The Great Disney Plus Subscription Conundrum: A Tale of Want and Unwanted Desires

It's become all too familiar for many of us - one thing we want, and thousands of things we don't want every month until we die. This phenomenon isn't just about getting people to sign up for Disney Plus and then forgetting to cancel their subscription. It's also because the cost of manufacturing physical media is only near zero. Disney has pulled physical releases from some countries in Latin America and Asia where sales numbers were underwhelming. Unfortunately, this trend extends beyond movies with upcoming games like Starfield not even including a physical game in their 300 constellation Edition despite including a steel book case. For some, this trend extends to big-budget games releasing digital-only, such as Alan Wake 2 is an example of a game that was released digitally and even Alan Wake, which was also released without a physical copy.

The Rise of Digital-Only Games

THQ Nordic is begging for discs, please give us the discs. They're great frisbees get your own damn discs now! It's time to talk about the shift towards digital-only games. The industry has seen a significant rise in games being released digitally, and it seems like some developers are leaving their physical copies behind. This trend is not limited to smaller game developers; even big-budget titles are opting for digital releases. Alan Wake 2 is an example of a big-budget game releasing digitally and even Alan Wake, which was also released without a physical copy.

The Consequences of Digital-Only Games

The consequences of this trend can be significant. For some gamers, there's no substitute for holding a physical copy of their games. There's something special about collecting the artwork, reading the manual, and displaying your games on a shelf. The absence of physical copies has also led to concerns about game preservation and the potential loss of valuable gaming artifacts.

A New Wallet: Say Goodbye to Bulky Wallets

Are you tired of carrying around a bulky traditional wallet? Let me introduce you to the Ridge wallet. It's sleek, low-profile design allows you to carry all your essentials without the unnecessary bulk of a normally bulky wallet. Plus, it comes with RFID blocking technology, ensuring that your cards are protected from digital theft. The Ridge wallet is made from high-quality materials such as titanium, carbon fiber, and aluminum, ensuring its durability for years to come.

Upgrade Your Everyday Carry

The Ridge wallet is perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their everyday carry. With a minimalist design, you can enjoy the freedom of carrying only what you need without the bulk of unnecessary items. The Ridge wallet is an excellent addition to any gaming setup or backpack, providing a stylish and functional way to store your essentials.

Dell's Monopoly on Monitor Prices

In June, Australian regulators found Dell to have misled consumers on monitor prices. The company was fined $6.46 million AUD ($10 million USD) for deceiving shoppers by suggesting that bundling monitors with other items could result in the best price. However, this "best price" often turned out to be a much less desirable higher price.

Apple's Throttling Scandal

In 2020, Apple was accused of secretly throttling the performance of older iPhone models. The company maintains that it did nothing wrong, but a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 claims that Apple deliberately slowed down older devices to make them appear newer and more efficient. As part of a settlement agreement, Apple will pay up to $500 million to the affected claimants.

The Future of the Apple Watch

Apple is planning a major update for its Apple Watch's 10th-anniversary watch x. Although it sounds like "porn" due to the Roman numeral, the watch won't be a wearable sundial but rather a huge overhaul of the design, including a micro LED display, thinner watch case, magnetic band attachment system, and a blood pressure monitor.

Windows 11: A Micro Update?

Microsoft has released Windows 11, with some critics describing it as a minor update. The company stated that these vulnerabilities could be used for remote code execution and denial of service attacks due to the wide use of its Industrial Automation software.

Sharona's Absence from Monk

A fan favorite, Sharona, was written out in the middle of the third season of Emmy-winning TV series Monk starring Tony Shalhoub. The show's creators made the decision to remove her character, citing creative reasons.

Netflix Rolls Out Public Testing for Cloud Gaming

Netflix has rolled out public testing of its new cloud gaming service for select subscribers in Canada. Although it's not exclusive, the service will be available only on certain TVs, and notably not on Apple TV due to restrictions imposed by the Apple Store.

