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i had some sort of samsung galaxy for like 4 or 5 years it did the textng and foruming and phoning i needed and it was really resilient like I threw it on the floor a bunch of times and it would break open and the battery would come out but it would be fine, like one of those nokia phones but with worse battery life and the internet now i got a htc its got a big screen and can do more stuff which is nice but Im not sure im any happier in my day to day life bec ause of it basically slavishly buying new consumer electronics every year is for nerds and people who hate the planet (ie not me)
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:25 |
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Eh I enjoy spending money on things I don't really need and my little section of the planet still seems tolerably habitable so gently caress it, why not?
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:34 |
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actually thats not entirely true ive downloaded tinder and met a german girl which i couldnt have done with my old phone
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:36 |
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ThaGrandCow posted:It's almost as if you didn't go for a gimmick plan and actually just bought a phone and sold it at whichever interval you needed a new phone on craigslist or swappa (1/2/3 years), you might come out ahead. XMNN posted:i had some sort of samsung galaxy for like 4 or 5 years it did the textng and foruming and phoning i needed and it was really resilient like I threw it on the floor a bunch of times and it would break open and the battery would come out but it would be fine, like one of those nokia phones but with worse battery life and the internet there is no big enough
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:37 |
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im sure there is have you tried looking harder
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:39 |
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but seriously the enormous environmental impact of western lifestyles is no laughing matter and the insane demand for labour materials and energy required to support your disposable electronics habit on top of that is egregious and obscene you fucker
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:42 |
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XMNN posted:but seriously the enormous environmental impact of western lifestyles is no laughing matter and the insane demand for labour materials and energy required to support your disposable electronics habit on top of that is egregious and obscene dat blue bubble tho
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:44 |
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a fair point
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:46 |
I buy a decent phone and then I use it until the updates inevitably make it run like rear end and then I buy another one. Typically this is every 2 years or so. The only people I know who obsessively buy phones are either engineer nerds or people who are broke as hell and working some poo poo job and trying to look flashy. One of the engineer nerd people orders multiple phones from Amazon then returns the ones he doesn't like after his own personal evaluation because he's a massive shithead.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:51 |
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Boner Zone posted:dat blue bubble tho So that's why they always wanna go to texts, crafty
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:54 |
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Roylicious posted:One of the engineer nerd people orders multiple phones from Amazon then returns the ones he doesn't like after his own personal evaluation because he's a massive shithead. I know one of these people, he also bought a bunch of MBP peripherals (all Apple-made ofc) like a super-fancy dock and an expensive monitor he doesn't need, with his own money, and brought them in to work He's one of those types of nerd that still lives in an Ikea-furnished college-student-level apartment, eats ramen, and spends his salary on gadgets (mostly Apple products) and a BMW. He did not buy the $10,000 gold Apple watch but talked a lot about how much he wanted it
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 16:57 |
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loquacius posted:I know one of these people, he also bought a bunch of MBP peripherals (all Apple-made ofc) like a super-fancy dock and an expensive monitor he doesn't need, with his own money, and brought them in to work Hahaha what a human being. Please allow me to advertise to the rest of the world how hard I am pining for a gadget that costs $10,000 because it has some gold painted on the outside of it that despite that fact will be obsolete and totally worthless in two years, if that. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Roylicious posted:I buy a decent phone and then I use it until the updates inevitably make it run like rear end and then I buy another one. Typically this is every 2 years or so. all of the IT geeks at my office receive a continuous stream of parcels containing gadgets, I don't get it, just keeping track of it all looks exhausting.
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 19:56 |
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you don't need to keep track of it because after a couple of hours it's just deprecated garbage
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# ? Sep 19, 2016 20:01 |
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loquacius posted:I know one of these people, he also bought a bunch of MBP peripherals (all Apple-made ofc) like a super-fancy dock and an expensive monitor he doesn't need, with his own money, and brought them in to work what is this persons approx. yearly income? just curious
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Eames36 posted:what is this persons approx. yearly income? just curious High five digits, I'm guessing? Entry-level software engineers make enough to afford gadgets and fancy cars if you don't care about living somewhere cool (he did not)
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 12:58 |
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Boner Zone posted:dat blue bubble tho
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 13:16 |
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wanna find this guy and give him all the medals, for bringing so much internet pic joy into my life
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# ? Sep 20, 2016 13:24 |
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lorn Wayne posted:wanna find this guy and give him all the medals, for bringing so much internet pic joy into my life Well his name is Mario Spinetti from New York. Good luck on your search.
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loquacius posted:High five digits, I'm guessing? Entry-level software engineers make enough to afford gadgets and fancy cars if you don't care about living somewhere cool (he did not) Yeah that guy I mentioned that gets multiple phones shipped to him so he can pick his favorite one also spends tons on his car and other gadgets and otherwise lives in a relatively meh area of town (he bought a house there) and lives on Domino's and canned tuna from Costco... $80k-90k/yr I know another one that is a little bit less of a nerd stereotype but he also makes about $70-80k/yr and is perpetually 'broke' because he wastes all his money away on tech gadgets and drinking on the weekends. I'm talking like paycheck to paycheck stressed about paying the CC bill at the end of the month broke... although I'm pretty sure some of his income goes into a retirement account at least. Doesn't even live in a particularly nice part of town - in fact he just moved into some townhouse with 3 roommates. Roylicious fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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