Very cool, I absolutely love the copland/system7/8/9 look. For some reason I'm more skeptical of something like this than grassmunk's Platinum9[1] theme or the like. I have an old macbook with mint(?) and this theme on it, but it's so out of date that I'm scared to use that too.
Underrated approach. Even if the screens are a tad more expensive by today's subsidized standards. There are also many FHD and 4k non-smart TVs on the second hand market, with many given away for free on your preferred marketplace website.
MicroCenter does this. Why do I need to give my phone number for a $2 audio cable? The poor girl at the register started breaking down when I put a 555 number and made me change it to a fake number she couldn't recognize as fake.
Once in a while I had a little fun with this type of thing, back when it was just starting to become a thing:
"Can I have your phone number?"
"I'll trade you, you give me the CEO's phone number and I will give you my number. I may want to call him/her to check on deals or if I have problems with the product."
I stopped buying from amazon (except books tbh) a long time ago. The thing that really did it for me is the price of cables. Where before it would be e.g. $5 for a cable plus shipping ($4-5 or so) now it's $9.99 with PriMe ShiPpIng if you pay the hundred dollars plus per year for it. Two cables? That's $20 now, and you can't exactly combine free shipping.
In addition, whenever I pass a SKU and exact model number to purchasing, they inevitably buy the wrong item, because the search page is actually just advertisements and not search results.
The compulsory combined bins where an official seller shares a shipping pool with less reputable ones which put in counterfeit items so that unsuspecting customers pay full price for an item just to get a knock-off is another stupid little trick they do and then take NO responsibility for it.
Amazon is an ugly platform now and I avoid it at low cost.
It was my mistake for recommending Amazon to people before. It was my mistake for recommending Google Chrome to people in the same way. And Apple products. I do not make this mistake anymore.
imho it's a mistake to let a script take the place of an employee instead of enabling the employees already with the company to leverage said scripts in order to compound their skills and knowledge.
So if enough 737's crash into the water Boeing will start making submarines? Product managers deserve a special express queue when in line for the Warm Place.
>In 1968, Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive. [...]
>Post-its were launched across the United States in 1980.[20][21] The following year, they were launched in Canada and Europe.[22] Post-it Notes as we know them were patented by Fry in 1993 as a "repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet material".[23]
The first thorough research went into them when looking for new clear plastics, and this route of making them was ruled out because it would rather stick to everything than ease the production of objects with nice optical properties. The story goes, it was so annoying to work with that it was initially shelved, and only years after being considered again and ruled out again for a different project, the utility of its reliable and fast bonding was fully appreciated.
My options are essentially Kang and Kodos[1] when it comes to smartphones, but I think this has finally pushed me to go get a flip phone and be done with the insanity.
I'll probably still keep one or two around to check mobile viewport on stuff I'm making. MFA/2FA is probably going to be a pain also.
[1]https://github.com/grassmunk/Platinum9
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