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I get providing childcare after school ends but why does it need to be classroom based? In Sweden after school ends you can enroll your kids in "fritids" (literally translated "freetimey") which is basically lightly trained adults supervising and organizing games and playtime and crafts etc. It's even available at night in places where there are industries with a night shift. Kids need play and fun and social activities not endless packing in of information.

I'm confused, what nation did you buy from? There are no tarrifs inside the EU? I'm fairly certain you could easily find both German and Italian sites that ship to Greece.

Was gonna recommend the Logitech X2 Lightspeed up until that last sentence. Logitech on the mouse side make solid products nowadays and I'm very impressed by the performance and quality straight through on the X2.

Far more likely to actually get you out of service

Yepp, if they were attempting anything grand they'd have filed by now. The worst they could bring from this point is maybe infringement on a Pal by Pal basis but even there I feel there's not much to go on given that Pokemon draws so heavily from the real world and you can't really claim a concept like "volcano turtle mashup" as something so uniquely creative that it deserves copyright on the concept level. Same goes for just about all Pokemon with maybe some exceptions. So while Palworld absolutely has stuff like "electric dog" and others which overlap that is not enough.

Soooo a microtransaction saturated copy of Splatoon for PlayStation? Pass

Are you one of those fabled pure Linux virgins the prophecies speak of? Untainted by Microsofts corruption? Or are you a decadent MacOS slut looking to debase yourself even further?

Hardened Colombian Shia Lebouf!

They'd be dumb to keep making consoles as we know them today. A much better long term business move would be to make a "cloud gaming Chromecast" a la Stadia but, if they want to retain their fan base, a disc player that mearly reads and validates your disc and then runs the game from the cloud. Thus letting Xbox fans still have access to their games. That in turn would allow them to have the base subscription have a library that changes to a great degree every month and you only get "permanent" access if you buy the games. Hell if the "buy" cost is lowered then people would by and large applaud them for it.

The hardware has almost always been sold at a loss but with how many datacenters they have now, how long they've been refining the game pass and the Xbox Cloud gaming service it seems like the only way to wrestle away Sony and PlayStations dominance in high end console gaming.

Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely hate the whole "you will own nothing, rent everything, and be happy" paradigm were in now and refuse it for a lot of things. But I also understand business and I'm reasonably sure the average consumer will actually love it. "Console" for like $100, the subscription say $15 at base, $25 for the full month and you get all the games you could ever play. It would be a no-brainer for any non-gamer parent. The kids will love it, no more begging for that new game, they'll have it day one and so will all their friends. Hell parents will probably also love the blanket, one time, parental action of setting which ESRB ratings are allowed instead of having to vet it game by game while the kid screams that Johnny gets to play it. Now they can just say 'no if the Xbox won't let you see it and play it then there's nothing I can do honey' and it's just enough deflection that it might pass.

It's really only when you zoom out that it becomes a shitty deal. But that's not something the majority ever cares go do.

If you don't need power then why not buy old laptops? Plenty of companies around that sell corporate laptops 5+ years old that of course still work fine. Also gives bonus points for reuse and thus reducing ewaste instead of adding to it.

What would you recommend then in the countryside for a family of 5 or more with ample snow in the winter and lots of gravel roads? That can accommodate taking the kids to soccer and to/from school no matter the road conditions? As well as be used to go ski and other car based vacations like going to a beach resort/camping for a week. All of the above being very normal requirements for a family car in at least the Nordics.

A normal station wagon type generally has too low ground clearance but there are exceptions like the cross country models of Volvos. They also only have 5 seats so they just barely fit the family with no additional friends tagging along, and very few can handle double child seats without dropping down to max 4 people. For older kids then yeah it works well, if you don't need the ground clearance, and you can pack on the roof if the trunk isn't big enough.

A large pickup truck has issues with being usable for the vacation stuff. Sure you can pack on the flatbed and there are "houses" to give it cover but it's hardly smooth, and they're even larger and more expensive than a SUV.

Wow, I get scaling the size of the "biobots" up will be a very complex task but this approach is indeed a lot more compelling than scaling tech down (a la nanobots).