I was worried it was that WiZ, luckily it's not
Their bulbs are one of the few WiFi bulbs that don't require an app to operate (only for the initial configuration)
That's your bias and not the language fault, everything works pretty much the same across every OS, I haven't developed non-UI C# apps on Windows since 2018 (because of course you need Windows to build WinUI and WPF apps, but you have options on macOS and Linux too)
> That's basically modern-day Java, with Lombok and other tidbits.
I wouldn't call Lombok "modern", more like "a terrifyingly hacky way to tackle limitations in the language despite the unwillingness to make the language friendlier" and a far cry from what source generators can do in C#
So unaffected people can't disagree with it because it's not even a nuisance for them? That's kinda selfish.
By the way, many developed countries that have running water and where people also speak English are affected too (and don't think there is no outrage in other languages), including (but not limited to) Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia, Cayman Islands, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco and even San Marino, which is basically a neighborhood in Italy.
> When did they do this? As I remember they did not promise free upgrades, but was forced to provide them anyway for some games because of the backlash.
It's been a while, but I think it was with Horizon Forbidden West
> PS4 controllers
I agree this one needed a bit more nuance. I understand they wanted to incentivize the new controller features, but it's the fact that the PS5 is technically capable of using those controllers (since you can use them for PS4 games) but Sony chooses to not allow it that's anti-consumer. Also since you can use PS4 controllers to play streamed PS5 games on PC or PS4 itself.
> How did they raise the price of consoles?
In August 2022 they increased the console price by ~10% pretty much all over the world except the US. Microsoft did the same in June 2023.
Even in more recent times, the entire PS5 life thus far has been riddled with consumer-hostile behavior (promising free upgrades and then walking back from it, forcing people to use the new controllers even if the PS4 ones are perfectly capable to play the new games, increasing prices of games and consoles, bullying companies so they don't support cross-platform play etc)
You can mix it with other info to track a user, but it's not enough to de-anonymize someone on its own.