I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

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        No, buying used chromebooks from sketchy Craigslist ads with the pickup location being a van down by the river is actually cheaper and easier.

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      man you are going to /hate/ windows then lol, the blue screen doesn’t even give an error code anymore, just a “oops something went wrong” screen.

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        I like that, its exactly what it says on the tin. Something did indeed go wrong. When I get a blue screen, I didn’t <arbitrary number>, I got an error that lead to a crash…also known as something going wrong.

        People may not like it, but the closer a machine is to communicating in a human like manner the better it is.

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          And everyone who is tasked with fixing your constantly crashing shit doesn’t like that, because it gives precisely zero actionable information with which to prevent future crashes. I may as well pull out my tarot deck to diagnose your problem. It’s worse than useless, it’s actively insulting.

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            That would be cool, actually. Venus is in retrograde therefore we get the error card of the inverted cups.