It's a disassembly video. And spot welding is a bummer, but not insurmountable. On the other hand, if they have changed the plastic enough, that might well be a deal breaker.

I read your link and it seems to be a privacy setting

What reason is there that Google should be forced to carry your app in their store? I'm sympathetic to the argument that there's many tons of crap on there already, so what's one more unknown quantity, but they are extremely friendly to third party app stores that users want to install. Sideloading is easy to enable, easy to do, and permits you to load an apk from any source you like. Once a store is installed and imbued with the relevant permissions, it can do all of the same things the Play Store can do except perhaps for upgrading Play Services; it can check for updates, it can install updates silently...

There are expensive Android phones, that some people for some reason apparently pay a lot of money for. Weird when the sweet spot is only a couple to a few hundred bucks.

Do they really call the non-cubic toys cubes?

They're assholes all day but TBF they are threatening to not do business in the country, which is the remedy you suggest...

The most interesting thing they're giving away here is a design for a 3d printable feature that fits the cutting head well. Users get to riff off of that.

I know, I mean where will I ever find a battery like this?

F-Droid isn't allowed to install security updates, so no.

Competing app stores with full rights is the most free market solution to the FTC concerns, not making Google sell Android to a sucessor company that still does anticompetitive behaviors.

You can get flower of sulfur from horticulture supply, they use it for pest control in a sulfur burner.

You forgot about PPC accelerators. Do you even Amiga, bro?

That means you get to sell more volume licensed copies. It's a win-win scenario! As long as you give zero fucks for the future, that is.

Careful, you're getting mighty close to criticizing capitalism and slashdot won't stand for that.

Some people get really mad when I post facts

"f you look at platforms like the amiga and atari this was exactly what happened - new hardware stopped being made,"

It didn't. New accelerators are STILL coming out.