Live in MA, bought an old crappy house and wanted to upgrade the electric service for heat pumps and go underground. It was a nightmare, took over a year to just convert an existing service to underground because the telephone pole was at the end of its service life and needed to be replaced before it was touched. Power company requested the replacement but Verizon owned it and didn't give a fuck. It was awful, no power, could not move into the house for months while we waited for Verizon to do their job.
Batteries have a logarithmic degradation of capacity, meaning using the quick charge function will cause the capacity to drop about 10-15% really quickly, likely within the first year. So dumping the phone in 3 years is likely right when you hit the shallow part of the curve and the battery stops degrading much.
This. I still keep my old 500mA phone chargers and use them on my phones to be gentle on the battery for slow, overnight charges. I am also a battery expert in my day job...
This is happening in all aspects of consumer electronics. Broad platforms of hardware and software that is cheap enough to meet all the needs then just water it down for the 'cheaper' varieties. The consumer has no attention span so everything has to be fresh and totally new with more features every 1-4 years max. Ita what the consumer demands from complex systems so engineers just need to churn shit out as fast as possible and everyone suffers.
Think of it this way, they will procrastinate long enough to where they won't have full control of the government anymore and perhaps the next generation can teach them a lesson in bootstraps and how to pull them up.
Everyone misses this point. Lawyers have turned into leeches of society sucking the empathy and fun out of everything so everyone is scared to get sued. On the flip side its so god damn easy for corporate lackeys to say 'no cuz lawyers' just to make their job incrementally easier rather than actually doing it. Its a shitty cycle and I've seen it too much in corporate America.
Wow you invoked a name I hadn't thought of in a very long time. Shit did I use that playing Unreal Tournament, StarCraft or was it late enough to be WoW?
Here is the context you all are missing. The novel was offered for free so folks on Amazon could 'buy' it so it was number one on Amazon instead of the new documentary.
Just bought 10 acres and plan to grow the shit out of some veggies. I stare at a screen all day and deal with technical problems, at the end of the way I just want to dig in the dirt and stare at the plants.
From New England but I lived in Texas for awhile in the early 2000s and to me Tex-Mex is Mexican food made by gringos for gringos and Mexican restaurants were Meixcan food made by Abuelas.
Different standards and playbooks because the democrats pander to largely educated voters who want facts and the illusion of accountability where as republicans pander to uneducated reactionary tribalism and any educated folk who allow themselves to be swept up in it. Some folks just need to be told what to think, others need to be convinced. You can call that imbalance if you like.
Something I do which I've come to find is unusual is a Mexican-ish side dish. Soak and cook black beans. Then cook some onions in another pot, when soft add some cumin seeds and bloom then, deglaze with tequila, add the black beans and orange juice. Smash some of the beans to make it thicker. Cover and simmer for an hour. Its a magnificent side.
