It could be worse… I’m just glad it wasn’t “AIpple”

Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones

That’s why the only take I have ever found that’s reasonable regarding religion goes a bit like this:

Hell is not real. Not in the literal sense, anyway. We all go to “heaven” or whatever afterlife it is, but we get a chance to reflect upon our entire lives. If you were a good person, then you may feel some regret for the harm you caused others, but you can generally feel satisfied with your previous existence. If you were a terrible person, you probably wouldn’t want to be around a being such as God, which, if he’s everything he’s cracked up to be, is the most “goodness” that ever good-ed. So by extension, your “hell,” your “separation from God,” would be the guilt that drives you away, by your own accord, despite his forgiveness, and not actually a sentence that you are condemned to.

I can see some merit to that thinking, at the very least it’s not completely unfair as we see with so many mainstream religious takes.

Furthermore, licensing a patent can give credibility to said patent, making it more difficult to prove in court that it was ever invalid in the first place.

Me using a late 90’s model car from 2002 that I plan on keeping for a million miles if it will let me

Lemme used Voyager as its mobile view, not the other way around. They implemented Voyager as a better alternative to the native original view

Many states have laws prohibiting the use of anything that isn’t hands free, including integrated media controls. Won’t stop anyone, but just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean people won’t do it. Same as speeding, or eating/drinking while driving in many states.

Ah… so unofficial installations of an old app got a notification that was only intended for people who had a non-functional version of the app, because that’s what the official update was set as? The audacity!

In all seriousness, that’s like saying someone with a pirated copy of a game having a bug and complaining about it to the one who runs the server is justified. Actually, not even a bug, just a regular notification… that only notifies you after you open the app……

You see how thin this argument is, surely?

Again I ask… what makes this a “cash grab” and other merch not? Is it because this service is no longer active? What if there was a new plush released for Phantasy Star Online, a now defunct but beloved game?

And you’re saying that that’s unethical because…?

I mean think about it. Why does any company sell merch? Is it unethical for them to sell it? Why or why not?

I can’t get behind this narrative. Honestly, how else do you market this product? On Twitter? On Facebook? Mastodon maybe?

Look, he’s updating an app that hasn’t been operational in months… nobody who still has that app has any illusions of it coming back. What do they expect when they open that app?

I won’t buy a plushie, since I don’t have a place for it, but I had many fond years using Apollo, and wouldn’t mind buying something like this at all, and I would have never known otherwise (except for people complaining about it online.)

Not sure if downloading OS install discs is legal, but if Apple will not supply the software any longer… shouldn’t it be?

So was Tiger before that

This isn’t even a fun read, it’s just stupid…

What’s more convenient is everything using the same connector, but who knows when/if that will ever come about…

Look, I’m going to go straight from the Bible here, skip all the “god is real god is not real” stuff.

Look, if God is real and he created all of everything, why in the hell would he also decide that nearly every living thing would suffer forever? The only two reasonable explanations are that no animals go to heaven or hell and they don’t have souls and heaven is purely for humans, or they will be pardoned because one that doesn’t know good from evil cannot be damned. Not to mention, have you not read Genesis 2? It’s literally Adam and Eve who are perfectly fine but once they know good from evil, suddenly that knowledge allows them to be damned. If a dog or a cat can’t know good from evil, why would they ever be damned?

Please at least read the book you follow

This word is actually not named maliciously at all. From Greek:

“Dys,” meaning “bad,” or “abnormal,” like in Dysfunctional

“Lexia” from “Lexis,” meaning “reading.” Think of “lexicon.”

So now you have a perfectly normal word in Greek that came to the modern age and now is ironic because it’s not exactly native

It’s a progressive web app, so you can add it to your homescreen and it will let you use it like an app, it just won’t quite have all the capabilities of a full app like certain APIs

It’s a stawpoll thing, just a site-wide ban. Which doesn’t even really work, since I just voted using iCloud Private Relay (a proxy, not quite a VPN but still) and it worked just fine since the servers must not be registered to strawpoll yet.

Absolutely. Many API calls are simply not possible since it currently is relying on basically whatever WebKit supports on iOS, and whatever Chromium/Gecko uses on Android. If a web protocol is not supported, then it doesn’t happen, since it’s a universal app.

If it were to be developed separately for the Google Play Store and the App Store, then you’d end up with the ability for things like 120Hz animations on iOS for instance, or using more optimized code for rendering to improve speed, background data fetching, etc.