Perhaps, but Epson's EcoTank inks are probably the cheapest on the market.

Here's a relevant video from Louis Rossman on the empty buildings in NY and some of the reason behind it: owners may be unable to afford to lower rents to meet the market:

https://youtu.be/NdfmMB1E_qk?t...

But you don't necessarily have a right to both. There are any number of reasons why I might personally feel that I'm not being paid enough. If the market won't bear higher pay then that might be a problem but it's rare that you can ethically work for two competitors at the same time.

Can you guarantee you aren't using the resources of one company to benefit the other? (hardware, software, licenses, knowledge base, processes, trade secrets, contacts/relationships etc.) Do you have incentive to aid one to the detriment of the other? E.g. company A doesn't have much of a bonus plan but company B pays more depending on their success each quarter -- that's incentive for you to move customers from company A to company B. Or maybe you just like working at company B better and would like to move their permanently in the long term. Maybe company A would start doing better and paying more if people weren't moonlighting at company B.

It's almost impossible to ethically work for both because they're both paying you to help themselves succeed, and there is almost no chance for you to be impartial or not to use their own resources against them. A person can tell themselves whatever justification they want, doesn't mean they're entitled or right to be doing what they're doing, and usually the employment contract is going to say it's not allowed in the first place.

The story is literally about people moonlighting at competitors.

That's kind of a BS argument. If you're working for employer A and you're unhappy with the pay and want to work for competitor B, you can ethically do so by leaving employer A and going to work for competitor B.

Well, the 2019 Switch update already added over 50% to the battery life. It might still be possible to release with upgraded hardware and have it operate with similar performance/power draw as the current gen in handheld mode and then clocked higher with more demanding engine settings when docked/plugged in.

I've been waiting the entire pandemic for the sequel to BOTW -- such a great game! But then what will there be too look forward to once I've finished TOTK?

Other things I'd like to hear about from Nintendo:
- Higher powered Switch for better resolution/frame rate/draw distance
- Joycons with hall effect sensors. Seriously, I must have swapped the parts in our joycons at least a dozen times already. New ones still cost $80 per pair, and have the same problems. Unbelievable.

Isn't something installed by default that can be turned off an opt-out problem, if anything?

Pre-pandemic, I found the cinema experience to be already strained. High prices for food and drinks, people with their phones on, people rattling food behind you, badly mixed audio that makes the dialog hard to discern and no ability to adjust it, no option to pause to hit the bathroom, etc. Add never ending variants of covid... is this really going to be successful after we've started to get early streaming releases?

Yeah you paid for the warranty, meaning you have the option to enforce the warranty, and you also have the right to repair it. Having a warranty shouldn't limit my available repair options, it should increase them.

... creating unauthorized derivative works, and things of that nature...

Why not work on stuff that's under warranty? Manufacturers aren't allowed to void a warranty just because you open and repair it, and who wants to be without a product because it needs to be shipped across the country and back for weeks at a time at your own expense, when you can just do it yourself in an hour? The reason you buy stuff in the first place is because you need to use it. Being without the use of it is therefore a huge PITA in most cases.

I believe there's a reasonable middle ground. I am an advocate of right to repair, and I repair a lot of devices myself. I've fixed several synthesizers, printers, monitors... looking around my home there's not that many devices that I haven't fixed something on at some point. If you're responsible for causing damage during the course of a repair it's fair enough for the manufacturer to turn around and say, "hey, you damaged this, it didn't fail on its own, we're not covering that". However, I disagree that just because you repaired a device all warranties are off. If you fix the AC in your car, then the transmission later fails, is that out of warranty? If I replace the battery in my phone, and a month later the camera dies, is that out of warranty?

You don't need to be a professional to fix a lot of devices, even today. The line ought to be if you did damage or something improper that can likely caused or inflated the warranty claim.

Epsons's EcoTank line (which has replaceable ink pads), actually don't do the incessant ink-dumping dance, and their ink bottles are huge, last ages, and are much lower cost than the likes of HP to boot. If you actually want to get out from under the thumb of manufactures who do not have replaceable ink pads, have expensive ink, use drm on their catridges to expire them or block refills/third party ink, then the EcoTank line is actually something we should be championing.

Disclosure: I own one, I bought it after growing tired of years of HP shenanigans. It's been a great experience.

They're talking about the ink pad eventually on old printers, which is a problem not just for Epson but broadly.

However, newer Epson printers, like the EcoTank line, come with what's officially referred to as the "maintenance box", which is a user-replaceable ink pad that you can order from Epson for $10 and free shipping, as well as a variety of other places, like Amazon. The printer reports the remaining lifetime of this part alongside ink levels, they're in no way hiding it in newer models.

It's going to be hard for them to fix this issue on old hardware, but for newer models (actually going back several years now), they've already designed in a user-friendly and low cost solution. They ought to be given some credit for doing the right thing.