In Denmark, Telia got acquired by Norlys and was permanently changed to Norlys Mobile. To attract customers, they made a deal on their most expensive subscription plan, Norlys One, where you'll get a 20% discount on a Nintendo Switch 2 with Mario Kart World.

I have a friend who works for Telenor, another ISP and phone company. He has a friend who works in Norlys, and this guy discovered a major internal fuckup with the whole Nintendo Switch discount; instead of buying a subscription and getting a 20% discount, you'd just the Switch and game for 99 DKK.

It was in the process of getting fixed the moment it was discovered, so my friend's friend called my friend, and my friend called me, and stopped in the middle of my job to rush an order through. I didn't expect it to work, it almost didn't, but now I'm the proud owner of the cheapest acquired Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World bundle in history.

5d ago

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 5d ago

I bought a refurbished Steam Deck waaay back before prices got ballistic. Can emulate the Switch 1 quite fine.

Also got a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World for 99 DKK (15 USD) last year (funny story about the price), but hardly use it.

5d ago

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 5d ago

It won't be until it gets hacked. PC handhelds still have the benefit of being an open system, especially if you install Linux on them.

And Valve has significantly more consumer friendly support than Nintendo, to the point of being tinker support.

5d ago

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 5d ago

Yeah, this is effecting everything and everyone, not just one or two companies.

I could technically sell the parts of my computer today at a higher price than I bought them at because of all this bullshit.

6d ago

Ferrari unveils first fully electric car

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 6d ago

In hindsight. Because they're all classics.

6d ago

Ferrari unveils first fully electric car

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 6d ago

Ooh. That actually makes it look pretty good.

6d ago

"Elon Musk wants more babies*"

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 6d ago

Hmm... I think it's for a different reason.

Birthrates are down because (amongst other things) it's financially impossible to have a family in this time.

However, as much as these tech billionaires invest into AI, they still need grunt workers to keep society running. So eventually these billionaires will lose value because society doesn't have workers.

6d ago

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 6d ago

I think DDO has its own Firefox fork.

6d ago

Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year'

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 6d ago

I mean, if any studio can make a living RPG world it would be Warhorse. All I can say is "don't fuck it up!"

Originally Bethesda Game Studio was the one, but their last decent game was Skyrim. They seem to know that themselves too, as they keep finding reasons to re-release Skyrim.

7d ago

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.........

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 7d ago

Not so much "afraid" as much as the mask falling off. Means they don't give a shit about you, and the only reason why they'd stick a rainbow on anything is because they believe it'll turn you into a paying customer.

Or create positive feel-good PR that'll attract other customers.

7d ago

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.........

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Tattorack @lemmy.world 7d ago

It's all corporate tokenism anyway. Every year I get reminded of that meme with evil corpo logos turning rainbows for their "support", and realise that's just the reality we live in.

Just watch as people go out of their way to defend such tokenism.