My family had two LG G3 phones that failed in the two most common ways -- failed SIM card slot, and failed video driver. Despite ample evidence through user reports online that both of these were clearly due to defects in materials or manufacture, LG did not offer an out of warranty repair (less than 1 month out). They did offer a non-new G4 as a replacement for the screen failure one for a fee.

By comparison, I'm in my fourth year with my Samsung S8+, and it works fine -- and , as testament to how I treat my devices, is still in factory perfect condition. I treated the G3 the same way before it failed.

I won't even consider an LG product now. I wouldnt' take an LG phone if it was offered for free (except to tear it down). Maybe if they worked on improving their quality control and customer service I would not be so adamently opposed to using them for anything.

And that is why my brand new computer build has a Geforce GTX 1050 Ti card.

If I feel the need to upgrade someday, maybe I'll just put it in the other pcie16 slot and use it for folding@home computing.

I am in the very same boat.

What I don't see is a way to print from my Chromebook to any random printer connected to another computer where I'm signed in. For example, I could print from my work chromebook to my work network printer, because Cloud Print treated it as any other printer. It is not, however, a wireless printer or a local USB printer...so I don't see what my options are any more. I just lose that functionality permanently, apparently.

If my electric car can't sound like a Jetsons car then what is the 21st century even for?

8k standard, you can expand them up to 32k, and there are ROM cartridges available if you want more native programs than come on it from the factory.

Yes, I mean present tense, but these things were also available in the 80's.

In a "self-driving" car, the "driver" you refer to is a passenger.

If you have a makerspace, hacker group, or an electronics class or robotics club at a local high school...it's hard to have too many stepper motors, power supplies, sliding carriages on straight steel rods, LEDs, etc.

Louis Rossman should have some entertaining videos about this. I'mma make some popcorn...

That's called Kopi Lewak coffee. I have not tried it and have no plans to.

What's your channel? Or at least something I can search to find your channel.

What on Earth are they stuffing into their apps to make them balloon in size so quickly?

I remember when my ca. 2013 phone started to run out of space because the fifteen or twenty apps I had installed (including Facebook and Gmail) were taking up much of the half-gig of available storage space. Now I wouldn't be able to fit much more than Facebook in that space.

I certainly don't see 10x the features in Facebook.

I love some aspects of the ChromeOS on Chromebook environment. They're relatively fast despite the price, they don't usually break, anything that goes wrong can usually be fixed by a boot cycle or removing and re-logging-in the user.

But as a physics teacher, there are applications and tools I need that are not replicated on Chromebooks. There is no usable equivalent to Tracker Video Analysis; support for probeware is minimal and hobbled; support for USB and serial-USB lab interfaces and data collection interfaces is lacking.

As a result, I use the Chromebooks and Google Classroom for quite a bit of communication, sending documents, receiving assignments, and some data anlysis. My classroom computers are necessary to do the heavy hitting with Logger Pro, connecting Vernier hardware, Tracker, and occasionally some other esoteric tools. I'll have to keep them until something like a mature WINE environment is available in ChromeOS.

The LG G3 experienced two problems that lead to non-functionality and eventually death. First was a failure to recognize the SIM card, which can sometimes be repaired with a new sim card tray. The second was the flicker and fade screen failure. Probably actually a chip or solder failure in the video subsystem.

In my opinion, the common cause of these is faulty soldering or faulty solder. Perhaps they have not adequately perfected RoHS lead-free solder profiles. Lead-free solder is a disaster overall and is leading to short device lives and way more e-waste. The lead-free solder can't predictably handle thermal cycling well, quickly ages, cracks, and can generate tin whiskers.

Over Microsoft Bob?