It didn't have any peripherals, I mean, like, external USB ones.
This is why the digital good I buy the most of is music. MP3s are just dumb files. There's no subscription fees, no DRM. Nothing but digital watermarks. The "service" is the ability to redownload and stream the songs that I've purchased on other devices, but I also store the raw files on my fileserver.
Now, the challenge for the vendor is that I can also just as easily pirate these same files.
And yet somehow I still buy.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Large Corporate Landlords: There’s a perception that these entities buy up substantial amounts of property, making it difficult for individuals to purchase a home due to increased prices and limited supply.
People keep looking for the bogeyman here but this is one where that's too facile. Rents in Canada have skyrocketed, and REITs rent out their properties. Sure, they rent them out as expensive as they can, they're jerks. But they're profiteering off of the shortage of rental properties. And if they've got a crapload of property, and they're profiting from the shortage.... well they're not really the cause of the shortage when they're offering a lot to rent, are they? They're profiteering from it, but they're not causing it. If there was truly endless money buying up everything and then renting it out, prices to buy would climb, but prices to rent would plummet, and that's obviously not happening.
You want to look at the cause? Look at people who prevent new housing from getting built. Petty bureaucrats. Wealthy NIMBY neighbours.
And yes, as much as it goes against Canadian values: if you've got more immigrants than you've got new housing, you're going to run out of homes, and the people who have homes can price them as high as they want because everybody needs a roof.
Wow that took a turn halfway through the last sentence.
I mean in the numbers we're talking about 11,000 is kind of a rounding error.
Disappointed Moto Mods didn't catch on. The obvious approach of "skinny phone with minimal features but you can slap whatever you like onto the back (radios, projectors, beefy batteries, gamepad, etc)" - just makes sense for me. I loved my old Moto Z.
When Google Podcasts launched it was a bad joke, and I was already using Google Play Music for podcasts when they removed the feature. It was basically the same cycle Google is repeating now, and has done to their messaging and music apps.
So I gave Google Podcasts a day to try it, and switched to Podcast Addict.
Ban glue in non-waterproof electronics. I remember when I didn't need to risk destroying a device with a heat-gun to open it up and repair it like 10 years ago, but y'know, everything needed to be thinner.
Good point. The lore of the game is that these are all crooks and bounty hunters and this racing thing is a side-gig. A racing-themed science-fiction open-world game is an obvious fit for that.
Do WC3-style hero-driven RTS. Somebody needs to bring back Warlords Battlecry but with D&D branding.
Yeah I had canvas running on my watch so I could do other things like working out and texting while I played. Unfortunately the experience on a watch was awful because zooming on a 1.5 inch circular screen was really hard. Sometimes the canvas would desync and so I'd have to reload the screen and rezoom all over again.
Unfortunately now somebody is bedazzling the Canadian flag:
And I don't make my own paints either when doing art. I still agree with the basic original point:
It is disappointing that we're currently automating creativity far faster than manual labour. I'm angry that my art is getting automated away faster than my folding of laundry.