Ok this got a nose puff out of me

I dealt with quite a range of incomes. I pull their credit reports to qualify them for service. I knew exactly what their financials looked like.

Nope. I worked retail for years at the same yellow-and-blue themed electronics store and they’re spot-on. The absolute worst are the ones carrying tacky designer bags. Think the giant LV logo ones. They were almost universally nightmares to deal with that had $1000 deposit requirements for cell phones.

Unless they went to a scratch-and-dent or secondhand place, then I can imagine it’d be a lot cheaper

You’re right and you should say it louder.

I downloaded my first porn from Kazaa, over dial-up.

It was true at one point, but has since changed. The systems are totally air-gapped and worked 100% of the time, so there was never a reason to change them.

Also true: Boeing still uses floppies to update their 747s.

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What really baffles me is how people that have dishwashers manage to do this. Like, use bowl/whisk/cutting board/whatever > put in dishwasher. That way, all you have to do is wash your knives while everything else cooks.

Stress test, yeah.

Same thing with my mother; she started getting pummeled with cc mailers within 6 months of her filing.

'Member buying a game, and getting the whole game?

I 'member.

I absolutely understand; I used to be a repair tech for Sprint. That said, screen repair for the Pixel 6a doesn’t even require the back to be removed, so I think it was more an education issue than anything else. I don’t think it was malicious at all, but shortly after I noticed the NFC issues, the back fell off and I saw they’d cracked it pretty severely and stuck it back on with double-stick tape. It was less the crime and more the cover-up that pissed me off.

I recently took my Pixel 6a in for screen repair; somehow, water got under the glass and caused the whole thing to glitch out in a way that looked like I spilled black ink all over. Really bizarre. Anyway, I picked up the phone and visually inspected it - all was good, so I took it home. They said they tested it, I took their word for it.

Turns out they destroyed the NFC antenna, disabling Google Pay for me. It took me almost and month and several emails to corporate, but they ended up fixing their mistake.

Point is, this very well may be the fault of the repair people. I’d reach out to them first.

Growing up in the Northeast, we got very used to wearing our puffy winter coats over our costumes most years. If you were lucky it was clear and cold, but most years it either snowed or rained.

They install a van de graaff generator in the bed that pops out when you pass an ICE car and zaps it.

Sucks for anything that’s not cishet.

Just don’t mention any software that isn’t FOSS. Ever.

Yeah, and if we could stop putting honeybee apiaries everywhere to greenwash the other horrible shit companies are doing, that’d be great.

There’s a big issue now with native pollinators being pushed out in favor of “cute” honeybees.

Imagine not knowing that TV news exists.