Posted on 12/27/2023 2:57:47 AM PST by servo1969
SANTA MONICA, CA — A local man was tragically rendered unable to brush his teeth after he mistakenly neglected to pay the monthly subscription fee on his smart electric toothbrush.
"Toothbrush functionality disabled," the toothbrush had chirped loudly after a payment was declined. "Please update your method of payment to continue brushing your teeth."
"This is awful," said Jake Brown, owner of the toothbrush. "Things have just been so busy with the holidays and everything going on, I forgot to make this month's payment on my subscription for my OraDent Max, and now I haven't been able to brush my teeth for weeks! No one in my family wants to be anywhere near me. This is terrible!"
Brown had been the envy of many of his family members and friends earlier this year when he became one of the lucky first owners of the OraDent Max smart electric toothbrush, which features full Bluetooth capabilities, iPhone integration, the ability to sync with the user's contacts list and online music library, and more. "It's the future of toothbrushing," said OraDent spokesman Neil Prince. "No one is going to settle for an analog toothbrush anymore when they can have the world at their fingertips with a smart toothbrush. Cutting-edge oral hygiene will only cost you a $9.99 monthly subscription!"
By failing to keep his subscription paid up, Brown was left without the ability to maintain any level of oral hygiene. "I can't go back to using a regular toothbrush," he said. "What am I, some kind of caveman?"
At publishing time, Brown was reportedly hoping one of his friends would give him an OraDent Max gift card that would allow him to resume brushing his teeth.
I use both, thank God (made web site with them). But to print you must deal with that business model, which is akin to buying a SUV for 18k but having to pay 8k for each replacement tire, and maybe now even by able to use reman carts (disallow updates).
Brother laser using remans fine for me, plus HP 8210 inkjet ($100 renewed). 4 Ebay 952Xl reman carts (with very large black) under $20. I still have many 950 reman carts for my previous 8610, which I suspect a HP update prevented from me using anymore.
I spend just shy of that every month on new toothbrushes.
Excel is great. It is powerful. I liked Lotus in DOS, but that was so many years (decades) ago.
I always believed that all toilets were rear toilets.
The BabylonBee needs to be a nation wide news paper if it doesn’t smarten them up it will make them think about things.
LibreOffice will handle just about any MS documents except the Access Database - old docs can be saved in various Office formats, the Libre Format, or PDF - it even maintains most spreadsheet formulas if you have sheets set up to do math functions.
I’ll have to check it out sometime. My problem with newer apps and programs is that each upgrade loses functionality that’s important to me. Like keyboard shortcuts.
Since DOS, keyboard shortcuts is what I’ve depended on for accuracy and speed. I wouldn’t even know how to perform most functions plodding through menus using a mouse.
Easy enough to load it up and try it - seems to do a clean uninstall too if you decide you don’t like it.
It’s definitely an option to consider under the right circumstances.
Sometime this year I’ll be buying a new Windows 7 PC, and will install this to test.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.