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Leisher wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:09 pm Ryan Reynolds is rich bitch!
Seriously. Handsome, rich, funny, great wife.

Fuck him! :)
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I look forward to that in the middle of our all company meeting.
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TheCatt wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:56 pm
I look forward to that in the middle of our all company meeting.
Do NOT tell anyone!!! Just let the noise chaos happen.
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Leisher wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:17 pm
TheCatt wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:56 pm
I look forward to that in the middle of our all company meeting.
Do NOT tell anyone!!! Just let the noise chaos happen.
Oh, that's definitely my plan, see how many people are aware.
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The leaked documents show what customer service reps are being trained to tell users. Instead of saying the price is going up, reps will say, "We are not raising the price of any of our plans; we are moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost." That's the talking point customer service reps are supposed to use if a customer mentions that they saw commercials "about how T-Mobile won't raise the price of my plan."
Umm....

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... rice-hike/
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How is that not fraud?
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You know those very cool commercials for the Google Pixel 8 where people edit their pictures and videos using AI right on their phone?

The phone doesn't do that.
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I hate phone trade-ins. Like 20% of the time something goes wrong. "Oh, we lost your trade in" or it's just late as hell, or something. TODAY T-Mobile acknowledged my trade-in from 2.5 MONTHS ago... After they charged me for a lack of trade-in,, of course.

Fuckers.
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Knock on wood, haven't had a problem with that yet.
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GORDON wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:35 pm Knock on wood, haven't had a problem with that yet.
Every time I've had a problem, it's been resolved, but still. Maybe 20% was high, but def over 10%. "Oh we lost your phone" "Well, f you, it was delivered, your problem now"
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GORDON wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:35 pm Knock on wood, haven't had a problem with that yet.
Ditto, although to be fair, my stuff is all corporate.
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TMobile is one of those "trade in a phone and get a new one with 24 months of credits for 'free' " where you get screwed if they don't get it.

But rather than trade in a solid 1-2 year old phone that is a nice backup to have around, I get < $100 phones off the internet to trade in.
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AT&T had a large outage this morning.

I guess? 73K isn't exactly massive, and yet it's the top story on CNN.

Meanwhile, I report Steam as being down to friends, just because I'm nice, and my sanity gets questioned.

Playing games > phone calls
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This is probably a DUH for everyone on earth, but I just learned I can change back the usage of the power button.... on my latest pixel you need to use two hands, and press/hold two buttons... to power it off. 18 months after I got this one that had this change, I just learned you can change it back to "press/hold power button to get power menu." Sigh.

https://www.google.com/search?q=change+ ... e&ie=UTF-8

edit - here's how to change it on different phones. (Spoiler: Apple sez fuck you)

https://www.androidauthority.com/dear-a ... e-3456098/
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