I would rather waste my time now, then have a chore that creeps up in a year or so. I don't want to store other people's junk. My basement isn't safe enough from moisture to make it worth the box.
I live alone, I almost went the cellphone only route.
My internet went from $55 -> $90 (when they dropped the lower speed internet only plan). They had a $60 plan with TV (a few channels) and internet. I told them I'd take it if they would keep the TV out of the plan, it took a lot of complaining, but they eventually did it.
Cable is worth less than zero to me, I have to deal with a box, I lose an HDMI hole, and if I lose the remote I owe them money.
Telling them that for $35 I could get more data on my phone (High Def streaming on T-Mobile) was what I had to do.
I use my amazon dash wand (or whatever they call it) all of the time.
Running low on something, scan it, then at the end of the week put together a purchase.
I can see this being a great feature for the juicer (I believe it said it can read QR codes.
Like a juice, running low, scan it, when enough is scanned to make shipping worth it, place an order.
What I don't understand is the CEO requiring the machine to buy the packets, there must be money in the packets too, or it's a seriously flawed business model. Like let's place these machines in homes for profit, then never ever make money, but build a supply chain, in the long run.
It looks like the compositor is allowed to decorate windows in Wayland, so it seems to me that it will exist. May take some time to get somewhere though.
I didn't in my small town, but with Uber and Lyft I do quite a bit.
Cab: Call company "we'll be there in 15", now wait an a hour, call again, "we'll be there in 15". Pretty much won't do short rides either. In New York, cab pulls up, "where are you going", cab slams on gas and flees if answer is not Manhatten or Williamsberg.
Uber and Lyft are worth far more for the end user (show up, don't complain, are nice). The problem is they are going too hard on the price competition, and the prices are unsubstainably low, then Uber starts taking a bigger cut even. They really should charge cab ish rates, take their cut, and compete on quality of service and convenience IMO.
True, but if it's 3 hours a day, that means I'm emptying the washer at 10pm daily.
If it's 18 hours of run time on a weekend, that means scheduling my entire weekend around being home when the wash comes out.
I'm skeptical of a 30 minute wash turning into 3 hours though. my 30 minute wash is 1:20 now, not bad for a nightly routine, run when cooking/eating, then deal with after.
My longest setting is now 2:40, that's mixed load, high soil level, extra rinse (which adds the last 40 minutes), I live by myself and run that once a week on the weekend and it's hardly a burden, the old washer in an equivelent setting was well over an hour anyway (45 mins on the dial, plus two rinse and spins, probably around 1:20).
If it was truly 6 3 hour loads a week though, that would be pretty burdensome, even if I didn't need to watch it.
It's a large country, in my region, there would be week long stretches I couldn't dry my clothes (granted in the Winter I could (and do) dry inside, but in the summer the humidity in my house is even worse if I'm not running AC, and in the rainy season, it's treacherously damp without hanging wet clothes around.
It wasn't exactly a short period of time, it was after years of slow progress culminating in a pretty excellent desktop.
Then it started locking up horribly with background IO, the interface went into flux (though it seems that is resolved pretty effectively, with gnome 2 related projects and xfce being pretty great), init systems went into flux, drivers went into flux (gallium, the move away from X).
The Desktop fell back to 90s era in quality, simultaneously, a few years later, the Windows Desktop got good as a way to manage application windows.
It seems 9 years later the IO issues are fixed, but that's not giving up after a short time, I gave up after a year or 2 when I could afford Windows 7.
I had also been funding Linux bundlers if not development to the tune of $100/year (Mandrake Club, Boxed Linux with Yast, boxed RedHat, and Ubuntu Merch).
It was when it cost me more money to have a system that locked if I didn't spend even more on an SSD, and a nice competing system came about, that I finally jumped ship.
Since the Window Decorations are not controlled by the App, I fear (without knowing if I'm misunderstanding something) that features like this will be harder/impossible to achieve.
My cell phone, when at my house, (40/20) is faster than my cable (25/5), and the latency isn't terrible either.
My cell phone has me on a private IP address though, so that sucks, and latency isn't great, but it's not terrible either.
I'm actually thinking 5g, and other such tech will start some actual competition in ISPs again. It won't be great, but it will be a lot better than now, especially if T-Mobile and Sprint stay separate, keeping some actual competition from smaller players trying to grow.
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I was impressed by Apple's phone system.
I said a sentence, and it out me right to the correct place.
I feel like it has to be in update or something.
Something that actively pulls.
but I may be reading too much into being on a different LAN.
I thought sarcasm was verbal irony.
Law professors get pretty big salaries, and the program needs to fund entirely from tuition.
I doubt they're the cheapest to teach by a long shot.
Because I need to store a box for them.
I would rather waste my time now, then have a chore that creeps up in a year or so. I don't want to store other people's junk. My basement isn't safe enough from moisture to make it worth the box.
I live alone, I almost went the cellphone only route.
My internet went from $55 -> $90 (when they dropped the lower speed internet only plan). They had a $60 plan with TV (a few channels) and internet. I told them I'd take it if they would keep the TV out of the plan, it took a lot of complaining, but they eventually did it.
Cable is worth less than zero to me, I have to deal with a box, I lose an HDMI hole, and if I lose the remote I owe them money.
