Recently, I had dropped my phone, and the screen shattered, like absolutely shattered, causing the screen to blackout. $100 later, I had it fixed only to have the entire phone die on me due to a motherboard issue, which I could have guessed was coming sooner or later by the fact that the phone kept dying on me.
Now, I had a dilemma. Should I do the same thing I did when purchasing this phone and buy it at full price, or should I buy the previous generation phone at half-price? The tech nerd in me said to buy the…
So, I have had Mint Mobile over three years now, and I feel like the quality has dropped severely over that time. I first got it in college, and I have recommended it to many of my friends over the years. And, also full disclaimer, this might be because of the merger than Mint Mobile themselves. However, I feel like I have to vent and talk about how bad this has gotten.
First, the amount of calls dropped is horrendous. On some days, I cannot even maintain a conversation. I once had a call drop twice within a critical phone…
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With Waymo (an Alphabet (Google) subsidiary) now testing cars with families in Phoenix, along with many others, the first real possibilities of you, your family, and your friends going for a ride in one of these vehicles seem more and more plausible by the day. Sure, there is still a multitude of issues that face these vehicles, including bad performance in rain and snow, among many things. Yet, public testing indicates a level of confidence never seen before in these vehicles. Waymo is not the only one. Volvo is also testing the same at its Swedish headquarters in Stockholm…
So, the Disney-Fox deal is close to closing, pending regulatory confirmations from EU and a few other countries. So, what happens now? Some of this is known, and some of this is guesswork. So, let’s take a look at each of the Disney and Fox divisions and see what happens in the future.
The story with Lucasfilm is simple: they gain all the distribution rights to anything Star Wars, and we can now watch Episodes I-IX all on the Disney streaming service. The changes at ESPN are simple as well; it remains the sports powerhouse that it has always been…
So, you want to buy a hard drive or multiple hard drives in a single purchase. You might be building a gaming or media PC and need all of the storage that you can get. And, with 4K (possibly in the future 8K) monitors, you need all the storage space you can get to buy beefier and more graphics-heavy programs. And, SSDs are now much cheaper than they have ever been before (especially with Intel’s new 660P series that is $200 per TB). However, you might need multiple hard drives for all that games you and your friends play. I…
Recently, I had a chance to look at this article on Github, (weird place to put an article, but okay. It was titled, “Go is not good.” And, it describes a trend of Well that was succinct and to the point. So, this is a counterargument to that article. I have done two projects in Golang, so I’m knowledgeable about the language, its benefits, and drawbacks. …
So, my last post was broad in its financial advice. This is the first of very specific financial advice. I went into this a little bit in the last one, but this one will go much deeper into the what and why. Much of the information that I get from this article is from The Points Guy blog, which is a great blog on all things credit cards. If you are looking for more credit card advice more akin to your situation, look at his blog for more information and advice.
So, in future sections, I will talk much about…
So, you have recently graduated and you’re looking for financial advice and do not know where to start. There’s many places to begin, but I hope I can give an overview. I was going to give specific advice such as which credit cards to get, but that changes over time, and there are better resources for that. So, I’m going to rather give you the resources to get much more specific advice and tools and you can use those to make the financial decisions you need. So, I’m going to give a step-by-step guidance on what to do now that…
I have been a big proponent of capitalism and letting the free-market run things. I have also been a big proponent of environmental regulations, which is why when the Obama regulations of fuel economy was released, I was a huge supporter of it. But, with Trump threatening to end his support of those regulations, I surprisingly do not care about it. And, there is one simple reason for it: car manufacturers will continue to care, especially when the impetus is on them to care.
With the advent of driverless cars, car manufacturers are slowly becoming ride-hailing services and that is…
In April 2015, Google announced Project Fi to much fanfare and high reception over its pricing. It seemed so simple: $20/month for unlimited talk, text, MMS, and $10/GB of 4G LTE data. No gimmicks, no hidden fees or surcharges. The price on the page was literally the price you paid (except for some minor taxes and fees), but those were so small that they were insignificant. Many people applauded Google for giving them such cheap, no-frills pricing for access to two networks, Sprint and T-Mobile. …
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