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That’s the most dangerous part of it for sure. Inherently, the more a company has a monopoly over an industry, the less incentive they have to actually do a good job with anything.

Every time I go to play an old Ubisoft game I get to some stage in launching where I remember “oh right this is why I stopped bothering to play”

Keeping repairs locked into your system of parts/techs can at least feign “safety” or “quality”.

But essentially just refusing to repair is an absolute fuck you.

I’ve started choosing the companies I use based much more on the experience offered when their product/service DOESN’T work, rather than when it does.

I tried

Wait you’re onto spending

JESUS IS THE RAPTURE

COMING WILL HAPPEN ON 9-18-24

sigh… if you insist

Hey Gary, could you help me? I couldn’t find out how to get you camera access too.

I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad

The first bit of pay to win verification and impersonation was the most hilarious part of Elon’s Twitter.

Deleted my account after that.

As someone tech literate that looks hilarious to follow through with.

But if not, that really does seem similar to a normal captcha with fairly simple steps.

I honestly still hardly have any (spare) USB-C cables, and while I’d never pay for one I always do find the official Apple ones quite reliable.