With this kind of question, I think there’s always the temptation to imagine something wildly different, but, at the same time, we still use more legacy technology all the time. Laptops were supposed to make desktop computers obsolete, but they’re still there. Smartphones were supposed to take over further, but we…

It wouldn’t surprise me. Canadian wages tend to be low compared to the U.S., while the country has a high cost of living. It leads to a lot of talented individuals moving south of the border.

If you rely on any sort of professional software on a Mac, any new OS version doesn’t generally get supported until about six months or so later. I tend to install them about a couple of months before the next version is released, so I’m always about “a year behind.”

Actually, I’d say the moral of the story is that the virus is not going away, so everyone should expect to be exposed to this virus many times during the course of their lives. The best preparation you can have for this reality is to be vaccinated, because it means that your immune system will not see this as a…

I think this polishing cloth comes with its nano-display offerings (like their $6000 Pro Display XDR with nano-texture glass), and Apple suggests only using this cloth to clean it. If you don’t have a nano-texture display, they say you can just use a standard microfiber cloth.

There are fans, and they have been redesigned:

Canadian real estate is largely ugly and expensive, so you’d be right to be skeptical.

My first experience with the internet was a fast university ethernet connection, so using a dial-up modem later at home was more an exercise in frustration for me than a point of nostalgia. That being said, we only had one home phone line, so if you picked up the phone while dialed-in to the Internet, you could hear a…

I just went from a 6S to a 13 Pro Max (incidentally, the only time I have ever done a preorder for a phone). It really feels like a giant leap forward in every way!

I’d include modern Turkish in this list. It is a vastly different language than it was a century ago, both with a completely new written script and rapidly evolving vocabulary:

I’m not sure anyone really did believe them (aside from the ever-credulous media), but the alternative is war, and the West is, if anything else, war weary. So the Taliban it is.

It is very lowly populated.  Trees don’t need cell phone coverage.

Because it is filler for the 24/7 news cycle. Canadian news networks aired U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, which were quite literally irrelevant to Canada, but hey...I guess it meant a break for the newsroom.

The perpetual license is the “Home” edition, while the subscription is the “Pro” edition with additional features.

Automatic credit card increases aren’t a thing in Canada, but banks will often send notices stating that they’re willing to give you a higher credit limit, meaning he would then just have to let the bank know that he consents to the increase.

Just be careful if the company at some point decides to abandon its pension obligations in the future.

The obvious problem with XV is that it’s just a fraction of a planned larger game hastily stitched together with some fluffy sidequests. Considering it’s troubled development history and the alternative of just cancelling it altogether, I’m happy it exists. XV, as horribly flawed as it is in so many ways, is fun for…

From what I’m reading elsewhere, there is a kill switch built into the Flash plugin, but it’s set around the computer date, so setting the date back in time before January 12 should keep it enabled.

To each their own, of course, but my issue with Tomorrow Never Dies is that I found the setting to be dull and Jonathan Pryce’s villain to be incredibly corny in a bad way. World had much better atmosphere from my perspective, and I enjoyed Sophie Marceau’s character and performance.

Having rewatched it fairly recently, I didn’t really find Moore to be “too old” in his last outing. I think the problem is that he was very much “70s Bond,” and it’s clear that, by A View to a Kill, the series was ready to shift to darker, more action-oriented films that were very much of the 1980s, and Moore just…