In 2014, some of us at a small company with disposable income discovered that Winamp was on the market for a relatively small amount of money (as compared to our profits). We all had fond memories of it and we had a team capable of doing something interesting with it.

The problem was we couldn’t figure out anything interesting to do with it. We could think of a ton of things we could do, but we couldn’t think of a good business model around any of them—by which I mean profitable, not just eking by.

In the end, it just wasn’t worth our time. We were better off having half the company prototype new product ideas than sink our resources into this one.

The company that did eventually buy Winamp added an NFT marketplace to it.

It seems like Frantic got stuck at the step of nostalgia plus things he could do and didn’t think too hard about business models and profitability. Leveraging his house is a bad sign, because it implies he lacks the financial resources to do much with Commodore beyond buying the brand.

My guess? He’ll try to put together a new computer aimed at nostalgia seekers, it will underperform, and he’ll pivot to selling branded merchandise for a while until he eventually sells the brand at a loss.

The most interesting finding from this story (the comments section, really) was discovering that the Power Mac G3 began as a skunkworks project, without the knowledge of Jobs et al.

Seven senators voted for her.

• Tim Kaine (Virginia)
• Andy Kim (New Jersey)
• Elissa Slotkin (Michigan)
• Gary Peters (Michigan)
• Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire)
• Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire)
• John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)

In the New Testament, that stuff all comes from Paul. Paul was a conservative asshole. He was the first evangelical Christian, in both the historical and modern sense.

I know quitting is hard

Uh, you can’t just turn in your two weeks when you’re in the military. There’s a reason why AWOL is a thing. And you can’t apply as a conscientious objector to an individual conflict. Even if you apply, it can still be denied.

You have agency

You literally don’t, unless you’d prefer prison and dishonorable discharge.

This isn’t rocket science. Most Americans were (and are) unhappy with the direction of the country and she was the status quo candidate. She literally said she couldn’t think of a single policy difference between herself and Biden, an unpopular president. And the tone-deaf joy campaign—give me a break. People were (and are) angry. A populist was always going to win this election, but she didn’t campaign as a populist.

Like most Democrats, she also lacked the courage of her convictions, as evidenced by how quickly she backed away from voicing progressive policies from 2020 like Medicare for All. Or maybe her convictions were more moderate and the progressive positions were the ploy? Who even knows? What few meek ideas she did put forward she quickly backed away from after closed-door fundraisers with rich investors.

I voted for her despite all of this. I wrote letters to swing state voters. But it was a pretty grim march to November, because I saw all of these things way before the election and knew with near certainty that she was going to lose.

The ocean needs to hurry up and retake Florida.

It sounds like to me that they’re building a new specification like they did with MSX. MSX was wildly successful in Japan.

I’m sure all Xbox Next approved devices will be able to access the Xbox store, along with Steam, GOG, etc. It will almost certainly be a digital device, since it also includes handhelds.

As for your existing physical collection, I can imagine Microsoft releasing an official disc drive accessory that works with any Xbox Next console. There’s no reason that wouldn’t include handhelds, but of course that would be super clunky.

Kind of bizarre they have a photo of Warren as the top image for the headline “Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass Crypto Bill” when she’s been the most vocal one against passing it.

No one has been a bigger critic of the GENIUS Act than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, who has warned that in addition to weak protections for consumers and financial stability, the bill allows tech companies to issue their own private currencies and “take control over the money supply.”

She also said that the GENIUS Act mirrors the passage of the 2000 passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which deregulated derivatives and helped the product proliferate in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.

Anyone in this administration who has any values whatsoever is destined to fail, because the leader they’re so obsequious to has none.

It’s really not that complicated. Trump is a bully and loves piling on to prove he’s the alpha male. But he’s also a coward (like many bullies) and is afraid to wade into something that will spiral out of control. So he’s trying to subjugate the government of Iran using threats so he can get the satisfaction of the former without the risk of the latter.

“Not since Truman…”

So Huckabee wants to nuke Iran?

Also, tell me this is not a letter that would be written to Kim Jong Un if the names were swapped.

In [Trump’s] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

Those are clearly Netanyahu’s words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.

You mean ceded. Seceded is what the West Coast should do.

It’s interesting that you post a message like that when yours is the majority position on Lemmy and comes up regularly. Any time I post conflicting data on the election, I’m down voted at about a 40/60 ratio up/down. Meanwhile politically I’m somewhere between Lenin and Bernie.

War in the Middle East is a Republican rite of passage. It’s part of their heritage.

Did you forget about 2021-2023?

You can always cross the border and satisfy your bloodlust, but we both know you’ll say “it isn’t my fight” and not do shit. Just go back to feeling morally superior from the comfort of your home.

Netanyahu was worried the US would achieve a deal with Iran and struck first.

A handful of lawmakers did oppose the Israeli strikes, however. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued that Tel Aviv’s war interfered with Trump’s effort to strike a new nuclear deal with Iran. “Netanyahu wasn’t trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy. How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iran’s chief negotiator with Trump,” he wrote.

He says “we” all the time to refer to himself.