Probably would have succeeded if it was in a japanese court against a Japanese company.

Which I think its why these Japanese companies specifically feel emboldened to do stupid shit like that.

I forgot about the rootkit thing.

And wait, what? suing over watching a youtube video? I never heard about this

Sony was so close to me diving head first into their PC gaming ecosystem, cause there were a lot of games i really wanted to get into, when they pulled the “HAHA SURPRISE, ALL THOSE GAMES YOU’VE ALREADY BOUGHT AND PLAYED? NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLAYSTATION ACCOUNT FOR THEM BECAUSE WE SAID SO!” and basically guaranteed I’ll never own another playstation product for the rest of my life.

Sure buddy.

I absolutely hate when networking equipment forces you to use an app to set it up, and the app doesn’t do anything that a website couldn’t do.

but the website wouldnt demand 87 permissions and have the ability to silently upload all your contacts and god knows what else to a secret server for advertisement and identification/tracking purposes.

Which is why every company uses apps… even if those apps are just a website wrapped in a app container. because you are the product. not the device you are using.

never thought I’d see the day where someone would say “I saw what happened to all the other stupid devices that did X, so I’m never buying a device that does X”.

But it seems there are people out there who are capable of learning… rare as it may be.

Thats a nice gentle breath across the last dying ember of hope I had.

yep.

I’ve not given Nintendo money for a long ass time, because of their idiotic insistence on choosing the most selfish, customer hating path at every fork in the road they come to.

because myopic little gremlins care more about their instant gratification and newest shinies than anything else.

but don’t worry, once the new wears off, they’ll go back to pointing out the flaws and “hating” the company just like everyone else.

Thats been Nintendo’s modus operandi for at least the past 15 years.

this is how stupid, self centered, petty, controlling, and anti-consumer, anti-fan Nintendo is.

They’d rather incur the costs of running two assemblies side by side, than simply give everyone access to a means of easily repair their switch.

They’d rather spend tons of extra money, than do anything beneficial for someone they arent forced by law to give it to.

Its a real thing.

Google entered heavy enshittification stage and honestly… it’s sad to watch.

google has been in heavy enshittification for going on a decade now.

Honestly you could make the argument that its been on the enshittification slide since they tried to expand out from just being a search engine company.

making an IT professional scratch their head and go “What the… how…?!” is almost a badge of honor.

Don’t worry, for just 50 dollars a month you can subscribe to the basic peasant tier version of GeForce NOW that entitles you to a whopping 4 hours of game play per month, as long as its played between the hours of 3am and 4am local time.

Thats has hardware thats 4+ years out of date, and was already long since showing its age with running newer released stuff.

Its a neat device, but its… at this point… an old neat device.

Same reason scalpers struggled to keep stock of cards being sold at 4x the price during covid, which directly lead to nvidia and AMD skyrocketing prices the second stock stabilized.

The world is full of idiots who have more money than sense, who make terrible decisions with no thought of the consequences or ramifications.

thats less of a USB issue and more of a cheap ass knockoff manufacturer issue.

by putting them out of his misery.

on a totally unrelated topic, but harbor freight is a great place to get affordable tools.

don’t forget bathroom mirrors. I haven’t seen my reflection above my chin in a year because I just got tired of bending over to see myself. when I shave it’s just easier to use the selfie cam on my phone.

Oh yeah, that reminds me of the chronic neckpain from being in a car and having to tilt your head so theres enough buffer space that you dont crush your spine against the roof on every bump