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Plastic will get scratched, but won't shatter. I honestly think a plastic screen with a glass protector is the ideal option.

Ok, I'll bite. Let's assume Youtube follows your advice, and stops showing ads on YouTube. Data collection is the only source of revenue. How does YouTube make money on that data? Be specific please. Who is buying the data, and what is the buyer going to do the data besides show you a targeted ad?

If you consider the last one as New Super Mario Bros U, then sure, we are over a decade. However, Mario Maker, and especially Mario Maker 2, are so wonderful and repayable, that I feel no need for a new 2D Mario game. I get that a game like Wonder is going to have "curated" levels, and things can work more cleanly, but the volume of quality levels in the Mario Maker series is enormous. Anyway, I just find it odd to see your comment, which seems to ignore these titles.

It takes ads to bandwidth and server costs for Spotify. The ads on Spotify are worth less than before, because the ads have less reach. That means Spotify will have to play more ads to cover cost, and because the revenue per ad will go down. Maybe your little action has an insignificant effect, but if millions did what you did, it would have a drastic result.

Never mind that doing this will give your favorite artist a few more pennies at the cost of a different artist that didn't get his numbers inflated. You aren't doing some great good to save the planet.

I don't care who you are, free pizza is a gift I will accept any day. It will beat anything else I would be bringing in for lunch.

What a waste or resources. It is doing stuff like this that forces the companies to put restrictions on the users. Please stop playing music you are not listening to, for everyone's sake.

This device is FPGA, and not emulation. The chip recreates itself to act exactly as the N64's chips would run. The benefits are that you get less input lag, more accurate gameplay, and you can use your original cartridges/controllers in a plug and play set up.

This doesn't replace emulation, but if you are serious about playing older console games, Analogue's FPGA products are a great premium solution.

I first, I thought this was consolidating the line to a single SKU, and letting you add the drive yourself for a small premium. Instead, this looks like this is a new model with a reworking interior to save a bit on cost, and heat/power.

The one good thing, is that now every PS5 is a "Physical Edition." It is also way more likely in the decades to come you can get a 3rd party drive, and hack it to work. Without the size or soldiering being an issue, it is more likely we can see 3rd party replacements.

Thank you for the detailed response. I think I'm going to give the Shokz a try. I'll wait until next summer, because winter is around the corner where I live. I hope they have a good return policy. I really want the technology to work, because it sounds ideal for my use case.

Thanks again.

Do you mind if I ask a few questions? I got some bone conducting headphones for cycling and walking around. I found when I wore them cycling, even at max volume, I could barely hear act sound. However, after about 30 seconds, my ears start to hurt. If I put my finger in my ear to block the ambient noise, and the volume is actually extremely loud.

I have tried in different environments, and I find I podcasts can't be heard clearly at all unless it is a quiet room. I have come to the conclusion that the technology just doesn't work for podcasts, and is better for music where you don't need the clearest sound.

Your comment sounds like podcasts work fine for you, even in a noisy environment. The only thing I can think, is either my headphones are too cheap (I got a no name brand, but it was middle tier price), or my skull is shaped a bit differently, and I can't get a good connection. Do you have any thoughts? Do you ever experience ear pain in order to hear a podcast?

The college football group has been doing one game thread, for watching and post game discussion. Especially in the regular season, I think this is the right call. Monday night games that aren't on national TV are going to get low to no engagement anyway. Splitting that discussion up to 2 threads will fracture the small discussion.

For the playoffs, I could see us wanting to split it up to game and post-game threads.

I would say I don't like the idea of doing game threads as chat only on other services. I want more in-depth discussion, and making us go to a real time chat system will make any real effort drowned out by the low quality chats of "Wow" or "That's Traveling."

Suns fan here, and I don't get this trade at all. The main reason is, Ayton's stock has taken a huge dip in the last few months. Rather than give up and cash out, we should have held out if there wasn't a good deal. Ben Simmons was an negative asset, and by waiting 6 months, Philadelphia got James Harden back by waiting. There is zero reason to give up.

Second off: this doesn't help the team. The biggest weakness the team has is that it is very reliant on 3 star wings that have an injury history. Ayton isn't the healthiest, but is 4 years younger than Nurkic, and has played more in general. If we had solid backups, that my be fine, but the team is very weak at the big positions. And it isn't like Grayson Allen is some HUGE pickup that to overcome the weaknesses we take on with downgrading at center. The team seems objectively worse.

Third off: I have had one championship in my lifetime (Diamondbacks in 2001). That team was a bit of a unique situation because they were an expansion team that got all the right pieces early, but I still loved the big players. Johnson, Schilling, and Gonzales all joined the team at 30 or layer, and stayed 4-7 more years with the team. They felt like they wanted to be in Phoenix, and be on that team. The community loved them, and they loved them back.

This current Suns team is 15 months away from a 64 win season, and the only players who saw any consistent play time still on the team are Devin Booker and Bismack Biyombo. The rest of the team are guns for hire. They will do their job, but move on to the next place in a few years. Even if the Phoenix Suns organization wins the championship, it won't be won by a team that I watched struggle to get there.

I really thought that Booker, Johnson, Bridges and Ayton was a solid core that would put the Suns near the top of the league for a decade. It is so sad to all of it gone.