For two lines and 16gb of data...which we (meaning my wife) routinely use up and then go into âoesafety modeâ.
But when in Mexico and Canada, we pay nothing extra, which is nice (we were in both within a month this year). Plus, no extra charge for tethering.
Our phones are paid for, we could jump carriers. I just do not bother. Not motivated to bother looking for savings. But on the upside, we do not pay for TV, Netflix, Hulu, or whatever else, so if you look at our TOTAL telecom expense every month, we probably come out OK.
What they need is to apply some machine learning to ferret out this crap. Let the poster see it on their device, so they are not alerted to the fact that no one else can see it, and just hide it from us normal people.
Sure. But plenty of equipment and armament is designed to be deployed with a GPS requirement. Does not matter if you know where you are if your missile cannot figure it out.
Iâ(TM)m sorry your retirement planning appears to be so dismal.
As for me, Iâ(TM)m already sitting on $1M. Assuming employment remains favorable, hitting $2M by age 60 shouldnâ(TM)t be much of an issue. With my modest spending patterns, that should be enough to meet my needs. If it doesnâ(TM)t work out, I can always start a new career in crime.
Iâ(TM)m trying to say that the only reason I have a wage job is to make money. When I have a sufficient pile of money, I will no longer need a wage job.
If things work out, I will have $2M and no debt by the time I turn 60. By then, my kid will be 15 years old. I will be able to spend most of my time with her, in her last few years in my household before she goes out into the world. We can homeschool. Travel. See the world. Whatever. But what I wonâ(TM)t be doing is slaving away for some employer.
For me, it means no longer being a wage slave. I can do what I want, when I want, within reasonable limits. I will no longer need to worry about earning money. That doesnâ(TM)t mean I will not be working st something or doing something productive with my time.
Even as a hard core Apple guy, I have to say, who cares?
My experience with Apple Maps has been so miserable that I deleted it from my phone as soon as I had the chance. I cannot imagine ever giving it another try, no matter how good it becomes. I do not think they could ever be good enough to get me off Google Maps which works, almost, every time.
So I can imagine a kid doing homework with a smart speaker and basically learning nothing. But when testing comes along you won't have that crutch to fall back on.
Oh, give it some time. It may not be very long before students can use these devices on tests because it is unfair to have dumbasses competing with non-dumbasses without something to level the playing field.
SSD is more critical: you can remove a removable SSD, stick it in a USB sled, and recover the data.
Which is exactly what I have done, since she watered her machine.
But I don't see what any of this has to do with buying her a new iPad - or a new laptop for that matter. Yeah...sure....I could buy her some older Mac from 2012 or earlier (like I use) - so that one day, maybe, if her machine crashes, I can take the drive out of it. Sure. I could do that. I suppose I could also buy her some new Dell or something, and find a way to make it run MacOS, one way or another. Sure. I could do that. Or hell, I could give her some Windows machine and provide IT support for that for the rest of my life. Sure, I could do that too. But fuck all that. She's getting a fucking iPad.
Used. Going on 7 years. If you can't ethically source, at least reuse and use till it drops, don't buy into the American model of planned obsolescence.
Oh please. Her current laptop is 7 years old and she finally destroyed it (water). I have zero qualms about buying her something new.
Yeah...but not much better. The SSD is removable, but the memory is not.
Nevertheless, whichever one she gets is probably going to last her a lot longer than 3 years, provided she doesn't destroy it (wine, water, dropping it, etc.). I wish they advertised the new iPad as waterproof - that would seal the deal for sure.
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I drive them.
For two lines and 16gb of data...which we (meaning my wife) routinely use up and then go into âoesafety modeâ.
But when in Mexico and Canada, we pay nothing extra, which is nice (we were in both within a month this year). Plus, no extra charge for tethering.
Our phones are paid for, we could jump carriers. I just do not bother. Not motivated to bother looking for savings. But on the upside, we do not pay for TV, Netflix, Hulu, or whatever else, so if you look at our TOTAL telecom expense every month, we probably come out OK.
But they do not, and it is not.
