i have a couple dozen older systems sitting around here, mostly 2nd to 4th gen–a few newer, a few older. that i cannot even give away. i’m gonna end up binning all but the ‘best’ 5 or 6 this spring when the recycle truck makes its annual trek here.

throw it up on ebay, get most or all your ‘investment’ back. just make it the cheapest comparable BIN.

the “real id” marked state id and dl also do, but have also been ignored by the police state.

people have proved their status or citizenship only to be assaulted and detained anyway…

so, FUCK OFF.

so they also chose the venue? that venue??

like this DoJ would actually follow laws that get in the way of carrying-out the rapist-in-chief’s (also illegal) orders.

in my rural part of the u.s., the telco only sells dsl to a max of 10 mbps (and as slow as 384kbps if you’re at the end of the signal’s reach–at which point they also charge you more for the shit-tier speeds)… even if you’re literally next door to their central office… and even if they don’t have fiber down your street (which is their reasoning for the artificial limit–to push people towards fiber so they can pull the copper).

when i worked for an ‘authorized agent’, our payments from the carrier were based on number of signups or contracts, and not at all on the cost of phones associated with them.

televisions of the near future when you first turn them on: “Internet connection and account required to complete initial product set up.”

gonna call those turds tomorrow to make sure the one phone we got from one of their retailers is unlocked. and then bitch (again) about us purposefully paying full retail for it to avoid payments and a contract, and having the agent forge (!) a contract for it anyway after-the-fact (for a dollar) so they could get the commission.

and when they don’t find anything, they’ll make something up.

you must complete the quest with your love on a holiday, during the hours of 7 and eleven, while carrying a diamond shamrock. it has to be a kwik trip and you must travel in a circle, k?

… which, in firefox, is either off by default or can be switched off.

a bunch of old geezers cruising the local ‘strip’ from 7-9am just like we used to back in high school at night on the weekends.

new far-right ownership and control. it’s basically gonna become a maga megaphone.

put a catnip-laced toy in there somewhere.

hearing ice barbie every half hour now is already too much.

i have my boss’s old one here that’s pretty much only used for testing mobile web and for its camera. i use a ‘dumb’ phone, and its camera doesn’t work (was crap-tier anyway when it did). i think it has 10 on it. it doesn’t leave the office, doesn’t get used that much, and has no google account linked to it anymore since it was totally reset when it was replaced earlier in the year… the inability to use google play to install a few apps reduces its usefulness. i got f-droid on it but not everything is available from it.

it was at 50 percent in aug 2024’s survey… that last 15 percent to 65 took over a year to achieve.

the paid scam is 30usd for a year of extended updates.

(the first year only, i’m guessing… if they did it like win7, the price will ramp-up year 2 and again year 3).