A Boring Dystopia

You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access.

That's a good point actually. You can eliminate these ads by taking it off the Wi-Fi.

That's exactly the thing that turned me off cable. I'm not interested in paying for a service that's going to pipe ads into my home. OTA TV, fine, I'm not paying for that. When I can pay for services that don't show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?

Samsung recently released UI 8 for Android, which had the astounding forward-thinking and innovative move of removing the ability to silence your phone by hitting the volume down button

idk what phone I'm gonna buy next, but that's the last straw with Samsung for me. I'm already sick of them changing features on the phone to make them worse, like how in order to do a partial screenshot (a feature I used to use a lot) you now need to click the button and wait a few seconds for the "AI" to think about what portion of the screen to select. you cannot skip this waiting period. you cannot disable this (that I have found). you cannot 'undo' when you draw a box around a section that includes text and it tries to helpfully extract the text for you instead of just fucking taking a screenshot of the highlighted portion of the screen

fuck Samsung

a guy at work said graphene has been going pretty good

Damn, South Korean industry really going the way of American car manufacturing, huh?

Speed Queen, my parents bought one in 1992 and it lasted over 20 years with almost no issues. When it finally started needing regular maintenance mom replaced it and got another Speed Queen, ten years later not a single issue yet.

You probably wouldn't make the initial mistake of buying a fridge with a fixed tablet

I'm actively looking for people who would be interested in building a Gay Furry Commune in Massachusetts.

With pooled assets, we can actually AFFORD to buy some land AND build on it.

An interesting, to me, aside: The luddites were not, as is commonly taught, anti-technology. They were protesting against the consolidation of money/power that technology was making possible. We don't want to teach class warfare though.

Bravo, Vince!