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The datacenter meeting for our board was the largest I've ever seen in town. They had to move it to the school auditorium when 1000+ people showed up the first time.
If you could be profitable with 50 customers providing excellent support, you can be MORE profitable spreading that excellent support across a larger customer base.
Just because none of the big corpos choose to do this does not mean it isn't possible. It's JUST greed.
This is how an empire dies. One toilet/park/swing at a time.
You would choose helping save 100 children so you can paint an aircraft pink rather than 10,000 for the same resource allocation.
1. Save/heal/supply as many people as possible. 2. "Make Amends" by painting aircraft pink.
You choose 2.
This is where you and I disagree.
Dismantle the F35s, and drop supplies with a C130 or other military transport capable of airdrop, which will be VASTLY more cost/fuel efficient, thus allowing you to do a lot more of it than you ever could with a fleet of F35s.
Which I'm 95% certain is exactly what the other folks you're arguing with are suggesting.
Don't defend theft/fraud based for billion dollar corporations. It's not a good look.
Technically, sure, but there are jobs that require you to have a phone (at many different career points too), colleges that expect it, and more. And while there may be workarounds, they are often workarounds at someone else's expense, such as asking someone else to check the class schedule or work schedule.
So yes. You don't need to own a smart phone. And you don't need to own shoes. Both will get you (understandable) looks from general society. Both will limit what you can do. Both are somewhat understandable as having become a default, expected thing that people WILL have.
My son is looking for rentals in our same community and the equivalent rental to what I had is now around $3000.
Even ignoring appreciation, in the long term there was a cash flow savings.
Most of the plans I've seen taper off and then become a tax at certain income levels.
The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now.
So support archive.org, and support backups elsewhere.
This policy was meant to make people give up, it's literally anti-support.
I've used this with voip scanners.
It should have happened without death, is all.
I have my own thought and also one in response to the "taking a photo" type tasks.
I'd like a drop down of some tasks I predefined, so I can answer with one of those.
Things like "answering a message" that I can choose instead of entering one. There is occasionally one message with 3 choices, I think, about how this aligns with my goals. So something like that but user defined.
Second thing, maybe a couple of those options could be tied to app launch so clicking it takes you to the common task. For example, "Taking a photo" could drop me right back into the camera app.
Great app, I've been using it all day and just doing so is insightful. And glad this comment chain led me to the "cooldown" function.
Of course, I'd prefer they do that all along.