Shit like this will continue to happen until governments start enforcing interoperable open standards and resume enforcing antitrust laws, which were, in practice, suspended for a long time, for whatever reason.

Which will never happen if we keep ending up with republicans every 4 years. Sad state of affairs, but technology will remain corporate as long as people are awful putting their money where their mouth is (or time, in the case of social web)

Electricity production vs electricity waste, the choice is pretty obvious honestly.

Ignoring the fact that I also don't think I could trust any company in 2026 to maintain a nuclear power plant well, it feels like we've actually gone backwards in that front specifically.

Zelda 2 is really flawed, but it

• Expanded NPC dialog and world-building that hints at the location of key items and upgrades or some semblance of "side quest" design (excluding old man in caves original zelda design, that kind of counts too granted)
• Has a decent combat system with high/low/block and interesting enemy design, arguably leading more diversity of monsters than the top down Zeldas.
• Featured a "leveling" system that gives players choice between magic or health depending on playstyle (this would eventually return with how upgrades worked in BotW or TotK, and was removed from the US release IIRC)
• Has some decent songs here or there.

Granted, all of this is ignoring that the games difficulty is crazy hard and basically requires you to play with a guide if you want any chance of playing the game well. However, the reaction to the 2D aspect is far overblown when you consider that the original Zelda also features 2D platforming segments that weren't as well designed as Zelda 2's. Zelda 1 is the better game, mind you, as the design is more punctual due to the lack of the systems above, but I think that OoT starting as effectively a remake of Zelda 2 says a lot that Miyamoto wasn't quite ready to give up the ideas from that game (and I think helped inform the basis of the z-targeting system, which simplified attacking and defending mechanics.)

No, the prompt won't respond to non keyboard input devices. You have to click with a mouse or keyboard.

There should really be a timeout confirmation, you know, like most prompts of this sort. It's a pretty big design flaw imo.

NGL, I kind of like Zelda 2. Even if it's a bad sequel to the original Zelda.

No, believe it or not it used to be Netflix because it was so high in the stock market value.

By design, too.

More cases of "rules for thee and not for me", of course. You won't see the DOJ arresting anyone in the Trump family making the same kind of bets.

If this guy's lawyer is smart about this, they should ask for discovery on specific instances of insider trading that we know about like the Iran bombing bets made on Kalshi or similar platforms. It would probably be a quick way to get the case dismissed or at least settled out.

The world's first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

I wish Europe would just embrace the fediverse. The techno oligarchs are not your friends and most of them are invested in the US.

Electron is the only cross platform gui toolkit...

If you ignore QT, GTK and everything else.

I'm so glad that Microsoft makes an awesome cross platfor--- wait, no, but they contribute code to--- hmmm ... Hey, what does Microsoft do to make apps more portable again?

The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.