It’s hard to say what, precisely, makes a design timeless. Some classic gadgets are simply beautiful, while others remain functional years after they come out. The list of truly timeless products in tech is small, but there’s one name that looms large: RobCo Industries’ Pip-Boy. Sure, it’s relatively simple, and some of its features only work if you’re stuck underground. But when a design hasn’t changed for 200 years, you know it’s doing something right.

For those who have been living under an irradiated rock, a Pip-Boy is a wrist-worn computer that — despite originally being meant for the pre-war world and, later, life inside of a Vault-Tec vault — has become an indispensable tool for survival out in the wasteland. It’s large and rugged, though not particularly heavy or uncomfortable, and is outfitted with plenty of satisfyingly chunky dials and buttons. From an aesthetic perspective, it’s surprisingly versatile, pairing with everything from a Vault-Tec jumpsuit to raider armor. You never really have to worry about when and where it’s okay to wear one.

The Pip-Boy is dominated by a monochrome always-on display. What the screen lacks in pixels, it makes up for in accessibility; it’s bright and clear enough to view anywhere, whether in the blinding sun of the Mojave Wasteland or the dank depths of a Yao guai cave.

And you’ll definitely want to check it regularly because the Pip-Boy tracks all kinds of useful health information. The display will let you know not only when you need a Stimpak but also where on your body to apply it. And — perhaps most importantly — it has a built-in dosimeter that audibly lets you know when there’s too much radiation around. Unfortunately, while it’s great for life-critical information, the Pip-Boy does skimp when it comes to more standard health features. It doesn’t even have a step tracker.

But it’s also more than a health device. The Pip-Boy’s other major use is as a GPS. The maps feature helps you stay on the right path while hunting a bounty or searching for out-of-the-way settlements, and the new AirTag-like tool makes it possible to track small objects — like, say, a dismembered body part that is of great importance to the Brotherhood of Steel — across large distances. The wasteland may be dangerous, but it’s pretty hard to get lost if you have a Pip-Boy equipped.

The rest of the functionality is a smattering of basic but useful features: a flashlight for navigating in the dark, simple games for rare moments of downtime, and the ability to look at photos (despite the fact that the Pip-Boy doesn’t have a built-in camera). None of these are must-haves, but they do give the device a slight leg-up over the competition (not that there are any competing devices anymore).

What’s perhaps most impressive about the Pip-Boy’s success as a survival tool is that it wasn’t originally designed for surviving a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It was created in part for life in an underground bunker, which means that if you somehow find yourself in a vault, the Pip-Boy has some added functionality. There are smarthome features that let you open doors with your wrist (though, naturally, the device only supports the Vault-Tec standard), and a messaging app for sending notes and tasks to fellow vault dwellers. Sadly, these features aren’t much use once you head up to the surface.

Really, the best thing you can say about the Pip-Boy is that it just works. Centuries after it first launched, the device remains not only functional but vital. You never have to worry about a software update degrading the experience or whether the radiation sensor is accurate. And when you’re in a life or death situation — which, let’s face it, is a daily occurrence on the surface — that reliability never gets old.

The biggest problem? Availability. Unless you’re born in a vault or happen upon the carcass of someone who was, Pip-Boys are in short supply.

Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers’ accounts — and the company isn’t answering our questions about why it went that far. Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th.

“Discord responds to and complies with all legal and valid Digital Millennium Copyright Act requests. In this instance, there was also a court ordered injunction for the takedown of these materials, and we took action in a manner consistent with the court order,” reads part of a statement from Discord director of product communications Kellyn Slone to The Verge.

The developers of Suyu and Sudachi only received vague messages about how they were sharing content that allegedly violates intellectual property rights, according to images shared with The Verge. Meanwhile, Discord tells us that it’s following its normal process for DMCA takedown requests — but it’s not at all clear there was a valid DMCA takedown request or that those communities were actually violating IP rights, and it’s quite possible Discord isn’t following its own policy by kicking them out.

Remember, Nintendo got Yuzu to settle rather than proving its case in court, and the settlement did not give Nintendo the rights to Yuzu’s freely copyable GPL v3 code. Developers of Yuzu’s forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off. And that code wasn’t hosted on Discord in any case.

