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“yea, i know brandy. she lives two trailers over”

i’ve seen two of these things around here. they’ve both been on the flatbed of a local towing service.

a lot of it is just using the name via licensing… not made by them.

fire the computer. go back to the pigeons

verizon did the same thing awhile ago, and it was more than five bucks a month.

was still cheaper for us to keep the old plan than to switch to a new “unlimited” one, though.

same deal with the far-right alternatives to aarp. just scamming money from america’s most gullible.

my knees and back say i don’t need any further reminders. but thank you.

didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux

you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.

my old phones (going back all the way to the ‘real’ nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what’s stated in the article for the ‘new’ one.

i have a flip phone. i don’t use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little ‘notepad’. the good ol’ tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their “discount” brand,

for every person that figures out how to disable this stuff, there are many thousands of others who don’t, don’t bother, or don’t even know it might be possible to… which is why they pull this shit in the first place–and (usually) get away with it.

it’s not just apple anymore. all the major ‘pc’ makers have non-upgradeable laptops now… just not across their entire line-up (yet).

the ‘problem’ is: you can’t upgrade; you’re stuck with that 8gb.

want more in a year or two? you have to buy a new mac. and that’s apple’s goal–sell more product. buyers will be back (because they’re hooked on the platform and ecosystem) to buy a new one sooner than they otherwise would have.

so, tom’s swings-and-misses… again?

rarely use the cli anymore. the gui works pretty well.

catalog shopping had been popular for decades prior to the 1980s. it’s online shopping that some didn’t predict or believe would ‘take off’, including sears–the king of catalog sales prior to the rise of the internet.

that ‘designated distro’ for newcomers used to be ubuntu. probably still is. as much as i’d want to say mint or some other variant of ubuntu or debian that i happen to like… ‘one man shows’ and distros with very small teams aren’t what a new user should be going with. there’s a reason why so many base off ubuntu. it’s big. it’s solid. and it just works.

this isn’t much different than when microsoft added code specifically to break windows 3.1 when run under dr-dos instead of their own ms-dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code