Daily Tech News 16 February 2024

• Apple has publicly confirmed that it has broken support for persistent web apps (PWAs) on purpose. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The company went on to explain that it broke support because its operating system is buggy and insecure, and because it hates its own developers and users.
  
  They didn't mean to explain that, but they did.

• Walking around with $3500 AR goggles strapped to your face is a bad idea. (Ars Technica)
  
  Thanks, Ars Technica. We would never have guessed.
  
  
  
• Sitting inside with the blinds closed reading comics, the $3500 Vision Pro is perfectly fine, until you throw up. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which is nothing specific to the Vision Pro, but a common problem with other AR and VR goggles.
  
  
  
• How to unsubscribe from Nextdoor. (taylor.town)
  
  Spoiler:

  Yes, there are 16 pages of notification settings.

  There are no "disable all" buttons. In order to unsubscribe from everything, nextdoor demands hundreds of clicks.

  It's the La Brea tar pit of briar patches.
  
  
• Fuck you, they explained: Broadcom takes a leaf out of Nijisanji's management handbook with its acquisition of VMWare. (Ars Technica)
  
  Perpetual licenses are out, as now is the free version of VMWare ESXi, intended for developers and sysadmins to run at home instead of some other company's software.
  
  Gone too is the VMWare Partner Program, which had 28,000 resellers a year ago.
  
  VMWare's explanation of the changes amounted to everyone else is doing it, which is largely true, but the reason VMWare held on to its customer base was precisely because everyone else was doing that, and VMWare was not.
  
  Was not. Past tense.
  
  
  
• You wouldn't leave $90,000 in cash sitting out on your desk with the window open. (The Register)
  
  Or maybe you would. Maybe you own a pack of honey badgers. Still seems unwise.
  
  
  
• The Nextbox is coming. (WCCFTech)
  
  I guess Microsoft is big enough - and Xbox itself is big enough - that it doesn't have to worry about the Osborne Effect. And the company probably does own a pack of honey badgers, come to think of it.
  
  
  
• Google suggests that owners of older Windows laptops should migrate to ChromeOS. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This would be a great idea - ChromeOS will run fine on hardware that Windows 11 would leave dead in a ditch - if it were not for the fact that Google is no more trustworthy than Microsoft and would have far more control over your data.
  
  
  
• Rat. (Ars Technica)
  
  Don't click.
  
  Tags: rat, reproduction, ai, china, omgwtfbbq
  

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