My wife was a journalist in SoCal a while back. She did a story on some women prisoners that were used to assist in firefighting.

They worked alongside Cal Fire. It was rough work, they were right there in the shit.

She can’t recall if they were paid anything extra but she does remember that they ALL volunteered for it. They actually loved it.

He takes credit for the sponsor’s donation. So I would argue it is worse.

To your argument, Kim Kardashian has actually helped people, she has helped get innocent people exonerated and released from prison.

I would argue her charitable work is VASTLY more substantial than Mr. Beasts’.

Having said that… They are both terrible people and the world would be a better place without either one of them. They are both absolute whores for attention and could have achieved the same amount of charitable service without throwing themselves in front of a camera for it. Arguably stealing attention away from the people that did the actual work.

Is this Lindsey Graham, floating an argument to TRUMP, to support Ukraine, or is this Lindsey Graham introducing a narrative pathway for Trump SUPPORTERS to support Ukraine?

FYI, this is a troll.

Thank you!

When that major drama unfolded with him getting booted then re-hired. It was super fucking obvious that it was all about the money, the data, and the salesmanship He is nothing but a fucking tech-bro. Part Theranos, part Musk, part SBF, part (whatever that pharma asshat was), and all fucking douchebag.

AI is fucking snake oil and an excuse to scrape every bit of data like it’s collecting every skin cell dropping off of you.

Most schools make you buy a clear backpack, so they wouldn’t be able to use these anyway.

What you said:

“the battery of the Pixel sucks balls.”

I was shocked because I took you at face value and thought maybe I got lucky with mine.

Then you started talking shit about your phone working for weeks at a time and and I thought, “Who has a smartphone that works for weeks at a time without charging?”

So I looked it up. You basically have a special use phone with a battery twice the size of everyone else’s. Then you get on a thread talking about Graphene OS and say, “Pixel batteries sucks balls.”

Then to try and support your argument, you pull up a review that just says it “doesn’t quite live up to the standard”

From the article YOU posted:

“The average result for smartphones on our test is to post a time that’s just shy of 10 hours.”

The Pixel 8…posted a time of 9 hours and 50 minutes on our test."

So the worse thing you can say is the Pixel’s batteries are average.

So like a typical redditor, you’re just shooting your bitch mouth off, half cocked, spouting bullshit, pretending you know what you’re talking about.

If you were really trying to be informative, you would have said something along the lines of, “There are phones that are designed to have much longer battery life. But oh yeah, almost every other feature will be worse.”

But you said, “PIXEL BATTERIES SUCK BALLS”, and then provide a review that places them right at the average.

You started this conversation. Think about that next time you want to post something stupid

For the record, I looked it up. The pixel falls in line with most other mainstream phones. Depending on the model it can be in the lower half, sometimes upper half, but always top ten.

Your phone seems to be specifically designed for ruggedness and battery life.

In fact of all the reviews I can find, about your phone they essentially say: it works ok as a phone but hey, I can throw it against a wall and it has awesome battery life.

So calling out the Pixel specifically and using the Oukitel as a metric is just straight up fuckery.

That’s the kind of crap that needs to be left on Reddit. Go back there to post your gatekeeping bullshit.

I disagree. I think that claiming something “sucks balls” because it will only last two days of normal use before dying, if you don’t charge it all all, is absolutely ludicrous.

If I just text and leave my screen dim, I could get a whole week out of my phone. But that’s not why I got a smart phone. I got a smart phone so I could use it, not see how long I could get the battery to last.

Great. I don’t need that. That’s not even close to a selling point.

I guess if I needed to hike without a power source for a week, it would be.

I’ve almost never had an issue. Like ever, unless I forget to set my phone on a charger when I went to bed. And even then, it would just be in the single digits by the end of the second night.

I think I’ve had my phone die on me twice since I’ve had it (Pixel 6 Pro).

I would be willing to pay an initial setup fee followed by some maintenance fee. I would expect the initial fee to be significant due to a custom setup/requirements. (I am talking just setup, not cost of hardware/ physical installation).

Unique home network with 2 managed switches.

Self hosted security DVR, automated computer backup, photo backup, network drive for document storage and then self hosting a Jellyfin server along with a torrent service.

(I am sweating just thinking about trying to set that up)

Storage will be a RAID setup where I can just upgrade by throwing a new drive into an open slot and replace (as necessary) existing drives by just swapping them out and server automatically handles the data management.

I have a VAGUE idea of what that takes

Maintenance would cover service calls to resolve problems due to security updates/patches, end of life upgrades, normal planned maintenance type of stuff.

User caused issues should be extra :) (i.e. I was just trying to install a Minecraft server)

Couple hundred bucks, at least, for setup. And that seems cheap.

I would pay $10-20 a month for a maintenance fee after an initial setup fee.

I would MUCH rather give my money to an individual sysadmin than a corporate megalith that will use my membership to force an arbitration clause to any future service of theirs I use. Fuck the mouse. Fuck em all. I tried to do it right and that still want enough for them.

I would be happy if I could pay you to just set up and periodically check my setup. I only say that because I would probably want to put together something that cost more than $150. But I am absolutely overwhelmed by what I don’t know. Every tutorial I read gives me more questions than answers.

I just want to self host, share it with a close circle of friends, and keep everyone else’s noses out of my business.

I have a Pixel 6 Pro too and was considering upgrading.

The forced ai integration is a huge turn off for me though and I am considering using this to finally make the leap to graphene.

You wouldn’t happen to be considering that as well, would you?

Uh, go back to reddit, I guess?

I agree somewhat with your post but this comment is utter nonsense. Diet has everything to do with it. Calories in, calories out is an immutable fact. The law of conservation of mass. However, not all calories are equal.

Obesity IS unhealthy. There are no two ways about it, but people just blame the individual, saying you just need to eat less, or or exercise more, are genuinely stupid.

There are many root causes. Modern diets are absolute garbage for one. Mass production of foods, fast foods, sedentary lifestyles from young ages, poor eating habits, etc… has absolutely fucked a lot of people.

Cravings can be addictions.

The body can quite literally work against itself. The brain can be so self destructive (which seems so ironic to me).

The world compounds that by creating body dysmorphia, either through transphobia, or celebrated body types that are unobtainable without great genetics and constant training (whose got time for that, do I really need a 6 pack?).

You don’t need to be fit to be beautiful, but don’t conflate that with “obesity is not unhealthy”, because it is.

Extra weight on your your hips and legs will wear them out quicker. It pushes on your lungs and makes it harder to breathe. It makes your heart work harder to pump blood throughout your body.

I know from personal experience. It was terrible.

High cholesterol, high blood pressure… these things WILL kill you.

Being a healthy weight, everything just feels better. More energy, moving around, getting up, sitting down, I go on and on.

My point is:

People are fat phobic and super fucking ignorant about it. There are.mamy causes, and sometimes people get given a really unfair dice roll, both environmentally and generically.

But obesity is still unhealthy, and if you are obese, I hope you can find something that works for you.

I used to agree with this until I got hit with PTSD.

Then I had cravings that were next to impossible to say no to.

I wouldn’t even be hungry and I’d be screaming at myself internally that I didn’t even need this, and yet I wouldn’t be able to stop.

Ultimately my therapy and medication was able to help stabilize and, almost like magic, I could say no again. My Dr said it it is literally an addiction.

People will always judge and OP is ignorant AF.

It also doesn’t help that modern diets are built on mass production and mass consumption of sugars which isn’t good for us.

This is a TERRIBLY written article.