They’re not completely unrelated.

The original was hitting rock, cutting rock, grinding rock. The replacement of grinding rock with animal skin was a huge controversy in the rock rock rock player community.

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Get frozen orange juice and save the cardboard tube to hold the grease while it congeals.

Whether it actually happened or not, that was their intent. If you’re happy to reward that behavior, well, “you do you.”

If you don’t know how to control the temp on a cheap charcoal grill, that’s fine, but don’t pretend it can’t be done.

I’d rather not reward manufacturers that include that just to raise the price and track and sell your data with my money.

Oh, so like Die Hard 4.

Someone will knock it over at some point within five years turning it into a sad jigsaw puzzle.

Toys R Us didn’t die. It was murdered by venture capital leeches.

Similar with Radio Shack, though I don’t know the details of why they went from basically the only electronic parts shop to a giant mall kiosk.

Even the zombie version of Fry’s was better than most of the alternatives (*cough* Best Buy *cough*).

I’ll take the single outlet cartridge loaded one over the several feet of bacteria laden tubes sucking on bags from the other.

It’s a low effort troll. Please don’t feed the troll.

RAM is active. It doesn’t hold the entire OS when in use even now.

They didn’t have mice that far back.

They gained a cost reduction for a single quarter of a single year. No further thought was put into it.

Right, but none of them are new. They’ve all been around for billions of years.

Remote device bricking is cheaper than researching part wear for planned obsolescence.

That’s not actually legal anywhere in the US. However, it requires being reported so it’s hardly ever enforced.

I mean, yeah, but they could have decided that the eventual fines would be cheaper than the emergency fixes and let it happen.