A $200 smartphone isn’t enough for most people. They’ve been sold that ideology but all I see is people struggling with them constantly assuming that’s the best of the future in their hands.
This person gets it. As always if it’s a shit show, charge by the hour and get double time! If it’s easy charge by the job and spend two months getting paid to play solitaire!
In my local market, I prefer a modified version of this.
I buy a second hand last generation Apple device from someone that comes with a year of AppleCare or warranty. I then sell that device and repeat every year or so.
AppleCare does not add THAT much value to devices sold on my local aftermarket, so you get a deal on it.
I’ve had no problems selling anything yet either. Usually goes within 6 hours here at a well inflated price.
I bought an iPhone 12 December 2019 and decided to swap it out for a 13 pro a couple of weeks back for the camera improvements. Apple accidentally refunded the entire AppleCare cost and I sold it for £190 less than I paid for it. So TCO was £16 a month.
With recent iphones I’ve yet to have one that didn’t already have cracks on the back glass around the time applecare was about to end, that seems to immediately qualify for a device replacement.
Also, doesn’t applecare+ cover scratches and dents anyway? They’d probably swap out a perfectly functional phone over minor damage if you insist, never tried that though.
I’m in the UK so I charge the shipping and handling to the buyer, sell on an offer day and there is no sales tax on private sales. Total cost to me is usually £1 to sell it.
Agreed 100%. As a person who writes Go daily, I appreciate that they conformed to well established standards. The crypto is redone in Go which is a little scary, but the author is among the best in the business so I generally trust it.
I think that’s a separate point. It does include a template language because Go is “batteries included”.
You can write productive stuff without having to import any third party packages at all. Everything you need is properly supported by the core team and written to the same standard.
Well the last dude I know who took LSD tried to call an ambulance for a pile of sacks of builders cement and pissed himself. YMMV on that one. There are probably more failures that are not romanticised and more successes that involved hard work.
I’ve spent enough time in fintech to know where this ends.
The interest in it is purely because of the vast problems it creates are opportunities to gain something. These are numerous compared to the roughly single benefit and the technology itself.
It’s yet another market created to manipulate arbitrary wealth tokens. The masters are different that is all.
I did always submit bug reports and patches. Most of the time some GitHub robot closes my ticket or PR after it is ignored for a month. That’s the new status quo: keep your ticket queue short by auto closing it.
