Fear not, this will only be available to the super rich.

However, you will be able to feed your children by selling your organs, so we’ve got that going for us.

Yeah, no shit

Not now perhaps, but then it was. To me. I’d not pay them a farthing now.

100% I did pay for the premium version of Apollo and I absolutely would have paid about £20 a month for access.

It was the #1 most used app on all my devices.

Ok this is an amazing analogy, thank you.

This is a great answer, thanks!

How does the secrets to Russia thing come in?

Ok this makes sense. So they’re committed to Israel and don’t have much choice?

Ok, so it’s a politics thing?

I know, I snorted at that. Oh, shit we’re losing money because we pursued endless growth instead of the UX for customers….quick, uhhh….AI!

That’s a great point!

This is actually a thing. Worked in Apple Stores for years and saw laptops and phones full of rice. Whole grains and bits n bobs.

So before the rice you could actually do a modular repair sometimes. Swap out the battery or SSD.

Whole thing full of rice bits attached to every component? Forget it.

Also, once a device is liquid damaged, often rice will resurrect it but only until the logic board rusts through / goes dry. Copper oxidises over time.

On the other hand, if you can’t afford a repair or swap out, (contrary to popular opinion, Apple sell replacement devices through their service channel way cheaper than new units) rice might give your device a new lease of life. So sometimes worth the gamble.

Edit: missed the D off SSD which kind of changed the context!

Holy shit, thanks for that

First the blatantly incorrect assertion. Then the clueless fumbling to justify it. Now the generic ad hominem attacks.

This is better than a movie… what’s next?

Best. Sauce. Ever.

It took about a year to make a difference for me.

I guess they call it mindfulness practice for a reason

Me too man. I had a really unhealthy Reddit problem.

Theses days, after about an hour of scrolling I’m out of content, which feels sensible.

Dude, my youngest had febrile seizures (she called it “the fast thing” and was scared of it.)

Watching her blink out of reality into…somewhere else for a few seconds at a time was fucking horrible.

I feel you.

Wow, that was a considered and interesting contribution. I learned a lot there.

As other people have pointed out, big companies target an area and set about establishing a monopoly using $$$

Then they realise “huh. There’s not so much profit here in Assfuck, Montana after all.” And make some lame excuse (theft) to pull out.

Citizens get fucked because : capitalism.