You did WHAT...?!

[Gfted1]

Aye, while in CO, gotta watch the edibles you consume.

[Messier-31]

My boss drinks a lot of coffee, I on the other hand prefer tea. There's this running gag of sorts at my office: my boss asks me do I want coffee, everyday. And I refuse, everyday. Usually after that he quips about advantages of coffee drinking, like "It is so healthy" or "You won't be weary at work". The other day he starts yawning big time, so I say "Who's weary now, greenhorn?"

[Malcador]

My S4 isn't going to get patched for that BT vulnerability, so am looking at a new phone.

 

Think I need financing. Things are expensive as hell. Kind of need one as work's 2 factor uses an app, bah.

[ShadySands]

My phone has been stuck in a boot loop since yesterday so I'm also in the market for a new phone. Problem is I've been waiting for the Pixel 2 and I dunno how long I can go without a phone so waiting for that to finally come out may not be an option

[Malcador]

Oct 4 for that, I hear.

[Hurlshort]

I enjoy my Galaxy S8. It ridiculous how efficient my battery is.

[Gfted1]

Cant wait for my Iphone X. Come to papa!

[ShadySands]

Google is overnighting me a free replacement phone even though the warranty is expired on my current phone. I have the protection plan or whatever they sell but there is a deductible for that so the customer service rep was just like **** it have a new one for free and I couldn't say no to that.

[Keyrock]

I don't understand the appeal of top of the line extremely expensive phones. What exactly do $600 phones do that my $80 LG Stylo 2 doesn't? All I really care about is having a halfway decent camera (which I do). Beyond that, all phones make calls, text, and run google maps just as well as any other phone. What do you get on a $600 phone that you don't get on a $100 phone? A nicer shell? I use a wallet case, I never see the shell. A higher resolution screen? Do you really need anything above 720p on a screen thst small? I won't give you the myth about the human eye not being able to tell the difference beyond a certain pixel density, but at a certain point you get insanely deminishing returns for a hefty markup. The ability to play ****ty mobile games with shinier graphics? WOW! Candy Crush at 4K, what a time to be alive.

Edited September 14, 2017 by Keyrock

[ShadySands]

For me it's just a shiny new toy* and I have no problems admitting that

 

 

*to also include cars, guns, and computers and anything else where there is a much cheaper option that provides the same basic functionality

Edited September 14, 2017 by ShadySands

[Hurlshort]

The phone usually comes with the plan, for me.

[Gfted1]

Im with Shady, I unashamedly like new toys. Plus, I cant be expected to unlock my phone with my figerprint when I can do it by looking at it! Im not some cavemen over here!

[Bokishi]

I'm down for an iPhone X, time to upgrade from my 2 yr old iPhone 6s+

[Malcador]

The way they cut support for older models is one issue.

[injurai]

  On 9/14/2017 at 5:41 PM, Gfted1 said:

Im with Shady, I unashamedly like new toys. Plus, I cant be expected to unlock my phone with my figerprint when I can do it by looking at it! Im not some cavemen over here!

 

So you're trading in someone stealing your fingerprints to someone stealing your face... seems risky.

[Gfted1]

I hadn't thought of that...

 

One cool feature that Ive read about, is that FaceID will not work when your eyes are closed. So no more worrying about random strangers entering my house while I'm asleep and accessing my phone. Phew, bullet dodged.

[injurai]

I think Apple has a hard time doing it's format without acknowledging jobs. If they deviate the lose what he brought to the company, if they don't references him it all feels like a simulacrum. As far as the presentation, it all has to be practiced, it has to mostly be business/tech people leading the whole ordeal. The business people have to reach tech people, the tech people have to reach business people, but most of all the non-business/non-tech people need to be reached. Most of what apple does is taking impressive underlying tech that the industry at large is working with, and apply it in a salient, fun, gimmicky way that everyone could immediately appreciate. If they add some neat machine learning tech to drive some internal smarts, they will bootstrap it onto emojis so it can market itself to people who don't care about the gory details.

 

I've gotten less cynical about what people do as I get older and more cynical about the reasons that leave people with little choice. Apple at or near market cap has essentially imprisoned itself and it doesn't know where else to grow. It's the same problem with Google.

[Amentep]

  On 9/14/2017 at 7:21 PM, Gfted1 said:

I hadn't thought of that...

 

One cool feature that Ive read about, is that FaceID will not work when your eyes are closed. So no more worrying about random strangers entering my house while I'm asleep and accessing my phone. Phew, bullet dodged.

 

Can't they just hold the phone in front of your phase and yell "boo!"?

