no, there is no tip, and there is no mention of the price increase either. i emailed them about it, and they requested me to call and wouldn't reply in writing with their reason

they are charging you more if you shop in store. they want you to shop online and have walmart+ and they will offer you the lowest price if you do

other stores like HEB are doing the exact opposite: they claim no curbside fees on their website, but they lie and they will increase the price of the item 5% if you choose pickup. try logging to an account to confirm what i am saying

And yet when Sony removed Linux support for the PS3, a change that affects 'virtually zero of their customers,' Slashdot was calling for lawsuits.

My advice: don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either. Think of the users that will no longer be fooled by a shady seller on Amazon, especially now that the perverse incentives for board mods and reusing harvested RAM chips are at their highest.

This doesn't pass the 'would you say the same thing if it wasn't your baby' test.

You're right, they could have made that choice. However, they would have priced themselves out of the market, as while they would have gained a small uptick in 'I want a cool Linux computer' sales, they would have faced a massive loss in 'I want a game console' and 'I want a Blu-Ray player' sales, which were the two primary drivers of PS3 sales.

Console price is king. There's a reason Sony's entire console launch presentation for the original PlayStation at E3 in 1995 was, and I quote, '$299.'

You can find it on YouTube, if you're interested.

Unless the watch can initiate chest compressions and AED functions, simply calling emergency services when you lose your pulse isn't going to accomplish anything.

And then they pulled the Linux support when they realized how many people were buying PS2s for Linux, and not buying games, thus costing Sony money under the 'razors and blades' paradigm.

The problem here is that when you turned on the TV for the first time and clicked the 'I accept' button, you agreed to the recording, and probably agreed that you'd be responsible for letting anybody else who might be in range of the TV know that they're subject to recording.

Is that going to hold up in court? Who knows, but can you afford to spend the money to find out? Somebody eventually will, and you'll get a coupon for twenty bucks off of a new TV as the settlement.

Yeah, my bad, I just automatically assumed this would involve a transfer switch to avoid backfeeding.

Ah, silly me, I thought this would require installation of a transfer switch to avoid backfeeding.

And even if all it's good for powering is your fridge, well, congrats, now your fridge's contents can survive a power outage.

I used to run a custom home theater setup with all sorts of remuxing and transcoding setups, then I found Infuse for AppleTV. Just point it at an SMB share and it plays pretty much anything you throw at it, as is.

Yup.

The Switch 2 has an argument going on between 'full cartridges' that actually have the installer and game data on the flash cart, and 'game key cartridges' where the only thing on the cart is the digital license, and when you insert it, it downloads the game from the Nintendo cloud, and the GKC lets you run it.

Which means you can loan/sell/give the GKC to somebody, and now they play the game, but without an internet connection, the GKC itself doesn't do anything for you.

Xbox discs since the One have been both; the install media and game data, plus the license key. I suspect PS5 discs are the same, probably PS4 discs. Hell, maybe even PS3 discs.

You're gonna die of something, so make your choice.

every advance in technology comes at the expense of "rotting our brains"

example: calculators caused our brains to "rot", because we no longer are good at math

computers caused our brains to "rot", because we no longer need to manually process tons of data

AI will cause our brains to "rot", because now we have someone do our work for you.

yes, AI WILL replace some jobs, and at the same time it will help us do things that we couldn't do before. a bunch of new jobs will be created, as humans still need to code and train the AI. Will there be a time in which AI will be self sufficient? probably yes.

i'm also concerned about the environment impact. I'm really hoping this pushes humanity to develop and advance clean energy (solar, hydrogen, wind, etc)