I was addressing the “waiting to acquire signal” part, not the “removing from a bag” part which I imagine to be fast

Your phone does not need an internet connection to tap to pay, in the same way your credit cards do not need an internet connection to tap to pay

If you click the most expensive model and then click max/fast mode, the same task can easily cost 10 or 20x of the cheaper models

Generic stream emulators already exist and is how a vast number of games are “cracked”

That $60 game costs them $20 to sell on steam. So not that different than paying $20 to manufacture a cartridge really.

Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker

It’s not a backup if it’s stored in the same place as the original

lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with

A used n3ds xl costs close to a switch 2 these days lol

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you can’t replace batteries on most modern portable computing devices these days.

yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything

I think it’s more to differentiate from Bluetooth (which amusingly also uses 2.4ghz)