The moment this shit appears on mine I‘m buying an Apple TV.

Until the first few break down and you need to buy new ones, just to realize they are different from the ones you have by now (or discontinued outright).

Yeah, considering it's such a major update none of them will work this seems a very prudent thing to do.

Total Commander. Has been for two decades on PC and near one on Android. Not beautiful, but so useful.

It doesn't check the stuff it generates other than on grammatical and orthographical errors. It's not intelligent or has knowledge outside of how to create text. The text looks useful, but it doesn't know what it contains in a way something intelligent would.

Which means it does need outside help (even passive help).

I'm totally a bot

I gladly paid for mine, as I did with Sync for Reddit before. Got extreme value out of this, will get extreme value out of the 20 € I paid here. So, yes. "Memberships". If they are worth the price.

Vox Media was the owner since the beginning. The founders of The Verge went to the owner of SB Nations after leaving Engadget. It is part of Vox Media since the beginning.

Standards can be updated. Like the EU standard was from Micro-USB to USB-C. It happens all the time in all fields of technology.

I still have some I bought 15 years ago at Ikea, still working. Most I exchanged because of the rapid technical development in the one and a half decade not because they stopped working.

Taxes. US prices are always net prices, as taxes are depending on which state you live in. 20 USD = 18.28 € + 19 % taxes (let's take the German one) = 21.75 €. If you are from Italy you are even better off, as with your VAT it would be 22 % = 22.3 €.