The ones working at nice restaurants making $50/hr are the ones ranting at city council. Certainly not the Denny's or Waffle House staff making a few dollars/hr in tips.

Given they ship the same sports titles every year, and would rather peddle gambling to children than produce a legitimate product, I'm thinking very little will change.

The thing I find most ironic about this situation is how these sorts of "random large invoices" are a super common scam/phishing tactic. Although anyone who preemptively cancels their cards without checking if they were actually charged kinda deserves what they get. The organization I work for probably blocks several hundred of these exact scams per week from mailboxes.

It's just heavily used by malicious actors for domain registration because of the cheap cost and their lack of vetting. So they register a domain, use it for 24-48hrs then dump it, or use it to pick up recently expired domains and piggyback on their clean reputation to send out scams and malware.

The irony is ICANN has enabled tons of shady and downright criminally managed TLDs and registrars to be introduced over the last ten years, which makes this pretty hypocritical. Registrars like Namecheap are mostly phishing and malware, TLDs like .pro and .xyz make no efforts to reign in the overwhelming amount of abuse coming from them, etc.

Funny how cheaply you can afford to manufacture things for when you eliminate R&D costs almost completely by ripping others off...

I'd also look at the fine print of those warranties: Generally speaking they often selectively cover only the stuff that isn't likely to break easily, but there are still a lot of routine maintenance parts that can give out long before that and cost you a maintenance call.

My Go-To for 3rd party controllers for Switch and PC is the 8bitdo SN30+ —looks just like an SNES controller, but with modern triggers and grips on it. Not only works with Switch, but PC and mobile as well. It has a removable rechargeable battery similar to an Xbox controller, but you can charge it via USB-C so there normally isn't a reason to remove it, but the option is there. (Can substitute regular alkalines, for example)

The issue with that thinking is that the GOP lumps themselves together. You either toe the line or you are the enemy. There is no compromise, there is no supporting them 95%. You either go all the way or nothing. So yes, people are largely going to group them together because of that.

Not on the phone screen itself, but there are phones like the Asus ROG Phone that already have their own dock to present a desktop-like experience. For anyone doing general business computing via their browser, email, Office apps, etc. we've reached the point where they could provide an adequate experience. I personally did my programming homework at school via RDP to my home desktop, and there were a few times in a pinch I even did it with my tablet and bluetooth kb/m.

Indeed. I refurbished my 3770K with a new case and a GTX 1660 Super for my friends last fall. The dad has been using it for teleworking since spring and commented on how surprised he was at how well it ran despite ostensibly being from 2012. Even if I had left the existing GTX 770 in it I'm sure it would have still been good: I was running The Division 2 @ 1080p high settings around 90fps shortly before building a new system.

Linus covers this flippant retort in his video: Nvidia isn't doing them a favor giving them "free GPUs": The transaction is them providing marketing to consumers and helping them make informed choices. If they want paid reviews with specific talking points, they can pay for that and have the videos marked as paid promotion. Nvidia essentially wants paid promotion disguised as unbiased reviews for their own benefit.

Do they? From what I've seen, raises are rarely given out and CoL adjustments are the new "raise". If you actually want a pay increase you need to quit and negotiate salary somewhere else: It's the only time you will see an appreciable pay increase worth your time invested.

If they don't innovate they will get slammed for sitting back and coasting, but if they do try to innovate, then it's only because they're greedy? I would assume drawing a line in the sand about no ds4 controllers for PS5 games is for simplicity sake, otherwise they need to mark on all packaging and track for every game exactly what peripherals work.

Also, why is this suddenly a big deal now, when it's been true for virtually all previous consoles from all vendors? The only example to this point I can think of was Nintendo allowing Gamecube controllers for Smash since that is such a big draw for their console. The ds3 has minimal functionality on the ps4, so it's not even something they are taking away. It reminds me of how certain games like Uncharted for Vita didn't work with the PStv because there was no way to emulate the touch controls with a ds4 controller.

I would assume if they are revealing this info, the loophole had already been closed.