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  • Selling products as loss leaders is not some absurd esoteric strategy,

    Selling at a loss is fine. What isn’t fine is coming back later and grabbing the hot dog, a hot dog you already paid for, out of your hand because you didn’t buy the soda a while later despite nothing in the hotdog purchase that required the purchase of a soda.

    They sold it with Linux and then later grabbed it out of the customer’s hand.


  • Their plan was to make up the difference in game sales. You were paying full price with the cost shifted to the games to trick you into thinking you got a bargain.

    If I sell you a hot dog for $1 with a business model that you will buy an overpriced soda 5 minutes later at the stand next door, I don’t get to take that hotdog back after sale when I see you didn’t also buy the soda.
















  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Storage?! In this economy!?
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    3 months ago

    I have family photos starting in 2001, scanned/captured photos and video going back 50 years, music, and backups of all my Xbox DVDs (WTF is the original Xbox even called today?). But that’s a few terrabytes. It can all fit on a few USB sticks. (Which I do as a third level backup.)

    The real space killers are the TV shows and movies that I will watch at most once every 20 years. I could delete almost all of it. But I don’t. Instead I keep looking for bigger storage options.