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Sell Old Gaming Consoles | Cash in Your Used PS4, PS3, Xbox One, & More
Title: Cashygo: Sell Old Gaming Consoles and Cash in Your Used PS4, PS3, Xbox One, & More
In the ever-evolving world of gaming, staying up-to-date with the latest consoles and technology is a must for many enthusiasts. But what happens to your old gaming consoles when you're ready to upgrade? Rather than letting them collect dust or simply disposing of them, there's now a convenient and profitable solution: Cashygo.
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So, how does Cashygo work?
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Every single time I see those twitter accounts that go “wind waker/twilight princess for the switch!!” This image i made a while back pops in my head once in a while

#guys please…please emulate…why must you wait??#why must you wait to spend 60 dollars on 20+ year old games#(this also goes for ppl selling the physical game either gc or wiiu)#i understand that you want to experience playing the game on console but sometimes you just gotta emulate#get yourself a nice pc game controller and emulate#ik its hard and scary to find good roms but just look around PLEASE#QUIT TORTURING YOURSELF#txt
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For anyone in the UK, I've compiled a full compilation of price screenshots from the Nintendo website.







#bow imo I think this is a fair price for just the NS2 given all the additional tech in it#mario kart world is way too pricey imo but I'm not in a hurry to get it#at least donkey kong is less than £70#camera and micro sd card prices are pretty expected#seriously inflation has hit the pro controller#it's roughly £5 more than the NS1 pro controller#inflation is in effect for most of this#my advice: sell some old games and consoles you don't want (if you can)#that's how I bought my switch - sold all my wii u games#nintendo switch 2#nintendo direct#nintendo#switch 2#mario kart world#donkey kong bananza
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@beatingheart-bride
"That would be such an honor."
As they left the theater arm in arm, Susannah elaborated a little further on her feelings regarding the idea, saying, "I don't see people wearing my work very often, but when I do, when I see them wearing my hats and bonnets out in town...there's nothing like it. It gives me a-a sorta...a feeling of pride, I guess you'd say. A job well done."
Of course, no one knew the name of the maker of the hat; all who made them were anonymous. Those who shopped and bought from the haberdashery usually just cheerfully told their friends, "Oh, I got it from Mickey's!" giving no thought to the people who really made them. But even so, when Susannah saw her work out in the park, people donning her top hats and sunhats and the like, and to see others compliment her handiwork without knowing it was hers...it put a little smile on her face.
"I know they don't know it's mine, but...it still feels good, knowing they're so happy with it," she smiled softly, cheeks pink as exited back out onto the street. "So to think about people seeing my work on a stage night after night and loving it, admiring it, actually knowing that it's mine? It...it would be nothing short of an honor to me."
#((it's okay; i totally understand! i figured you were busy with work and festivities; you're all good!))#((i had a very quiet holiday as i usually do; i spent it with my folks; and i did get and give some good gifts!))#((my parents got me a little plastic terrarium featuring characters from 'gegege no kitaro'; my favorite manga/anime))#((i got my dad a kit for cleaning his records; and i got my mom a vintage doll from the warner bros. studio store!))#((did you get/give any good gifts yourself? and oh yes; i've been absolutely slammed by work!))#((we've had lots of people come in with the gift certificates we sell; we sold a lot of them during the holidays))#((so people have been coming by to cash those in and get some games and consoles; so yeah; i've been busy!))#((and that doesn't even get into all the people coming by with old games and consoles to trade for cash or credit!))#((and i'm kinda thinking the same thing; honestly; i think we discussed it early on in the tags of this rp))#((and i think it's a good choice for a follow-up; i'd love to see it get the 'phantasm' treatment with a revamp!))#((plus i am still MELTING at the image of little baby werewolf!lon and erika oh my GOSH!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Genderbent
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I just need nintendo to re-release the 3ds as the new model of Switch
They can market it as a "compact switch" lmao
#nintendo#nintendo switch#3ds#3ds games#genuinely i don't use an emulator for the nes or 64 because i own those consoles#i wouldn't need to go down the sea faring route if they made their old games accessible outside of a subscription#like please sell a ds game bundle for switch and reboot old nintendo servers#seasoning takes
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But also i know it's been said over and over again but i really wish companies like nintendo would pick a lane. How are you gonna crack down on emulators like crazy, when it's emulators of consoles and games you discontinued
#i was given a secondhand nintendo ds when i was a kid by a friend of my dad's and i wanted animal crossing wild world#sooooooo so so so bad but it was the age of expensive online shopping and gaming still being v niche#esp cozy games/games targetting girls#so i just never was able to buy it. i still have a functional ds but wild world costs like >€30 PLUS shipping#and i'm just not willing to pay that much for a secondhand game that might not even work#:[ if i get that job........ the contract is 6mo and half of the monthly pay ... could get me a switch lite.......#i miss when people on njuškalo were selling old games and consoles for like 15kn too now everything that's retro is that#much more expensive. esp discontinued. like i get it but.#why are you selling just the cartridge for €30...... it's not even in the case. it probably has dust in it.
