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I definitely miss parts of that.

The connectivity of the modern world has a lot of benefits, but it's also a pain in the dick.

About 700 (5%) of 2023’s releases made over $100,000 in full game revenue.

That seems like a pretty damn healthy market to me.

100k is obviously fuckall for a AAA production, but that aren't really that many of those, and most of those that don't suck hard did fine.

My dad had a book called Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (no clue which one) in the bathroom for the longest time.

The difference in longevity isn't running it over with a car. It's the day to day handling of the device.

It is impossible for an obligatory long term warranty on a device a meaningful portion of customers abuse to not result in responsible owners paying more to subsidize bad ones. The number of devices between 1 to 5 years that fail due to manufacturer defects compared to abuse is far, far less than negligible.

Every individual stolen key does massive harm.

They didn't say piracy is good. They said piracy is (by a massive amount) less malicious and less harmful than buying from fences for stolen keys like all the disgusting sites you're promoting.

Definitely a legit way to make great coffee. I don't usually have the 10 minutes it takes not to scorch it in the morning, but I do bring it camping and on vacation.

This is what I need.

At the bottom in portrait mode is terrible.

Your entirely unhinged laws are why everything costs twice as much there.

If the steam deck dies after a year, 99.9999999% of the time, it's because of you. The lifespan of a mobile electronic device is almost entirely a product of how it is treated. The Deck is built like a tank and can take heavy abuse. Warranty service is not life span, and longer default warranties on consumer electronics literally always mean that responsible customers are charged extra, up front, to subsidize idiots.

Our consumer protections are perfectly fine.

The idea that buying a product obligates the company to service it until the end of time is deranged. The life span of any product is heavily dependent on how a user cares for it. Cars with a 5-10 year warranty will easily last 25 years if used reasonably, and easily die in less than their warranty length if you abuse them. If you required a 25 year warranty on cars because that's how long they should last, the only outcome is that people who take care of their cars would have to pay more to subsidize idiots who break them.

Every other product is identical. It's not a coincidence that consumer electronics cost more in every country with "better consumer protection laws", even accounting for your ridiculous tax rates. It's because everyone is forced to pay extra, up front, to offset the costs of the people who aren't willing to take proper care of their devices. That's not better or better "value" to anyone.

This is idiotic.

The life span of the device is perfectly fine. There is no reason for or benefit to sending the device back to whatever random third party Valve wants to hire for service.

It's fucking stolen. There is no warranty.

Starbucks isn't great espresso, but there's a reason espresso drinks cost what they do. There's a lot more labor, a genuinely obscenely expensive machine, or both involved in making it in a shop like that.

I'm perfectly fine with a cheap machine at home, but it just doesn't work in a coffee shop.

A. How the fuck does a toilet explode?

B. If they knew there was something wrong with it, a sign saying "out of order" takes 10 seconds.

Why? But regardless, the product was beyond warranty, and not getting warranty service on a stolen device is normal.

Steam having the ability to blacklist devices massively compromises their value. The completely open nature of the device is a big part of what they advertised and how they sold it.

They could probably blacklist it from getting SteamOS updates through their servers, but actually bricking it would involve taking away from the "it's just a PC" nature of the device.

Not getting OEM repairs on used products period isn't mind blowing, ignoring that it's stolen.

So, on my (Android) ereader, I use einkbro which is a browser that will save pages to epub, then can be used and organized with most reader software. You can also combine multiple web pages as chapters to the same book pretty trivially.

I don't have a suggestion that perfectly fits your question as asked, but figured I'd suggest it anyways because it serves a relatively similar goal for me.

A seasoned internet user has a password manager.

Not using one is your negligence, no one else's.

This topic isn't about assault vs battery. This topic is about sexual assault.

In the relevant legal system (and two major US ones), the law requires actual physical contact for sexual assault.

The one that also tells you California uses the terms interchangeably?

I gave you the relevant jurisdiction and two major US ones. In all three cases, it cannot be sexual assault without actual sexual contact with the victim.

Regular assault isn't relevant here.