Our American Standard so-called "Champion" model died within six months. We had to get a new ring gasket for it to fix "ghost flushing syndrome," a common defect for this model.

It might flush down 24 golf balls but the flushing action doesn't swirl and scour the toilet, leaving a mess.

Our new Toto does swirl and scour the toilet but at almost twice the price.

Satellite mesh was almost thing 20 years ago with Spaceway by Hughes. It was supposed to provide connectivity between satellites in the Ka-band but it was never turned on.

It's the expiration dates on the prepaid plans that screwed us over. Tracfone's 1-year plan makes it easier nowadays.

I need the unlimited streaming. It's the expiration dates on the prepaid plans that screwed us over. Tracfone's 1-year plan makes it easier, and I do use that.

Verizon did buy MVNOs (prepaid mobile phone companies) that did not use their network, TracFone being a prime example.
Verizon has since converted TracFone to to Verizon's network. It previously used all the big three networks.

I don't know where that profit is coming from.
I had prepaid phones for years in the 2000s and their service payments were designed to waste my money. I used prepaid phones to play with new phone technology before 4G LTE finally came out.

Since the 2010s I have had great experience with postpaid plans, free phones, no advertisements on my phones, reasonable service plan costs.
Am I the product? How?

I just don't get the hate.

With Verizon, I haven't had to buy a new phone in a decade.
What's even more interesting is that this time Verizon let me keep my old "trade-in" phone that got me that deal in the first place.

Verizon did buy nearly all its prepaid competitors a few years ago, though, so the unlock policy is significantly less meaningful now.

The commercial version of "Roundup" is different from the consumer version. The cancer is caused by the commercial version, allegedly.

This is for sure.

HST looks and feels like cheating.

What's worse, the models do not allow you to correct them globally.
They only corrects it for your account and nobody else.

As an amateur historian, this really pisses me off about Copilot and ChatGPT.

Yeah, tell me about it. MATE/GNOME 2 desktop themes still have a 1-pixel window border.

I have a related problem with most the MATE/GNOME 2 desktop themes. The window borders are 1 pixel wide making it exceptionally difficult to resize them. I try to hand-edit the desktop theme to widen them.

A really good resource on Unix history is the detailed book Lions' Commentary on Unix.

I'd like you to show me how my basement TV can connect to the internet without a WiFi password, Ethernet cable, or a working mobile phone connection.