Guess I’ll add this to the list of reasons I’m keeping my current car until it falls apart.

What’s stopping people from disconnecting the EPB and manually connecting a battery to the motor to wind it back?

If you buy an object, you pay for all the components that come with that object. If they didn’t charge for all the components that’s on them. As others have said, heating elements don’t require any continued support from the manufacturer. It’s a button and some wires and a control module. Should they be charging for window defrosters too? There is literally 0 explanation for this that isn’t corporate greed.

Why is the parking brake involved with the computer at all…

My email account is almost entirely spam and ads. Have at it morons.

I have 15 WOW wiki tabs open right now and I haven’t played that in like 12 years.

You don’t have to worry if there will be a battery available in 20 years because AAs are standardized and will always be made. Or at least far more likely than whatever proprietary crap they’re putting in these controllers. Devices that take AAs will last until the hardware wears out. You don’t have to worry about the battery being the weak link. Which has been the case for every rechargeable device I’ve ever owned. The battery is always the first to go.

Yes. It was unrelated to the relationship though. The result is that most of my random aches and pains are gone. I can do a lot of strength related things I used to have to ask for help with, and I look great when I take my shirt off.

If AAs are also an option then I have not complaints about the system.

So make disposable AAs illegal or tax them like cigarettes, or charge a core fee like they do car batteries. Those same people you’re talking about will throw the controller in the trash when the battery craps out. We’re making disposable junk either way at this point.

Only for so long as the manufacturer makes them. AAs don’t have that problem.

Rechargeable AA work just fine and are easy to acquire. What exactly makes them “not worth it”.

Rechargeable AA take forever to recharge.

So have some extra ones ready to go. They’re cheap.

Nah, our thing is already in progress. We’re not just hoarding shit for a hypothetical future scenario.

No you still can log into banned accounts. Just can’t participate.

Yeah I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I talk to them a lot of the time. Seems like most people I know are similar to varying degrees too. It’s depressing.

That’s crazy to me. I only use my local bank at their physical location. I feel like the fact that they exist in close proximity to their customers who can put hands on them gives them a little extra incentive to not do corrupt bullshit.

If they’re anything like mine they squandered it on expensive shit they didn’t need. Mine even sold their nice old house to have a new smaller one built in a cramped housing development with an HOA and they broke even. I don’t know wtf they were thinking.

Compared to Apple fees, that fee is actually managable. It’s a one-time thing.

I don’t care if it’s a nickel. It’s bullshit. It’s one of many reasons people avoid apple products.

On a side note, if they want to restrict users from sideloading apps, fine!

Also no.

I had a rechargable battery pack for mine back in the 90s.