Lol, not a fan of either but at least you get some fiber when the paper sticks to the candies

In the US dots can also refer to candy buttons as well as the gross gumdrops

Did you mean to imply fellatio?

See I suspect he had the heart attack while falling off the cliff.

At the time I had 200mbit symmetric, but was behind cgnat. Haven’t needed it since I switched providers. Sounds like I may have misconfigured or it wasn’t a good fit for my situation

I tried a few years ago and could only get 2-3mbit, any improvement, or was I just doing it wrong?

Oh totally. If you’re not watching the prices of something you want and just using it as an opportunity to impulse shop you get fleeced.

I ended up getting some ssds last black Friday, but only because they were 20% cheaper than they’d been all year. Now the prices are even higher, so I don’t feel like I bought at the wrong time

That’s some pure uncut magic in that little baggie right there

What about running a Linux to go removable disk and just pull it when you need to boot windows?

They keep things locked down for the 50% of the population with below average intelligence. It makes things easier to trouble shoot when you can’t move the important stuff. Also that group is usually the loudest complainers when they can’t find something, or something goes wrong.

Honestly, if they could just get 8tb ssds down to $200-250 I’d be happy with sata interfaces

So is that $10M per person or family or family generation? I think the part where things start to spiral is when someone has a few kids who themselves have a few kids each and then add in the spouses. Even at 2 kids per generation and only the first Gen kids have spouses and you’re up to 10 people or $100M.

I can’t wait until the trifold phones become a thing, that way I can carry around a smaller phone that transforms to something larger when I need it.

Except the proposed rule doesn’t do that. It’s only regarding carriers unlocking policies. The owner of the phone could still be under contact, and early termination fees would still apply. Carriers are still able to recoup any losses on the hardware through those fees. Requiring phones to be unlocked after 60 days changes none of that.

As things are now, a poor person would have to pay BOTH. An early termination fee AND then go buy a new phone if they wanted to switch to a new carrier before the (typically 2 year) contact is complete. They lose any money they’ve put into their current phone because it’s locked to a carrier until they have been in good standing for the full 2 years.

So what it really depends on is if you think a poor person should be trapped with their current carrier until they finish the contract, unlock the phone and move to another, OR if they should be free to switch over to the competition at any time without onerous restrictions on hardware they have fully paid for via early termination fees.

This argument may have made sense a decade ago, but phones today aren’t making the generational leaps and bounds with performance every year. Even the low end phones are just fine for most uses these days.

If you’re poor, and I certainly have been, you shouldn’t get into these contacts that ultimately cost you more. You buy a cheap phone from last year and put it on an MVNO that’s cheap

Exactly! Just grip the cardboard tube and pull the middle out

Fat free systems.

That’s what I thought it looked like, but it’s on a street light, not at an intersection

I think the GPU being separately upgradable on the 16" pokes a tiny hole in your argument. But I generally agree, there’s not too much that is saved or retained when upgrading. But for some people it’s worth it, if they’re reusing the ram, SSD, Wi-Fi card in addition to the parts you mention, AND they’re not too rough on the case, screen, and keyboard/trackpad.