Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.
Unless it’s a brick. Those are still OK to buy.
If a company making bricks goes under, I’d be pretty worried about the quality of their product.
Didn’t they do that already?
And they just got partially acquired by HP.
Real “got money, I’m out” energy, there.
Googling their hardware?
Not very humane of them if you ask me 🤭
I knew that thing was B’s the moment I saw their demo.
I lost a lot of respect for Ted Talks when these guys were allowed to use theirs as an ad.
I didn’t get TED’s appeal in general back when I used them to learn English. Way too short, it’s over just as you get focused. Quickly found out “normal”, 30+ minute podcasts worked better.
Was it actually a TED Talk or was it one of those TED X talks?
I checked before this comment and it is posted on the TED channel, not TED X.
They’ve had a few crappy ones. There was chicken soup for the soul guy.
Lmao
Never buy anything with ai in the sales pitch. Absolute garbage
So don’t buy any new electronics at all? Bold move considering the incoming tariffs.
Tariffs in some sense are a counterweight to exploitative factories in China, Bangladesh, etc. If we think about worker rights, then that’s it, worker rights are being defended when workers in USA are pulling their weight too to fight for their rights in industries where it’s actually hard, not pretending that imported goods come from some black box.
I don’t know how these tariffs are supposed to work, of course. With steel or with manufacturing there’s no real problem in replacing import with domestic production. It’s a bit Soviet-style, but if it doesn’t devolve into hard protectionism, then OK. Fabs - something really space-age for consumer hardware is, ahem, an enormous undertaking for a decade at least, but controllers for cars and elevators and talking toys - much easier.
Why did I say that in a thread about internet-connected toys …
I don’t know how these tariffs are supposed to work
You’re overqualified then.
They are not meant to work. It’s just something to threaten other countries with, it isn’t a sound economic policy, it’s the political equivalent of holding your breath so you’ll be allowed more candy.
Nah im not saying you cant buy new. But I like to look for second hand stuff that fits my needs.
Like it was ever going to be a thing 😂
My understanding is that they didn’t really work to begin with
Both people will be very upset.
