for a very high price during periods of extreme cold or heat. What's wholesale power usually go for 3 or 4 cents / kwh ? (we pay around 8 cents total power and delivery near Tacoma WA) . They could wait until near blackout conditions and say sure pay us $1 kwh and we will save your town.

I saw a guy who had 3 or more fail and luckily bought it from costco so he kept returning it and getting a new one. Others said they had similar expectances and many returned them and bought a different brand. But they will keep working and may be even more reliable without their bad app. I have a cheap no name charger I got on amazon and it's been working great for nearly 2 years, it has an app but I rarely use it.

Why do all these companies keep forcing AI in our face ? I don't want AI on my desktop or built in the OS, on every facebook ad, on my phone, in my car, in my browser. Has anyone really said...... Meta, Can you please add AI to nearly every post and ad with autofilled stupid questions about the post that I can ask your AI ? How do Meme's work, who invented Meme's, why are Meme's so popular, are cats good pets, why are cat Meme's funny......

I drove a Escape that said something like... location and data sharing is active you and any passengers will be agreeing to it..... But it wasn't so hidden and popped up when the car was turned on.

In the past 2 weeks we have been getting a lot more amazon delivery's from USPS and it happens every year after black Friday. I've been at the post office when amazon comes by and they literally dump several large totes on the counter and walk away.

just seems like the marvel movies kind of came to an end after endgame. Sure we will watch it when it gets to Disney + and with the poor box office that probably means it will come out even sooner then if it was a hit.

We put 2 mini splits in our house and they go a great job, today it was 96F and the house stayed 74. Much better then the old window ACs we use to use plus they are very quiet and it's best to just leave them running 24/7, so it's always cool (or warm) when you get home. We also have an EV now and our power bill (and power use) is less than it use to be. Going to EV's won't take down the grid as some people say since you can do upgrades to offset the power use.

It's the internet... Sure I've downloaded thousands of movies...Says a 11 year old who has never used a torrent or filesharing. Then I have downloaded movies I already own, takes 12 minutes to download a file vs an hour+ to find the dvd, rip it and encode it.

Eventually when computers get powerful enough they will be able to generate content on demand.... Netflix, make me a comedy movie about dinosaurs who run a home cleaning business.. Ok got it, I will let you know when your dinosaur home cleaning movie is available to view.

There are still a lot of people who don't want to use an app only site, threads said the desktop or website wasn't available at launch. Kind of a major thing to not have ready even weeks after launch.

but now when my phone is 3 or 4 years old the battery is still fine, I get a newer faster one even though the old one still works. Don't know if I've gotten rid of a phone because the battery went bad.

So why bother using your phone besides on a rental car maybe. We have about 14 dash cams on our fleet at work, nothing fancy just 1080p with gps is all most people need and we paid under $100 for most of them.

would be a small microwave sized airtight safe, made of heavy metal or fire resistant material. Put in a vap, phone, usb power bank....seal it and then open a vent that exhausts the air outside the plane. I would guess many of these that are failing aren't name brand items but no name ebay stuff.

We will just stop giving him a paycheck and it will work it's self out. We like to avoid conflict whenever possible.

It's true reliability has greatly gone down but not much. Most 8+ TB drives show a 2% or lower failure rate, the HSGT 12TB is only 0.27% failure rate and they have 2600 of those drives so a fair sample size. https://www.backblaze.com/blog...