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i like to play survival horror games like resident evil (and to some degree classic DOOM which is very scary with the keyboard only controls and original software rendering but that's a whole other deal) with cheats and god mode and infinite ammo and it's wonderful how well most of these games transition from being pee pants scary games where you have scarce resources to these over the top action games with goofy plot and cutscenes that you cannot take seriously if you really tried because there's cutscenes like one in re4 where leon hits a blinker and it does that silly fucking fisheye on his face. god i love those games
#resident evil#probably blasphemy to some “hardcore gamers” but like fuck em they're computer games enjoy em how you like#playing games with cheats in general is a really good time for me i think every game should have a dev console#or like yknow the old fashioned controller codes a la gta cjphonehome where you could make the bikes fly#really fun#why do most modern games insist on being so polished and smoothed over. i was playing tony hawk underground and i was amazed at how raw#and charming it was despite being a sequel to some of the most popular and best selling games of all time. video games are supposed to be#fun and creative and i'm very tired and emotional about them not being so silly or creative anymore
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I want them to announce the damn console already so my brain will stop going "what if they actually go with switch 2 having 2 screens" every 8 minutes
#it would be very funny if they just do 'the switch again but with the clamshell screen'#they could keep selling you ds and 3ds games#wii u games could get ported like it was nothing#i think it's more likely that they do the switch again with better chips or whatever#but they might still pull a Nintendo#the influx of ds titles getting ported to switch might mean that wave of reselling old ds games is starting#it might just mean the console is on its last leg and they're squeezing in every title they can#MAYBE we're seeing these ones first because they were able to work on one screen easily#but more likely it means nothing#but also it would be pretty funny to have called it
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Sometimes I remember I traded my copy of black 2 to GameStop back in 2018 for like. Five bucks. Why did I do that. Sobs it's well in the 200 dollar range now
#i traded it so i could get Y. FUCKING Y????#i also traded my pokemon ranger games WHY WOULD I DO THAY#never ever sell old games you will regret it#i have pokemon white 2 so its not like i cant replay that game#but Man. why would i do that shit#one of these days ill buy white and black 2 as a treat to myself#or when i feel comfortable dropping 300 dollars on these games for the sake of collection#i have a japanese copy of black 2 tho which is neat i think#cant play it bc i dont have a japanese ds. but its still cool#crow rambles#nintendo rerelease bw/bw2 and i will never say anything mean about you again (lying)#like even just having it available on a modern day console would make me happy. bc they're damn good pokemon games#and its a shame that theyre so hard to get your hands on#while i 100% support emulation not everyone (sadly) feels comfortable doing so#me personally i just dont really like playing ds games on a laptop so i dont do it very often#like ive done it a handful of times for gba fire emblem games. but it really is not my favorite way to play these games#that and with pokemon a lot of the draw is being able to transfer your pokemon to current games#i transferred a serperior I've had for over a decade into scarlet and it geniuenly made me choke up a bit#anyways sorry for the pokemon posting (no im not) i just love pokemon sm wahhh#one of these days I'm gonna buy a cheap 3ds to mod i swear#i would mod my current 2ds but i would sob if i managed to brick it#same with my current dsi#that dsi has been through hell and back with me#i have spilt at minimum two glasses of tea on it dropped it on concrete more times than i can count. ive sat on it shook it tapped the#screen so hard im surprised it didnt break. it is almost 14 years old and STILL runs like a champ. the switch could never
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The thing is I would be a lot less upset about paying $80 dollars for a video game if