The Joy of Cloud Gaming (or Not)

This new system is less about exclusivity and more about ensuring that it doesn't cripple itself if a million people log in simultaneously. A clever move from Netflix, acknowledging that their service may face challenges when scaled up for widespread adoption.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endetails on nvidia's next generation of gpus codenamed Blackwell appear to have been leaked raising the question of whether Team Green can pull off a better Redemption than Shawshank let's hope the answer isn't ziwatane no do you remember that's a deep cut I'm James tribe this is TechLink and this is the chip hell Forum post where leaker panzerlied posted the numbers two three five six and seven before you think pens relied forgot how to count Liverpool FC fan and Hardware leaker copite 7 Kimi elaborated that the upcoming Blackwell gpus will be cut into five dies the gb202 203 5 6 and 7. that naming is notable for two reasons lots of numbers today 200 series usually represents dies that are re-spins chips that are built again to be better faster costlier also there is no four variant which is typically meant to be used for the best bang for the buck GPU I guess that doesn't exist anymore until Nvidia decided to prank us by giving saying that designation to the die for the 40 70 and 4070 TI say it floor tom symbol oh now the Nvidia has replaced the x04 dive designation with x05 does the higher number here indicate lower performance as usual origin video just want to chip that accurately reference their favorite Mambo the new RTX Mambo Number Five hey no Lou Bega voice a group of six music labels including Sony and umg is suing the internet archive over their attempt to preserve music recorded on 78 RPM discs a format that was discontinued in 1959. holy cow you know you're evil when the archives great 78 project is trying to save the work of Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra and many other talented dead people but the labels argue that because the preserved songs are already available to stream there's no chance they'll be lost forgotten or destroyed which you know press X to doubt you only can stream one version usually when there's a remaster that's what you get when they're in the cloud they're there forever so stupid according to the internet archive the olden times recording still holds significant research value as artifacts and usage evidence and that's artifacts as an unintentional sounds and audio recording not like the Venus of Willendorf hot this comes only four months after the internet archive lost another copyright lawsuit brought on by a group of large Publishers who sued the archive for making digital books available without restriction during the unprecedented Global pandemic when most of the world's libraries were closed the archive says it plans to appeal the decision apparently Unapologetic for their dastardly crimes of enabling literacy but if they can read they won't stream our music Disney has decided to stop producing physical media in the entire country slash continent of Australia because I guess not enough things regularly perish there they do they they have spiders there's lots of Lots the house of mouse is instead going Full Throttle on Disney plus because why charge a customer once for something they really want when you can charge them for one thing they want and thousands of things they don't want every month until they die obviously this isn't just about getting people to sign up for Disney plus and then forgetting to cancel their subscription it's also because the cost of manufacturing physical media which I'm sure is only near zero Disney has also pulled physical releases from some countries in Latin America and Asia where the sales numbers were underwhelming unfortunately for some this trend extends Beyond movies with upcoming games like Starfield not even including a physical game in their 300 constellation Edition despite including a steel book case they don't have them in the future Alan Wake 2 is an example of a big budget game releasing digital only and even Alan Wake one to shootout THQ Nordic is begging for discs please give us the discs they're great frisbees get your own damn discs now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by the ridge are you tired of carrying around a bulky traditional wallet let me introduce you to the ridge wallet it's Sleek low profile design allows you to carry all your Essentials without the unnecessary bulk of a normally unnecessarily bulky wallet plus it with its RFID blocking technology you can rest assure that your cars are protected from digital theft the ridge wallet is made from high quality materials such as titanium carbon fiber and aluminum ensuring its durability for years to come upgrade your everyday carry with the ridge wallet and enjoy the freedom of a minimalist design oh it's so great check them out the link below and use the code linked at checkout for free shipping and 10 off your purchase the doctor told me the quick bits have been inside me all along I have three months to live Dell was found to have misled consumers on monitor prices in June by Australian Regulators who have now issued the company a fine of 6.46 million us bucks or 10 million Aussie billabongs it's actually cool fine from August 2019 to December 2021 Dell's Australian website suggested that Shoppers could get the best price for monitors if they bundle them with other items but that best price often