Heather and Jamaal gotta pay for gas!
No new iPhones, Nikes or X-box for you!
“I’m good enough and I’m smart enough and doggone it, people like me!”
Given Inflation, I should build a lifetime last Desktop from parts.
Like back in the fun Old Daze.
Well, once everybody has five or ten, that should be about enough.
I have *zero* intention of ever logging into any of our important online accounts with a smartphone. I don't care how safe people think the software is. As such, these phones are still plugging along, with the added benefit of having user-replaceable batteries.
Saw this related item yesterday here
Dumbphone Sales Are Soaring As People Revolt Against “Overwhelming” Smartphones
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4050489/posts
Apparently, there is a big demand for newer and still simple flip phones for those of us with a life beyond our cell phones.
I’m waiting for one that is 5 G, takes a simple picture when wanted and enables me to text and receive texts from adult children and grandkids and friends and repulses/reverses any attempt to con or sell me/us something.
Lock it with maybe a dozen apps. Let it be able to send a 1 or 2 page letter whatever to a simple printer. Or bring back faxes for our one simple phone line as noted below.
Then, keep one separate and simple land line phone to talk to relatives and friends. My wife’s surviving relatives have started doing that, and once a week they call her live on a real phone line. Use call blockers and No More Robo Calls on the sob’s who call and waster our time with B$. Then, get laws passed to charge/fine these bastards with trespassing when they call us to sell us crap, unsolicited.
Companies didn't know how long they'd be working remotely so they bought laptops for home use but kept the desktops in place at the office.
Companies that are keeping staff remote are not replacing the office computers.
Companies that are bringing people back to the office part time are having them drag their company laptops with them and connecting them to a dock at the office workstation.
Many people working remotely aren't using company machines at all but are connecting to the internet with their own computer and then connecting to a virtual machine licensed by the company such as the Windows Azure Virtual Desktop (WVD). A Microsoft WVD license can be $15 to $45 per month depending on performance, and much cheaper and more controllable than issuing employees laptops.