I’ll keep my unkillable Gen 2 Prius. 281,000 miles on the odometer, original engine, replaced the hybrid battery a few years back with a brand new one from Toyota (that I installed myself after convincing a dealership to just sell one to me) and knock on wood, but that’s the last maintenance item I’ve even had to spend any money on.

Too bad quality dropped off after the Gen 2 years.

Clickbait and ai bullshit from Google feed is pretty much all I’ve ever seen from them in the past year.

Imagine you take 200 people who answered an ad seeking “thrill seekers” and to be on TV. Then you psychologically weed it down with questions in order to pick the 6 most gullible, groupthink, extroverts.

That’s how they got the people. Out of all the applicants. However many their were, they took the most gullible extroverted ones they could get.

It never would have been pulled off as a success with regular people.

Until I see it from an alternate source, I’m calling bullshit on this one. It sounds like bullshit.

Or he doesn’t want to get suicided like his brother.

So no reason to believe it was made up, but questionable about “Bubba” being Bill Clinton because Epstein’s brother says it wasn’t.

How many associates have more than one person they call “Bubba”?

Source for this news? Or who else they called Bubba besides Bill?

It doesn’t obviously look like a joke. I searched and found the email in the database myself. It’s there.

Yep. They made the 23,000 documents searchable. I typed in “bubba” and this email was one of like 8 results that popped up.

You chose poorly for Samsung. I’m still holding onto and using my Note 20 ultra. Their last great phone.

It’s looking like pixel may be planning on locking down root access as well, soon. Really, pixel has never done anything very great. No SD card, ok, screen, ok apu, pretty good cameras, meh battery, and meh storage and ram. Never anything special. Sony phones had potential but they’re always priced high and their software support sucks. I wish LG had kept making phones

Do you even know if that’s true for Denmark? It is in the US, but I doubt it is, globally.

They’re a descent phone right now with their OnePlus 15. Huge battery, good and bright screen, top of the line processing and 16GB of the fastest ram you can get in a phone, and less than $1,000.

My issues with it are that their potential unlocking and rooting is a bit up in the air, and that they only offer up to a 512GB with no SD card.

I’d buy a damned Red Magic 11 pro if they didn’t block root and supported band 71.

Yep. I’m running Linux on all but one of my machines. You at least have the option with most any PC. There’s a very quickly dwindling option to do the same with phones.

That’s not good enough. They’re just going to keep lightly pushing against the bad publicity until everything not controlled by Google on your phone goes away.

We need an alternative made without googles shitty hands in the mix. This forced duopoly between Apple and Google sucks. No phone competition in the US also sucks. Overpriced Samsung or a Google phone, while companies Like Red Magic have fan and liquid cooled phones with huge batteries, more ram, and more storage, for less than a grand being sold around the rest of the world outside the US.

Our government wasn’t quite as corrupt back then as it is now. Mostly because they actually feared the people, back then. Corporations didn’t used to own them.

It was done with good intentions, because insurance companies could just gouge the fuck out of people and soak up huge returns, and they were incentivised to reject as many procedures as possible.

It just wound up fixing one set of issues that created another. Just proof that there’s no non shitty way for medical insurance companies to exist.

So insurance companies have to pay back out to their insured 85% of all money they collect each year. Been that way since the 1970’s.

What this means is that they WANT medical costs to be as high as possible. 15% of a $2,000 ambulance ride is a lot more than 15% of a $500 ambulance ride.

So the insurance companies have spent decades forcing hospitals to increase costs (charge more or we’ll make your hospital out of our network and no one will come to your hospital).

What this means is that as long as insurance companies exist, there isn’t really a “compete on costs” possibility. They’re already paying back out 85%. At most they might be able to make things 5% cheaper. There’s no competition because there’s no real areas to cut costs, by design.

The only fix is to eliminate insurance all together and go single payer, or to legally force hospitals to drop all their billing costs down to levels on par with the rest of the world, and both those options will be fought tooth and nail by insurance companies, since one would make their business disappear and the later would make their 15% cut for profits and overhead vastly smaller.

They tested that too, actually. Heat, I mean. It’s in a different one of the channels videos. It’s easy to find, since the channel only has like 10 videos and only a few are about phones .

You say that like batteries don’t need replaced every few years or that they didn’t design the Samsung Note 8 phone that kept catching on fire.

Engineers get told to make the phone charge as quickly as possible, while still lasting 2 years. After that, the company with those engineers pretty much wants the battery to fail, so they can sell a new device.

The one thing I wanted to see from that video, was also just testing the batteries until they went below like 75% capacity. The initial degradation may start off similar for capacity, but that doesn’t mean it will stay that way.