A. The money actually went to the laborers and developers who made the game in the first place.
B. Prices for most console games were more flexible, and actually went down over time, rather than selling a years-old game from the last generation at a markup from it's original MSRP.
C. The price was adjusted for places where buying a video game can cost several month's paycheck.
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heya! youve sold me on Everything Everywhere All at Once but idk where i can watch it. i dont have any streaming services but i also dont wanna pirate it bc it seems like the creators are good people who deserve to get paid for their work. do you know where i can find it?
it’s such a great movie and helped me reinforce more positive ideologies in the face nihilism so im glad it got you curious enough to want experience it for yourself that means a lot to me!!
so my recommendation for where to watch it without a subscription to something or pirating is get a physical copy!! buy it once own it forever! no ads or buffering, and shows direct support. plus bonus material is really common on dvds for most movies too, so it’s like, even more worth the price. so if you have a dvd player already or want invest in owning your media of course go for it and if not then buying/renting it on vubu, microsoft, google play, amzon, or appletv is always an option and still shows monetary support (weirdly its not on youtube tho?). anything else is sub only unfortunately.
hope that helps you out, comrade! sorry i couldn’t get around to answering sooner <3
#i freaking LOVE physical media#i <3 dvds#sidenote but dvds are cheap for the value they offer and need to be saved#getting physical media keeps it from dying#even getting second hand dvds off of ebay or at thrift stores is good#keeps the circulation of that media moving#and selling old dvds you don’t watch anymore so someone else can enjoy it is great#usually cheap enough that you can use the extra money to support whatever creator you want to in other ways#all up to you but it feels good to physically own the things you love#so companies can’t randomly take it down or inject ads or lose wifi in the middle of it#with so many extra features i don’t understand why so many people turned away from dvds#some game consoles can be used to play blue rays too#so there’s options when it comes to this especially compared to the sub alternative#anywho say for the ramble i just couldn’t help myself i seriously love dvds#don’t let the dvd die
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Okay, so, I watched the entire 7 hour stream where Daniel Vávra (KCD2 game director) was a guest at a Czech Twitch streamer.
GENERAL KCD2 DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
He is expecting around 4-5 million total copies sold by the end of 2025.
Devs shortly before the release wanted to remove Mutt completely because they were afraid they had not managed to code him and implement him properly. They thought his AI was so bad it was not worth having him at all.
He plans to have a look into recommending to other devs some patches that will make the game less easy or other ways to avoid Henry becoming too OP if you do all side quests. Also make the second map have a better gear and wallet progress, such as deal with the problem of wanting to sell too-rich loot to too-poor merchants.
He was a millionaire from the first two Mafia games, but he almost went bankrupt from his private money when trying to create KCD1 and found an investor to make the game a reality basically miraculously.
The target audience for KCD2 is around 30 year olds.
There will be a vinyl of the soundtrack.
Kingdom Come 1 and 2 were originally supposed to be one game, where Act 1 would be Rattay stuff (everything in KCD1), Act 2 would be the Trosky-related map, and Act 3 would be Kuttenberg.
The DLCs will unlock some new areas to explore, including the interior of a church.
There will be probably no mod support for consoles.
