It’s still unnecessarily clunky and (IMO) no better than using an external drive.

This what you led with, though:

They want to entice people to buy the more expensive package by dangling the carrot that it’s $20 more if you decide to do it later.

One integration I’d love to see on PlayStation is some sort of cloud drive. OneDrive (which is my primary cloud storage service) is probably out of the question, but Dropbox, Google Drive, Box dot com, and so forth are all out there.

At least he can’t be elected president.

Is Tom Cruise going to ruin this one, too?

That makes total sense, and the AIO form factor is definitely the right call for tight spaces. The thing that gives me the agita is that the monitor adds so much to the cost. IIRC it’s (well, was since there’s no M3 mini yet) something like $600 for that 24" monitor when compared to a Mac mini with the same specs.

It would be even more galling if it was intentional, but he’s not smart enough to make a reference that nuanced (not that it’s particularly nuanced, even).

Every time I saw saw someone hauling one of those things into the Apple Store when I was browsing or picking something up I always thought “man, that sucks.”

He should have called it “Many People Are Saying It.”

While they’ve been added to help secure the PS5 given its new detachable disc drive design, Lee was unimpressed. I kind of agree. They’re not a very elegant solution.

I’m not sure why the non-disc version isn’t 70USD less if the drive is 70 on it’s own. There’s ostensibly no form factor difference to account for other than the single shell piece.

I really hope Apple doesn’t go back to neglecting the Mac mini to force people into paying way more than they should for a very expensive (and small-ish) monitor they probably don’t need.

I bought an Atari VCS (a four-switch model, the same one I had as a kid) from eBay and I got very lucky. It was in great condition and still works great; it has the A/V mod and I popped it open to check that out.

The idea that “crap writing” is defined as “everything isn’t directly and explicitly laid out” is... well, it’s an opinion, I’ll grant you that.

Yep. And she’s still relatively young. It’s not a situation like Michael Ontkean not wanting to come back for Twin Peaks: The Return; he was 71 when it came out and coming out of retirement to do it would’ve been a much bigger lift for him. Frank Truman was in 11 episodes and I presume that Harry would’ve been in that…

The TWoK music was so, so well-used here. This show gets it in a way that no other current Trek show does, even Strange New Worlds, a show that I absolutely love.

It had been a while since I’d actually listened to the song, so I looked up all the actors he mentions:

I fondly recall the Great Heather Wars of the ‘80s.

Bowfinger?!