If I got one for free, I'd probably plug it in and mess with it a bit, establish that it doesn't really add anything useful, and shove it in a drawer.
If it was $25, I could see a few niche users buying it.
But $230 is insanity.
My past dealings (mine and others) have lead me to think of PayPal as a criminal enterprise,
I've seen a lot of hate thrown at PayPal over the years.....and not quite sure why?
I've used it a LONG time for eBay payments, sending money to friends and the odd small merchant.
I wouldn't say I've used it a TON, but some.....and never had any problems.
What problems have ya'll had that you dislike them so badly? Genuinely curious....
I mean, I still can't stand the voice menus when you call support...I''m constantly hitting "0" or saying Operator over and over to get to a real person asap.
Don't get me wrong, I like my AI...ChatGPT can be fun and helpful...but, I don't wanna hold a fscking conversation with it, especially not in public.
Hell, that's one of the reasons I hate the voice support calls, when in public or sitting in Cube Land where everyone has nosy ears....
Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.
I"m in the US...and I don't care which one they make permanent
I hate the hour changes....messes with me twice a year fairly badly at times....gets my pets off schedule too which is a PITA.
But WTF is "Protected Leave"?
That is a new term for me.....some forms of vacation time are "protected"?
I don't know the details, but IBM has been switching its emphasis from hardware to services for quite a while. They sold off their Lenovo brand in 2014.
I think you meant "sold off their brand to Lenovo", they did that with their consumer brand years earlier but then later sold off their x86 server division as well. Lenovo laptops are still good but being Chinese owned is strictly verboten for anything that might be secure in the UK and US... So I've not seen an IBM (or Lenovo) server in years and can't comment if they're still as good as the old IBM X servers.
Motorola still makes quality phones if you're not an appy apper and just need a practical device.
Motorola is my current go-to. I've got an Edge 60 Neo that is reasonably good, bought my mum a G56 that will probably see her the rest of her life (erm... she's old and a life long smoker).
The best manufacturer changes every few years, used to be Nokia. Motorola is currently making decent phones with good hardware for reasonable prices without too much bloat or crapware (and what little there is can be disabled easily). The G56 mentioned above is a £150 phone with a gorilla glass screen. Also much lighter than the ancient Samsung it replaced.
Hmmm, 36 foto's and the film roll was used up.
Not to mention the creepy guy at the pharmacy who'd judge all your photos, not that many of them where any good mind you, the average person knows feck all about photography and used to just waste film. At least now they only waste time.
This isn't a a judgement on you, but even in the US, Oneplus is a well known brand. The most prolific mobile phone reviewer MKBHD from the US, with 20 million + subscribers, has talked about it it for years.
You sir, are apparently living under a rock.
I knew who OnePlus was, no idea who that other person is... Some kind of Social Media Infuenza no doubt that should just be ignored. Not like you can't just pay for subscribers.
The problem with OnePlus is that they were at best, offering the same thing as everyone else so nothing really stood out from the competition and when you're beige, you're going to be out-beiged by the big bois like Apple and Samsung who can afford to advertise the hell out of their beige.
When I look for a new phone, I usually check out what OnePlus offers and find that it's nothing special and move on. Then again, I'm not a typical purchaser looking for a new beige phone.
This is exactly what companies like PwC come in and do. The AI just did it faster.
LLMs have already reduced the time from bug report to usable exploit below the time that it takes for patches to be released.
Bullshit. if they are that fucking good then they should also be able to patch it just as fast. Its a zero sum game. Fuck off with your bullshit too.
Your shitty chat bot is not a national security risk.
CBS along with the other main 3 broadcast (ABC and especially NBC) are heavy left leaning....CNN is very left leaning, but not so much as MSNOW (used to be MSNBC).
So far, it appears the new lady in charge of CBS has indeed tried pulling them to at least center left rather than far left.
She herself is NOT a right leaning person....
We need some balance....everyone LEFT with Fox New being the sole Right leaning news in the US just doesn't work....I'd rather them all be center but at least balance out the left and right if that's the only option.
The non-Fox-News viewpoints of CNN seem to me to be worth preserving. And it's doubtful they would be if Paramount takes over Warner's portfolio, which includes CNN.
Look at what happened to CBS, in particular 60 Minutes, when the Ellisons' Skydance Media took over. One of the most venerable investigative-journalism shows in history has been run into the gutter.
Yeah..sad to see a lesbian liberal take two networks of "news" and try to make them more center based and less left leaning and try to report all news fairly....how dare they.
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