Batteries are only good for so many recharge cycles, so besides running it down, it'll make the battery die a lot sooner.

Isn't the entire point of our modern consumption economy that reviews are essentially useless?

Let's start with the basic issue that you'd like to know if something you buy is reliable. That's literally impossible to know since literally everything has to be redesigned at least every 2 years. If the model of 3 years ago was reliable, first of all good luck finding any review talking about that, but even if you know, too bad, it's been redesigned, and with some luck the new model will also be reliable. Maybe it won't, who knows?

Also notice when you're asked to review something: right after buying it. Every had a mail after 2 years asking to review something? No, the most they want customers to know is whether it looked nice when it arrived, and if it seemed to work or not (but that second part is optional).

It's strange that this article singles out Amazon in this case. This is basically our entire economy. Just redesign everything contantly so it's "new and exciting", and any real reviews or reputation of your product is impossible, because why would you want your product to last long? People need to buy the next version asap.

Not yet. As far as you know.

Ouch, you're really behind on times...

Proprietary IC's are all over the place, with unique serial numbers to prevent them being interchangable. Try buying any of the important ic's in an iphone anywhere, or change them between 2 devices and see what happens...

You won't be able to buy them anywhere, and switching them out bricks both phones...

So your example of IC's... has the exact same issues...

Uhh.... Going from exactly where you live to exactly where you want to be in one go, with whatever personal things you installed to make the car yours, leaving when you want, not on a schedule, having the vehicle all for yourself, being able to turn on any music you like, ...

Seriously, personal transport has tons of obvious benefits. Doesn't mean public transport shouldn't be better/the norm, but saying there isn't anything inherently more seducing sounds pretty silly...

That's why it should be obligated to keep supporting it, so the consumer doesn't get the choice to shoot himself in the foot.

To be fair, if you want to improve usability of such a program, anonymous telemetry showing which buttons get pressed, which features get used, ... can be really useful and isn't nefarious at all.

But such things have gotten a terrible reputation (for understandable reasons).

I don't know what you're reading or who you're arguing with.

But except for the initial poster, all people are saying is that there is some luck involved in chess. Not that chess is a game of chance.

If there weren't any luck involved, Magnus Carlsen would never lose a game as he's the best player at the moment. However he still loses from time to time since skill doesn't 100% translate to winning, just 99% skill and 1% luck at the highest level, and quite a bit more at casual levels of chess.

The only reason you might think "right to repair is gaining momentum" is that there is finally outcry that we're quickly losing this right.

It became a word because companies started to realize that there is a lot of money in making repairs impossible except via them. So we're quickly losing our right to repair, and it's become so bad we had to invent this word to name this issue and try to get our rights back.

So great that it's becoming a bit more known, but in the end, year after year there are less right to repair, and more lobbying to make it even worse, and more products that use all kinds of shitty methods to prevent you from repairing your stuff.

The point is not getting you to buy via those ads. But to make sure you recognize the brands. You're more likely to buy from brands you're familiar with. So after having seen an ad for them for the 100th time, you're more likely to buy from them. It's that simple.

There are videos on the internet of cats using & flushing toilets by themselves. And it takes research to assert that cats can imitate humans? O_o....

Well, if with that evidence you believe he used MAME, then he cheated. The record was submitted to a list for records on original hardware, so that's cheating. Doesn't matter if everything else was legit.

for the poor souls who don't want to go to the article, it's supposed to be 2^10

ehm no. the article mentions pulse jets for example, click on them, and the article about pulsejets mentions how they can be made with few or even no moving parts.

For me, things like privacy online feel like a prisoners dilemma.
If everybody works together and refuses services like that, it's best for everybody. But there are people who don't care, and then get the benefit of said services despite the invisible privacy issues.
And then the cascade starts, more and more people will want to accept since they also want to reap the benefit etc...

For me it doesn't indicate that the people don't care or want to do anything about it, but that it's practically impossible as a society to act properly on it. Everything will start with some people accepting everything, and if it's something good, the slippery slope starts and it'll leave the rest of society the choice of accepting the bads or being left behind on this nice new thing. And acting as if the choice to not participate is obvious.... i completely disagree (and how it is now pretty much proves that point).