk. However, the overall evidence on cancer risk is still limited and should be further investigated by future research, particularly rigorously designed clinical trials and population-based research.

Either way, purposefully inhaling toxic chemicals is pretty stupid.

I have no mouth and I must scream tell the staff that I have woken up.

It sounds like you shouldn’t buy the switch regardless of cost if you don’t want to play any Nintendo games on it.

I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.

I.e point your MX records to them.

Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.