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pre-AI I recall a little gag website based on that in ~2013! https://web.archive.org/web/20210612143916/http://backlabel.... Backlabel threw together a fake product name from a lis…

Slightly mixing up programs there - the initial statement ("your loan will be closed") applies to customers of the current "iPhone Upgrade Program" which is now being replaced by t…

At the same time T-Mobile just announced they're finally going out to 36 month installment agreements on phones. https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/eip-flex-36 ... though cur…

Hospital IT got a call asking where the little binder with the DVDs for the CT scanner were from someone in Radiology 'cause the Siemens tech showed up. No, we didn't have them, an…

Hey now, maybe they can finally figure out how many people get pissed off when they click on the left side of a page when they pull it up to get window focus to scroll and have the…

I was in a shittier financial situation the past several years, finally get things situated to finally be able to buy a miniPC or one of those cool mini-laptops... then the Trump t…

Ford once again getting the messaging wrong and shipping what is essentially a glorified sedan with a useless external 4 foot bed. Why do we have to keep making family-haulers for …

To quote Alito, on Pornhub: "Is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?"

Don't forget Grey Media grabbing the rural circuit. We've been absorbed by Grey and lost so much local news programming while it gets replaced with "must run" soft story segments f…

Oh. Oh no, it's the Bloomberg reporter that keeps getting Apple rumors wrong.

Activation Lock now extends to the serials of the parts inside every iPhone since Apple knows the S/N of everything. If you pull the battery off an Activation Locked phone and put …

there's still a fairly lucrative parts stripping market and there are extreme efforts that are used to "unlock" locked devices - it has been known in the Chinese marketplace that y…

> Because you can't just load your app on iOS - this is just not possible (well perhaps there are a few percent of some jailbroken iPhones, but that is neglibile). No, smart normie…

Looking at the comment in the actual code change: "If we are being asked to delete a system app for just one user set flag so it disables rather than reverting to system version of…

I'd like to see forced legislation requiring marketers to disclose the exact source and campaign they acquired your data in. I've been getting a barage of non-stop harassment via u…

Every single reboot on my lower end Motorola phone, they have decided it fit to re-enable com.glance.lockscreenM every single boot and on every single update. It's horrible . I don…

Apple is equally pointless. They don't remove apps like Facebook or Twitter for displaying CSAM, but apparently ganked Telegram at the first single report of an extortionist trying…

> That cost falls directly on the Winona Police Department’s budget. Nope, Flock bills out the ass for replacement cost right to the taxpayer. The grift continues! Alternatively, "…

> Is Palantir obsessed with medical records? If so why? Daddy Thiel needs a bloodbank. The last one mysteriously died under the guise of a 'suicide'. https://www.inc.com/jeff-berco…

Some day Ann will get her justice and Sam will get thrown in prison. There's only so much smokescreen the golden child can throw out there.

Google can't decide what the hell they wanted a Chromebook to do and IT departments everywhere are fed up with it. Plus I don't think schools are ready to have to deal with managin…

Bingo. Local cop goes in, buddy-buddys with the loss prevention manager, gets access to run plates for the immigration folks outside. "Professional courtesy" strikes again!

> passed down almost like guild knowledge, only within large organizations. That's the part that always killed me about trying to set foot into IBM mainframes. "Ask your system pro…

They were looking for another place they could cram Nano's Banana down people's throats.

I'm also team DXP2800. I was very surprised to see a super rural Walmart have DXP2800s and NAS-grade drives in stock and found out they did some weird partnership to sell UGreen ha…