PieMePlenty

Cant be... Astro's Playroom was free.

Freelancer. No need for any remastered nonsense, just patched to work on modern systems.

AvP2, same deal.

Id actually like to try the mess of a SimCity game EA put out in 2013, for some reason it's still not on steam.

Same reason Tesla lost LIDAR and went vision only - ~~its good enough~~ cost.

Toilet's chipset is only good for network connection and video recording. Business logic is on servers. As I said, users want to know if their shit is good before they flush so they dont lose a sample in case it is bad.

You may have stumbled on multiplayer shitting though. Conference call with random strangers on the internet, biggest splashback, fastest bowel movement... endless possibilities. Yeah I think always online is the best course of action here.

Sorry, Euro defaultism.. my healthcare is affordable. You can always run Tolet Assistant on a raspberry pi at home and let your shit never leave the network.

Dont have the socks yet huh?

Maybe it needs a connection cause it takes a picture of your feces and sends it to an AI analysis service. If anomalies are detected, it tells you that you should take the stool sample to a laboratory for further study, then lets you flush. Poof, smart toilet. I could see people with too much money buying this.

Edit: Thought about it some more.. why stop at feces images? Why not also have a high resolution camera pointed at your anus taking crowning shots and analyzing those. Tell users if anythings wrong. The future is ~~bright~~ brown boys. The future is brown.

Edit2: You could even have motion based security.. alert if anyone broke in through your bathroom. Cameras in toilets people! What could go wrong?

Edit3: Hear me out. User controlled bidet mode + anus camera. Take out your phone and clean your ass in first person. Score points if you clean your whole ass and compete on an online scoreboard. Tech sure is amazing.

So marketing? What's the problem here? Should they have spent it advertising on radio?

Or maybe its money and we should get rid of it and just work for the pleasure of it and get everything we need for free :|
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sorry.. my repressed communist soul came out, I'll repress it back in.

I feel like linux demands an understanding of the relationship between hardware and software more than windows does.
If all personal computer users were tech tinkerers like they were in the 70s and 80s, then linux and its distros would basically be the default OS everyone used. But that is not the world we live in. Microsoft saw a world where everyone was a computer user and Windows was designed in a way to support that vision.
Theres nothing inherently wrong with catering to the lowest common denominator, linux apostles just need to understand that not everyone can be uplifted to their level, nor do they want to be - or, even, should be.

My first thought exactly. To do so, we must bend space itself? We'd need a wormhole.

We no longer own our products.

This is a popular saying but its not as clear cut. You have choice. You can own the products you use or buy. So why don't you?

Yes, the software we used yesterday is no longer a one time purchase today. However, you still own the software you bought yesterday and you have choice to buy new software which you will own or you can subscribe to a service providing the updated version of the new software. Example:

I can still use a purchased copy of Adobe Lightoom from 2010.
I can buy a new license for Affinity Photo today and use it forever.
I can pay to use Lightroom as a service.

Imo, the only price you pay is the trek you take into unfamiliarity brought on by using new software.