I once got a screen replaced by a street vendor in shenzhen for $5 but then it cracked on the way to the hotel (just the glass put on the LCD with thin strips of vhb on the side)

? they tried to crowdfund one single model but despite the overwhelming support (raised $35 mil) it wasn’t enough to actually start production

It’s going to be irrelevant, why bothering going in a physical store and get bombarded with upsells to get a GS+ subscription for getting just a download code that can be downloaded from your couch?

Download codes are the reason the PC section in all game stores is missing or extremely tiny

Who needs scalpers when GameStop is marking up Pokémon cards by more than 300 percent?

(Your image wasn’t showing on my client, probably because hotlinked)

Meanwhile, trump’s eulogy could be used for a dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGtNtCkuZY4&t=222

I’m not saying that they can’t have a profit. After all they need to pay marketing, cc fees, bother with scammers/chargebacks and so on. Doing like before the IGN acquisition where people could put zero was unfair. I am totally fine giving them a fair share.

I’m saying that this slider is designed to be deceiving and pretend their share is minimal and not a third of that.

Not to mention that 30% is the minimum fee.

The default fee if the user doesn’t change the slider is this:

• 50% to the software house
• 5% to charity
• 45% to humble

And in the slider it doesn’t visually appear they take 45% but it looks like a 25% (I’m getting error 500 when uploading a screenshot)

Since Linux transformed my 8gb Lenovo 11th gen laptop from e-waste to daily use I became like a jw, I need to convert everyone

No it’s more like this: humble takes a 30% fee, then for the remaining 70% the user can decide how to divide in three parts.

So on this specific example, all of the three sliders go from 0 to 55.71, with humble that takes 23.88 in addition to the selected percentage.

So, if the user decides to give 33,3% to each one, the dev takes 18.71, the charity takes 18.71 and humble takes 18.71+23.88 fee

The sliders are purposely deceiving to pretend they are not taking the biggest slice of the pie

each slider has the same max. The software house and the charity both go from 0 to 55.71, while humble goes from 23.88 to 73.59

Humble takes a minimum of 30% but the slider starts at a visual 10%

For now

It’s from Google. They already remotely killed all the 1st and 2nd generation nest thermostats. The sensor there would still work for decades, but you can’t set the temperature anymore because they decided that the line must go up

All hp printheads are “refillable”. The problem is that the printhead itself is not designed to last more than a refill.

HP doesn’t sell those standalone, all the generic refillable cartridges compatible with HP are hand picked from e-waste in some third world country, then cleaned, primed and sold as “new”

If I remember right it’s because they outsourced that feature to a third party called peel

It started as a dumb remote (which was everyone wanted) but they had some monetization ideas like full TV schedules and “suggested” (aka: sponsored) content.

The same for Xiaomi. A simple ir remote app in the mi 5, but no, in the next updates they had to bloat it until it imploded and nobody used it anymore so they could say “see? Nobody uses it, we can save the $0.05 ir LED”

Well I’m not surprised that the war criminals would side with terrorists

It’s a pity that it is using the worst printheads available on the market, the HP disposable ones. Good for up to ten prints I guess

Sometimes his bragging is hilarious.

On Italian TV there was a sports show where some pundit was saying “no but Infantino would have never bent the rules like this, it is because they noticed some problem with the VAR and we’re going to get explainations soon” - meanwhile the control room was showing on the back monitors trump “truthing” his bragging “I corrupted FIFA and I am proud of it”

I forgot to explain why they can’t just leave it alone and just continue milking whales their subscription/coin purchases: every 3-4 weeks they change the courses with new “events” and SURPRISE! Your expensive gear now here is useless. You grinded for days and/or spent $1000s to have level 8 “beach costume Luigi” that requires to literally find ONE HUNDRED duplicates in the loot boxes? Sorry, those new courses unlock the max points multiplier only with the new “Pizza baking Luigi costume”, go back to level 0 and climb the ladder again with the loot boxes, thanks for playing. Ah and the “Pizza baking Luigi costume” is a limited event, please find all the 100 duplicates in the loot boxes before the end of this month, or you will be never be able to level it again, thanks.

So Nintendo needs to pay a couple employees to think and create the new monthly events with all the new gear, takes a lot of effort, that’s why they can’t just abandon it and continue to just rake in the money from whales

And ps: IMHO the “online racing” part is simulated and it didn’t wasn’t real multiplayer. I played “online” on a severely throttled WiFi connection (so slow that is unusable) and it didn’t bat an eye. It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the “race”.

I played the game years ago.

It’s a gambling simulator where you pretend to drive but the final result is almost already predetermined according to how much time/money you spent on gear. Maybe you can get 1-3 positions higher than expected by timing the activation of power ups at the right time, or manually drifting, but the kart drives automatically, for the first levels you can even win without input.

The most exciting part of the game is shooting the firework from the pipe to open the loot box.

Once you take out the loot box system and you take out the pay to win subscription and you unlock all the gear, then where is the “fun” in the “game”? There’s no single player mode to preserve.