they had been offering a no-cost equipment promo in some coverage areas for awhile, with only a year or something commitment. you paid $20 to ship the gear. your recurring bill was the monthly plan rate. that’s it.
they’re probably going back and now charging those sign-ups a ‘rental’ fee.
lowering the price and doubling the storage.
meanwhile, new google/gmail accounts are getting 5gb instead of 15.
hardly any ‘salutes’ to the screen, but definitely some uh… ‘verbal exchange’ happening. usually several times a day, and you wouldn’t want children nearby if i’m really on roll because windows fucked something up big time. aaaaand, occasionally to and at myself because every now-and-then it truly is my fault.
my boss (of 20+ years) abuses an old core2duo era desktop (8gb ram and sata ssd, both upgrades from original specs when 10 was put on) with 150+ tab firefox plus word and excel and voice software all going at once. never shuts down, never closes an application. sleeps, wakes, hibernates on weekends. it just keeps going. she’s never had any problems and it runs really well. she’d be bitching if it didn’t.
last night i put something in the fridge while doing the dishes. i went back to the dishes. i noticed then that the door of the fridge didn’t quite close all the way.
i did that very same thing–i’ll close that when i’m done here.
i didn’t.
i remembered the next afternoon when i went to the fridge to get something.
and older american made full size sedan or pickup, perhaps. those had ‘real’ horns and not little ‘beep beep’ like my old datsun and toyota had.
who’s gonna ‘out spend’ facebook for exposure on facebook to counter ‘programming’ that facebook themselves is funding so they can sell more ads that target the morons that are buying into said programming?
missing third panel:
returning to the water, some time later.
“here’s your twenty bucks. it sucks up there.”
you don’t even have to look past his first name to know exactly why he was denied entry by this administration.
his name is BoJack Horseman
or they never got it in the first place. verizon loves to munch on sms here on the work phone.
i run several mass-market consumer model laptops with the lid closed. as long as the vents aren’t obstructed, not a problem here. mine are all lower-wattage soc with integrated gpu, though; the most demanding one that’s on 24/7 is still only ~ 15w cpu at 100% load, and it never runs at that; it rarely even throttles up from the 800mhz it idles at. i stand them on end so the vents are clear, and use some lego to enforce spacing between 'em.
i have a neighbor that keeps her old answering machine because her late-husband’s voice is on it. she has no home videos or anything else… just a few snapshots and that answering machine.
“that’s ok. they were never an intended user base, they’re the targets.”
--some ceo, somewhere. probably.
so these crazy prices i hear about being implemented (like at github) should actually be at least 10x higher?
not “motorola” (as in the mobile phone company that’s now part of lenovo, or the old cable box/modem company which is owned by arris), but rather a licensee of the name and trademarks for certain networking products… “premier logitech” (which has nothing to do with the computer peripherals company), which is owned by one of those buyout/“investment” firms “tide rock”.
i wouldn’t expect a thing out of them, especially support for gear designed, made or sold prior to tide rock’s ownership (acquired in 2024).
i don’t like tiling wm, and can’t stand seemingly random placement a linux d.e. usually gives (if not just centering everything every time).
i use the kwin script for ‘remember window positions’ to get behaviour similar to windows. gnome has something similar, too (‘smart auto move ng’). so now a window for a program will open right back up the same size and in the same spot next time you run it.
plasma mobile works on more than just handhelds, and you’ll find it in fedora and debian repos (among others, i’m sure).
tl;dr: a new commercial product offering by ibm, sold to ‘enterprises’ to look at their own deployed code and maybe send fixes upstream
when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.