I used to prefer self checkout but then idk, I started buying fresh vegetables and alcohol and at that point it’s just easier to wait in line and go to a cashier. Now I fucking hate self checkout. Why should I subject myself to that torture when I can just have a trained cashier ring it up. Also I don’t want to give the store free labor. They are already not paying their actual labor force enough.

Bezos gonna terrorize your cats with his robot vacuum army.

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Libs supporting killing half of humanity so their handful of oligarchs can sustainability live an unsustainable lifestyle.

Can’t wait for Hedge Funds to naked short the fuck out of these guys to the point they are worthless. Then they get delisted and file for bankruptcy so the hedge funds never have to cover their short positions and make off with free untaxable money.

The S4 active was water resistant for 30 minutes up to a meter but lots of reviews say that’s questionable. I know for a fact the original S4 was not. It was my first phone and the back was nothing more than plastic that clipped on. I’d pop it off and clean the dust and pocket lint out of it every now and then and I had that bastard in an OtterBox.

At any rate, not saying you can’t make water proof phones with replaceable batteries, but it is far easier and cheaper to design them as fully enclosed. Rubber gaskets can wear out over time and they will never be as leak proof as something permanently sealed. There is, at least, a potentially logical argument for it. Even if it’s based on taking the easy way out that also happens to serve there planned obsolescence. Of course the next problem is battery tech has improved to the point where even that’s not good enough for these fuckers so they have to fuck with your software updates to slow your phone down for no other reason than forcing you to upgrade.

Edit: I kind of really miss that phone now. Had an app on it caller “glitcher VR” that was pretty cool to mess around with but it doesn’t work on newer android models and the developer never updated it.

Non-removable batters are debatable because it helps with waterproofing. SD cards are debatable because of read/write speeds (although with newer cards it’s really barely noticeable). It’s the fucking 3.5 Jack for me. Like I don’t want to have to carry around some fucking adapter just in case I want to plug my phone into a standard audio device.

People tell me it’s the only way to move forward with getting more companies using usbc audio or whatever. Because it’s supposed to be better or some shit. This is yet another problem with capitalism. Since there’s a billion different brands making a billion different devices it’s takes decades for some simple change like this and in the meantime the transition period involves making a trillion little adapters that will just get tossed in the garbage eventually because either they will be obsolete or just break because more planned obsolescence.

And don’t even get me started on fucking glass back phones. Dumbest fucking idea in the history of phones. Just make me a phone where I don’t have to go looking for a case to protect it.

And no, I don’t fucking care how thin it is.

Custom OSs are gonna explode if that shit actually happens and there’s no way out.

I’m all about the fall of the west but it will not end the xenophobia, racism, sexism, etc. It will decay into fascism as it was always intended to do. That’s why the police force of the US has a budget that would make it the words third largest military and it’s sole purpose it to keep it’s citizens enslaved by the oligarchy. Most of the libs will fall in line when the police start mass shooting protestors. The only way I see the US not being fascist is if outside forces actually defeat them and also manage to avoid nuclear war.

Amerikkka. Where the cops help the school shooters kill more kids and firefighters show up just to roast some marshmallows.

It is. lol. What do you think “family watches as firefighters let their house burn down because they didn’t pay up-front” is? Collapse isn’t some instant thing where one day everything hunky dory and the next day it’s mad max cannibalism. The countries been in a state of collapse for a couple decades. It’s just we are getting into the late game now.

See the thing is… They don’t actually pay most of the actual citizens enough to live here either.