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OTOH, people are used to buying computers outright (or putting them on a credit card). Plus it's yet another subscription.

Given most people seem to pay for their phones on installments, the same for computers might work? Especially thanks to price hikes from the AI craze affecting PC parts.

BREAKING: Apple just crossed a $5 trillion market cap for the first time ever during intraday trading. It becomes only the second public company to reach the milestone. The lead up to this moment 🔗 https://9to5mac.com/...

Apple Upgrade Is A Subscription Program For The Company's Devices www.engadget.com/2224951/appl...

Summer, Sports Drive Streaming to 48.6% of TV Viewership in May www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

we need to teach console players that the thing they hate has a name and it's "DRM"

Today's the day Batman first fought Catwoman. (Comic art by Dario Brizuela, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Darwyn Cooke/Spike Brandt.) #1976DCCalendar #DCComics #comics #Batman #Catwoman #ScoobyDoo #LooneyTunes

New post: A list of my recommended Linux distros, from Linux Mint to Fedora to CachyOS. (And for those who don't want to switch to Linux, but hate the direction Windows is going, there's always just buying a Mac.) www.diversetechgeek.com/recommended-... #Linux #tech

I know that I’m not the deciding vote. But I watch one 1️⃣ movie per year. I would literally watch every major movie if they had intermissions. I absolutely promise that

Answering my own question: A) it might mean one less movie showing a day, which modern multiplex chains and media conglomerates apparently can't spare, and B) movie directors throwing a fit at the idea of their Cecil B. DeMille-esque epics being "tampered."

Every form of entertainment besides movies have some type of intermission: theatrical plays, sports (hockey calls their between-period breaks such), speeches, TV shows (ads/pausing), video games (pausing). Why are movies now the sole exception, especially when they're running 3+ hours long?

From June: What are the least problematic streaming services / home video options? www.diversetechgeek.com/least-proble... #streaming #homevideo #physicalmedia #PBS

As I said about cryptocurrency, if you want an alternative to using big banks, one already exists: credit unions. They do most of the same things as banks, but are nonprofit (so won't interest the likes of Elon Musk).

Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Who'd be stupid or gullible enough to give any banking info to Musk/the site formerly known as Twitter? X Money is launching in the US starting today | The Verge www.theverge.com/tech/971649/... #Twitter #ElonMusk

It's Bugs Bunny's birthday. 86 years old! Old enough to seek US reelection.

Dear god did you really refer to it as "the Department of War"

I came of age when anime was still "weird foreign cartoons with giant eyes"/"not normal cartoons like sentient talking animals trying to murder each other/a beer swilling bald guy choking his son/a vampire-dressed guy throwing bat shaped boomerangs at a murder clown." 🙂

"Throwing my voice across vast distances is cool... but mid-2010s mobile games are even better!" *Supergirl downloads Pokémon Go and Bejeweled along with Angry Birds*