the keycode is laser-etched onto one of the nails holding it together.

next they’ll say any ol’ hdd is fine, too.

(they are not)

if you ever have to use win11 on a laptop with 4 or 8gb ram and a 2.5in hdd, you’ll be inventing new swear words.

they also provide the os on most systems sold by everyone else, too.

eating their own dog food, are they?

they’ll have to hire an actual developer to fix it.

they certainly would not want to have been seen treating animals better than humans. so they give 'em the same treatment, i guess.

the cheap flip phones are truly dollar-store build quality and cameras. mine has a crappy radio, it seems, too… nearly always roaming on another carrier’s nearby tower because it can’t pick up the vzn one just a couple miles outside of town.

the ‘rugged’ ones are built better and can take a literal beating and still work, but they cost as much as a recent model 128gb smart phone… and still have squat for storage and lousy cameras.

“Consumers can now choose whether to add Commodore’s custom-designed Hi-Def IEM earphones during checkout, rather than needing to pay for them when they may already own a pair they love. Premium memory will be available as an option, with Callback defaulting to rigorously stress-tested “post-consumer” high-speed memory chips, backed by Commodore’s identical, comprehensive 1-Year warranty.”

so… to lower the retail by $100… earbuds not included, and reclaimed ewaste memory chips (hopefully that does not also include the main storage) now the default configuration.

…meaning you shouldn’t be using any of them now, i guess.

i would trust a notepad file or spreadsheet on my pc over any online service.

one of the earliest attributions is to marshall field (of the old department stores), it was actually:

“Assume that the customer is right until it is plain beyond all question that he is not.”

another of his was “Give the lady what she wants.” – which might be what inspired the later “The customer is always right…in matters of taste.” variation.

this got me wondering if anyone ever submitted a résumé to cvs on a roll of receipt paper.

the saying actually predates sam walton’s very existence on the planet.

$150 thousand is already a little higher than what the inflation calculator site gave me for an adjusted, current value of that original amount.

as far as the shit they added, they can just scoop that up and put it in someone’s big macs. nobody would know the difference anyway.

yup. works very well. been using it whenever an image fails to boot properly on my multiboot usb…

i hate siding with a megacorp like disney, but eric idle says it best (2018 version):
https://youtu.be/9tn1QNxEoF4
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=9tn1QNxEoF4

the bits for the ‘upgrade’ have been flowing-in through regular updates for months, with features left disabled… slowing those updates every single month. the upgrade time was just spread out in installments, instead of being paid all at once.

not quite.

in this case, the guy was out of town–but someone else was driving his car. the ticket is presumably valid. and like other automated ones (and toll collections, parking violations, etc) the owner gets the ticket or bill. and i guess state law there says the registered owner’s driving record gets the ding, regardless of who was driving. this guy has to rat out the actual driver in order to get the ticket sent to them instead.

they were on a street that is also carries state and u.s. highway designation, just past the municipal boundary. small town here, there literally are no ‘subdivisions’ or hoa anywhere around.

just walking a mile down a road i haven’t been down in years, i spotted two of them. there’s been absolutely no local coverage about it… and scanning local municipal and town meeting minutes for the last several years–not one mention of them.

lastpass is already on my ‘stay far away from’ list, and have been on it for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_incidents

a doctor scheming to put the lardass-in-chief on the unapproved drug could maybe… possibly… i dunno… be less than honest…