It's incredibly nice.

So,

a system prompt?

> I don't see a good reason [...] to upgrade it much

Imagine the world of pain when the time comes to upgrade the software to Ubuntu 37.04.

Well I look at it from the relativistic perspective. See, AIX or HPUX are frozen in time and there is no temptation whatsoever within those two environments.

Being stuck in Ubuntu 14.04 you can actually take a look out the window and see what you are missing by being stuck in the past. It hurts.

Isn't it something that was already sold to me as a customer? I don't get it how company could remove one of the features that has been already sold to me.

It only affects new devices, they don't pull the existing licenses.

Not every device includes a HEVC license. For cheap consumer devices or custom built PCs no license is the norm. It just used to be the norm for the premium brands to include the license with every device.

> It only affects new devices, they don't pull the existing licenses.

That actually changes the whole gist.

While true, that's not immediately apparent in the article, and the opposite of what the headline implies. Ars should really do better. Past Ars would have. The enshittification continues...

The example you provided is exactly the opposite:

> no longer be available on newly purchased Apple Watch ... > customers who purchase the watches in the U.S. will still be able to see Apple's Blood Oxygen app

Edit: I misread “purchase” as “purchased”, which is wrong.

You’re removing the important part. Here’s the full sentence, with emphasis:

> According to the tech giant, customers who purchase the watches in the U.S. will still be able to see Apple's Blood Oxygen app on their devices, but when tapped, users will get a message saying the feature is no longer available.

In other words, you saw the icon for the app but it didn’t work. The feature had been removed even for those who had already paid for it.

> the ability to measure blood oxygen levels will no longer be available on newly purchased Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 models

It says that was on new watches, it doesn't say they retroactively removed the feature from old watches.

I stand corrected. Despite reading the sentence multiple times, my brain autocorrected “purchase” to “purchased”. My memory was that they had retroactively removed the feature, but on further reading it looks like I’m misremembering.

I like this guy's optimism of letting AI create a USB sound card out of a microcontroller from scratch.

Probably not a bad litmus test for current and future generations of LLMs though, I'd be curious to try it out on the latest crop.

Only so long as nobody knows you are using it. Soon as anything becomes a metric people with game it.

It got really close! Audio played, it was just crackly/poppy. The microphone didn't work, though.

> I'm curious what you think the solution is?

I believe cars don't have to have license plates readable when parked. Depends on the jurisdiction of course, but I would definitely use a license plate hiding device and hide my license plate when parked.

Because that will not please shareholders while shoving AI down our throats with no opt out most definitely will.

EGAVGA.BGI

Oh this brings memories. I have tried to create a little bit of 3D→2D renderer in TP 6.0 but precision was never enough for nodes to not fall apart and 80286 speed was too slow to render anything meaningful except maybe a cube.

It's gonna take a decade to roll down all those cookie banners.