Daily Tech News 13 October 2023

• In which The Verge tries to explain a joke. (The Verge)
  
  So Rick and Morty is back with season seven, though without series co-creator and the voice of both Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland, who got Me Too'd.
  
  Given the way the show was headed in seasons four through six - straight downward - this is less of a loss than it might have been otherwise.
  
  But that's not the point here. The point is that The Verge spends eight paragraphs discussing an episode called How Poopy Got His Poop Back and makes it sound about as entertaining as a simultaneous barium enema and double root canal.
  
  It's a talent. Of some sort.
  
  
  

• Apple is a cult. (Tokyo Dev)
  
  If you lose your MacBook, Apple will very helpfully kill it for you. Even if you get it back, it will still be dead. And no, they won't fix that - even though that can. And they won't let you fix it either.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, be prepared for some drama if you want to run Linux on the latest Framework laptops. (Zach Codes)
  
  It can be done, but it's certainly not as smooth an experience a you'd hope.
  
  On the other hand, it's yours. You can pop it open and replace anything. No subscriptions, no cloud, none of that.
  
  
  
• After petulant impotent threats, the EU Office of the Bookburner General has opened a petulant impotent investigation into "disinformation" at Twitter. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Unsurprisingly the Ars Technica commentariat sides with the book burners.
  
  Wonder if I'll get banned again.
  
  
  
• Intel's Arc A580 is here, and at $180 it's a decent card for 1080p gaming. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Its key strength is that it keeps a full 256-bit memory bus at a price point where AMD and Nvidia only offer cut-down 128-bit cards.
  
  Its key weakness is that Intel's own A750 is a good bit faster and only $10 more.
  
  Intel does seem committed to its graphics efforts, and the early driver issues seem to be mostly resolved, but if you're inclined in that direction it's definitely worth spending the extra ten bucks.

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