A FEW TINY HANS/HENRY BREADCRUMBS:
He never approved of or allowed that one dev at a forum years back to say that Henry is straight.
The Hansry sex scene was supposed to be more explicit originally. He implied that other devs wanted it to be more explicit and sexier but he wanted it to stay more romantic.
The sex scene would not have happened at that specific time at that specific place if Henry and Hans had not been starving and desperate about that situation.
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A Reminder About the Moral Imperative of Pirating Games
Today -- or rather, two days from now in an extraordinary feat of time travel -- the United States Copyright Office ruled (among other things) to uphold the ban against the digital lending of antiquated and abandoned video games by digital library structures; e.g., archive.org or other sites in association with the Video Game History Foundation. This was, no surprise, at the urging of lobbyists from the ESA and other groups who are not in favor of the digital sharing of their works with anyone who has not paid appropriate purchase or licensing fees. The fact that the vast majority of video games ever produced are no longer available for initial purchase from an authorized publisher is not a mitigating consideration.
The sad reality is that regardless of what individual programmers, composers, graphic artists, voice actors or other contributors to a game may feel, most publishers of those games do not view the games as artistic achievements to be shared for posterity so much as competition against their latest offerings. Part of that perception might lie with gamers themselves, who depreciate games rapidly based upon their age, a devaluation that is greatly accelerated over other entertainment media such as movies, television, music and books. It often isn't economically feasible for publishers with the rights to games (for those games whose chain of custody can even be tracked anymore) to port the game to a modern system, as the target audience would be small and what those players will pay is a pittance. Despite its considerable technical achievements and overall coolness, personal favorite Scarabaeus simply isn't going to sell to enough persons to make up the cost of business efforts.
But the alternative shouldn't be to let unused properties rot, either. I have advocated emulation of older games before; indeed, I spent four and a half years doing exactly that to make about 1700 posts about classic arcade, computer and console video games. Generally, I advocate this because as gamers we deserve the breadth of experiences available to us and the only way to achieve that can be the legally dubious route. Now, however, it is clear that without the intervention of gamers as a population, the appreciation of old games will be lost -- as some publishers would like them to be, and that would be a shame.
Though I can't directly link to any site that provides ROMs or disk or tape images of older systems, such things can be very easy to find on Google. The difficulty of emulation varies with the system; many older cartridge-based consoles such as the Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Sega Genesis, are amazingly easy. MAME for arcade games may take a little adjustment for its interface depending on which version you go with. All of these are based on long-since obsolete chip-based ROM storage which was incredibly small. Games of the Fifth Generation of video game consoles (PS1, Sega Saturn, et al) have CDs or larger storage mediums which take a little longer to download and more storage space on your drive. The Commodore 64, Amiga, Apple II and other computer systems have tens of thousands of games -- some of astounding quality -- but most require you to operate the system within the emulator, so that may be a bridge too far. Whatever road you decide to take, good luck and enjoy.
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Can we get more BEN content? Please?

Something super quick!! I’m just tryna get a feel for his character again cuz I just realized how long it’s been since I’ve worked with him in my AU?! I’ll ramble a bit under the cut
Mandatory reminder that my AU is filled with rewrites largely inspired by my childhood understanding/memories of the stories … it’s not canon in the slightest
Tw for kidnapping(?sorta) and murder under the cut
Ok imma do a better finished pre/post death comparison later. But for now.
Ben in my AU went to a garage sale, found majoras mask, got really excited, and the one selling it to him was like “I have the console come over and we can beat the game together” so Ben started going to this 40 yr old guys house every week.
Once they beat the game, the guy ended up drowning Ben in his bathtub. It’s cuz he had this huge grand plan to create a true virtual reality where you can really put your soul into a video game, cuz he himself was addicted to video games and escapism and whatnot … specifically inserting himself into a Zelda game. and he had killed several young blonde boys who he thought resembled link, cuz he was doing all these different methods and rituals he read online that he believed would transport a persons soul inside. After he drowned Ben, he put the green tunic over bens zelda shirt + put boots and that damn hat on him + cut his hair to try and resemble link. He waited and waited and reopened the game and played it and tried tweaking it and did everything he could to find evidence that bens soul was in the game. EVIDENTLY THAT SHIT DIDNT WORK.
