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  1. The way the emails are worded is incredibly shitty and arrogant (as expected), however I don't really see anything wrong with requiring workers to be in office. If Tesla is seeing reduced productivity with most of their office staff working from home, then it makes sense to have people work in the office. One thing I do find interesting/troubling (but, also, unsurprising) about the emails is the mention of a minimum of 40 hours and saying that it's less than they expect of faculty workers. This seems to mean that both office and factory workers are being required to work more than 40 hours a week. I hope they're all being adequately compensated for all the mandatory overtime being put in, and if they are not I hope they all sue Tesla. On another note: The tone of the emails certainly say a whole hell of a lot about how Musk feels about his employees and likely how he treats them. I have to wonder what moral is like at Tesla and how that plays into the QA issues related to the vehicles. I've seen a lot worse from companies regarding employee treatment, but it really doesn't feel like something that's going to increase employee engagement or make them happy to come into work.
  2. A lot of what Sega is doing with this collection is really garbage., which is a pity as I was somewhat interested in the slightly upressed versions of the games. As it stands now, however, I'm not even going to bother. Pity. Though, OP. I do have one question. Why do you keep saying Nintendo instead of Sega? Nintendo does a lot of their own shitty things, but they have no involvement in the shitty things Sega is doing.
  3. While it's possible I don't really see Apple going that route. In typical Apple fashion, they'd be more likely to find a way to spin the change into something that makes them look good. Let's not forget the whole "brave" marketing around removing the headphone jack or the "reducing waste" nonsense around removing the wall plug. I also wouldn't be surprised if they still found some kind of loophole that would allow them to make money from this.
  4. Here's the thing: We don't want individual companies coming up with their own proprietary crap. This does nothing to stifle innovation as any new charging standard will be developed by consortiums, like all modern cable standards are. It has been a long time since any singular entity created their own connector that became an industry wide standard. The USB-IF won't stop working on new versions of USB due to this ruling, the IEC won't cease adopting new cable standards due to it either.
  5. Apple’s cables are garbage. The braided ones don’t have that problem. Apple’s USB-C cables likely have the same problem, but they haven’t been out long enough to become as noticeable.
  6. They could try to fight it with a lawsuit, but I’m not sure how effective that would be. This ruling won’t allow them to use dongles to get around it. They really can’t redesign the phones to make them too thin to have a port. They can’t go portless. There really aren’t that many options left that aren’t just going along with it.
  7. I agree. There have been so many rumors and leaks around Apple dropping Lightening the last few years that I’d be very surprised to learn that they haven’t been sitting around and waiting for the EU to make this move.
  8. iPads are incredible mobile devices and I'd argue they have some of the best slim keyboards on the market. If I didn't prefer mechanical switches for my desktop, I'd 100% be using Apple keyboards.
  9. An adapter to go from USB-C to Lightening, because they've used lightening for so long. I was hypothesizing how Apple would deal with things when/if they are forced to adopt USB-C ports on their lightening devices.
  10. Only if they want to watch their stocks crumble and lose many, many, tens of billions of dollars in revenue. Apple made over $80b from the EU in their last fiscal year. There's zero chance of them refusing to sell products in the region. Theoretically, there is nothing stopping them. I'm not sure how much sense it makes practically, however. Apple can be petty at times, but I'm not sure if they'd be that petty. More likely, they'd make the change and then try to market it as something "brave and innovative" to make themselves look good, or they'd sell it at another "we're trying to save the planet" thing like they did when ditching the charger. Maybe they'll throw in a super cheap USB-C to Lightening adapter for a generation or two.
  11. I'm all for anything that gets Apple to ditch Lightening, but I'd rather the EU stay the hell away from standardizing wireless charging. Basically every single notable wireless charging device already uses Qi (yes. even Apple devices) and getting rid of great optional things like MagSafe would really suck. Apple is moving away from the "as thing as possible" design philosophy. It would take at least a couple generations for Apple to making anything thin enough to bypass this requirement and without some pretty significant structural support the phone would bend just from the heat generated from charging it. If Apple can't find a way to fit it, they'll likely just go along with it and that'll be that. They're already moving most of their devices over to USB-C anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if they were already planning on migrating iPhones away from Lightening at some point in the next couple generations as is.
  12. That is not entirely correct. The legality of recording entirely depends on the state. Every state has their own laws regarding phone recording. In states with one party consent laws you do not need to announce that you are recording a call because you are the only person that needs to consent to it being recording, it does not matter if the other person or people on the line do not give consent. There are states where all parties need to consent to being recording and in those you need to announce the recording.
  13. Yes. That’s the fucking point. That is specifically why I said that the Bethesda launcher was not competition to Steam and that no single publisher store would be.
  14. If you bothered to reply to my entire statement you would see that I already addressed EGS. Also, EGS is not a single-publisher store and is irrelevant to the part you were quoting. Try again.
  15. It really wasn’t competition. No single-publisher launcher is ever going to be competition to Steam. EGS is the closest we have and even that is a pretty far 2nd place really only surviving because Epic has bottomless pockets. While Epic continues to do the bare minimum to improve their store it’s going to remain that way, no matter how much they spend on timed exclusives.
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