I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

Best Damn Description of Windows I've EVER HEARD!!!!!

As a 15 year Linux user, I consider Microsoft itself to be "for entertainment purposes only".. I'm a retired Windows admin, but after I retired in 2010, I switched my systems 100% to Linux, but.. to make a few bux on the side, I hold my nose, and support a few customers on Windows.. Since Windows 10 was assassinated last year, I've managed to move a growing number of clients over to KUbuntu. To show my distaste for the crap that IS Windows 11, I charge $25/hr, 2 hour min, on Linux, and if they're still on 11, its $175/hr, 2 hour min. Some of those who were going to stay on 11 have moved over to Linux.. Also I find the ones on Linux have FAR less need for ANY support, usually only for actual hardware failures/misconfigures.. Its damn sure a FACT that Windows 11 is the best advertisement for Linux..

...twice.

I'd go so far as to say its malware, in and of itself.. Its always been a malware magnet, now its malware by itself.. Good job, Microsoft..

NO KIDDING!!
The statement
"..It knows everything about me. "
SHOULD have any normal human being screaming and running for the exits...

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

I'm not up on this AI thing, but having been involved with computers since the "Z80" days (that's the late 70s-early 80s for those who weren't alive then), the fact that AI can now, ON ITS OWN, create a post that insults, and finds out private info on a target person, SCARES THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME... I enjoy a good science fiction tale, and I've read enough of those that carry the idea of artificial intelligence to this level and I'd think it would be quite a few years in the future before AI would get to the point where a human turns it off, and the AI turns itself back on.. And I've read where this has already happened.. If THIS doesn't scare you, you might stop the mind altering drug you're taking and rejoin the REAL world... Just my .000001BTC..

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

People who are discussing something totally non-political and then want to bring Trump into the discussion are people who have VERY bad cases of TDS and need to be institutionalized ASAP.

Came to say this. This title is sloppy at best, and misleading click-bait at worst.

GOOD LUCK in "taking the battery out" in pretty much ALL of the current crop of laptops. Guess that "command line" shutdown is your only choice in this case...

LoL no fuck you. kBye.
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And once more with FEELING... LoL no fuck you. kBye.