[ManifestedISO]

  On 9/14/2017 at 5:25 PM, ShadySands said:

For me it's just a shiny new toy* and I have no problems admitting that

 

 

*to also include cars, guns, and computers and anything else where there is a much cheaper option that provides the same basic functionality

 

Is the Model 3 going to materialize this year ...

[ShadySands]

  On 9/14/2017 at 8:39 PM, ManifestedISO said:

 

  On 9/14/2017 at 5:25 PM, ShadySands said:

For me it's just a shiny new toy* and I have no problems admitting that

 

 

*to also include cars, guns, and computers and anything else where there is a much cheaper option that provides the same basic functionality

 

Is the Model 3 going to materialize this year ...

 

I wish but I'm on the bottom of the list because I kneejerkedly (I'm just going to call that a word) cancelled my initial reservation when I got laid off last year

[majestic]

  On 9/14/2017 at 8:07 PM, Ben No.3 said:

I did watch the apple presentation yesterday. To be honest, what it reminded me most of was some sort of sect... the speakers were using a very specific language and very specific gestures and mimic. It started off with an in memoriam to Steve Jobs which almost felt like what we call Götzenverehrung (which kind of means idol worship, but has a different tone to it because "Götze" is a demeaning word for a different (as in, different from your) god,) especially considerinh their language and gestures mimicked Jobs. The products were presented not as technical gadgets or even as lifestyle gadgets but as life changing or at least life forming wonders. Heck, they sought to present themselves as a fundamentally life changing force; in the beginning they mentioned how they now call apple stores "apple townsquares". Think about what that does rhetorically... it incorporates what actually is a shop into everyday language as a normal gathering place, not unlike the word "church". And lastly, it is all about getting money from its worshippers, like a sect.

 

And yes I am writing this from my iPhone SE, why do you ask?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpF0MRGwOQA

 

[redneckdevil]

Lack of sleep, been up all night on the phone with my daughter and her mother. I'm getting sick and tired of lil kids and teachers.

My daughter has unfortunately inherited my speech problem so last year she was bullied quite a bit, to the point the 9 yr old lost weight and depressed. Had her come up and spend a whole summer with me and her brother, to see her but also positive reformcement. Made huge progress with her, tried to help her out and give her truth and tried to strengthen her. Hell got her back to happy and eating to where she is healthy looking.

New year at school, and now not only has she been bullied for her speech again (which she has made leaps and bounds, I'm very proud of her), but now she's getting picked on because she's "fat". She's nowhere near fat, she's not skinny af anymore.

Of course teachers do not do anything, since they do not want kids acting on their own but instead going to others for help. I have instead taught her to stand up for herself. While it goes against the teaching at school, which hasn't helped her but made it more difficult because tattling brings retaliation, I've told her I will have her back and not to worry what school can do to ya, I will have her back IF she is int he right.

We took her outta school when the school has failed to even have the councilor talk to her, and gets in trouble from the teacher for standing up for herself since her teacher hasn't done anything at all.

So now, lack of sleep and working and taking a break from looking up homeschool requirements and etc for her state.

It sucks because I've been thru the same as her, and I can help. Sadly I know my help isn't gonna be 100% because I'm a guy and she's a girl and I know socially and thinking and etc are different. Granted man or woman or whatever, a good fist fight is usually a great way to end bullying imho, making someone work for it usually helps end it and prevents others.

Good times, good times. **** lil kids and those types of teachers.

Thank God Almighty she's got my stubbornness. She's alright now and looking forward to not going to school. Gonna be taking her to the park more in afternoons and skating and etc. Video games are very helpful to escape. Sucks giving truth and knowing it's not gonna fully sink in til later in life.

Edited September 15, 2017 by redneckdevil

[Malcador]

Good luck to your kid. Is sort of good to learn to deal with **** sooner than later, but stilk sucks the teachers don't help.

 

Heh, remember one kid watching a bully choke on a bone or something and not help. Later told the teacher that he was ok with watching that dude die

[ShadySands]

  On 9/14/2017 at 5:08 PM, ShadySands said:

Google is overnighting me a free replacement phone even though the warranty is expired on my current phone. I have the protection plan or whatever they sell but there is a deductible for that so the customer service rep was just like **** it have a new one for free and I couldn't say no to that.

Got my replacement set up and my old phone wiped and ready to go out

[Keyrock]

Childhood can be rough, same with parenting.  Hang in there, redneckdevil, you and your daughter will get through this and emerge all the stronger for it.

Edited September 15, 2017 by Keyrock