turned out to be a much less desirable higher price I totally get Riddell is coming from though they were probably talking about the best price for them yeah well you know six million dollars is nothing for Dell in other tech companies Behaving Badly news Apple will soon pay up to 500 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit file in 2020 accusing them of secretly throttling the performance of older iPhone models remember Apple maintains that they did nothing wrong a claim totally consistent with paying a half a billion dollars to people complaining you did something wrong the 3 million claimants involved in the lawsuit could receive about 65 each once all is said and done though so this way everybody's happy Apple didn't do anything wrong they just felt bad we're sorry you feel that way here you can get a Happy Meal another Apple news according to a man whose name rhymes with dark merman apple is planning a major update for the Apple watch's 10th anniversary watch x which sounds like porn despite the Roman numeral the watch won't be a wearable Hellenic Sundial but a rather a huge overhaul of the design including a micro LED display thinner watch case magnetic band attachment system and a blood pressure monitor that's gonna be weird for the ninth model of the Apple watch which isn't even out yet and is by all reports an extremely minor upgrade to the standard Apple watch Formula middle child syndrome I guess where's Windows 9. Microsoft went micro hard finding vulnerabilities in the Industrial Automation software code sis objectively the sexiest kind of software in both a presentation and a blog post Microsoft stated these vulnerabilities could be used for remote code execution and denial of service attacks due to the wide use of the software these vulnerabilities could have been used to shut down and important utilities like power plants which provide the energy that allows you to Google why Sharona was written out in the middle of the third season of Emmy winning TV series monk starring Tony shaloo it's a travesty why Sharona and Netflix is rolling out public testing of its new cloud gaming service for select subscribers in Canada in the Yokai weird very weird sounds Netflix has had mobile games since last November but now a random handful of Brits and Canucks will be able to stream exactly two games on web browsers on certain TVs notably not including Apple TV because the Apple Store doesn't allow cloud gaming and Tim Cook hates joy to be clear this is less about exclusivity and more about making sure that the new system doesn't crap up its own back if a million people log on simultaneously what an image oh geez that was not a description and you should get your friends all on simultaneously to watch this Wednesday's episode of tech link you can sit all together and say nothing while you stare at your phone it's just like dinner at my parents house except my mom uses an iPaddetails on nvidia's next generation of gpus codenamed Blackwell appear to have been leaked raising the question of whether Team Green can pull off a better Redemption than Shawshank let's hope the answer isn't ziwatane no do you remember that's a deep cut I'm James tribe this is TechLink and this is the chip hell Forum post where leaker panzerlied posted the numbers two three five six and seven before you think pens relied forgot how to count Liverpool FC fan and Hardware leaker copite 7 Kimi elaborated that the upcoming Blackwell gpus will be cut into five dies the gb202 203 5 6 and 7. that naming is notable for two reasons lots of numbers today 200 series usually represents dies that are re-spins chips that are built again to be better faster costlier also there is no four variant which is typically meant to be used for the best bang for the buck GPU I guess that doesn't exist anymore until Nvidia decided to prank us by giving saying that designation to the die for the 40 70 and 4070 TI say it floor tom symbol oh now the Nvidia has replaced the x04 dive designation with x05 does the higher number here indicate lower performance as usual origin video just want to chip that accurately reference their favorite Mambo the new RTX Mambo Number Five hey no Lou Bega voice a group of six music labels including Sony and umg is suing the internet archive over their attempt to preserve music recorded on 78 RPM discs a format that was discontinued in 1959. holy cow you know you're evil when the archives great 78 project is trying to save the work of Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra and many other talented dead people but the labels argue that because the preserved songs are already available to stream there's no chance they'll be lost forgotten or destroyed which you know press X to doubt you only can stream one version usually when there's a remaster that's what you get when they're in the cloud they're there forever so stupid according to the internet archive the olden times recording still holds significant research value as artifacts and usage evidence and that's artifacts as an unintentional sounds and audio recording not like the Venus of Willendorf hot this comes only four months after the internet archive lost another copyright lawsuit brought on by a group of large Publishers who sued the archive for making digital books available without restriction during the unprecedented Global pandemic when most of the world's libraries were closed the archive says it plans to appeal the decision apparently Unapologetic for their dastardly