2 years later.

Subject: recent security breach

We stored your credit card and account information in clear text and hackers penetrated our "secure systems" and took them.

5 years later

Subject: compensation for security incident.

Here is $12 in credit for our store as compensation for mishandeling your PII.

At least you have a physical location! When mine breaks I have to resolder my cpu.

I had Bose Quiet Comfort 2 earbuds that worked great, but I got them wet (hard seltzer spilled on them). I dried them off, and cleaned them off with 90% isopropyl alcohol, popped the case open, cleaned out the liquid and cleaned off the circuit board with Isopropyl, and let it dry. I knew the buds themselves still worked perfectly because I had used them, the case was the problem.

Since they use pogo pins, there's no way to charge them externally. Also, apparently, each set of buds is linked to only one case, so you can't even buy another case and re-pair them and use that case for charging. I spoke with Bose and their "solution" was to sell me the QC3s for a $30 off discount.

$250 earbuds that are now useless because I can't charge them.

Wow. I’m honestly shocked. My Oculus CV1 still has support. I had been considering the Quest 3 for a while, but the attachment to Meta was my hesitation. I had already decided to go with the Index by this point, but this just further confirms it’s the right way to go. Obviously a much more expensive option, but if it means I don’t have a paperweight in a few years, it’s worth it in the end.

Valve: "We helped develop the open-source technologies that lets you run ancient abandonware from defunct studios for an obsolete version of a completely different operating system, on a handheld, for free."

Facebook: "You know that game you bought that you were playing just fine like 10 hours ago? Yeah it isn't compatible anymore despite the completely static hardware and software. Only solution I see is buying a shiny new expensive device from us and making a Facebook account, there just isn't any other way."

If funny now, but if we're honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.

It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click "no thank you" and then see "your installer is starting, progress 0%".

Scott Ross is a Youtuber who has always been vocal about game publisher making games unplayable by closing their servers. Lately he is gathering information about the legality of this practice worldwide to find the best country/state union to fight it legally because come the end of March the game The Crew will be shut down by Ubisoft but has still a very big active playerbase that might be able to move things forward by contacting consumer rights organisations here in Europe. More Infos in his Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD5iMe0Xj4