Hell yeah, banger month. I wanted to play The Plucky Squire, and now it’s right there to play. Just have to get through all these other games first.

Technology sure is great, isn’t it?

It also is nice for that random night where you have a physical DVD to watch.

My friends wanted to do a Saw movie marathon, and one of them had all the discs. The PS5 was the only device I had that could play them.

I’ve used the disc drive exactly twice for games in the last four years, but I’m happy it was there.

The second time, in fact, was just this last week because I was able to get Star Wars: Outlaws on disc for half off (some weird QVC deal a couple weeks ago).

That’s really cool.

I played the new game for about an hour tonight, and it’s great! I’m really happy for Team Asobi.

I’m thinking they aren’t going to pull this one off the shelves in a week.

Watch Dogs 2 is easily the best one so give it a shot.

You don’t even have to be a weirdo going on killing sprees! You can just not unlock all the lethal weapons and use stun guns the whole time (EXCEPT for a mission or two that makes you kill dudes. Just ignore those).

But I really liked the main character, and the ability to use the drone/RC car to scope out places before going in.

It’s so good.

I hope they don’t get stingy on the ports.

I know some people will “everything is usb-c now!” except everything isn’t, so stop.

I have a ten year old Mac Mini on my desk that has two FireWire, four usb, an sd card reader, and Ethernet. I still want most of these things (though, of course swap FireWire for some number of usb-c). I don’t want to HAVE to buy a dock for this machine.

In hearing that it’ll be smaller, my initial assumption is Apple will do the Apple thing and arbitrarily reduce the number of ports while saying “if you want more here’s the Mac Studio that’s way more expensive!”

I’m still over here with a boggled mind that it’s been four years and Sony hasn’t dropped a usb dongle that allows for the triggers and haptics to work wirelessly. These things work when plugged in with the Dualsense, but not over bluetooth.

I have the 1TB version of this internal SSD. It’s “officially licensed” — for whatever that’s worth — so I knew it’d work.

And I’ve had zero issues.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-black-sn850p-2tb-internal-ssd-pcie-gen-4-x4-with-heatsink-for-ps5/6541326.p?skuId=6541326

And Sony has an official video for how to install the SSDs

https://youtu.be/b1vF42QfmTk?si=lAW_2vzMpKrc-vjk

I still have an iPhone 4 in a drawer and it’s totally flat on the back. Still looks really cool.

Apple: “Our new chips are more efficient so we can make devices thinner with a smaller battery and still get 10 hours of battery!”

Everyone: “Or just keep them the same and use a bigger battery to get, like 15-20 hours of battery?”

Apple: “NO.”

Lots of updates coming to the ios calculator with ios18. They obviously focused on the ipad version because it has the written math notes stuff, but a lot of those features are coming to the iphone, too.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-calculator-these-conversions/

The current calculator has had a lot more options if you turn the phone sideways, but no one ever does that. Personally, I’m a pCalc guy.

RCS, I suppose, so we can stop hearing about it.

That’s fair.

Hopefully there’s a toggle to turn it off.

At least Apple isn’t taking a screenshot of your device every three seconds and saving it in plain text.

Just let it understand the word “and” and I’ll be happy.

I’ve been trying to get my parents to use a password manager for years now. They have a piece of paper with a bunch of passwords on that’s one coffee spill away from a disaster.

I’ve tried getting them to use Bitwarden or any other simple manager, but nothing has stuck.

A “default” one from Apple, might, though. They are more amenable to stuff “built in” (that will also not be hidden down in some settings menus like how the current iOS passwords are stored.) So bring it on.

I’m hoping to get another AppleTV soon, too, and I’m kind of in the same boat on the waiting part. I feel like the moment I go and get a - now couple year old model - they’ll release a brand new one.

Yep. So weird to not see the outrage then.