The cumulative price increases are noticeable. Grocery receipts feel like they are $25-50 more expensive for the same stuff.

We buy a dozen eggs every other week, so that specifically isn’t impacting us much, but in the store I usually take note, and say damn under my breath when I see the $7+ ones.

And one where I have a goatee and I’m the evil version of myself, right??

If the graphics are a good enough upgrade I might pick one up. My current switch only gets used when a new Zelda game comes out (or I get nostalgic for some bowling)

Microsoft: put it in OneDrive. We will use your content to train our AI models. No really this is fine.

The only solace I can find in this situation is that the worst ones will likely do something dumb and end up back in jail.

Yeah you’re correct

My favorite part is the US government, with its massive intelligence agencies, is trying to shake down its employees to discover their own org chart.

I should have stopped when they announced they were a highschool student.

They didn’t reveal the actual identity of anyone. They did use cloudflare to approximate a target’s location, and made it slightly fancier by forcing the client to make the request with a push notification.

Companies have used similar approaches for decades. Almost every web interaction with a marketer approximates your location and ties that together with demographics via browser fingerprinting to get a good idea of who you are.