Well it sorta worked. Bens soul DID get trapped in that game cartridge. But it was more in the way a ghost possesses a doll, not transporting him into the game….
Eventually the man was caught for murder, charged, and the video game cartridge (with Bens soul) went into evidence. And it just sat there for a long while.
Eventually it broke, I haven’t exactly fleshed out how… maybe a dumb detective.. OH MY GOD MAYBE A DETECTIVE WORKING ON JEFFS CASE ??!?! LOL we’ll see
And when the cartridge broke, Bens Soul sorta got. Released ?! And obviously he was mad ..
So he just spent a while haunting people, driving people to suicide, being a massive menace on the internet and in people’s homes till slendy got involved and was like Benjamin. Do not do this.
Ok obviously this is super messy and I did it on a school bench on my phone cuz my class got cancelled today 😞 but. I’ll try to get more solid Ben content out cuz he’s just a guy
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Canada shouldn’t retaliate with its US tariffs

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
Five years ago, Trump touted his "big, beautiful" replacement for NAFTA, the "free trade agreement" between the US, Mexico and Canada. Trump's NAFTA-2 was called the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and it was pretty similar to NAFTA, to be honest.
That tells you a couple things: first, NAFTA was, broadly speaking a good thing for Trump and the ultra-wealthy donors who backed him (and got far richer as a result). That's why he kept it intact. NAFTA and USMCA are, at root, a way to make rich people richer by making poorer people poorer. Trump's base hated NAFTA because they (correctly) believed that it was being used to erode wages by chasing cheaper labor and more lax environmental controls in other countries. Neither NAFTA nor USMCA have any stipulations requiring exported goods to be manufactured by unionized workers, or in factories with robust environmental and workplace safety rules.
The point of NAFTA/USMCA is to goose profits by despoiling the environment, maiming workers, stealing their wages, paying them less, all while poisoning the Earth. Trump's "new" NAFTA was just the old NAFTA with some largely cosmetic changes so that Trump's base could be (temporarily) fooled into thinking Trump was righting the historic wrong of NAFTA.
However, there was one part of USMCA that marked a huge departure from NAFTA: the "IP" chapter. USCMA bound Canada and Mexico to implementing brutal new IP laws. For example, Mexico was forced to pass an anti-circumvention law that makes it a crime to tamper with "digital locks." This means that Mexican mechanics can't bypass the locks US car companies use to lock-out third party repair. Mexican farmers can't fix their own tractors. And, of course, Mexican software developers can't make alternative app stores for games consoles and mobile devices – they must sell their software through US Big Tech companies that take 30% of every sale:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#que-viva
Shamefully, Canada had already capitulated to most of these demands. Two Canadian Conservative Party politicians, Tony Clement and James Moore, had sold the country out in 2012, throwing away 6,138 negative responses to a consultation on a new DRM law (on the grounds that they were "babyish" views of "radical extremists"), siding instead with the 54 cranks and industry shills who supported their proposal:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/#sex-pest
When Canadian politicians are pressed on why these anti-interoperability policies are good for Canada, they'll say that it's a condition of free trade, and the benefits of being able to export Canadian goods to the US without tariffs outweigh the costs of having to pay rents to American companies for consumables (like car parts or printer ink), repair, and software sales.
Sure, when Canadian software authors sell iPhone apps to Canadian customers, the payments take a round trip through Cupertino, California and return 30% short. But Canadian consumers get to buy iPhones without paying tariffs on them, and the oil, timber, and minerals we rip out of the ground can be sent to America without tariffs, either (oh, also, a few things that are still manufactured in Canada can do this, too).
