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We only produce what is in demand to avoid electrical waste.

That doesn't really fit when you realize these are USB 2.0 without e-markers.

In other words: below average specs for way above average prices.
3A charging is bare minimum for USB-C, not "fast".

These are headed for the trash as soon as the user needs anything above bare minimum.

Is it? Doesn't look like they offer debit/credit cards.

Looks more like a PayPal alternative.

Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.

Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn't watch anything from the NAS a few meters away...

What's better, exactly?

I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn't quite as nice, everything else is better.
And I don't have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware...

$3 ink from a bodega

That's actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it's by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer's memory.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive...

That's a very charitable way of looking at DRM.

Company's PR dept saying "we didn't do it" is not proof of anything.

If they're not blocking 3rd party cartridges, why even implement DRM?
Do they have so much extra money that they're developing features they're not planning to use just because they're bored?

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

I'm not excusing burning down innocent people's property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who'd lose one would have their life destroyed.

You can have one, as a treat.

What exactly is Signal supposed to do here?

They're not supposed to be able to help in any way, how would they determine if a specific user is using Signal for phishing or whatever without decrypting their chats?

Being European would make zero difference here, unless the European service is backdoored.