Please don't use "hard on" and "Barron Trump" in the same sentence. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Apple or Google, pick your poison.

Yeah, I realize some people see that as a false dichotomy, but the other options are using a de-Googled Android phone (which presents both hardware selection and app compatibility limitations), or avoiding smartphones altogether (since I own an EV, that's not even a realistic option).
 

If AI could make accurate TL;DW summaries for videos, then they'd really have something. I hate when I search for something and the only answer happens to be presented in the form of a damn YouTube video.

You jest, but the reason I pulled the trigger on a 15 Pro right after the 16 was announced was because I wasn't interested in my phone having a bunch of useless AI shit. That and the $100 discount that the outgoing model typically gets until stock runs out.

Turned out that Apple's AI features were mostly vaporware anyway. That being said, I'll still happily request my check for what'll probably be like tree fiddy and one of those white Apple decals that they don't give you anymore.

It'd be hilarious if they pulled a Volkswagen and had the AI recognize when it is being vetted, so it provides answers the current administration wants to hear, and then goes super woke after the model is actually deployed.

xAI's Grok wouldn't need to cheat, obviously. That thing is biased so far to the right it makes Fox News almost look sane.

Yet again our idiot-in-chief forgets he is not ruling North Korea or China. If you want to regulate AI (for whatever that is worth), take it up with Congress. At least the lawyers are being kept busy.

Nah, even back in the day there were people buying things they could flip if for whatever reason there was some arbitrage potential (sometimes even just relisting it back on eBay with a better title, pictures and description). If you scored a deal on something, it was because nobody else wanted it as badly as you did and nobody else thought they could flip it.

The real deals are found buying local, where some people don't always bother to see what something is worth before they posted a Craigslist ad.

Generally the reason people sell on eBay instead of letting someone else handle the listing, selling, packaging and shipping is because you can keep more profit for yourself. GameStop isn't anywhere close to being a monopoly on turning your used crap into cash, and often their offers (unless you're interested in store credit, which made more sense back in the days before Steam was a thing) aren't much better than what you'd get from a pawn shop.

Come to think of it, GameStop should just rebrand as PawnStop, since that's basically what they are these days.

You're basically describing a consignment shop.

That'd only work if you were buying products where GameStop is the seller. Plenty of other online marketplaces already do the whole ship-to-store-from-3rd-party-seller thing (Walmart and Home Depot immediately come to mind) and it's neither faster nor more convenient than having the order shipped directly to your home.

GameStop brings nothing good to the table by buying eBay - they'll likely enshittify it further with stupid crypto schemes, AI shopping agents, or other various crap no one asked for.

The real question is: "Why is GameStop still around?" Who even still goes to a brick and mortar store to buy video games these days?

eBay is the original what the market will bear e-commerce platform. The only time you get something cheap on eBay is if it's something no one else wants.

"Why do people have to fight over their various religious beliefs, can't they just coexist?"

*Scientology exists*

"Oh."

So they can get mowed down by inattentive drivers in 2,500+ pound vehicles instead?

Here in Florida, mopeds have to be ridden in the road, where you'll eventually be run over by some asshole who is miffed that you're the one who has been backing up traffic.

One of the only good things to come out of that whole dockless rental e-scooter boom was that either Bird or Lime (I can't recall which) lobbied to have micromobility devices recognized as something closer to bicycles, and now you can legally ride e-scooters anywhere that a bike can go.

I'd say for the OP to just get a seated scooter and paint it to look like a rental.