... now with less privacy!

Which game is that? The "game" where you provide evidence backing your claim? That's not a "game" - that is proper argumentation.

It's not our responsibility to prove your claim - that's your job. Thinking you can just throw whatever you want out with no evidence to back it up is how bad faith arguments work: haystack someone with bullshit, and they have to spend all their time knocking down your bullshit.

Fuck that. Don't argue in bad faith.

Landfills sometimes do end up contaminating the groundwater.

Also, it's absolutely possible to cool data centers without using any water at all. You'll just use more electricity. The issue mostly that the water is cheaper than the electricity.

This.

Primaries are almost always a circle jerk. Where the rubber meets road will be the general election, and I don't even have to look on Kashi/Polymarket to tell you how that's going to turn out in a +16 Trump district.

This is my preferred way of dealing with quick service food/beverage establishments. I don't want the human experience of waiting in a queue behind other customers, or having to explain my order to someone who is just going to enter it into a computer anyway.

This happened to me, too. None of the online bill pay methods worked, so I took my e-scooter to the nearest T-Mobile store and paid it. It's absolutely astonishing that they don't have their billing system check if the bill is less than their payment processing costs and to just void the last bill if that's the case.

I was on an ultra cheap grandfathered plan, but the most recent price increase pushed the bill beyond what Visible costs, so I finally jumped ship.

then it's considered beatified behavior.

...when your brand new phone refuses to be activated on their network, even though you bought it from them> No activation = no connection = app is useless. Can't call them either because, you know, at that point the phone doesn't work.
And yes, it has happened to me.

For T-Mobile, that works great. You have a customer who's paying you and you don't have to provide service for.

Of course, I guess the other assumption is you have access to another phone or something - either your spouse or your kid, or a work phone. Or maybe a landline.

It was to pay my final bill of $0.01 (not kidding)

They used to have decent phone support, but for the last couple years at least it's been actively horrible. As in "getting a root canal without anesthetic" horrible. We stuck with them for a while, but seriously - you do occasionally need to contact support, and it's hard to imagine how ANY company could have worse phone support people than T-Mobile does right now.

We're trying out US Mobile, an MVNO, right now. I gotta say their support people are a clear step above T-Mobile's.

accessory to murder if some one dies may end it.
individuals could be tempted to commit arson in order to make sure their bets are successful.

I prefer using Migration Assistant and Time Machine for new Macs.

Also, while impossible to eliminate Google from one's experience, you have to understand that all your data are belong to Google if you go Chromebook. I did have a Chromebook at one time, experimenting. It was smooth, and I didn't have to mess with it for updates. Hated the screen. Eventually I converted it to Linux.

So, my Windows machine can run my Mac only Software? I use a lot of Final Cut Pro Studio. And Adobe CS is definitely smoother on the Mac. Time Machine provides backup of everything, including programs, with hourly backups, multiple custom backups.

And the closest thing on Windows is disk imaging, which is remarkably deficient by comparison.

I have a Windows VM because there are a couple programs that are Windows only.

Perhaps your inexperience with MacOS, and your need to hate on it is based more on ignorance than anything else, because your statements aer easily proven wrong. Thanks for participating.

redundancy is big.