It's pretty explicit in intent.

Honest Achmed has been one of my favorites for as long as its been around.

Other countries have similar regulatory bodies the certify the use of a medical device.

Hearing aids (and things sold as it) are medical devices.

All of this was because they wanted the critical mass of users and didn't want to work at establishing it themselves at the time.

(The funny part of it being that on the larger channels and networks, Comic chat was completely incapable of handling reasonably the large amount of chat volume in a channel)

Feels very similar where MS' entire philosophy is, if it works for us, we don't care if we spam non-MS people relentlessly.

Course it doesn't work that way, Sys-admins just end up banning/filtering or doing other work arounds to prune it.

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

At the very least (beyond the extra TCP DNS fields) you need to ignore/drop the two UDP DNS requests the Wii U makes before failing to TCP.

Also "Using gokrazy instead of Ubuntu Server would get rid of a lot of moving parts. The current blocker is that ZFS is not available on gokrazy. Unfortunately that’s not easy to change, in particular also from a licensing perspective."

I don't pretend to get how licensing works, but is OpenZFS and their licensing not an option here? I know its been really tricky with ZFS in general and I don't think its fully answered? but I'm not up to date with it.

The S6Max that has a tank, you can also remove (easily, two button clips) and it'll not attempt any mopping feature. It also supposedly doesn't squirt water on to the pad when it knows its on carpet, but at some stage you may be dragging a mildly damp cloth on to the carpet. (was never an issue for me, the pad was never that wet that you could reasonably detect it on the carpet)

Overall mopping with drag-behind pads is pretty... opportunistic? Its not great and you'll be in a position where you have to manually mop. Many models are switching to the spinning buffer pads which is a much better solution (that's the Dreame W10) but it refuses to do carpet. So its always a matter of finding a model that fits your use case.

>That means I would need two vacuums anyway as they haven’t learned yet to climb stairs.

Many allow for multi floor mapping on a single bot, but stairs will always be a problem for the Daleks. :P

They also still sell vacuum and mopping* robots as seperate units which just drives up the cost. My old setup of the two robots took somewhere on the order of 5-6 hours to do a ~100m2 apartment.

I moved to a Roborock and then Dreame bot (someone really needs to talk to Xiaomi about all the sub-brands :P) comparitively, they both took around 1.5 to just under 2 hours to do a much better job.

I actually felt huge guilt selling my two iRobot's to someone, wanting to tell them they were complete junk and they were wasting their money.

*There is always mixed opinions on mopping effectiveness, but the iRobot roll-and-spit model of mopping is truly horrendous.

But these are all pretty lame "vulenrabilities".

But the first official release of Signal was June 2014 (which was just the merger of Redphone and textsecure)

*All from Wikipedia correlations and faulty memory :D

I think for older collectors, it was due in large part to a very weird shift in recent years, epitomised by THAT copy of Super Mario Bros selling for so much.

Traditionally, high priced games were what you described, a combination of rare, desired (maybe not so much for play reasons) and condition. Examples of this were Stadium Events, NES Championships and to a much lesser degree Uforia (which was released only in certain PAL markets)

But the SMB copy was weird. It went to outlandish lengths to justify its "rarity". Sticker sealed with hanging tab not punched out. But other than those relatively minor factors (Opinion, I know), it was entirely unspectacular. Worse still it was an example of a highly published and distributed game, it is somewhat easy to obtain a decent condition boxed copy of SMB for a good (Sub $100) price and (at a guess) to get GREAT condition, it probably wouldn't have gone for much more than $200, just due to the commonality of it.

Game collectors struggled with this paradigmatic shift moment and how to internalise it, most of us (myself included) were somewhat worried it was the sign of non-collector money coming to drive up the prices massively. This happened recently with Pokemon cards to such an extent that Target in the U.S stopped stocking them because man-babies were fighting over it.

I can understand where the author is coming from in the piece. When taken in to account everything, it is functionally wrong, but if you scope it down to people who collect for collecting sake, then it holds true but its a denial of existence to a second segment of people that now exist in game collecting (For better or worse depending on what side of the sale you're on). But it is also fantastically reductionist even for a collector to make that statement. Age isn't the single factor that makes a game's desirability go up. As you've correctly pointed out, Rarity, conditional and personal desirability. (I recently really REALLY wanted a copy of Faxanadu, nothing special, but I paid more than most probably would of because of that).

But its really hard to properly contextualize what happened since the moment that copy of SMB sold for so much. It's not really well understood or even finished having its impact on collecting.