That's what pushed me to the S7 about 2 years ago. I thought I would hate the sealed battery, but being water resistant and doing wireless charging has changed my mind. I now know that I'm in a/. minority, but this is a place where I'm ok with the compromise.
Yeah, another 1-2 years and this battery will be shit, and I'll need a new phone. But until that time, I'll drop it in a cradle or on a puck and it will charge, and if I drop it in a puddle it will still work.
Thanks for the info! I'll do a quick backup and likely take the plunge this weekend. This is the sort of feedback I really needed. Been burned too many times, but if there is a single, "not terrible", that goes a long way in my book.
Like the GP, I disagree, and I a) come from a blue collar family, and b) spent about a decade in college doing various degrees. Not only were office jobs not promoted, the trades weren't ever marginalized. I don't know if you've ever gone to college, but having done so three times, my experience was that there was a distinct lack of career planning, and most of the focus was on learning new shit.
Hell, the last time I went to grad school we worked with the trades all the time to maintain the infrastructure for research. University union trades, and other than the occasional bit of "not my job" stupidity, most were competent, hard workers vital to what we were doing. You don't ask hungover graduate students to run 220v lines to giant computing clusters, nor do you ask them to adjust the HVAC to ensure proper ventilation and climate control.
I really, really detest these click-bait, rile up the masses, blatantly false headlines. Why can't we have the intellectual honestly to write, "Amazon offers delivery to newer model Onstar-enabled cars for Prime users."? Is that really so fucking hard? And if the source article doesn't have the brain cells to do that, what's the point of calling these folks editors if they just cut and paste the same garbage?
My car isn't that make and model, isn't new enough, and other than when I'm out and about running errands, it's parked in secure areas that Amazon doesn't have access to. Plus they don't know what car I drive, and I have no plans of ever sharing that with them.
Speak for yourself. If you don't want to call a duck a duck, that's on you. Using "we" speaks for me, and you don't speak for me.
Making global pronouncements declaring what people think and laying judgments on others is rather....authoritarian of you..... Since that's the way you lean, I can see why the GP's post triggered you.
I really don't understand how people can continue to make this argument. It does not appear that this time is going to be like the previous times. And it ignores the massive social upheaval during the switch that happens every time as well.
In the past, when we've automated low skill jobs, we've pushed people into higher skill jobs in the process. Farmers ended up working in factories. Factory workers ended up working in offices.
But right now, we're automating the higher skill jobs. And there is a very distinct limit to how highly skilled a large percentage of the workforce can become. We're on the cusp of automating away what a large percentage of office workers do every day. What are they going to do instead? Train to be doctors? Oh, wait, we're throwing machine learning and automation at medicine too, and that's showing a lot of promise.
We are fast approaching the time when we're going to be making robots and machine learning ("AI") that do almost anything better than the average human could do it. What do the average humans do then?
When we put all of the agricultural laborers out of a job, what are they going to do instead? What else are you going to train a migrant produce picker to do that can't also be done by a robot?
When we put several million truck, taxi, and bus drivers out of jobs, what are we going to train them to do? Stock shelves in the store? Cut hair? Make coffee?
When most of the accounting jobs go away, what do they do?
We've got no shortage of things for people to do. The problem is that inevitably, robots and machine learning are going to be able to do most of those things better and cheaper.
"Tesla won't be successful until their vehicles can haul a 20 ton boat over the Rockies during the winter on a single tank of gas on autopilot. I expect a vehicle to conform to my lifestyle, goddammit!"
No, it's a lot nastier than that. There are people clearly wired to need the excitement of gambling. This is designed to suck as much money from them as possible.
That's harsh and brutal. It's akin to drug dealing.
Teslas don't work in the winter, they are too expensive and nobody buys them, there is no way to charge them on any sort of reasonable road trip, they won't work for me because I commute 500 miles every day, and they're just propped up by the government anyway. Add to this that they can't manufacture them in volume, they will run out of batteries, they'll run out of the raw materials for the batteries, and nobody wants them anyway, and look at all the recalls!
My ICE doesn't drop down to 90% capacity after 160,000 miles. This is just proof that Tesla will never be successful, and there's no reason for us to keep talking about them.
Tesla. Is. Dead.
(Did I hit all of the hater points, or did I miss one or two?)
So, you want to hurt the US economy, hurt US consumers, hurt immigrants who came here seeking a better life....for what? Just to prove a point?
