Someone at work has two HP laptops with the centre plastic part of the power port broken. He asked for a quote from HP for two replacement parts. It's just two wires going to a small barrel jack port.
First they said he can only get a quote for one, then go through the whole process again for the second one. He said, okay, give me a quote for two for this laptop so I have a spare for it. They wouldn't do that either.
Then they sent a price. £372 (ex. vat), £446 with VAT. The whole laptop cost £345 (ex. vat).
On amazon the power port is it's £12
The part is easy to replace.

Dell was also terrible. It gave a price of more than a laptop to replace a port on it and insisted on replacing the screen, case and other parts that had nothing to do with the problem.

One of many links to the story:
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I would never play anything from King.

I've been doing this since the 90s. Once adverts got incredibly annoying and louder I started muting (or changing the channel for a few minutes).
These days I don't watch as much on our commercial stations (I'm in the UK), but the things I do watch are always muted and I go on the internet or read a magazine until it's back on. I also record things, then start watching after 20 mins, so I can just skip them and catch up by the end.

Yes. I hate them. I only watch YouTube on a PC monitor, but I have to keep switching the shorts section off every month. I always avoid watching shorts as it's too annoying.

£16,700 is more than I've ever paid for a car, and I've bought a couple new. I wouldn't say this price is for everyone.

When I was there on holiday I remember the prices in shops weren't what you pay, either. They add tax on afterwards. Madness.

When Sony was hacked they were fined, but when someone else with much more sensitive data is openly available to the world, nothing happens.

Why is Slashdot the only website I can think of that can't display text properly?
I think it's things like £ " ' (Pound, double quote, single quote) etc. Though those look okay to me in the preview, so maybe they only look correct to people in the UK?

Trump is saying that Apple being fined for not paying EU taxes in the EU isn't okay, but if someone born in the US lives in the EU the US takes taxes from them as well as the expected EU taxes.
From what I've heard, apart from one small country, the US is the only place that taxes people who aren't even living or working in that country.

Yeah, who is Craig and why do I want to look at his list?

I guess it's an American thing that is only available there. I've only heard of it on Slashdot or maybe a US TV show.

I got to work from home for 5 months in 2020. That's it. And for the last 2 months if that I was coming to the office between 1 and 3 times a week.
After that we were told to come back in. That wasn't up for discussion. They employ me and that's what they said. I can't just say I don't want to come in, as that's a breach of contract. They would just fire me and get someone else.
I find it incredible that people are still working from home because of Covid.

I didn't know this video series had been happening, but ASUS has been on "my list" for many years since refusing to replace a graphics card that broke under warranty. I've mentioned it before in comment on ASUS related stories. I once sent them an email telling them of all the lost sales because of it (my own PCs, and also all the PCs I've bought for work).
I'll have to watch the video's when I get home.

Yeah, I really don't see the point in linking to a site like that. Almost no-one will be able to read it.

The software we use at our school logs a screenshot every time someone right clicks in a spreadsheet: "Format C", which is actually "Format Cell", but it doesn't care about the rest of the word.
It also takes screen shots of the most insane things that are counted as terrorism or bullying. Having it installed seems to be just so the school can tick a box.

I just went to a computer shop and bought a card from them. Nothing unusual from by perspective. I had no way of knowing how the supplier got it, or how it would affect my warranty.