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Cool."I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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Not hard with an iPad. You’ll probably use independently, most for email and web browsing. Maybe sometimes for presentations, like if you’re teaching a lesson in church. They connect with most smart TVs pretty easily.Originally posted by Copelius View Post
I also use mine when I travel. Easy to download shows from Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. and watch on the plane.
if you had a. iPhone, moving photos over to view in the bigger screen is easier.Comment
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I love my iPad. I do most of my reading on it. It goes with me when it doesn't make sense to take a laptop.Comment
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I don’t love this Liquid Glass update. Thumbs down emoji.Comment
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I bought a new ipad that apparently has this, but I don't know what it is. So thumbs to the side emoji.Originally posted by YOhio View PostAin't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
Dig your own grave, and save!
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GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!Comment
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I don’t hate it but it seems really gimmicky and doesn’t add as real benefit that I can tell. It doesn’t make things cleaner, clearer, or easier to use.
I expect it will see some major changes over the next few updates to make it look more “normal”Comment
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It feels a lot like that Windows Vista update from ~2008, with all the transparent graphics.Originally posted by YOhio View PostComment
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Call me crazy, but I kind of dig the new liquid glass. I was expecting to hate it."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creeksterComment
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You better get yourself one of these as well:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/...-carry-iphone/
Only $229.95!!
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What a bargain!Originally posted by BigFatMeanie View PostYou better get yourself one of these as well:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/...-carry-iphone/
Only $229.95!!"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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I tend to agree with this. Maybe my expectations were too low based on what I’d heard onlineOriginally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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This seems like the most relevant thread for this, even though it only indirectly deals with Apple. It seems like OnePlus is about to leave the US. I'm not sure if anyone has ever bought one of these phones, some of you have maybe never even heard of the company.
For the last ten years, I've bought my phones outright and used an MVN0 that piggybacks off of Verizon. Basically that's how everyone outside the US does it. It's saved me easily thousands of dollars, possibly even $10k at this point.
My wife just has an iPhone. I loath Apple on the other hand (variety of reasons). With Samsung the biggest player in the Android space, Samsung, has crappy bloatware and questionable battery longevity. I don't like them.
Pixel phones have the best operating system of any phone along with excellent cameras. But current Pixel phones have these terrible proprietary cpus. Before they started putting in Tensor chips, I had my personal favorite phone ever, the Pixel 2XL. Great battery, great OS, didn't have the crappy Tensor. I also had the last pre-Tensor Pixel with a great battery. But the last 4 years or so of Pixel entered into the current era of bad cpus and questionable batteries. Google has been mired in the 4% market share slum for years. They have a huge opening -- come out with a phone using Qualcomm and put in a robust battery. That's all they need to do IMO. Their OS and camera/photo software are already great. But year after year it's the same story, the Pixel has a critical flaw or two.
This is where OnePlus has come in and it illustrates how important two things are in the US cellphone market -- having ties with the carriers and spending some money on marketing. OnePlus phones have a massively better OS than Samsung. Their top end phone uses the latest Qualcomm chip. Their battery capacity blows other Androids away. Their flagship is massively cheaper than top Pixels and Samsungs. Their midrange is also the best in class in Android and also cheaper.
The problem is they have no relationship with the carriers. They also put very little into marketing. The only reason I even knew about the phone is because reviewers often rave about different iterations of OnePlus phones. I have a OnePlus 12. It's my second favorite after the Pixel 2XL I used for three years. The OnePlus 13 is even better.
Oneplus is reportedly about to bail out of NA and the EU. So US Android users will be stuck with Samsung (and Pixel to a far lesser extent).Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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Mrs. Diddley had OnePlus a couple of times back when I was first using Samsung. Not sure if they've gotten better, but my Samsung was always better than what she had.
It was always dumb to have to disable stupid Bixby along with some other features, but overall I've been happy. I've used the S23 ultra for a few years and just made the jump to the S26 Ultra only because the trade in made it cheap.
I also got the latest ear buds at a steep discount and I am really impressed with the sound quality.
We used MVNo's for a while, but I have a pretty sweet deal with T-Mobile on a military business plan.Comment
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I feel like I need Google Translate to understand this.Originally posted by Bo Diddley View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creeksterComment
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I'm in the S23 Ultra still and not too many complaints. However, as far as alternates to Samsung and Google, my son loves his Motorola. I also went from MVNO to Tmobile, because of the military plan back then was much better. One cannot get a similar plan anymore so we just stick with what we have.“Every player dreams of being a Yankee, and if they don’t it’s because they never got the chance.” Aroldis ChapmanComment
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