But it’s possible that people were sharing Nintendo’s cryptographic keys, firmware, or even entire pirated games in these servers despite those commitments. At the end of the day, most people seeking out a Nintendo Switch emulator are looking to play Nintendo games on it. But with the servers gone, it’s hard to prove either way.

Even if Suyu and Sudachi were infringing, Discord’s policy does not suggest it would permaban, much less nuke entire servers, on the first offense. Discord did not answer questions about whether these users were repeat copyright infringers, had received any previous warnings, or were forwarded any takedown requests.

Sudachi developer Jarrod Norwell tells me it came out of the blue: “Their first email was that my account has broken the TOS, with no additional information.” He claims Sudachi wasn’t doing anything infringing. Later, he was told it vaguely had something to do with intellectual property but says Discord still hasn’t given him any details.

DMCA takedown requests are traditionally about content, not people or groups of people, and Discord’s policy is written to reflect that. A valid takedown request has to include a description of the content that’s infringing and where to find it; a platform then takes down the content, and users can get it reinstated if they file a “counter-notice” that claims it wasn’t actually infringing. At that point, Discord has done its job, and Nintendo can sue the developer directly if it wants by using the counter-notice to track them down.

But that doesn’t seem to be what happened here. It looks like Discord simply de-platformed these emulators by nuking their communication channels.

And while the court order that Discord mentions does ban some third parties from “providing, marketing, advertising, promoting....or otherwise trafficking in Yuzu or any source code or features of Yuzu,” it’s specifically talking about third parties “acting in active concert and participation with Defendant.” Discord would not tell me that any of the Yuzu developers were connected to the Suyu or Sudachi projects.

At the end of the day, platforms like Discord have no obligation to host anything they don’t want to host, as we discussed back when GitLab did something similar by deplatforming Suyu’s code. And perhaps Discord did see evidence of software piracy in these Discords. That’s not currently how it’s justifying these channel wipes, though.

For some Suyu developers, this may have been the last straw: an insider tells me that after infighting, one group has splintered off to do its own projects, which may or may not be related to emulation; here’s a Pastebin where a “real Suyu developer” claims the core development team has left the project because of Suyu’s “radioactivity” and its allegedly egotistic leader. (That leader does tend to bark out orders, from what insiders have shown me.)

Sudachi’s developer, meanwhile, tells me he’s still working on all his projects.

Nintendo isn’t just targeting Switch emulators with its latest round of takedowns but also some of the tools that aid them: it sent DMCA takedown requests to GitHub to remove 27 forks of the Sigpatch Updater, as well as Lockpick_RCM, kezplez-nx, and Incognito_RCM, which help Switch owners and developers obtain encryption keys.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying that TurboTax “continues to relentlessly upsell” customers while also directing them away from services that would otherwise be free.

As noted in the letter, Warren’s staff analyzed TurboTax’s services using a sample taxpayer and found that the company attempted to upsell the customer eight times during the tax filing process. Warren writes that in “several cases,” these solicitations “appear to be efforts to mislead customers into thinking that they must pay the extra fees in order to file their taxes when that is not the case.” Some show up as full-screen prompts, forcing users to scroll to the bottom to deny the upgrade.

In one instance, Warren’s team found that TurboTax highlighted its $89 tax filing package as “the right option” for their sample taxpayer, leaving the free option at the bottom of the page. After choosing just one upgrade, Warren’s staff found that their sample taxpayer with “simple” filing requirements had to pay an extra $69 to report her unemployment income and educator expenses, plus $64 to file Massachusetts state tax returns.

That makes for a grand total of $133 — a sum people wouldn’t have to pay through the IRS’s free Direct File service, Warren argues. The IRS is currently testing its Direct File service in 13 states, including Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.

Warren says she supports the FTC’s oversight of TurboTax, saying it “deserves this scrutiny.” Last year, the FTC decided that TurboTax “deceived customers” by advertising its tax filing services as “free” and later ordered the company to stop doing so.

“Given Intuit’s ongoing anti-taxpayer practices, it is outrageous that the company continues to fight the FTC lawsuit and lobby against the IRS Direct File program,” Warren writes. “I applaud your work to crack down on Intuit’s false advertising and junk fees, and urge you to continue your efforts to protect taxpayers from these schemes.”

You can read Warren’s full letter below.