The truth, brother… The truth.

P.S. RFK Jr. probably killed a young girl with a golf club and the family had a “lesser” cousin take the fall. And his wife later hung herself. What the fudge, right?

“I lost my virginity to an all metal toilet in Guam. It was Robert Downey Sr’s 43rd birthday party, I was bill cosby’s +1 and we were celebrating at the corporate training restaurant for Cici’s pizza. The toilet penetrated me with the confidence of an Olympic fencing champion and I saw the face of god. They served corn dogs, but reverse what you’re picturing.”

-RFK Jr., 12 years old, mumblng to himself and convulsing before passing out in a ditch after snorting the entire contents of a full size fire extinguisher

You’re still missing a lot here, point one is that a sealed battery is diminishing returns, less charge held with time. Swappable means 100% charge, but also 100% new battery health with aging cells. Second, your overlooking the point about wired or wireless banks needing babysitting - talked about wireless alignment issues, but you’re also putting a lot of stress on your usb-c port, a common failure point, by shoving those wires in pocket while trying to charge on the go. Last, the price of the proprietary batteries was negligible, and they were the size of like two to three credit cards stacked. If you are holding on to external power banks that long as well (which you likely aren’t) your risk of those things bulging/exploding in yet another sealed case increases. When you hold the batteries themselves, you have full transparency and can act ahead of issues with bulging.

So, no, I respectfully do not agree with your premise - They aren’t equal, swapple batteries were objectively better in multiple ways.

P.s. what are even doing on a smartphone that you can’t be bothered to power down for the literal 15 seconds it takes to cycle modern devices to then resume with all apps still in background process and auto saving content?

It’s a nice thought, but in this case that can really read as covering for bad folks doing bad things. The old saying is to plant trees that you will never be able to enjoy the shade of - meaning trying to focus on our positive today “this works great for me now” does nothing for the kids that will come up after us. We focus on, not positive or negative, but on reality for them, today.

And the reality is, the strategy is get us to full cloud, no owned media, and then make access gated to the wealthy, censor/alter content after release and monitor consumption of media for several nefarious reasons.

It’s real and it’s active, speak about it.

Not sure what you mean with the 3 percent or 100 comment? Power matters, especially during travel. Being able to, without concern, simultaneously use GPS, take constant high resolution photo/video, translation, research reviews, grab confirmation numbers, mobile pay and play music if solo turns a stressful new situation into something you can enjoy and stay fully immersed in.

Nah. Even with QI, a power bank is an ongoing concern for proper alignment, even with magsafe. If not, fumbling with wire. The battery cost was so low, you would easily have 2-3 spares (charged prior on an equally cheap battery charger). And again, can’t stress this enough, in the time it takes to unwrap a stick of gum and put it in your mouth, you were at 100℅ and no more thought. And even on the most taxing day ever, you never really used more than a second battery while out.

You seem to have a titanic blindspot in the form of a fundamental unawareness about the stability of your indefinite access to the media you can stream. Research some of the modern conversion around owned media. The point is that we didn’t even have to think about it be we weren’t beholden to a company. Expandable storage capacity was already to the point where I had it all with me and I could listen in the middle of nowhere and again, was never even a thought otherwise.

Dress it up however you’d like, it’s lesser in many ways.

…It’sKilling the Company

Wow, so Microsoft has zero profit this year, huh? How the mighty have fallen.

“Iiiii I made a pair of boots, you uhhhh can fuck one of the boots, uhhh even if you wear jeans. The other boot is ahhhh crockpot to make stew. Don’t uhhhh, don’t uh wear that boot, it’s decorative. The leather isn’t leather, it’s a recycled dog skin fortified with bull semen and sauerkraut juice. Its also a good ahhh, a good jerky”

RFK Jr. Commencement speech to the graduating class of the 2 hour online new employee training course for the Chipotle in Rancho Cucamunga, CA.

Many of you will never know the freedom of a micro SD, headphone jack and tool less user-swappable battery. You’d set out for a day’s adventure prepared and just wouldn’t think about your phone at all. You’d use it as a tool as needed, without hesitation. Casually carrying all your music, some movies if trapped somewhere, effectively unlimited stotage space and zero dongles. Bluetooth headphones as default, wired earbuds as backup and you could move from zero to 100% battery in the 23 seconds it took to remove phone back and swap a fresh battery. And technically all things needed as “backup” fit in a pocket or purse.

It was perfect and they broke it to drive cloud storage, bluetooth headphone sales and to increase “anxiety” that your phone is old/failing as you get storage full notifications and the same old battery runs thousands of cycles without simple replacement path and holds charge less and less.

Fuck Apple and Apple devotees.

Don’t forget random panels popping off during operation. Cringey “skins” applied to functional parts with shiity adhesive instead of bolts/rivets (e.g. the gas pedal cover that would fall off and jam the accelerator on), bricked by car wash unless deliberately triggering “car wash mode”, hidden or no emergency release for door locks sealing people into burning/submerged vehicles, truck that can’t tow, bed that can’t fit common items like a bike or dimensional lumber, perpetually ugly rust/hand oil stained panels, no magic unbreakable panels/glass, less range delivered than advertised, multiple features disabled by snow, improper safety sensors to detect occlusions leading to the finger chop/pinch incidents, cheap vibrating interior and fake auto pilot that constantly tries to kill passengers and pedestrians. And of course giving car makers cover to follow the dangerous, shitty tablet based Interior and attempt to end physical, no-look controls in moving motor vehicles.

And that’s just top of mind from inside this hellish firehose to the face of disappointing information that we live in everyday.

At least those 63 actual humans that purchased one clearly identify as the worst people in their communities with these malfunctioning $100,000 vape pens on wheels.

Interesting.

A big point of the fediverse apps is building the infrastructure now, so it’s ready for a “moment” potentially that would bring more users

You shouldn’t have to defend this, it was clear.

“Look idiots, I have the machine that confidently lies ask itself if it did good. If the confident lie machine lies to itself and the machine being lied to lies again by saying to me that the first lying machine did not lie… Then I have 7 more lie machines do the same thing in sequence. So in the end, the only way I could fail is if all these amoral lying machines that lie, somehow ALL lied to each other, and then to me - which according to the lying machine, is impossible.”

Just be sure you wash your key before entering the front if you used it in the back first.

Henkels and Wusthof definitely have shit, disposable sub designs for mass retail sale. Feels like you can’t just blanket endorse brands playing that game, even if their higher end line lives up to the challenge. Need to make that clear distinction.

“First, the people who work at Patreon are special, beautiful humans, through and through.”

Second… Fuck those worthless humans, we want endless growth until we die sad and still unfulfilled.

Pamplemoose guy, you suck.

Wow! How lucky are we?!! This also happens to coincide with Apple raising chocolate rations from 10 to 8!!!

“We’ve changed our minds , no more layoffs… Now is the time for lay ONS!!! And instead of ‘line goes up’ another thing goes up now and it has… Infinite growth”