I hear you, Having lived and experienced both systems, I would take the issues of the Canadian system over the issues of the US system any day.

sounds like a promo to let us know that they will be raising prices - they got so used to the crypto crazy high prices, and they want that to continue. So what better way that to state something that has been "relatively" accurate to date is going to be invalid and statee in a round about way, "We are going to charge more."

And in doing this, and repeating it more and more, when it does happen, we will all know it was coming, and that is how they are going to justify their cost increase.

1. Not making enough profit
2. Concoct some story that Moore's law is dead.
3. Repeat and repeat to create expectations.
4. Raise prices.
...
5. PROFIT

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I have that setup and it's great. I also use it to connect to my office network... I have my office backup (daily, weekly, monthly, 6mo and Annual) to a NAS on my home network, and my home network backups to a NAS at the office. Instant offsite backups - each container for the backups under unique account and passwords to limit the damage to any type of ransomware type malware. Also when I'm getting shitty or laggy connectivity through my cell service, I pop the VPN to home, and it's lightening fast to brows and search. VPNs have their place, and before HTTPS was everywhere like it is now, VPNs provided that layer of encryption/security that wasn't always available.. but now, it's not as necessary. The necessity of using a VPN is going to depend on your particular needs, and a simple blanket statement saying they are no longer needed is complete and utter BS. Perhaps for most, but VPNs are more than just to skirt the geo-fencing and connect to your p0rN undetected (that's what unsecured wireless APs are for lol)

What more needs to be said... every time they change the interface and look, they make it look even more hideous than before...

Banks have done this for years. Remember the mid 2000 all the identity theft commercials they would run. That want just to advertise their identity theft protection, but to normalize it. These are things that never should have even occurred, but now it has become so "normal", we don't even question it. Facebook is just doing what the banks did back them, and any other company that has had a data breech. Welcome to the new normal (well, old new normal).

Sadly, I think the better question is, who can compete against amazon?

Had to leave the country, because my school went to a blended formation 60% online, 40% on-campus... that put my F-1 visa "out of status" and I have to bounce back to Canada to finish the rest of my course load online. I had only 2.5 semesters left, with all my major requirements out of the way, so transferring to another school was not cost-effective option, as I would have to retake all my majors. It was a royal pain in the ass, at the end of the winter semester, they just announced they were going 100% blended and online. I was assured that as an international student (F1) I would not be impacted by the changes... well I needed 50% on-campus, which they were unable (read: unwilling) to provide that extra 10%

"Don't be excessively annoying, and don't be easily annoyed." the surprising thing is it worked relatively well...

Physical keyboard is what is lost... Touch screen keyboards (and touch screens in general) generally don't respond to my 'touch' - so I end up having to key 3-5 time to get a response... Even with swipe, I would not even get a response. So, YES, something has been lost, and something of great value to me, perhaps nothing to you, but PKB phones are few and far between, and Blackberry is/was one of the last PKB options..

All these devices do is reward bad driving behavior, and as a result the bad driving behavior increases...so I am not the least bit surprised that this is happening.

Nothing like proving to a robot, that you are not a robot...There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with that.

so that's why my mobile device battery life had gone to hell...And to think they convinced me it was just a failing battery.

Hear Ye! Hear He! Another KeyOne user here also. I can not stand touchscreens and touchscreen keyboards in general - they just don't respond, and when they do, it is always the wrong key. It funny when you freak out your friends with their "swipe" keyboards, where you can swipe and they don't respond at all (not even a wrong word).

I used to have 3 cardinal rules for when I was choosing a phone... 1) User replaceable battery (which unfortunately was the first to go); 2) User installable memory card (see ya later Apple); 3) Physical keyboard (hello BlackBerry/BB Mobile)... I've had to compromise on #1, as virtually all phone today are "factory sealed" with regards to the battery.

I also really miss BB10 as an operating system. I've been about a year and a half with my KeyOne, and still, I continually miss BB10, and curse Android - it's a compromise as physical keyboard phones are few and far between. :(

There is something to be said for a true tactile response on the keyboard that touchscreen just can't replicate.

Yeah, Zuck does have that history... He also has a history of non-apologizes apologies.