• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    It was gimmicky as hell. Did it work? Who cares. It was irrelevant for 90% of consumers.

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      5 hours ago

      I really miss it honestly. Kids, so, so many batteries in my house.

      Dad, my blah blah blah isn’t working right. Then I have to go dig out this monster:

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        2 hours ago

        Why does it look so weird? I’m not even sure what shape I’m looking at.

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          57 minutes ago

          Haha yeah, it looks like a fake picture or some cartoon.

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          4 hours ago

          Hopefully not because the kind of batteries that work with this reader are awful batteries. Single use disposable batteries are an absolutely stupid idea we should be moving away from