Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It’s about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there’s many times more you can just install and play. And it’s all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It’s annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

I have no idea what you’re on about. Literally every phone I have ever owned turns off mobile data when I’m connected to Wi-Fi, and turns it back on again when my Wi-Fi disconnects.

There is a small, but growing, number of retailers that have decided to apply this worldwide. Perhaps GOG is the most noteworthy. Look at anything that’s discounted there and you’ll see their “usual” price, as well as the lowest price they sold it for in the last 30 days before the current discount started. It’s a good rule, makes me more inclined to feel I’m actually getting a good deal, wish more places would do it

I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

Oh no. I won’t be part of The Zuck’s EEE plan. How terrible. /sarcasm

No experience with it, but…

• Founded in 2018
• Copyright date says 2020
• Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
• Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

The HVAC industry is working on that.

*** The Dalai Lama has entered the chat.

The throwaway email providers I personally use are:

• If I want to receive ongoing messages and have the ability to reset passwords etc: DuckDuckGo
• If I don’t care what happens after the first email: Yopmail

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to comment on this.

/joke

Or just use Matrix/Element. No phone number needed, plus federation!

Good idea! Also, it’s not always about boasting - putting things into words makes it easier for certain kinds of brain to process them. For some people, the act of leaving snoosite isn’t enough to fully internalise it, they need to say goodbye. Which is fine, btw. :)

Ah! Didn’t realise stocks are regional.

I’m not sure what’s unclear? I just checked again. There are presently none available for purchase. All three models are currently out of stock.

My purchase of a dock counted, so I’m confident the deck counts too (if you managed to snag one before they sold out)

TL;DR: The sunk cost fallacy. It’s the tendency for people to carry on doing something even when abandoning it would be better for us. Because we have invested our time, energy, or other resources, we feel “it would have all been for nothing” if we quit now.

Possible solution (for now): Use a different search engine. I recommend DuckDuckGo.

I don’t think they’re trying to train their UI.