If there's something about the status quo that you want to change, lashing out and hurting a lot of people isn't the way to effect change. Perhaps come up with a slightly more elegant solution?
That's a level of optimism not shared by people in those industries. What makes you so confident that this is the case?
Dairy, in particular, is nearly extinct in the US. It hasn't been really profitable for decades. The only thing currently keeping it afloat is cheap labor.
It's our entire agriculture, manufacturing, restaurant, construction, and landscaping industries. And those are probably only the major ones.
Economically, we need illegal immigrants. If you start jailing the heads of major industries in the US, that's going to massively disrupt them. Without immigrants, illegal and legal, everything is going to cost a ton more money.
The dairy industry in particular will cease to exist if you start jailing farmers who hire illegal immigrants. Even if you're lactose intolerant, think of the rest of us!
That's a really stupid fucking question. If they payed more, they wouldn't be the worst job. You can get anyone to do just about anything for the right amount of money.
"We want you to take care of people's pussy, infected genitals. We'll pay you $8/hr. No? How about $120/hr?"
If these Amazon workers were paid $80k/year, it wouldn't be the worst job.
A much more useful question is, "Why do people need to take a job that pays so badly?" or, "How is it legal for a company to pay so little for a job that is so demanding?"
As a lottery winner, I have zero sympathy for anyone who didn't win the lottery. Maybe they should learn some useful skills and do hard work.
Are you really under the impression that it's possible for a significant portion of the population to learn useful skills and do hard work and make six figures? If you really are, you might want to go visit the real world and tell people that. I'm sure you'd be welcomed with open arms for enriching their lives.
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How have you kept the charging port from dying?
That's what pushed me to the S7 about 2 years ago. I thought I would hate the sealed battery, but being water resistant and doing wireless charging has changed my mind. I now know that I'm in a /. minority, but this is a place where I'm ok with the compromise.
Yeah, another 1-2 years and this battery will be shit, and I'll need a new phone. But until that time, I'll drop it in a cradle or on a puck and it will charge, and if I drop it in a puddle it will still work.
That's worth something to me.
Thanks for the info! I'll do a quick backup and likely take the plunge this weekend. This is the sort of feedback I really needed. Been burned too many times, but if there is a single, "not terrible", that goes a long way in my book.
Cheers!
Like the GP, I disagree, and I a) come from a blue collar family, and b) spent about a decade in college doing various degrees. Not only were office jobs not promoted, the trades weren't ever marginalized. I don't know if you've ever gone to college, but having done so three times, my experience was that there was a distinct lack of career planning, and most of the focus was on learning new shit.
Hell, the last time I went to grad school we worked with the trades all the time to maintain the infrastructure for research. University union trades, and other than the occasional bit of "not my job" stupidity, most were competent, hard workers vital to what we were doing. You don't ask hungover graduate students to run 220v lines to giant computing clusters, nor do you ask them to adjust the HVAC to ensure proper ventilation and climate control.
I was thinking the same thing....how long before I should install this? Couple of weeks? Couple of months?
Does he even have a license at this point?
That's not a burglar. No really, he's just putting our neighbor's groceries away.
Then why is he walking out with more stuff than he went in with?
If you can drop packages off, why can't you pick up returns at the same time?
A couple off decades ago we briefly had the Yugo show up in the US. Went about as well as expected. Although that was TWICE the HP!!!!!
I really, really detest these click-bait, rile up the masses, blatantly false headlines. Why can't we have the intellectual honestly to write, "Amazon offers delivery to newer model Onstar-enabled cars for Prime users."? Is that really so fucking hard? And if the source article doesn't have the brain cells to do that, what's the point of calling these folks editors if they just cut and paste the same garbage?
My car isn't that make and model, isn't new enough, and other than when I'm out and about running errands, it's parked in secure areas that Amazon doesn't have access to. Plus they don't know what car I drive, and I have no plans of ever sharing that with them.
They already do that. Just not on a giant scale yet. There's one in the little city I live in.
Hop onto google maps and type in "Amazon Locker".
Speak for yourself. If you don't want to call a duck a duck, that's on you. Using "we" speaks for me, and you don't speak for me.
Making global pronouncements declaring what people think and laying judgments on others is rather....authoritarian of you..... Since that's the way you lean, I can see why the GP's post triggered you.
I really don't understand how people can continue to make this argument. It does not appear that this time is going to be like the previous times. And it ignores the massive social upheaval during the switch that happens every time as well.
