My $300 Brother laser printer that does everything works just fine because it wasn’t designed to be a money-siphoning piece of shit.

Family plan split three ways comes out to about $7 a person per month, if I’m remembering right.

To be honest, Google is poor enough these days that I just use Bing for the Microsoft Rewards points.

T-Mobile

So it’s useless if I go on a road trip?

Depends on what the public wants. Apple kills backwards compatibility every couple of decades and they have an even more minute gaming presence than Linux does. Like, , their most popular title, even as a company deathly afraid of the Windows monopoly.

You could make arguments for consoles and such, but that doesn’t solve the problem of Macs being particularly costly.

I don’t understand how people hang out in these places. It just doesn’t seem like a system conducive to discussion. The forum/link aggregator format works much better imo

I actually use Bing so that I get Microsoft Rewards points, meaning I gain money by not using Google.

But I understand privacy homies going DuckDuckGo or something else.

I mean, not really. They had it working out great for years.

Then they killed the API.

It’s an eight year old smartwatch. I feel like most of the target audience already has a newer model.

No they can’t. We all found out during the Quest 2 era that their elite straps are fragile and prone to snapping. 100% of the advice in the community is to buy third-party.

Because Chrome just stopped working on my PC one day like a decade ago.

No, you don’t, because Fallout 4 was particularly trash on both counts. It’s explicitly why I haven’t even subbed to Gamepass or anything for Starfield after growing up obsessed with Oblivion, FO3, FONV, and Skyrim, as well as buying the Pip Boy Edition of FO4 because I was so excited for it.

Graphics are like, one of the last things I give a shit about as long as they’re not hampering the game. I don’t care if I’m playing Wolfenstein 3D or the latest triple-A graphics splurgefest so long as it’s a fun game, but stuff like Cruelty Squad is an absolute no-go because of the dogshit HUD that serves only to distract the player and make it feel claustrophobic.

It’s only a problem if you leave the litter box out. Ours are all in the master bathroom, so that the living room doesn’t smell. The bathroom certainly smells, I’m extremely sensitive to smell so I straight-up go in with my nose covered, but the rest of the place is fine.

I also recommend wax melters. Wal-Mart sells this “Orange Buttercream” wax that smells exactly like Froot Loops, it’s amazing.

This is the U.S., we quite literally can’t uphold values to save our lives. Hollywood studios aren’t going to pause shit.

It’s also the name of the best feature of the 3DS. What the fuck, Nintendo? Why don’t we have it on the Switch?

First problem is getting the people talking to their children to care about privacy. I’m a grown-ass adult and it’s hardly at the top of my priorities, regularly using Google services with Bing as my search engine to get me Microsoft Rewards points I can blow on games.

It’s going to be even tougher for a kid whose friends are all on TikTok and who has no money (and would probably be delighted to learn about services that pay miniscule amounts for data, like the Amazon and Google Play ones in addition to the Microsoft one).

Considering the whole point of a corporation is limited liability, I can’t imagine the whole “individual execs will get in trouble” thing is going down well for them. I’m sure nobody wants their encrypted chats handed over to the government, either, especially as governments have been backtracking rights for pretty much everyone.

Fuck the Online Safety Act, it’s gross overreach.

otherwise, what’s the point?

Not having ads. It’s optional so far, but it won’t be forever. Cable proved that.

Like Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem.

The last two things I pirated were No One Lives Forever, a game that’s completely delisted on all storefronts, and Ratchet & Clank, because Sony can’t figure out how to add the PS2 versions of games to the PS5 and I refuse to stream it (data cap) or lug around my PS3.

Both I would’ve purchased legally had they not made it a pain in the ass.