Dealextreme is like BG Micro. Sure, they buy stuff to stock and sell, but much of what they sell is some crap that someone else couldn't sell, which they got for a song. Just because DX got a bunch of tablets nobody wanted to buy in a store for $20/piece doesn't mean someone will sell you new, supported ones for that.

I have the same experience with a Nexus 7 2013, but only since upgrading to kitkat.

That's not at all interesting or relevant. They build offices where their employees can't afford to live, which is why we're even talking about them at all in this discussion.

Or, you know, they could build offices in cities with free capacity.

And yet, I am not amazed that in your world, straw man arguments are considered valid. I must not be new here.

Unfortunately, the very same thing happens in proprietary software. And "isn't supposed to happen" is a misunderstanding. It's just supposed to happen less, and it's supposed to get fixed easier. The latter, at least, has been proven out.

Given how simple USB wiring is, that's trivial to fix. Get a nice buck converter for a few bucks on eBay, and wire in a USB power injection cable.

That's what I put in my truck. You can't listen to optical media in it unless you have a heavy load, because the suspension is too hard. So I have a $20 amplifier with stereo in and four outputs.

Yes, if I had perfect foresight instead of excellent hindsight, I'd have kept my 1960 Dodge. It got over 20 mpg on the freeway and it was stupid simple. But I didn't know how to rebuild a brake system then (dirt simple, as it turns out) and so I couldn't afford to keep it.

It's more reliable. Bluetooth Audio is miserably finicky. The only thing that ever worked right with my JVC was AT&T Fuze. With a couple different Android devices now including the Nexus 4 I get occasional skips. I used to use an Xperia Play, that skipped a lot. Flawless using the headphone cable in my truck instead.

I'm going to try adding bluetooth to my car anyway, switching into the line inputs from the changer with an audio signal relay, and using an ultra-cheap receiver. but i'm also going to have line in, just in case.

Just wait, the city will start to tax you for evaporation for water released into the outside world...

I let my C64 go already. Still have a 1541, can't bear to actually throw it away but they're not really worth much and who knows if it even still works.

It's not just the country, it's the states, too. I moved to Texas for a while, and California had enough information to know this. You're not required to file if you don't owe, but they decided to tax me for my Texan income and then I did owe according to them, and then they came after me for back taxes of thousands when they actually owed me over a hundred bucks.

Corruption weakens governments. We're ripe for plucking.

That should not be possible. If it is, then both the update and the OS are broken.

Yes. Apt-get is really pretty miserable. It just happens to be better than everything else. Although, to be fair, there is no permission-fixing tool, something that commercial Unixes had back in the 1980s. That's horrendous. Having to reinstall all packages on the system to fix perms is insane.

Nobody claimed that. You wrote that whole comment just so you could wind up by attacking a straw man? I see why you didn't log in.

Ten years ago, AMD had good hardware but shitty drivers. Ten years on, nothing has changed, except that Intel makes faster processors.

The latest greatest drivers for the last AMD stuff I tried led to bluescreens in Win7 on boot which I fixed by replacing the card with an nvidia unit. Worked fine with the VGA driver, then I had to load last known good config because having the ATI driver active meant crash.

When AMD figures out how to write drivers, they can call me. I was willing to pay a lot less for a little less performance, but I'm tired of not actually being able to use the hardware.

First, the metal value of a car is actually in the hundreds. You need to compare at least the sheet metal and forged stock, not just the ingots. Second, that metal has been made into stuff. You need to also account for the cost of things like fasteners. Electronics aside, many cars have a significant cost of production. Some of the fanciest cars that cost millions of dollars aren't even profitable, they're just made to maintain cachet.