Enter Trump, carrying a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods, which he has vowed to impose on his first day in office. Obviously, this demands a policy response. What should Canada do when Trump tears up his "big, beautiful" trade deal and whacks Canadian exporters? One obvious response is to impose a 25% retaliatory tariff on American exporters:
https://mishtalk.com/economics/canada-says-it-will-match-us-tariffs-if-trump-launches-trade-war/
After all, Canada and the US are one another's mutual largest trading partners. American businesses rely on selling things to Canadians, so a massive tariff on US goods will certainly make some of Trump's business-lobby backers feel pain, and maybe they'll talk some sense into him.
I think this would be a huge mistake. The most potent political lesson of the past four years is that politicians who preside over rising prices – regardless of their role in causing them – will swiftly feel the wrath of their voters. The public is furious about inflation, whether it comes from transient covid supply chain shocks, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or cartels using "inflation" as cover for illegal, collusive price-gouging.
Canadians are very reliant on American imports of finished goods. That's another legacy of NAFTA: it crashed Canada's manufacturing sector. Canadian manufacturing companies treated the US as a "nearshore" source of non-union labor and weak environmental and safety rules, and shipped Canadian union jobs to American scabs. Canada's economy is supposedly now all about "services" but what we really export is stuff we tear out of the Earth.
Countries that are organized around resource extraction don't need fancy social safety nets or an educational system capable of producing a high-tech workforce. All you need to extract resources is a hole in the ground surrounded by guns, which explains a lot about shifts to the Canadian political climate since the Mulroney years.
Since Canada is now substantially reorganized as an open-pit mine for American manufacturers, cutting off American imports would drive the prices of everyday good sky-high, and would be political suicide.
But there's another way.
Because, of course, Canada – like any other country – has the capacity to make all kinds of things, including high-tech things. Sure, it's unlikely that Canada will launch another Research in Motion with a Blackberry smart-phone that will put the iPhone and Android in the shade. The mobile duopoly has the market sewn up, and can use predatory pricing, refusal to deal, and other anticompetitive tactics to strangle any competitor in its cradle.
But you know what Canada could make? A Canadian App Store. That's a store that Canadian software authors could use to sell Canadian apps to Canadian customers, charging, say, the standard payment processing fee of 5% rather than Apple's 30%. Canada could make app stores for the Android, Playstation and Xbox, too.
There's no reason that a Canadian app store would have to confine itself to Canadian software authors, either. Canadian app stores could offer 5% commissions on sales to US and global software authors, and provide jailbreaking kits that allows device owners all around the world to install the Canadian app stores where software authors don't get ripped off by American Big Tech companies.
Canadian companies like Honeybee already make "front-ends" for John Deere tractors – these are the components that turn a tractor into a plow, or a thresher, or another piece of heavy agricultural equipment. Honeybee struggles constantly to get its products to interface with Deere tractors, because Deere uses digital locks to block its products:
https://honeybee.ca/
Canada could produce jailbreaking kits for John Deere tractors, too – not just for Honeybee. Every ag-tech company in the world would benefit from commercially available, professionally supported John Deere jailbreaking kits. So would farmers, because these kits would restore farmers' Right to Repair their own tractors:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/08/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors/
Speaking of repair: Canadian companies could jailbreak every make and model of every US automobile, and make independent, constantly updated diagnostic tools that every mechanic in the world could buy for hundreds of dollars, rather than paying the five-figure ransom that car makers charge for their own underpowered, junk versions of these tools.
Jailbreaking cars doesn't stop with repair, either. Cars like the Tesla are basically giant rent-extraction machines. If you want to use all the "features" your Tesla ships with – like access to the full charge on your battery – you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in subscription fees over the life of the car, and when you sell your car, all that "downloadable content" is clawed back. No one will pay extra to buy your used Tesla just because you spent thousands on manufacturer upgrades, because they're all downgraded when you sign over the pink slip.
