Asus ZenFone 8

And they will purchase their next phone sooner if the battery on their old phones die early.

A Laser printer isn’t an automatic fix. My mom got an HP laserjet from her work and it requires the full suite of HP spyware to run. My girlfriend bought a different HP laserjet and it just randomly decided it doesn’t want to print anymore, and we suspect it’s software related.

I have a Ricoh laser printer and it’s amazing though. The driver from Windows Update just works.

It’s unstable and crashes a lot. Otherwise, it’s pretty much stock Android, and it’s nice not having 16GB of extra Samsung bloatware.

ES File Manager had it figured out 10 years ago. Then it died without a good alternative, but the old version still works pretty well.

Blizzard had pretty much only made amazing games before Activision bought them. Activision also made a lot of good games back then. People couldn’t see how the merger would fick it up back then, yet it still did.

I expect Bethesda to get infected with the worst that Activion-Blizzard has to offer more so than the opposite.

The house passed a ton of great bills in 2021-2022. There weren’t enough votes in the senate for any to become law though. We can blame the two openly corrupt Democrats for that, or we can blame the 50 corrupt Republicans.

Also the inflation reduction act did pass, and from the article:

“The program is more or less a direct result of funding provided by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, through which $15 million was earmarked for the purpose of exploring and implementing a simple, free, government-provided tax filing service.”

Blizzard would never have done that if Activision hadn’t been allowed to buy them. The new conglomerate will be worse than we anticipate in the same way Activion-Blizzard was.

There is no way that Gamepass is going to remain a good value once it’s past trying to get new members in the introduction phase. I would give it at most 2 years before the enshitification really takes hold. It could be merely months since they are trying to look good to regulators right now.

T-Mobile bought Mint. Verizon bought Tracphone, which owns Straight Talk. There aren’t many independent MVNOs left. And the ones that are are being deprioritized to the point where the service basically doesn’t work when the tower is busy.

T-Mobile shit down their 3g network in 2022. It sucks too because the speeds and coverage from 3g are much better than LTE or 5g.

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network-evolution

Yeah, they are built into Gboard and work even animated over MMS.

Apple is not going to change this unless legally forced to because it is quite possibly the biggest driver of iPhone sales.

A whopping 87% of American teens use an iPhone, and the green text from Android SMS is the biggest reason. At that age people will do almost anything to fit in and get a date, and the green text was chosen specifically to elicit an “eww” response. Most of those teens will likely will continue to use iPhones as adults because it’s what they know.

Microsoft’s CEO is from India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella

Try a wireless trackball or Gyro mouse if the laptop mouse is bothering you. They require less space than a normal mouse and are still better than the trackpad. A wireless mouse is also an option for extendeing the range on your desktop.

My autistic friend loves her Loops. After getting the Loops she realised that she doesn’t actually hate large social gatherings, it’s just that hearing hundreds of simultaneous conversations is exhausting. After getting Loops, she is totally fine in sports bars, county fairs, Octoberfest, etc.

If they launch a subscription that includes ad-free Win12, Office, OneDrive and GamePass for like $20 a month, a lot of people would actually be happy about the change. Especially if the base version of Win12 was free with ads.

Then once people are happy with how good the deal is, they start raising the price and removing things that were once included.

Win10 support ends in 2025. It is not in fact the last version of Windows like they originally claimed.

It legit could be. When Win10 support ends you have three options:

1. Buy a new PC with the required TPM chip.
2. Bypass the check in the Win11 installer and hope the OS functions properly after install and going forward.
3. Install a fully supported Linux that’s optimized for older hardware.

None of those three options are easy, and Linux is the only option that’s free and guaranteed to work. Although to be fair most computers made after 2018 have the TPM chip, and so I don’t know how many folks will actually be running 7+ year old hardware at that point. It’s probably more likely to cause a jump in PC sales more than Linux adoption.

Lieberman was also why Gore lost in 2000 since he was running as VP and was rotten back then too.