Telling them that for $35 I could get more data on my phone (High Def streaming on T-Mobile) was what I had to do.
I'd think security alone is enough to justify it.
They pay to deliver to Comcast, I pay Comcast to deliver to me.
If I wanted content without paying for delivery, I'd use an antenna.
Well, that's stupid.
I'd think kurig for juice should be enough to attract investors.
I use my amazon dash wand (or whatever they call it) all of the time.
Running low on something, scan it, then at the end of the week put together a purchase.
I can see this being a great feature for the juicer (I believe it said it can read QR codes.
Like a juice, running low, scan it, when enough is scanned to make shipping worth it, place an order.
What I don't understand is the CEO requiring the machine to buy the packets, there must be money in the packets too, or it's a seriously flawed business model. Like let's place these machines in homes for profit, then never ever make money, but build a supply chain, in the long run.
Fun fact, call ins and internet orders happen everywhere.
I'm also not convinced the chips are clonable.
I had a Coin (basically the same idea), it worked OK for about two months, then chips became a thing.
I assume that's what actually killed these guys too. Not that it was a scam, but that they couldn't deliver.
Will we though?
It looks like the compositor is allowed to decorate windows in Wayland, so it seems to me that it will exist. May take some time to get somewhere though.
I didn't in my small town, but with Uber and Lyft I do quite a bit.
Cab: Call company "we'll be there in 15", now wait an a hour, call again, "we'll be there in 15". Pretty much won't do short rides either. In New York, cab pulls up, "where are you going", cab slams on gas and flees if answer is not Manhatten or Williamsberg.
Uber and Lyft are worth far more for the end user (show up, don't complain, are nice). The problem is they are going too hard on the price competition, and the prices are unsubstainably low, then Uber starts taking a bigger cut even. They really should charge cab ish rates, take their cut, and compete on quality of service and convenience IMO.
Yes, but without sun it takes a while.
What state are you in that county is a subdivision of city?
Where I am it's the other way around, with most big cities mapping exactly to a county of the same name (Philadelphia for example).
I've never seen County as a subset of City.
True, but if it's 3 hours a day, that means I'm emptying the washer at 10pm daily.
If it's 18 hours of run time on a weekend, that means scheduling my entire weekend around being home when the wash comes out.
I'm skeptical of a 30 minute wash turning into 3 hours though. my 30 minute wash is 1:20 now, not bad for a nightly routine, run when cooking/eating, then deal with after.
My longest setting is now 2:40, that's mixed load, high soil level, extra rinse (which adds the last 40 minutes), I live by myself and run that once a week on the weekend and it's hardly a burden, the old washer in an equivelent setting was well over an hour anyway (45 mins on the dial, plus two rinse and spins, probably around 1:20).
If it was truly 6 3 hour loads a week though, that would be pretty burdensome, even if I didn't need to watch it.
How does that work in the winter?
How about rainy season?
What about when the humidity is over 90%?
It's a large country, in my region, there would be week long stretches I couldn't dry my clothes (granted in the Winter I could (and do) dry inside, but in the summer the humidity in my house is even worse if I'm not running AC, and in the rainy season, it's treacherously damp without hanging wet clothes around.
It wasn't exactly a short period of time, it was after years of slow progress culminating in a pretty excellent desktop.
Then it started locking up horribly with background IO, the interface went into flux (though it seems that is resolved pretty effectively, with gnome 2 related projects and xfce being pretty great), init systems went into flux, drivers went into flux (gallium, the move away from X).
The Desktop fell back to 90s era in quality, simultaneously, a few years later, the Windows Desktop got good as a way to manage application windows.
It seems 9 years later the IO issues are fixed, but that's not giving up after a short time, I gave up after a year or 2 when I could afford Windows 7.
I had also been funding Linux bundlers if not development to the tune of $100/year (Mandrake Club, Boxed Linux with Yast, boxed RedHat, and Ubuntu Merch).
It was when it cost me more money to have a system that locked if I didn't spend even more on an SSD, and a nice competing system came about, that I finally jumped ship.
This is my biggest fear with Wayland.
Since the Window Decorations are not controlled by the App, I fear (without knowing if I'm misunderstanding something) that features like this will be harder/impossible to achieve.
I Pay my ISP to provide that infrastructure.
I pay 40% more than I used to, for the same speed.
It looks like I am indeed Paying to increase the total bandwidth I (not Netflix, it is me making the request) use.
How is Netflix adding to their cost, is Netflix running stuff over their Network just for fun, or is it to their customers that are requesting it?
couldnt the 4-6 apps each use their own user, so they could be updated one at a time?
I imagine you have a caravan of Trucks with two drivers, one in front, one in back, taking 12 hour shifts of being awake.
You could effectively have 5 long haul trucks running 24 hours instead of 2 running 12 hours for the same staff.
My cell phone, when at my house, (40/20) is faster than my cable (25/5), and the latency isn't terrible either.
My cell phone has me on a private IP address though, so that sucks, and latency isn't great, but it's not terrible either.
I'm actually thinking 5g, and other such tech will start some actual competition in ISPs again. It won't be great, but it will be a lot better than now, especially if T-Mobile and Sprint stay separate, keeping some actual competition from smaller players trying to grow.
So, 10 years later?
Glad I gave up after a year rather than hung around.