You’re complaining about a carrier policy, not eSIMs in general. Most carriers don’t have that requirement.

In fact I never even heard of that before, and I’m an American where that’s exactly the type of nickel and dime bullshit they’d do.

So you’re now fully bound to your ISP

Do you think you can only use an eSIM on a locked phone? Physical SIM or not, a carrier locked phone is a locked phone. You can use eSIMs on unlocked phones just fine

their proprietary shit app, and their servers providing you a new SIM instead of just swapping a physical piece of hardware in seconds

The difference is you don’t have to physically go someplace to get a card or have one shipped to you. You just need the Internet and an app.

You’re complaining about semantics with no real difference, just convenience 99% of the time.

You mean the text that states the extremely obvious reality that children learn and understand without any issue on a daily basis? Any child that’s ever had a goldfish or a hamster knows this directly. All living things will inevitably die at some point.

The only people reading more into this are the people that think kids are somehow stupid and constantly need to be protected from reality.

Gotta love random examples pulled disingenuously.

Red+Blue also almost surely had Gary’s Raticate die after battling you on the S.S. Anne, and he goes to the Pokemon Tower on Lavender Town to lay it to rest. It isn’t expressly said in the text, but the Ratata that he loved and had from the beginning is suddenly no longer in his party and he’s in the tower asking why you’re there if you don’t have any dead Pokemon.

Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.

So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.

I think a big part of the issue is the wild variances on electric stove quality.

The landlord specials are dogshit and what most people have experience with. Even a bad gas stove is 10x better than those.

But once you get to quality electric ranges, and then induction options, they are superior to gas in basically every way. But very few people have experience with these, or the money to afford upgrading to them when their existing stoves breakdown unexpectedly. So most are stuck with the cheap crappy electric options.

One of the many Easter Eggs in the Series. Just like ET’s species being in the galactic Senate.

Most of the major software development tools have some form of AI-based assistance features now. And the room those, be nearly all have those assistance and completion features enabled by default.

If you want absolutely no AI in your games, then you need to verify all of those functions were disabled for the entire development time. And you have no way to verify that.

You never met my old orange. Plastic wasn’t an issue for him somehow. Just took longer.

Agreed, the assets did make it to production, but were replaced in a patch 5 days later. That definitely seems like it was placeholders that just got missed. Which happens, especially for a new small studio releasing their first game.

GenAI being used for temporary placeholders is arguably a correct use case for it. Especially with a smaller development team. If you have a limited number of artists, having them spend time crafting unique placeholders that will be replaced is a poor use of their time and talents that would otherwise be spent working on final art that will actually be in the released game. That is a 100% valid use case scenario for it, as long as the assets are replaced for the launch. And missing a few and fixing that within a week is entirely understandable, not something they should be indicted for.

There is some concern about the exact wording I’ve seen in various articles. Some say that Sandfall told the awards that GenAI wasn’t used in the development, but the articles don’t use a specific quote on their side, and then later saying it was used for placeholder assets. They seem to imply that Sandfall lies about the use to qualify, then later came clean. I’m wondering if that is simply miscommunication, potentially language issues, about the final game not using GenAI. Just because people speak multiple languages, that doesn’t mean that they understand nuanced differences in meaning when not using their native language. I can see the difference between the final game release and overall development being misunderstood depending on the exact wording used.

Meh, just a hard floppy. Although I really did appreciate my Zip 100 drive for that storage space before writable CDs came along.

And the $550 is the same price that model already was. That price has not changed since it launched.

One could make the same argument about creating a more complicated solution when a simple one solves it for 99% of users. Especially when the remaining 1% will know the difference based on what they’re doing, regardless of the icon used.

There’s a good reason that these two icons are currently different.

Not really, it’s just legacy, the same reason the save icon is still a floppy disk in most programs. That’s what it’s always been.

You may make the distinction between saving a document and downloading a document, but most people don’t pay anywhere near that amount of attention, and don’t care about specifics.

Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.

Why does it need to be separate? The end result is the same, the file on your device. Where it is coming from makes no difference.

99% of users won’t care at all.

It’s infinitely more accurate than a floppy disk icon.

For 99% of users, the specifics make no difference at all.

It’s closer to reality than a floppy disk icon, that’s for sure.

I’ve always had mixed luck with Bluetooth file sharing on Windows. Sometimes it works perfectly, other times it just doesn’t seem to work at all. Even with the same exact devices.