You don’t have to worry if there will be a battery available in 20 years because AAs are standardized and will always be made. Or at least far more likely than whatever proprietary crap they’re putting in these controllers. Devices that take AAs will last until the hardware wears out. You don’t have to worry about the battery being the weak link. Which has been the case for every rechargeable device I’ve ever owned. The battery is always the first to go.

If AAs are also an option then I have not complaints about the system.

So make disposable AAs illegal or tax them like cigarettes, or charge a core fee like they do car batteries. Those same people you’re talking about will throw the controller in the trash when the battery craps out. We’re making disposable junk either way at this point.

Only for so long as the manufacturer makes them. AAs don’t have that problem.

Rechargeable AA work just fine and are easy to acquire. What exactly makes them “not worth it”.

Rechargeable AA take forever to recharge.

So have some extra ones ready to go. They’re cheap.

That’s crazy to me. I only use my local bank at their physical location. I feel like the fact that they exist in close proximity to their customers who can put hands on them gives them a little extra incentive to not do corrupt bullshit.

Compared to Apple fees, that fee is actually managable. It’s a one-time thing.

I don’t care if it’s a nickel. It’s bullshit. It’s one of many reasons people avoid apple products.

On a side note, if they want to restrict users from sideloading apps, fine!

Also no.

Yes, that is what the wrench is for…

I use a password manager in my personal life but my job doesn’t allow it so I have to keep the 10 or so passwords I have for various vendor sites in my notes. All my passwords are the same thing with slight variations to meet the different asinine password policies the different sites use. It’s fucking stupid but I don’t care if they’re not going to give me a good way to keep all this shit straight.

Just steal a bunch of their files on the way out so you have a head start.

Good. Competition is good for the consumer.

Also, only the main screen time and date button actually pulls the calendar up. That works on all screens in Win 10. It’s incredibly annoying

They aren’t going to provide for people’s basic needs after the robots take their jobs. They’re going to keep the excess productivity for themselves. Just as they’ve always done. The only way that changes is by force, and by the time people get desperate enough for that they’ll have an army of robots at their disposal. We need to tackle that capitalist problem before we get to the point automation taking all the jobs.

Elon’s bullshit isn’t going to be that point though.

When your phone’s battery health falls to around 80%, a battery replacement is recommended.

Yeah, just get right on that, it’s basically a trivial process.

Okay, but can we execute these people for putting this concept into the world anyway?

Being able to see their faces increases accountability.

Steam isn’t blocking anyone from competing as far as I’m aware. It’s just that most customers don’t to switch to a new platform because none of the competition is better than they are and we don’t want to have to juggle multiple launchers. If Steam started being assholes to the customers or developers stopped putting games on there we’d look at other options.

Supposing Steam is a monopoly what remedy do propose that wouldn’t make the user experience worse for their customers?

They don’t have a monopoly. They just have the best platform. It offers a lot of quality of life features along with the games and rarely causes issues. I can’t even recall them ever doing anything anticompetitive. There are other platforms available to purchase from if you don’t like steam. GoG for instance. Or Epic if you want to support assholes.

Who’s bewildered? Of course this was going to happen. Everything enjoyable about life is being ruined. It’s not surprising at all.