Imagine seeing that message and buying another product from them.
“It’s time to artificially create waste. Don’t worry, you won’t see this message again. Our new cookers are designed to not last 10 years.”
Fester
joined 1 year ago
Google search has some features that alternative search engines don’t. I use DuckDuckGo for 99% of everything, but I occasionally use Google to see local busy hours, or sometimes any hours, reviews, phone numbers without navigating a shitty website, etc.
I think there are ways to break up Google search on its own, and make some of those features separate and accessible on other search engines.
Then there’s the matter of advertising, data collection, SEO, exclusivity with corporations like Reddit, etc.
Google is doing things with its search that seem to intentionally reduce the ability of other search engines to compete with them, and that’s really all that the antitrust laws are meant to prevent.
“if you fuck with my liberty”*
^*and^ ^by^ ^liberty^ ^I^ ^mean^ ^specifically^ ^don’t^ ^talk^ ^about^ ^mass^ ^shootings^ ^during^ ^campaign^ ^season.^ ^All^ ^other^ ^liberties^ ^are^ ^fair^ ^game^ ^so^ ^don’t^ ^bother^ ^being^ ^gentle^ ^just^ ^step^ ^on^ ^me^ ^hard^ ^please^ ^I^ ^like^ ^it.^
Yes, but those policies don’t provide political cover to eliminate everyone’s encryption and privacy, so…
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I can charge mine when I shower and get dressed, and sometimes when I brush my teeth and feed the pets at night - about 30-60 minutes a day total. I wear it the other 23-23.5 hours, including sleep with the AutoSleep app. It sometimes gets down to 20% before charging.
If it didn’t charge so fast then it would be an issue for me.
I’ll wait till it’s like $0.99-4.99.
I feel like this is a dying gasp effort to keep the game online. I actually feel bad about it.
Elite is one of two games where I’ve ever spent money on cosmetics. I spent like $60 on paint jobs because I actually wanted to support the game.
I’m not sure what to think about this, because normally I hate “pay to win” and cosmetic shops alike. I wish Elite just had a subscription model and could support more stable servers or something. I don’t know how they expected to put an always-online game on sale for $5 all the time and keep it profitable without eventually running into a brick wall where they’d need to choose between shutting down and pissing off players.
I genuinely hope this somehow turns out to be worth it for them.
What a great way to motivate your other employees and show them that hard work is worthwhile and success is rewarded.
“Free calls. Free internet. For everyone. Forever.”