crimes of enabling literacy but if they can read they won't stream our music Disney has decided to stop producing physical media in the entire country slash continent of Australia because I guess not enough things regularly perish there they do they they have spiders there's lots of Lots the house of mouse is instead going Full Throttle on Disney plus because why charge a customer once for something they really want when you can charge them for one thing they want and thousands of things they don't want every month until they die obviously this isn't just about getting people to sign up for Disney plus and then forgetting to cancel their subscription it's also because the cost of manufacturing physical media which I'm sure is only near zero Disney has also pulled physical releases from some countries in Latin America and Asia where the sales numbers were underwhelming unfortunately for some this trend extends Beyond movies with upcoming games like Starfield not even including a physical game in their 300 constellation Edition despite including a steel book case they don't have them in the future Alan Wake 2 is an example of a big budget game releasing digital only and even Alan Wake one to shootout THQ Nordic is begging for discs please give us the discs they're great frisbees get your own damn discs now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by the ridge are you tired of carrying around a bulky traditional wallet let me introduce you to the ridge wallet it's Sleek low profile design allows you to carry all your Essentials without the unnecessary bulk of a normally unnecessarily bulky wallet plus it with its RFID blocking technology you can rest assure that your cars are protected from digital theft the ridge wallet is made from high quality materials such as titanium carbon fiber and aluminum ensuring its durability for years to come upgrade your everyday carry with the ridge wallet and enjoy the freedom of a minimalist design oh it's so great check them out the link below and use the code linked at checkout for free shipping and 10 off your purchase the doctor told me the quick bits have been inside me all along I have three months to live Dell was found to have misled consumers on monitor prices in June by Australian Regulators who have now issued the company a fine of 6.46 million us bucks or 10 million Aussie billabongs it's actually cool fine from August 2019 to December 2021 Dell's Australian website suggested that Shoppers could get the best price for monitors if they bundle them with other items but that best price often turned out to be a much less desirable higher price I totally get Riddell is coming from though they were probably talking about the best price for them yeah well you know six million dollars is nothing for Dell in other tech companies Behaving Badly news Apple will soon pay up to 500 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit file in 2020 accusing them of secretly throttling the performance of older iPhone models remember Apple maintains that they did nothing wrong a claim totally consistent with paying a half a billion dollars to people complaining you did something wrong the 3 million claimants involved in the lawsuit could receive about 65 each once all is said and done though so this way everybody's happy Apple didn't do anything wrong they just felt bad we're sorry you feel that way here you can get a Happy Meal another Apple news according to a man whose name rhymes with dark merman apple is planning a major update for the Apple watch's 10th anniversary watch x which sounds like porn despite the Roman numeral the watch won't be a wearable Hellenic Sundial but a rather a huge overhaul of the design including a micro LED display thinner watch case magnetic band attachment system and a blood pressure monitor that's gonna be weird for the ninth model of the Apple watch which isn't even out yet and is by all reports an extremely minor upgrade to the standard Apple watch Formula middle child syndrome I guess where's Windows 9. Microsoft went micro hard finding vulnerabilities in the Industrial Automation software code sis objectively the sexiest kind of software in both a presentation and a blog post Microsoft stated these vulnerabilities could be used for remote code execution and denial of service attacks due to the wide use of the software these vulnerabilities could have been used to shut down and important utilities like power plants which provide the energy that allows you to Google why Sharona was written out in the middle of the third season of Emmy winning TV series monk starring Tony shaloo it's a travesty why Sharona and Netflix is rolling out public testing of its new cloud gaming service for select subscribers in Canada in the Yokai weird very weird sounds Netflix has had mobile games since last November but now a random handful of Brits and Canucks will be able to stream exactly two games on web browsers on certain TVs notably not including Apple TV because the Apple Store doesn't allow cloud gaming and Tim Cook hates joy to be clear this is less about exclusivity and more about making sure that the new system doesn't crap up its own back if a million people log on simultaneously what an image oh geez that was not a description and you should get your friends all on simultaneously to watch this Wednesday's episode of tech link you can sit all together and say nothing while you stare at your phone it's just like dinner at my parents house except my mom uses an iPad\n"