If I do 5 minutes of searching, will I get a similar quote about all their biometric login crap that still makes me put in a password / PIN every 3rd time because it cakes it's pants?

I'm so over Windows 11. Time to see if there's better support for my laptop under Ubuntu 24 than the last time I looked with 22.

We have meaningful elections every 2 years at the federal level.

When is anything not confirmation-biased to have "timing vis a vis the election" exactly, with that frequency, and the speed at which civil litigation moves?

Stop accusing the government of some kind of partisan garbage when they actually do things they are supposed to do, but they happen to be things you don't agree with. And also: maybe figure out why you have some kind of deranged attitude towards effective government that actually enforces regulations which make sure you, as a product purchaser, get what is being advertised.

FYI you're the one being a partisan hack here. There is nothing partisan about enforcing regulations against false advertising and product fraud, unless you try to make it partisan. And you are the only person doing that.

So an agency actually starts doing their job, and you:

1. think that's a bad thing for some reason; and
2. think it should stop; and
3. think it's because of politics, rather than a government agency just trying to do their job properly.

That's not very complimentary to you, because you're literally defending companies that scam their customers with fraudulent products.

Yeah, or market prices are determined by what buyers are willing to pay.

If you put your used $item on eBay at or around the same price as I can get one from the manufacturer that hasn't been subject to whatever misuse / abuse you may have applied to it during your ownership, why the fuck would I screw around with eBay?

If you want to sell a used thing, there's going to be a depreciation value applied unless it's a rare collector item. And if it's a fairly useless used thing, the price drop will be greater than if it's an in-demand used thing. And if there's a lot of supply in the used market because a lot of people bought a useless thing and discovered it's useless and are trying to reclaim some of their money, supply-and-demand will cause additional downward pressure on that price.

This guy bought a v1.0 product that is meant for literally nothing but developers and early adopters to fuck about with, and expected it to retain value on the used market?

If you can't use it for anything useful, and it's not a fashion item, then it's not going to retain any value. Period.

Stop your loss by selling it for what you can, and stop bitching that you fell for the hype.

Cool. Can we calculate the thermal energy released from burning your average library book - then we can compute the total output of setting the Library of Congress on fire, and we can make a comparison...

Or it could be Paris, Kentucky. That would only be 8 mi^2...

It's telling when you think that an agency that only exists to be a consumer advocate is somehow "politically desperate" because they're fulfilling their charter of consumer advocacy.

You're fine with companies making claims about products that aren't true? You think there shouldn't be any legal consequences or accountability for making false claims about a product?

Take off your partisan-colored glasses and see this for what it was: a company made a product that didn't meet up with their own marketing, and customers bought it thinking it could do things that the company said it could do, which it 100% does not.

There is a reason why Razer settled, rather than going to court over it - they knew they were wrong, and continuing to fight would only result in stiffer penalties for being wrong.

Also, I hear the number of single-issue voters out there who are deciding how to fill out their ballot based on FTC enforcement actions is statistically insignificant to the point of no pollster even thinking to ask the question, so the premise of your argument is pretty fucking stupid.

You do know that the COVID virus particles don't survive outside of small aerosolized droplets, right?

And those droplets are a hell of a lot bigger than the virus particles, and are easily stopped by masks?

And that the masks were meant to stop EXHALATION of those droplets, which is why surgeons and nurses wear them during surgery, and not the patient?

Stop moving the goalposts. Or, at least be honest with what the process actually was, rather than making up your own target and then laughing when it's missed because nobody was aiming for it.

So you don't see the value in being overly cautious when dealing with a novel and unknown wildly infectious disease with the proven ability to cause death in a immunologically significant percentage of the population? And you similarly don't see the value in revising those cautions as more data comes in?

You sound like kind of a moron, who's never dealt with an emergent situation with severe risks where every single thing isn't already known.

Except that if ol' Ronny Reagan was alive today, he'd be painted as a RINO and trashed across the media landscape. After all, he signed amnesty for "illegals" in the 80s which is tantamount to treason and suborning foreign invasion if you believe what those fucking clowns are saying about the border today.

Because Razer was extending the fad that was driving sales: putting selectable RGB lighting on literally every damn thing, especially if it made no sense at all.

Context matters.

If you see the name "Razer" and "RGB" together in a sentence, the context tells you they are talking light emissions in a selectable color hue, which serve no purpose except to test lifetime battery cycle count and annoy everyone around you.

BMW's i3 has had a "range extender" option since it launched, which is essentially one of their motorcycle engines turned into an electrical generator and a small fuel tank for it.

I'm a little shocked nobody else has followed that trail.

Not *every* automaker loses money like that on EVs...