Drop the price of midrange cards by 40-80% so I can consider getting one. I'm not paying $600 for a 4 year old video card, nor will I pay $2000 to build a new system in order to have the connection and power requirements of the new kids on the block (even when the GPU itself is often cheaper).

Exactly. I've been on MeWe about a year specifically to get away from biased censorship. I will auto-leave anyplace that falls into the same trap. Also it isn't a 'replacement' until it has enough people. On FB there were about 200 people I talked to regularly. On MeWe there's 4. I'm hanging on, hoping enough people get sick of FB's crap, but *shrug*. I'd rather to talk to no one without censors than everyone with when it comes down to it.

and F the streaming service wars.

I've never understood any use to twitter, so never bothered. But rules like this are a big reason I've dropped most of the major platforms. It's not just that the rules are stifling of free speech and the exchange/awareness of ideas and differing viewpoints, it's the hypocrisy and bias inherent within them. No social media platform takes issue when people post about praying for the death of a terrorist or random combatant. They don't tell people they can't talk about rather going back in time to kill HItler would be justified. It's just when you cross an imaginary line about who they think you're supposed to find valuable. It's crap, and I'll have no part of it.

I usually get 3-5 years. Had my Priv since it was released, and its still going strong. I'd LOVE to upgrade, but there's nothing available that has a physical keyboard.

Haven't decided who I'll vote for yet, but it's almost never a D or R. Maybe once every 6-10 years one of them will be enough of an outsider just running under the party name that I can stomach it, but otherwise I consider D and R the single largest problem in America, NEVER the solution. In fact I'd go so far as to say this country can absolutely NOT work reasonably so long as we have a two-party system. I often vote L, but only when they're not anarcho-capitalists or focused austrian economists. The point of being a libertarian (small l) is to prioritize the liberty/authority axis of a spectrum sorter, not the economic axis. Our American Libertarian party (capital L) has forgotten that, or at least disagrees with it.

Nothing better illustrates what's wrong with America than most major corporations boycotting Facebook because they don't do enough of what made me leave Facebook for MeWe & Minds in the first place. Now, half of people reading that will interpret it to mean people like me are the problem, and half will read that those in power and influence like corporations/Facebook are the problem. The truth is that it's that very dichotomy that is far more of a problem than either position on its own.

But being FB they'll only target 'hate' or misinformation that they disagree with, while any politically aligned examples of the same will remain free to circulate. Which is why I left FB last month and will never return. That's the true problem with censorship of any form...you simply can't remove bias from the process. That's why either everything must be allowed, or nothing. Anything in between is nothing but a corrupted opinion.

I hate all voice command systems, and basically won't ever use any of them. I don't use them on phones, don't use them in cars, and sure as hell don't want one in my home. I imagine they might be useful or fun to some people, and that's great, but not to me.

Holy CRAP!!! That's probably going to include me for a change! *does the snoopy dance* Come to butthead, internet speeds over 6mb/s.

There's some BIG gaps between 'wait a few months' and 'never'. Definitely need a 'not until win 7 eol, then we'll see'.

I have 2, but only turn on my phone gps when I need it (basically only when using nav). The other is the lojack watch on my father, and that stays on 24/7 out of necessity.

I'm sure it's Seattle that skews the charts, cause here I am in the middle of a town of 30k people stuck with 3m/896k 95ms.

to not allow networking of various devices. Obviously it would be better if nearly all corporations weren't inherently evil, but since they are the next best thing is to just refuse to play their games outright.

"It would also remove posts from any state in which a gun seller says a background check will be skipped, even if such checks arenâ(TM)t required where the seller lives." There is no law requiring such a check in most states, therefore they are knowingly deleting posts which conform to the law. What's more, it is essentially impossible for a private citizen to perform a proper NICS check, meaning that it is impossible to honestly comply with the intent of the policy. Also, it requires a near expert in law and firearms to determine which guns are actually legal or illegal, so there is little chance of this being implemented as intended. Finally there is little evidence of a positive causal relation between background checks and actual impacts. While we can certainly accept that sometimes it may offer a minor deterrent or slowing, in most of the incidents which have led to this type of policy implementation it would have absolutely no effect, thereby negating the need for such policy in the first place. This is a TERRIBLE situation.