Kumatomic

Even with the best care I wouldn’t expect it to last 20 years. The switch is nowhere near a well built machine as the DS was. The controllers will be lucky to last a year. They used arbitration to avoid a lawsuit over how crappy the switch is knowingly built. We’ve been through three since their inception. That being said they’re still a lot of fun. They are trying to integrate the sub more, but it’s still avoidable on some games. If you buy one get a hard case or at least a somewhat solid case to help support the console with the controllers connected if you decide to play it that way. The way that they’re connected with what destroyed them faster for us because you put too much pressure on the controllers and their connection when holding it. Using a case like this for reinforce the controllers and make them last much longer in my experience.

I mean to be fair they did invent fascism so this law isn’t a stretch.

Same. Just finished organizing 8000 flacs the hard way which may not be a lot, but it sure felt like it… lol

Says the guys that reduced piracy to a fraction of its former self before getting too greedy. Piracy wasn’t affecting them, but it’s a side effect of what they have become.

This is my stance too and what I try to do. I also tend to buy used where I can to save money, but I really like having the physical copy in back up.

I’m not sure if it’s close to the same thing, but I use Max Richter’s Sleep album. I did take out a couple of songs for my playlist I thought were too perky, but he worked with sleep scientist or what have you to make an album that induced and maintained sleep. His concert for it was literally a bunch of people sleeping. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0VMUYmhGI3Oqfb0V7X5R2EXoFkrJXOIj

That’s what I’m watching right now too! I rewatch every year or two.

Exactly, there’s no way the studios are going to let them sell actual ownership.

Not me. I set up my server last November and tried Plex. It reminded me too much of too many services starting to lose their way. Given recent events it looks like I was right. We use Kodi because my partner prefers it, but I really like Jellyfin myself. It was a learning process but really only took two or three hours with research time to set up. Costs me nothing and I don’t have any ads, upselling, or any other BS that will eventually turn into more extreme attrition.

There’s a lot of good suggestions here, but I just wanted to add that I absolutely wouldn’t rely on a random eBay seller’s warranty in any way. I made that mistake early on in my journey. I came back to find my seller had deleted their account (probably to start another and skip out on warranties).

Ads in the feed now? Yikes, that’s reason enough for me to switch before I’m forced to update it.

I can confirm the first 3 are working for me as well.

Yeah I doubt it’s much of that considering their crappy home brewed website without any type of real portal system. you literally have to email them a picture of your old bottle to get a refill. It’s almost a WordPress website. Almost. I disagree that it makes sense. That’s called overhead and should be figured into their operating costs. Otherwise I would expect customers that come in physically to do business to be charged a brick and mortar fee since I don’t utilize that “feature”. If it were my pharmacy I’d fire them like they deserve, but it’s my partner’s choice.

I wouldn’t be against that if it were the case, but ordering by phone they didn’t charge the fee for using a card. It was only the next month when doing by computer. It was a small local chain, but a website user fee to refill is next level BS. Still our only choice when insurance discount cover medication and you have to pay someone to mix it in house to afford it.

I’m afraid it’s spreading too. My partners pharmacy now charges a $1.50 “technology fee” if you refill online.

My family still requires a couple of the services too, although they’re decreasing their usage because they love Jellyfin so much. I just had to say that the Paramount+ app is utter garbage, especially in Apple TV. Most annoying was if you triggered the left hand menu by simply trying to navigate to the left then you weren’t allowed to exit the menu without making a selection. They also deleted it ignored my watch history so the time too. Also fuck all their forced ads on ad free versions. Just because you call it a promo because it’s an ad for your service doesn’t make it less of an ad. That’s what killed it for me. $173 12th gen i-3 mini pc off Amazon+Jellyfin and I haven’t touched the Apple TV in six weeks. No problems encoding anything even 10bit outside my house. Love it.

I just made the switch last month. Even my partner doesn’t touch his beloved Apple TV anymore. We’ll never go back.

If anything they are worse because they make you become aware enough of the ad to make the connection to physically push a button skip it. When HBO Minimum Quality added them I dropped it. When Paramount (We can’t build a functional app) + and Disney Pus (Not a typo) added them I finally built a media server and rejoined the high seas after 20 years. I’ll never go back.