Does the Louvre actively refuse all attempts to retrieve original works and tell the requestors the fuck off the way the British Museum does?

From my understanding that’s more of a British-specific problem, not most museums in general.

Same, my commute is about a half hour, with 2 main routes I could take that are about the same time. Just knowing if one of those is screwed up can be the difference between an okay drive in and hell.

That would require thought being put into it. That’s a lot to ask for, clearly.

Most likely explanation… Modern monitors effectively have their own little PCs inside… that go to sleep when the monitor does to save power. Older monitors didn’t give a crap about power usage at all.

Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US… seems relevant. Carrier locking isn’t illegal at all in the US.

They didn’t even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.

Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.

That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.

Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time.

It looked like a knockoff iPhone 3G with a slide out keyboard, so it was at least twice the size. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.

Russia has been pretty reliable for ISS transit ever since they launched the first module for it back in 1998. Despite political bluster, they’ve followed through when needed. Including after we unilaterally decided to decommission to Shuttle with no replacement, leaving Soyuz as the only crew transit option available at all.

Give it time. Its a slow recipe, but I trust the French to follow through if its a protest.

Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.

Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.

Unfortunately she gave the GOP time to search for a sycophant candidate they can shovel in there.

It’s always been that way. The ones ones that ever claimed differently were those people. Because they couldn’t comprehend the thought that they didn’t earn and deserve what they were actually handed.

With an exception for talking about his supposed money. Anything remotely close to saying he didn’t have the money he claimed was met with extreme responses.

People that actually have that much money don’t talk about it. They just use it to their advantage. The ones that don’t, try to flaunt the little they have and make it seem like they have a bunch more. Often being up to their eyeballs in various types of debt. This is almost certainly where Trump has been most of his life, hence all the random ventures to try and make quick cash from grifting.

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Note this is not ICE. This is the Diplomatic Security Service, the State Department’s agents.

It’s not just ICE that get the dipshits nowadays apparently.

Not that surprising if you think about it. Clearly Russia wants real world data regarding how those systems work against cutting edge US technologies.

Misinformation is bad regardless.

That being said, jokes are jokes. The issue is that the brain dead that can’t actually tell reality from clear fiction seem to also be the ones running the country.

Oh no nothing so user-friendly. They’re gonna require them to be loaded via adb every time. And they’ll say that’s the only way they could do it for security or some shit.

$100 says they’re just going to make it require adb.

That was 2023, and one of very few things made not to specifically promote their hardware or as a cheap spinoff of existing IP. And define “actively maintaining”, because general bug fixes for decade old multi-player games and managing item marketplaces doesn’t require much manpower.

Going further back there’s Aperture Desk Job which was a tech demo for the Steam Deck in 2022. Then an extended cut version of Artifact originally meant as a sequel in 2021, which is a Dota 2 card game, but still remains unfinished, so effectively abandoned. Then Half Life: Alyx in 2020 which 90% of gamers can’t play because it’s VR only, and clearly made to further promote their VR hardware. Dota Warlords in 2020 which was originally a community game mode. The original Artifact in 2018, which had abandoned iOS and Android ports. The Lab in 2016 which was made to promote the launch of the HTC Vive. A zombie CS spinoff in 2014, Dota 2 in 2013, CS:Go in 2012, Portal 2 in 2011, and Left 4 Dead 2 in 2009.

If you remove the spinoff and niche stuff from the list you get game releases in 2023, 2020 (arguable since it’s VR only and thus inherently niche), 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009.

That’s a pretty big gap of not much for the last decade game-wise. Its been previously documented and published that Valve has issues getting games developed because of the flat organization structure. Articles like this.