I guess it depends on how much you trust a company (both now and in the future) to do something they shouldn't with this kind of setup, whether on purpose or though incompetence.
Personally, I don't software silently installing unrelated services to my machine just in case the company decides they want to have it running on my machine in the future.
That's surprising to hear. Netflix has always been a step above, Hulu is decently behind. The rest are pretty rough from my perspective, but slowly getting better over time. Amazon was definitely miserable to use for a long time and I don't think had anything but a basic "fast-forward/rewind" functionality with no thumbnails for quite a while.
The Peacock app and streaming has been hit or miss on plenty of occasions.
I think the worse is the Disney app that makes it difficult to just replay a movie that's already been watched. It likes to resume at the end of the credits of the episode you want to watch rather than realize I want to watch the whole episode not just the final 10 seconds of credits. Or that switching between an episode when watching something from your "Previously Watched" list means finding the series on an entirely separate list in the UI.
Within a system you can bring up the "scanner tool" view in the ship to then point yourself to a planet and travel that way.
But to to travel to various systems, yes you'll need to use a menu. But then I'm not sure how you would expect to fly between systems without some form of menu to select where you want to go.
That applies to open software standards, what does it have to do with buying cash cows?
It has no real meaning anymore. It's now a phrase people throw around as effectively a meme. You won't get anything but a wrong answer to this question.
That's not what "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" means. You just came up with three numbered items to correspond to the fact that there are three words in the phrase.
It's hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.
Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block "large but not monopolistic mergers" without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.
While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well....
Super Mario RPG Remake: Release Date, Gameplay Updates, and Latest News - IGN (www.ign.com)
System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2023 (www.youtube.com)
AI in big budget games is inevitable, say dev vets from Assassin's Creed and Everquest 2: 'Developers hate it … the money is still going to drive absolutely everybody to do it' (www.pcgamer.com)
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s leveling journey shows how much retail has lost its way (massivelyop.com)
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
Halo Infinite Season 5: How Forge's New AI Toolkit Works - IGN (www.ign.com)
Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Dragon Dogma 2 Developers Reveal How They Improved on The Beloved Dragon's Dogma for The Sequel (techraptor.net)
Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' (www.pcgamer.com)
Ahead of the city builder's release on October 24, the devs want to "manage expectations on performance."
Intel is Desperate: i7-14700K CPU Review, Benchmarks, Gaming, & Power (www.youtube.com)
“Netflix effect” is back as studios license old shows to competitors again (arstechnica.com)
Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game (www.gamesradar.com)
Something Wicked Games snatches another veteran for their horror-RPG
Coming Soon to Game Pass: Cities: Skylines II, Dead Space, Jusant, Mineko’s Night Market, and More - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
Coming soon to @XboxGamePass and @XboxGamePassPC: Cities: Skylines II, Dead Space, Jusant, Mineko’s Night Market, and more!
Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
Today we welcome the teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox. It's a good day to play.
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits 'Argo' rescue (apnews.com)
While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well....
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Gotham Knights, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (blog.playstation.com)
Also included are Alien: Isolation, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Outlast 2, and more.