Kudos to you for posting for the sake of denying them. I won't watch because I'd rather keep blind; I actually really enjoyed GTAV (once it was on PC and sold for next to nothing lol) and I'll probably get this several years after release the same way. I'm remarkably good at avoiding spoilers for unreasonable amounts of time (e.g. I found out the cake was a lie a decade after Portal released, lol).

Also fyi, GTA games are generally good and you can tell the writers and world builders had fun with it despite their shit management. It's not a bad idea to pirate or buy at a strict discount to at least see the story they created. Plus, I'm an LA native and GTAV is practically a documentary!

Your sign is the wrong way, you're asking for a price tag greater than $50, hehe.

But I agree!

Ironically, the comic artist Red Dot lives a weirdly healthy life while her character is mostly just a wine lady, but her fans get to know way too much about her sentient butt plug.

Yeah, I figured Chromebook is just the next generation of this stuff and the mac gifting is probably on decline now that they've got their market share. It's good to hear an edtech perspective though. It's all about cost at this point, I imagine...

People who think 60% is too low haven't met a young person in a while, I think... virtually everyone in every class I teach uses Apple computers or tablets; I'm absolutely not surprised that's where most of the change has gone, at least for personal use. (And in the US specifically)

That said, I'd have thought the 30% mac share was earlier than 2010, this suggests that it's more recent? Apple might as well been running a psyop to get young people to use their products since the 90s. I remember when I was in middle school, they "generously" donated a lab full of those colorful iMacs to my school. Seems it might have been the first computer many of my peers had even touched, too.

I mean, there were like three announced just today so I don't even know if this rule can apply. Although I didn't even believe a person named Jaye P. Morgan was real, before my time but really? JP Morgan?

But yeah, my count is like 5 high profiles in just three days.

Ironically, the US is practically already off MS in schools and has been for a while but it's Mac and Google Suite that took over. I literally had a college student in my class ask "What is Excel?" as it was listed as an option to conduct calculations.

It's not better, but I thought that was funny. Big reason that happened, btw, Apple gifted whole computer labs to schools back when it was trying to get market share in the 90s, and now Google does likewise with Chromebook. Too bad there isn't a Linux organization with enough money to do something like that, as it's much more effective than banning something.

Really, doesn't even take long. When I bought my first place here in Los Angeles, the mortgage was 2.6k, rent 2.2k for comparable places.

Then boom, somehow it's 3.2k rent now and I'm paying 2.6k four years later. That's fucked up, of course, but that's how it works.

Wow, that's wild. I guess there's still a market for dialup, even in the age of mobile and satellite.

Or you're a teenager making fat stacks with multiple ad bars. And by fat stacks, I mean fractions of a cent.

There was an ISP that also gave a discount (or was it free?) if you had the ad bar running. NetZero was it?

Haha, it's even worse in academics because anything from students is protected. Unless they host on campus, it's a violation even if MS super duper promises not to leak information. It's also why we can't use ChatGPT, though fools still do.

Edit: I mean for grading, asking a clanker is still fine but a terrible idea.

Unfortunately yes, although it's hopefully not commonplace for my ad bloated W11 start menu to take 10 seconds to open.