eInk held so many promises, and yet we're stuck with massively overpriced and underperforming screens compared to other technologies. This should easily land in a "Bottom 10 product ideas" for the year and summaries to come.

I don't even see why it should be all that effing difficult. A 200dpi phone screen is super low resolution now. it's hard to imagine that one of those techs (AMOLED, perchance?) couldn't be upscaled to an 8k, or a 4k tall x 12k wide, curved screen with older tech.
 

44" is the 8K I want. If I could get a 4320 px tall screen in a 2.35:1 ratio - curved, preferably, for a 1m viewing distance, that would be ideal. I just want a true 200 dpi desktop monitor (yes, I have a big desk).

Oh, I don't know. The last time I got locked out I called a local representative who sells locks and he came and unlocked it in a few seconds. No serial number, just a set of picks. These are residential locks, not some vault at a high security location which has been designed to be uncircumventable.

Are you saying that they're likely not to use some type of extra-visible patterning, like Windows Hello, which cannot be unlocked with a photo?

So you're not okay with it recognizing your face, which is probably in dozens of hundred of pictures already on the phone, but you're okay with it storing your fingerprints and using them for access?

Half the stuff I'm looking for that shows up on Walmart is something sold by Zoro, not Walmart, which means it comes with exactly zero CS support should something not go right (and 9 times out of 10 stuff from Zoro is horribly overpriced, though I'v also gotten my share of deals directly from their website).

Oh, hey - look - your capacitor came from Zoro. Surprise (not). Might as well go straight to their store.

"you buy from amazon for the convenience and the pre-paid 2 day shipping you signed up for with amazon prime"

Yes, and the painless returns. You have to shop smart, but Amazon has one of the best direct/3rd party systems. Have you seen the dumpster fire that Newegg has turned into, or - God forbid - have you every looked for something at Sears/Kmart or Walmart online? Those last two are case studies in making a 3rd party marketplace a total clusterfuck on your site.

Indeed. If it looks too good to be true, I check C3 . Sometimes it really is a deal, sometimes it isn't.

Depends on what you wanted. $399 for the Oculus Rift, controllers, and a $100 Amazon gift card (net $299 for the Rift+Contrl) was pretty sweet considering I already order a bunch of stuff from Amazon and that $100 was as good as cash to me.

UBI and single payer healthcare (Medicare). It is fascinating that two very socialist programs are supported by so many people in this country, but are unwilling to consider something similar for everyone.

Of course he can't. The only thing that AC might quote are right-wing conspiracy websites that still believe that the Comet Ping Pong (Pizzagate restaurant) has a basement, despite clear evidence that it's a slab-on-grade building.

Oddly enough, I have have a uSD in my Galaxy and never remove it. BUT, everything gets stored there so that, if there's a problem with the phone (and it's happened), all my stuff transfers and I don't have to wonder if I've moved all my personal files off the handset before I reset it or wipe it before selling or trading in.

AirDroid. Good wireless is as fast (or faster than) all but the most expensive uSD cards anyway. Android has a real, accessible file system so you're never really at a loss for transferring things onto, or off of, your phone.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a bad guy with a gun opened fire in the middle of a packed convention hall with tens of thousands of good guys with guns surrounding him? You have two possibilities: Everyone opens fire to stop the shooter, many miss (statistically), and the friendly fire is counted in the scores or hundreds. Nobody opens fire, recognizing that there is no clean shot with so many spectators around the shooter and it's simply not a safe place to discharge a firearm. In that case the shooter gets of a few dozen rounds and kills or injures a similar number before some brave soul tackles and disarms him.

In either case, many people are killed and/or injured. In a similar situation where nobody in the hall has a gun except the attacker, the same Samaritan takes him down and disarms him.

The presence of "good guys with guns" preventing death and injury in mass shootings is a myth and a Hollywood fantasy. There are times and places where a ggwag might make a difference, but these are not it.