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.

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.

I’ve been playing Asphalt 9 recently, and I’ve started hitting the walls they throw in after tens of hours in which my options are to hope for lucky draws, wait for timers to reset, and watch ads, or pay.

It’s a legitimate shame, because the game is actually super fun, but the horribly predatory monetization is effectively a guarantee that I’m never spending a dime out of spite and I’m gonna quit once I get all the Xbox achievements, which is what I originally gave the game a shot for.

Edit: did I mention that the only ways to get many cars are loot boxes? I can’t finish certain sections of the career mode right now because I don’t have required vehicles, so it’s become a game of juggling the activities I can actually do at any given time.

It’s a global solution, not just localized to specific areas. No ads on my account on my Xbox, PS5, Switch, Google Home speakers (YouTube Music), Fire TV Stick, Android TV, Roku, my roommate’s Roku, or anyone else’s devices anywhere else, in addition to places like my phone and PC where I just use uBlock Origin.

In addition, I’m actually just splitting the family plan across three people, so it’s like $7.64/mo, which isn’t bad.

Don’t worry, you’re not alone

Not even just the doctors, I keep hearing tales of pharmacists at specifically Walgreens just refusing to fill prescriptions.

Hence why next time I talk with my doctor I’m switching to somewhere else.