Having to dispatch a replacement laptop, instead of just a battery is really irritating.
How many Help Desk 1 techs does it take to change a lightbulb?
“Turned bulb off and on again. Confirmed bulb as non functional; room was still dark. Dispatched new room.”
Apple Maps has had its share of mishaps too. There was one instance where someone was hosting a party at a farmhouse, and everyone who used Apple Maps to navigate to the address ended up on an airport runway.
IIRC, this was shortly after their big breakup with Google Maps, so Apple fell back to using outdated maps.
Even the EU version is dozens of hours long for a casual play through. The game is surprisingly long for only being one disc; They didn’t use a bunch of pre-rendered cutscenes like many of the bigger games did. Those pre-rendered cutscenes take up a lot of disc space, and are why games like Legend of Dragoon and FFVII have multiple discs.
FWIW, USD wages have also stagnated for decades.
Legend of Legaia. It’s a JRPG from the PS1 golden era, but it had a relatively small launch and basically zero marketing. It was completely overshadowed by other games like FFVII and Legend of Dragoon. It has a sort of cult classic following now. The story starts off as a fairly basic “world is awful, kid gets a magic weapon to beat the big evil thing” type of plot, but has a surprising amount of twists and turns.
The combat system is interesting, and hasn’t really been replicated since. You string together a series of small attacks, to make larger super combos.
Fair warning, the US release is significantly harder than the JP and EU versions. For some reason, the devs multiplied all the enemy stats by 1.25, and slashed their exp/gold drop rates by 50% for the US release. So you need to grind twice as long to be properly geared/leveled, and the grinding is 25% more difficult.
Except that bots already have a higher pass rate than humans, so the captcha isn’t even good at preventing bots.
Yeah, all of the “vibes are off” jokes aside, TikTok is drastically different after the ban was lifted. I have gotten straight up racist and fascist propaganda on my fyp, and there are a lot of sympathetic comments on those videos. But I never got those videos before, because my algorithm was automatically filtering them out. It’s almost as if the app has been programmed to bypass the algorithm and occasionally show alt-right talking points to everyone, just in the hopes of casting as wide a net as possible.
Here’s a reminder that the iFixIt brand name (some of the best at-home repair tools you can easily buy) started as a joke, because Apple devices were so notoriously difficult to repair.