You see, here’s the thing.

When this whole smart phone thing started, smart phones sucked. They ate a lot of power, so the battery didn’t last, they were slow, both in computation, and loading data, the screens were pretty trash (dim, low res, huge bezels)… Everything needed improvements.

Now-a-days, my phone, whether new, or a couple years old, has an all day battery life, it’s pretty quick and snappy, apps load quickly, data appears almost instantly on it, the screen is bright, with minimal bezel area… Nothing I care about changes.

So why am I upgrading? Slightly better camera? Slightly better everything else? Stuff I don’t perceive has been “improved” and I don’t actually give a shit.

My reason to upgrade isn’t there. Currently, my reason to upgrade is: this phone will no longer get upgrades, I should get something that will… For security. That’s it.

So why in the actual fuck, would I bother doing it if I don’t have to? AI? No thanks.

Oh, I get the reference.

Both.

The paper cartridge (PC) needs to be loaded with letter sized paper.

It’s a command to get the paper cartridge and load letter sized paper in it.

C’mon people.

I’m like you, though, I can’t afford them either so… Win-win?

I have not had a year that is, was, or was going to be “my year” by intent, circumstance, or result, in any way, shape, or form, ever.

It just hasn’t happened to me.

I’ve never expected it to happen, I’ve never tried to make it happen. 2026 will be no different than the hell we’ve been dealing with for the last 10+ years. In fact, it will most likely be worse than previous years.

“the stars say that you’re an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they’re lying”

• weird al, your horoscope for today

No

All I want to say is:

I rarely like any video so much that I want to give it a solid 👍

Its also pretty rare for 👎

But I’ll rate stuff on a scale of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ every day of the week.

Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.

That abomination should not have been made.

• someone who used XP 64bit edition

We are keeping it around for a bit longer… Like… A month.

I ran it, and it was a (poorly) rebadged version of server 2003.

At least one app I used, refused to install on it because they “didn’t support server operating systems” … Yeah. That actually happened. It picked it up as the server 2003 version that XP 64bit edition was based on.

I just about jumped right off a bridge.

fracking clankers.

I mean, you could take the same logic and apply it to many things AI generated…

The list is much much longer than this.

This sounds a lot like “trickle down economics”

And we all know that’s worked great in the past.

This comment made me chuckle.

Thanks. I need that.

… And?

We can always give a little more. Plus what do you think the other 70% is doing?

Neither statement is incorrect. Not sure why anyone is bothered enough about this to down vote it.

Yes. You can provide no value at all and the answer is still yes.

The answer continues to be yes if the value you provide is in the negatives.

Shareholders deserve nothing.