@stux I got a 200 dollar Huawei phone for the remainder of the contract and that thing remains one of the best smartphones I ever had. I should have done that first time around, rather than playing the ripoff handset game where you give 1000 dollars to some cunting telco for a service they barely provide
@stux The whole thing is an anti-consumer racket.
@stux So I paid about $200 because that was the deductible and fuck the customer. 2 months later, a framed picture fell of the wall and landed squarely on the phone, puncturing the screen. I could not claim again as 'too many claims' anyway this the story of how AT&T lost a customer
@stux I had a Samsung S3 that died just out of warranty; AT&T asked me to handle it as an insurance claim. I protested this was not an insurance matter but they said it was only way forward.
@checkervest He knows it too, the little shit
I’m realizing that growing up as a wired magazine-reading cyberpunk believer— a kid who thought adbusters and the internet could save the world— and then watching as every technological miracle was turned not towards revolution or saving humanity but instead more pernicious and intractable methods of exploitation has made me uncomfortable with technological optimism. “assume all new technology will be used against you” —
I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.
That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.
@h_thoreson I thought the name had a Scandinavian ring to it!
@jwildeboer The one thing I really dislike about blogs is the SEO practice of very long preamble, it can be 500 words before you even get into anything.
@HebrideanHecate @Flick I love those stone walls.
@h_thoreson 'Nebraska, but colder'
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.