I've uninstalled a number of apps for doing that. Once they start mixing spam with relevant notifications -- especially if it's an app that depends on relevant notifications -- I'm out.

Sometimes you can't uninstall apps, like Samsung's junk and Bixby notifications that I have exactly negative-infinity use for. I recently discovered an app called Buzzkill[Android] that lets you manage notifications EXTREMELY GRANULARLY and how to (automatically) respond to them, such as dismiss them sight-unseen or perform another action. It is a paid app but cheap, does what it says on the tin, and has been a personal QoL upgrade.

Your description of that deal doesn't really add up. If you're putting down $300 and paying $33/month, that's just buying a phone.

Yes, but if you have a two year old iPhone then they give you a $300 credit for trading it in. And you're already paying $95 a month (to cover your two year old phone), so the monthly cost ends up being the same. And the only alternative the salespersons will mention is buying the iPhone outright for $1200. So people think they are getting a deal (when they're actually just financing a phone over two years with an overpriced plan)

Micron Computers had a fantastic website, with a no-frills configurator that let you customize nearly every component. They also offered solid upgrades to sound and video cards, and even Trinitron monitors.

They were like an unpretentious Falcon Northwest.

This is literally just a gun strapped to an RC toy. It has about as much combat utility as a Roomba with a knife on it.

Grad student: Look guys I built a little plane

News office: MIT SUPER-SCIENTIST INVENTS AIR TRAVEL

I assume it's just people being impatient. Using a lower powered charger is arguably better for battery longevity.

It's based on news articles, so I've found it helpful in the final stages to switch from guessing words with similar meanings to guessing words you might see together in a headline. For example if you've got "rescued" you might go in the direction of "mountain" or "accident" rather than "assisted," "helped" etc.

But also I stopped playing because it wasn't fun anymore.

It's also not unheard of to enter a valid phone number and get a message that the number has been used too many times and is no longer valid for 2FA.

I'm not sure why people keep asking about this -- it was a transparently desperate ploy by the defendant to portray themselves as victims, and it didn't work.

People kept asking because the original article doesn't address the "violence" accusation at all. It does link to one that does, but while I do think it's reasonable to expect commenters to have read the article, I don't think it's reasonable to expect that they also followed every link and read all of those articles too. The other article link that provides the information came after the thread had already developed quite a bit. It might be helpful to look at the time timestamps on the comments.

It does sound like the violence accusation was a BS excuse, so the original anger is justified. But gathering all information before grabbing a pitchfork is a responsible thing to do.

If all you want is a low-resolution monitor with good color calibration you can pick up an old Cinema Display for a couple hundred bucks that will do the same thing.

Not really. Those things were TN and they had CCFL backlight which yellows over time.

You must be thinking of another brand. Apple has never sold a Cinema Display with a TN panel, and the later ones were LED backlit.

Really? I thought IPS didn't even exist in those days.

But I still doubt they manage the same quality and colour depth as a current midrange display. I have some old Eizos from that era and they're no match for my 200 euro 4K LG.

They weren't IPS though but PVA..

The original cinema ones were IPS with ccfl that get hot enough to cook with.

When we replaced all of our Cinema displays and 2010-2012 iMacs, the next big request that followed was for space heaters.

I believe that, I had two of the 30in variety (150w a pop) - in the summer I had to run a fan across them to not feel like a rotisserie chicken.

I'm not sure you know how built-in hardware calibration works. A built-in arm on the CG swings out at a set interval and automatically creates a LUT for the screen.