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by leakycap 1y ago
Same with technology. If you aren't rich, selling around the time the next model comes out is actually a great way to avoid paying full price for your modern tech. With Apple stuff, waiting more than 1-2 cycles means you've missed
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Faffing about selling cars and buying newer ones is a waste of money. Depends. No reason to pour money into a depreciating asset that you trust your life with. I saw an early 2000s small car get into a ~30mph collision recently and ...
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by leakycap 1y ago
> cheap, naturally aspirated 1.6L iron block back in the 90's VW sold the 2.0L naturally aspirated engine that made about 115 horsies and got a whopping low-30s mpg on the highway until 2015 in the base model US Jetta. The same engi
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by leakycap 1y ago
If someone were to hand them a check, with that $10,000, they would like to do something other than send reminder emails That's the point
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by leakycap 1y ago
Is it savings if you buy an item worth less and you pay less? You're just buying a damaged item at that point ... which is worth less to everyone That isn't getting "deal" unless you plan to never liquidate... cars ge
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by leakycap 1y ago
My last car got minor hail damage across many panels, it was a difficult PDR for some reason - when I traded it in it was worth 1/4 what KBB would have been for a similar year and mileage without dents Even trying to sell it myself for
907.
by leakycap 1y ago
... or approached a human in a  logo'd uniform and say, "Hello person. Can you help me, please?" You know, like our parents and grandparents would have done at a store. With humans who shouldn't be beckoned by glaring w
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by leakycap 1y ago
Circuit City was the worst. I miss most computer stores, but I felt a personal sense of satisfaction when they went under.
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by leakycap 1y ago
What are you comparing this to? I have a slew of phones near me and when I pick up an Android device it usually feels like a stuttery mess multiple times in regular use, even compared to a basic prepaid iPhone SE from 2022 which might only
910.
by leakycap 1y ago
The Cayenne is one of the only SUVs I looked at where the sales experience made me more interested in the brand & left me with a good impression of the dealer. I hadn't seriously considered a Porsche until I learned they make niche
911.
by leakycap 1y ago
My second job was somehow a cool job for a remote Microsoft office. The people I worked with REALLY tried and cared to deliver what the bigger MS office asked for, but the distributed nature of the organization combined with a lack of unify
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by leakycap 1y ago
I hope it is reliable. The main reason I came back to iPhone from Android was that the 3 Android phones I bought from different manufacturers all had time and clock and time-zone related issues that made them unreliable, especially when tra
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by leakycap 1y ago
I don't convince employers or clients to follow WCAG, I just do it. If they say the link needs to be yellower, I figure out how to make the link look yellower and make it within WCAG. If they ask for something outside WCAG, I say no, t
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by leakycap 1y ago
Great resources. It seems we'll see BP monitoring integrated in a mainstream base smartwatch before we'll get optical glucose monitoring.
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by leakycap 1y ago
I have used my phone camera to determine blood pressure, but I have yet to see a common consumer device with optical glucose monitoring. I'm suggesting that it will change the world when it is an integrated part of something many/
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by leakycap 1y ago
But I have this dongle, the exact R&D budget one you discuss, and the iPod side by side with the same song loaded (except the iPhone has way higher resolution, as menitoned the iPod is under 256kbps). The iPod isn't louder, but it
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by leakycap 1y ago
I think that's totally accurate, actually.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Something about me doesn't like this idea, no matter how much someone says the shrimp don't remember. I do, so maybe that's enough to deter me from wanting to set up a life within a 10 oz sealed container.
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by leakycap 1y ago
One could say it expired. > Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure. Appreciate the honesty (they had
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by leakycap 1y ago
I've been using https://www.dueapp.com on my iOS devices since pre-iOS 7 and it has offered features this article makes sound impossible before iOS 26. The local notifications chain on iOS may still be limited to 64 alerts,
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by leakycap 1y ago
Great analogy! I still use my iPod, because for whatever reason the OG battery hasn't died even though it is a FireWire model. It also, shockingly, sounds WAY better with any pair of decent headphones than any of my AirPods including t
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by leakycap 1y ago
I expected they'd do better at the products with their own name on them, but I the MS Store near me didn't stock even most standard Surface devices Plus, IIRC their return policy on what they had in stock was worse than other PC r
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by leakycap 1y ago
I think it is the lack of a non-touch keyboard, not a social problem. I have an Android phone with a physical keyboard and it is a totally different mindset when you can "check in" and communicate with the device/through the
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by leakycap 1y ago
> even though I still don't have the life those actors in the sample pictures or Apple ads have (nobody does -- don't forget there are bounce lights and 20 people just out of frame...)
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by leakycap 1y ago
iPods got out of the way and could be used in your pocket I got a Zune and immediately realized MS had no idea why people liked the iPod Different folks like different things, but I don't think a big menu of lowercase text is more fun
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by leakycap 1y ago
Mall Disney Store employees were micromanaged about the number of entry/exits vs. sales, which was measured by shift, so they definitely noticed!
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by leakycap 1y ago
I think it varies a lot by location - the store I live by now is a regional store but still offers walk-in for everything except Genius Bar appointments. If you're buying a phone or Mac or watch or Vision, they seem happy to help you o
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by leakycap 1y ago
Loved the honesty of this line > Part of my brain was saying "this place is bullshit and I use it to clown on the staff," and part of my brain was saying "I want the luxury good!! and I am going to purchase it now."
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by leakycap 1y ago
The author's mention of the Hawthorn Effect fascinated me; I hadn't considered that with devices your care team can monitor. It will change a lot of lives when some device that doesn't draw blood can continuously monitor gluc
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by leakycap 1y ago
I appreciate your perspective, and it’s interesting to see how different interpretations can shape our view of these changes. Sometimes, even what seems like a small detail can carry a lot of meaning, and I’m glad you’re engaging thoughtful

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