In the past, when we've automated low skill jobs, we've pushed people into higher skill jobs in the process. Farmers ended up working in factories. Factory workers ended up working in offices.
But right now, we're automating the higher skill jobs. And there is a very distinct limit to how highly skilled a large percentage of the workforce can become. We're on the cusp of automating away what a large percentage of office workers do every day. What are they going to do instead? Train to be doctors? Oh, wait, we're throwing machine learning and automation at medicine too, and that's showing a lot of promise.
We are fast approaching the time when we're going to be making robots and machine learning ("AI") that do almost anything better than the average human could do it. What do the average humans do then?
When we put all of the agricultural laborers out of a job, what are they going to do instead? What else are you going to train a migrant produce picker to do that can't also be done by a robot?
When we put several million truck, taxi, and bus drivers out of jobs, what are we going to train them to do? Stock shelves in the store? Cut hair? Make coffee?
When most of the accounting jobs go away, what do they do?
We've got no shortage of things for people to do. The problem is that inevitably, robots and machine learning are going to be able to do most of those things better and cheaper.
I can't believe I forgot that one.
"Tesla won't be successful until their vehicles can haul a 20 ton boat over the Rockies during the winter on a single tank of gas on autopilot. I expect a vehicle to conform to my lifestyle, goddammit!"
And the fit and finish is so poor, you can actually fit a Prius in the gap between the trunk lid and the fender.
Oh, that's priceless. I'm stealing that, thank you very much.
No. What happened to Photobucket?
It is nothing more than free market.
No, it's a lot nastier than that. There are people clearly wired to need the excitement of gambling. This is designed to suck as much money from them as possible.
That's harsh and brutal. It's akin to drug dealing.
This is probably upsetting several dozen people in the world.
Great. Are there enough similar jobs for everyone?
Teslas don't work in the winter, they are too expensive and nobody buys them, there is no way to charge them on any sort of reasonable road trip, they won't work for me because I commute 500 miles every day, and they're just propped up by the government anyway. Add to this that they can't manufacture them in volume, they will run out of batteries, they'll run out of the raw materials for the batteries, and nobody wants them anyway, and look at all the recalls!
My ICE doesn't drop down to 90% capacity after 160,000 miles. This is just proof that Tesla will never be successful, and there's no reason for us to keep talking about them.
Tesla. Is. Dead.
(Did I hit all of the hater points, or did I miss one or two?)
If the only thing keeping it afloat is cheap, illegal labor, then it needs to change.
Why? How does that make life better for anyone, worker, consumer or owner?
So, you want to hurt the US economy, hurt US consumers, hurt immigrants who came here seeking a better life....for what? Just to prove a point?
If there's something about the status quo that you want to change, lashing out and hurting a lot of people isn't the way to effect change. Perhaps come up with a slightly more elegant solution?
That's a level of optimism not shared by people in those industries. What makes you so confident that this is the case?
Dairy, in particular, is nearly extinct in the US. It hasn't been really profitable for decades. The only thing currently keeping it afloat is cheap labor.
Wow, you really are a heartless bastard.
Do you know who that is?
It's our entire agriculture, manufacturing, restaurant, construction, and landscaping industries. And those are probably only the major ones.
Economically, we need illegal immigrants. If you start jailing the heads of major industries in the US, that's going to massively disrupt them. Without immigrants, illegal and legal, everything is going to cost a ton more money.
The dairy industry in particular will cease to exist if you start jailing farmers who hire illegal immigrants. Even if you're lactose intolerant, think of the rest of us!
Why is it the worst jobs pay the least?
That's a really stupid fucking question. If they payed more, they wouldn't be the worst job. You can get anyone to do just about anything for the right amount of money.
"We want you to take care of people's pussy, infected genitals. We'll pay you $8/hr. No? How about $120/hr?"
If these Amazon workers were paid $80k/year, it wouldn't be the worst job.
A much more useful question is, "Why do people need to take a job that pays so badly?" or, "How is it legal for a company to pay so little for a job that is so demanding?"
As a lottery winner, I have zero sympathy for anyone who didn't win the lottery. Maybe they should learn some useful skills and do hard work.
Are you really under the impression that it's possible for a significant portion of the population to learn useful skills and do hard work and make six figures? If you really are, you might want to go visit the real world and tell people that. I'm sure you'd be welcomed with open arms for enriching their lives.