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I can’t wait until the trifold phones become a thing, that way I can carry around a smaller phone that transforms to something larger when I need it.
I can’t wait until the trifold phones become a thing, that way I can carry around a smaller phone that transforms to something larger when I need it.
Except the proposed rule doesn’t do that. It’s only regarding carriers unlocking policies. The owner of the phone could still be under contact, and early termination fees would still apply. Carriers are still able to recoup any losses on the hardware through those fees. Requiring phones to be unlocked after 60 days changes none of that.
As things are now, a poor person would have to pay BOTH. An early termination fee AND then go buy a new phone if they wanted to switch to a new carrier before the (typically 2 year) contact is complete. They lose any money they’ve put into their current phone because it’s locked to a carrier until they have been in good standing for the full 2 years.
So what it really depends on is if you think a poor person should be trapped with their current carrier until they finish the contract, unlock the phone and move to another, OR if they should be free to switch over to the competition at any time without onerous restrictions on hardware they have fully paid for via early termination fees.
This argument may have made sense a decade ago, but phones today aren’t making the generational leaps and bounds with performance every year. Even the low end phones are just fine for most uses these days.
If you’re poor, and I certainly have been, you shouldn’t get into these contacts that ultimately cost you more. You buy a cheap phone from last year and put it on an MVNO that’s cheap
Honestly the OG stream controller would have been perfect if they could find a way to fit a 2nd analog stick on there
Exactly! Just grip the cardboard tube and pull the middle out
Bessie says it adds a certain umami flavor to her hay
Same here. I heard they released a handful of new upper tier pals but I’ll wait for the next major revision to go back
Most manufacturers have these types of systems but none are up to the new standard. They’re often called forward collision warning/avoidance systems.
Some cars aren’t quite that simple, on newer models they’re hiding the keyhole on the bottom side of the handle behind a cover. But usually those models won’t lock with the keys inside the car
The average real-world electric driving share is about 45%–49% for private (phev) cars and about 11%–15% for company cars
45-49% on privately owned cars isn’t rarely, but 10-15% on the corporate side totally is. However I can also understand employees not wanting to give their company free electricity every night, while simultaneously companies do not have plans in place for employees to charge at work.
Company purchasing managers would be better off just buying regular hybrids if they’re not going to set up a plan to keep these charged, otherwise they’ll never get the financial benefits that sold them on the phev in the first place.
You get what you pay for?
While acknowledging your probably right about its future prospects for longevity, I really hope you’re wrong. Maybe they can roll it into Google Fi wireless mvno but it’ll probably end up in the graveyard like Google pay 2.0, among many others
And not even Google’s own Google voice supports RCS yet
That’s fair, it probably wouldn’t be importable (until 2047) since it likely wouldn’t pass the fmv safety tests. I just wanted to stress that the loophole that allows them to be imported requires the vehicle to be 25+ years old.
I think you missed the point again. That’s only 2 years old. They need to be 25+ to be easily imported into the US. Otherwise you’ll pay tariffs and they’d be subjected to the same safety tests required for new vehicles sold in America. It’s only because they’re 25+ years old that they aren’t subjected to the standard rules on imports.
Both of my USBc power banks have passthrough charging and would work for this. That’s the feature you need to look for.
However, keeping a battery bank charged to 100% isn’t good for longevity, make sure you get a good name brand one so it doesn’t catch fire.
Edit to add: the ecoflow & jackery power banks can also charge their batteries while running something. They can do 120v/240v and run the current nose machine, but they’re more expensive
I think the GPU being separately upgradable on the 16" pokes a tiny hole in your argument. But I generally agree, there’s not too much that is saved or retained when upgrading. But for some people it’s worth it, if they’re reusing the ram, SSD, Wi-Fi card in addition to the parts you mention, AND they’re not too rough on the case, screen, and keyboard/trackpad.
I think technically op may be correct, as being banned from an industry is different from the business firing them. And probation isn’t jail time
Guys we need AI on our blockchain web3.0 iot. Just imagine the synergy
So is that $10M per person or family or family generation? I think the part where things start to spiral is when someone has a few kids who themselves have a few kids each and then add in the spouses. Even at 2 kids per generation and only the first Gen kids have spouses and you’re up to 10 people or $100M.