Donâ(TM)t really give a shit. I own 2 cars and a motorcycle.
Data is expensive. OK?
How are we doing on gasoline price, against the same group of countries?
Would never work.
What they need is to apply some machine learning to ferret out this crap. Let the poster see it on their device, so they are not alerted to the fact that no one else can see it, and just hide it from us normal people.
The F'in point is that if this were real war,....
That wasn't the point I was responding to, which was that soldiers should be able to navigate with a map.
It is not free. It is factored into whatever price you are paying your mobile and ISP providers.
Sure. But plenty of equipment and armament is designed to be deployed with a GPS requirement. Does not matter if you know where you are if your missile cannot figure it out.
Iâ(TM)m sorry your retirement planning appears to be so dismal.
As for me, Iâ(TM)m already sitting on $1M. Assuming employment remains favorable, hitting $2M by age 60 shouldnâ(TM)t be much of an issue. With my modest spending patterns, that should be enough to meet my needs. If it doesnâ(TM)t work out, I can always start a new career in crime.
Iâ(TM)m trying to say that the only reason I have a wage job is to make money. When I have a sufficient pile of money, I will no longer need a wage job.
If things work out, I will have $2M and no debt by the time I turn 60. By then, my kid will be 15 years old. I will be able to spend most of my time with her, in her last few years in my household before she goes out into the world. We can homeschool. Travel. See the world. Whatever. But what I wonâ(TM)t be doing is slaving away for some employer.
Damn dude. What a pretentious dumbass. And you couldnâ(TM)t be more wrong too.
Retiring does have to mean relaxing.
For me, it means no longer being a wage slave. I can do what I want, when I want, within reasonable limits. I will no longer need to worry about earning money. That doesnâ(TM)t mean I will not be working st something or doing something productive with my time.
I live in Alaska.
I am retiring the instant I meet my relevant financial goals for doing so.
Your post should be tagged [dumbass]
I just bought one. Supposed to come Wednesday. Never owned a tablet before.
Plenty of people who understand how language actually works snicker at your snickering.
Even as a hard core Apple guy, I have to say, who cares?
My experience with Apple Maps has been so miserable that I deleted it from my phone as soon as I had the chance. I cannot imagine ever giving it another try, no matter how good it becomes. I do not think they could ever be good enough to get me off Google Maps which works, almost, every time.
So I can imagine a kid doing homework with a smart speaker and basically learning nothing. But when testing comes along you won't have that crutch to fall back on.
Oh, give it some time. It may not be very long before students can use these devices on tests because it is unfair to have dumbasses competing with non-dumbasses without something to level the playing field.
Equality Now!!!
SSD is more critical: you can remove a removable SSD, stick it in a USB sled, and recover the data.
Which is exactly what I have done, since she watered her machine.
But I don't see what any of this has to do with buying her a new iPad - or a new laptop for that matter. Yeah...sure....I could buy her some older Mac from 2012 or earlier (like I use) - so that one day, maybe, if her machine crashes, I can take the drive out of it. Sure. I could do that. I suppose I could also buy her some new Dell or something, and find a way to make it run MacOS, one way or another. Sure. I could do that. Or hell, I could give her some Windows machine and provide IT support for that for the rest of my life. Sure, I could do that too. But fuck all that. She's getting a fucking iPad.
Used. Going on 7 years. If you can't ethically source, at least reuse and use till it drops, don't buy into the American model of planned obsolescence.
Oh please. Her current laptop is 7 years old and she finally destroyed it (water). I have zero qualms about buying her something new.
Why not grow up and buy presents just for children? Adults buy whatever they fucking want.
You sound like a great guy.
Yeah...but not much better. The SSD is removable, but the memory is not.
Nevertheless, whichever one she gets is probably going to last her a lot longer than 3 years, provided she doesn't destroy it (wine, water, dropping it, etc.). I wish they advertised the new iPad as waterproof - that would seal the deal for sure.
...Gifts should be created, not be mass-produced junk designed to become e-waste after 3 years...
Meh...her current computer is from 2011. That's 7 years.