But Canadian companies could make jailbreaking kits for Teslas that unlock all the features in the car for a single low price – and again, they could sell these to every Tesla owner in the world.
Elon Musk doesn't invent anything, he just takes credit for other people's ideas, and that's as true of bad ideas as it is for good ones. Musk didn't invent the extractive Tesla rip-off: he stole it from inkjet printer companies like HP, who have used the fact that jailbreaking is illegal to turn printer ink into the most expensive fluid in the world, selling for more than $10,000/gallon.
Canadian companies could sell jailbreaking kits for inkjet printers that disconnect them from "subscription" services and disable the anti-features that check for and reject third party ink. People all over the world would buy these.
What's standing in the way of a Canadian industrial policy that focuses on raiding the sky-high margins of American monopolists with third-party add-ons, mods and jailbreaks?
Only the IP laws that Canada has agreed to in order to get tariff-free access to American markets. You know, the access that Trump has promised to end in less than a week's time?
Canada should tear up these laws – and not impose tariffs on American goods. That way, Canadians can still buy cheap American goods, and then they can save billions of dollars every year on the consumables, parts, software, and service for those goods.
This is hurting American big business where it hurts – in the ongoing rents it extracts from Canadians through IP laws like Bill C-11 (the law that bans jailbreaking). Canada could become a global high-tech export powerhouse, selling "complementary" goods that disenshittify all the worst practices of US tech monopolists, from car parts to insulin pumps.
It's the only kind of trade war that Canadian politicians can win against Americans: the kind where prices for Canadians don't go up because of tariffs; where the price of apps, repair, parts, and upgrades goes way down; and where a new, high-tech manufacturing sector pulls in vast sums from customers all over the world.
Canada can win this kind of war, even against a country as big and powerful as the USA. After all, we did it once before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CK3EDncjGI
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👑Tips for littles on a budget👑
This is some tips for tinies (or carers looking for gifts for kiddos) on a budget! Of course you don't need any gear to be a good regressor but a lot of us like toys etc. and it's okay to want them!
🧸thrift stores, a lot of thrift stores have toys and plushies, sometimes they are a bit broken or dirty but there are lots of tutorials on YouTube for cleaning and restoring plushies and toys🧸
🐾e-books, you can find kids books online as e-books which are often pretty cheap or you can watch tiktoks of people reading those books🐾
🩷diy onesies, a lot of regressors like onesies but the prices are pretty steep, if you can't afford them don't fret! Its super easy and affordable to make one yourself all you need is an old t-shirt and snap buttons plus a way to attach them, just get a big t-shirt, sweatshirt or even hoodie and add 2-4 snap buttons in the crotch, boom you have a super cute and discreet onesie!🩷
🧸diy toys, there are lots of toys you can make yourself either by sewing or crafting and there's lot soft videos on YouTube for it, or get creative🧸
🐾mobile games, I love to play video games when im regressed but game consoles are expensive so free mobile games are a great alternative🐾
🩷dollar store etc, while you shouldn't rely on stores or websites that use cheap labor for everything it's okay to make exceptions every now and then, especially for toys, pacis, sippy cups and similar🩷
🧸pull ups, instead of cute printed diapers get big kid pull-ups in the baby-section or medical diapers from a drugstore, they are less then half the price of a pack of adult diapers from brands like tears etc.🧸
🐾learn to diy, making things yourself is often the most affordable thing to do, not with everything obviously but with a lot of things, learn as much stuff as you can so you can make lots of gear yourself🐾
🩷look for affordable stores, lots of paci stores on Instagram are very affordable and the ones that aren't often have sales so keep an eye out for that, lots of shops also have promoter codes they are happy for you to use, for example with my code 'bunnybab' you get a small discount at pacisbybunnie and cozypacicorner🩷
🧸buy second hand, thrift stores are a great place but if you want little specific stuff looking on vinted, swoop or even insta is a great idea! Lots of people sell gear they no longer connect with🧸

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