Nintendo is going after a lot of their biggest fans. It’s so obviously stupid, but they just keep doing it.

Love my Hakko. Paid a little over $100 for it several years ago. It costs 10x as much as the cheapest option but is 100x better.

Absolutely not

Boeing was one of my accounts back before the pandemic. I had to respond to RFPs where my employer sold services to Boeing. They sucked to work with and just didn’t understand really basic things about the services they were requesting in their own RFPs.

Disney and Walmart on the other hand were great. They were not pushovers, but they were consistently friendly, and they always knew their shit.

AliExpress has a part that replaces the disc reader. Let’s you play games on the console from SD card.

For others without a console, redream works pretty well for most games, even on a fairly old PC.

Slowly playing through Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga for GBA. I wait too long between sessions and forget where I was supposed to be going.

Same for FFIX. Currently on disc 4.

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Bro leaches millions off regular people and can’t even master contractions.

Stop sharpening your pitchforks. Dull ones hurt more.

Back when I ran a restaurant the rule of thumb was to charge triple whatever you paid for the food, and that would cover all the other stuff. I’m curious what it is now.

I used to think about purchases as how many McDoubles I could buy instead. That’s back when they were $1.

Agreed and I still think there is value in doing it.

Were they relevant when the FBI categorized them as a gang?

Fine. But imagining it is as far as I will go.

How many people are actually getting a new phone every year? I don’t think I’m poor but maybe I am? Everyone I know keeps their phones for at least a few years and then replaces them when they are no longer functional.

Still. Every 3 years feels like too often, but that’s around the time things stop working - likely due to planned obsolescence and updates designed to make older phones work worse.

Should we really blame the consumer for replacing something the manufacturer designed to break after a short time? What’s something else you pay $1500+ for that is useless 3 years later?

Just encountered a captcha yesterday that I had to refresh several times and then listen to the audio playback. The letters were so obscured by a black grid that it was impossible to read them.