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Comment Re:Tough to feel sorry for fools. (Score 3, Insightful) 79

I've been in telecom for most of my career, often dealing with apps and test phones so I've run the gamut of the cheapest to the greatest most expensive phones as test devices and personal devices over the course of the last couple of decades.

Simple advice that people who need it don't want to hear: for years now it's been possible to get a really, really usable phone for $30 (used to be $20). I'm not talking about a flip phone, I mean somehting running a reasinable enough android version with reasonable enough specs to run whatever bullshit apps you think you need and be a functional part of society with for as much as a phone with internet access and a camera to read QR codes seems to be increasingly required.

There is zero reason to spend more without 1.) the means to do so and 2.) a good reason why that basic phone won't do what you need it to. If 1.) is big enough you get to just buy shit you don't need because you want to. That's how this has always worked. But increasingly it's people without enough money buying much too expensive phones that have capabilities they will never use and financing them to boot.

Comment Underground lines FTW (Score 1) 226

My neighborhood (suburb of Washington DC, near NASA Goddard) has underground utilities.
We have lost power for maybe 12 hours total over the past 30 YEARS.
When there's a lot of wind and rain, we sometimes lose power for seconds, maybe tens of seconds. Outages of more than a minute are extremely rare.
That's why the FIOS box, the routers, and the most important desktop are on small UPS units - primarily to avoid losing work.

Nearby neighborhoods with above ground lines lose power approximately annually, sometimes for days.

Comment Re: Cops were actually well behaved, shockingly. (Score 1) 132

So you know them in the same way that you also know thousands of baseball fans because you want to a baseball game? You don't know anything about me, but you are telling me everything I need to know about you to determine you are reaching and now backpedaling after making a foolish post.

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