MikeFuryTech
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MikeFuryTech
@MikeFuryTech
Systems integration, Mobile Tech, Enterprise systems, SAP, International travel, cooking and photography also pique my interest !
انضم Mayıs 2008
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@HustleBitch_ To be fair my HP ink cartridges last usually 18 months
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🚨 PRINTER INK COSTS $32,000 A GALLON — AND PEOPLE ARE REALIZING THEY’VE BEEN GETTING RIPPED OFF
"This should be illegal."
A man at Target picks up a single black ink cartridge.
Price? $63.
Then he checks how much is actually inside.
About half an ounce.
Do the math.
That puts this stuff at $30,000+ per gallon.
More than a used mobile home.
For printer ink.
And here’s the part that has people pissed:
You don’t get a choice.
The printer is built to force you into their system.
Cheaper ink? Blocked.
Refill it yourself? Disabled.
Wrong cartridge? Printer won’t even work.
So you buy the printer… and then you’re stuck paying whatever they decide to charge.
Over.
And over.
And over again.
A locked system where the product is cheap and the refill is where they get you.
If something costs more than gold and you’re forced to buy it… how is that not a scam?
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The dishwasher broke
My wife said "good thing we have the home warranty"
I said nothing
I've been paying $62 a month for three years for this moment
$2,232 for the peace of mind that when something breaks someone will come to the house and tell me it's not covered
I called
47 minutes on hold
They sent a technician
Arrival window: Tuesday through Thursday between 8am and 5pm
My analyst delivers faster than that
And he still hasn't fixed the gridlines
He showed up Wednesday at 4:47pm
Looked at the dishwasher
Opened the door
Closed the door
Touched something underneath
Said "not covered"
90 seconds
That's faster than my bank lets me prove I'm human
I said "what's covered"
He said "the motor"
I said "what's wrong with it"
He said "not the motor"
I said "convenient"
He said the service fee is $75
I paid a man $75 to open my dishwasher, close my dishwasher, and say two words
My analyst could do that
And he's not even that good
I called the warranty company back
38 minutes on hold
Requested the policy
129 pages
I read all 129 pages
Because that's what I do
The coverage section is 34 pages
The exclusions section is 58
The business model is right there
In the margins
Where nobody reads
Except me
Page 91 says "all mechanical and electrical components essential to appliance function are covered under standard service"
Page 104 excludes control panels
A control panel is an electrical component essential to appliance function
Their own document contradicts itself 13 pages apart
I highlighted both
Sent them an email
Subject line: "Plz fix. Thx."
Attached both pages
No other context
Took them three days to send a technician
Took them 4 hours to call me back when I found the loophole
Funny how that works
They covered the repair
Waived the $75
And I canceled the warranty anyway
Because a contract that contradicts itself isn't a contract
It's a suggestion
My wife said "so we're canceling"
I said "we're canceling"
She said "and the dishwasher"
I said "fixed. They're covering it."
She said "how"
I said "I read the policy"
She said "all 129 pages"
I said "the exclusions section starts on page 47. The coverage section ends on page 34. There are 13 pages between them where they hoped nobody would look."
She looked at me
Then she said "you're unbelievable"
I said "I just saved us $744 a year and got a free dishwasher repair. I'm not unbelievable. I'm thorough."
She looked at the ceiling
The dishwasher works now
The warranty is canceled
And the policy has been read
By at least one person
Probably the first
Make common sense common again
Plz fix. Thx.
Sent from my iPhone
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@SnazzyLabs @mweinbach My own writing (not AI) gets flagged by AI detectors. Confirmed. They are horrible
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@mweinbach Yep. All these AI detection tools are BS anyways.
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I can’t tell if this is AI generated, Apple’s writing style is just like that. This has been their style forever, models get trained on it.
It is VERY specific, once you learn how to read it you can sense it from a mile away
This reads like Apple
Varunram Ganesh@varunram
I couldn't believe this was real so I went to Pangram to check and yeah, its real. Apple couldn't even write a handwritten note for its 50 year anniversary. I'm not against AI assisted content but if a CEO can't write one page to celebrate 50 years of the most influential tech company, the future is very bleak for Apple.
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@Tech_girlll I’ve seen people do development on chromebooks. This is fine
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@FatherChrisVor1 Horse riding at 94? Sounds like he didn’t mind dying. I wouldn’t want to live that long
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@LavaVex @LukeMiani What happens if we use a USB hub on this port ?
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everyone roasting the port setup but not talking about the hardware restrictions that require that... the A18 Pro chip has a SINGLE USB 3.1 Bus... if they did dual 3.1 ports and you had a display on one and an external ssd on the other, it would likely overload the bus and crash the system...
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@LukeMiani How much did they actually save with a USB 2.0 port ?
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@TechnicallyTee I live outside the USA for almost half the year. I’d like to know.
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@OneShadowCaster @LeakerApple Not sure why that would bother anyone. But it is an interesting perspective.
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@LeakerApple it's so stupid to have a computer in a display. I want my display to be dumb. Thanks.
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Can someone explain why the Studio Displays need so much power?
Is it so the connected mac doesn't have to use its CPU to drive the massive 5K displays or something?
Aaron@aaronp613
Here is how much RAM is inside Apple's new displays: Studio Display (A19) - 8GB Studio Display XDR (A19 Pro) - 12GB
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@thecsguy @LeakerApple That was the old monitor. Now we have a shiny new A19. Gloriously overkill.
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@LeakerApple it has an a13 bionic inside just to handle center stage and spatial audio. your monitor literally has more compute than the laptops we were using to ship production code five years ago
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The USS Nimitz gets one last deployment after all.
stripes.com/branches/navy/…
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Cost to fill up a 2026 Honda Civic at these gas prices in LA: $84.80
Cost to fully charge a 2026 Tesla Model 3 at home in LA: $24.60
Cost to Supercharge a Tesla Model 3 in the same area: $39.36
Buy an EV, you’ll have virtually zero maintenance too.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: California gas prices could possibly surge above $8 per gallon, lawmakers and industry experts warn.
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