It’s a big deal because GOOGLE!

“many cultures find the idea of handkerchiefs repulsive”

Personally, I also think that the idea of quick charging is an instance of companies chasing the wrong tech. The only reason there’s consumer demand for quick charging is because we need to charge our phones in the middle of the day. When you plug your phone in at 11PM for the night, no one’s frustrated because their…

So it feels like this idea of including both adds complexity, cost, and apparently risk to the phone, in order to add a marginal benefit to a rather small portion of the consumers.

It’s not Fire Emblem without Permadeath. I’m sorry it just isn’t.

You don’t actually have to pull out your phone if you have an Android smartwatch. Just swipe to the left and hit reply, then it’ll prompt you to talk but you can swipe up and get some quick reply options like “Yes/No”, “Can’t talk now” and a few others. It’s come in handy pretty often for me.

Only reason I drive a pickup truck is because a comparably roomy car (I’m 6' 4" and 300 pounds) would have cost easily $10,000 more than my F150 did. Also, I hate fucking Front Wheel Drive.

...I don’t get it. These days, thanks to digital distribution, PC games go on 75%+ sale all the freaking time, just a few months after release, and you get automatic patches and updates.

My company’s plan is like this. The PPO and High deductible have the exact same network of doctors, no referrals needed. The PPO premiums are almost double the HD. Our in network deductible is 2000/4000 out. My work gives me 850 in HSA toward deductible, so my max exposure is only 1150 out of pocket(besides…

More like you DEFINITELY need a budget if you don’t have much money.

My company had three plans and the middle one is like that. I just can’t see any advantage to it. As far as why companies offer it. Lots of people are scared of high deductible plans. If you usually blow through a lot of medical care in the first quarter of the year, then all of those bills are so them. For someone…

I understand that Feedly natively support Chrome Custom Tabs. But not all apps do that (yet). Chromer fixes that by enabling you to use Custom tab even though the app has not implemented it. For example, you can open a link in hangouts in custom tab even though hangouts did not implement it.

Yes. I mean the damn thing only has 32GB storage max, and some of that is system files.

That is about the conclusion I came to as well. It went from a relatively quiet anti-virus prog, to ultra-upsell-annoy-the-sh*t-outta you program that rarely found anything.

Does it do this by default? Because if so, the proper reaction should be “uninstall”, not “turn it off”. That’s a pretty big violation of trust, IMO.

You know what? You’re right. I’ll update the post to reflect this. It looks like I was mixing up the 2014 and 2015 version. You are correct that the 2014 Pure Edition Moto X (ugh) would not activate on Verizon. It would activate on AT&T, though, which means if you bought it from AT&T you got screwed on the updates.

I think most people would agree that Congress isn’t doing their job, but it’s important to point out that the blame should not be distributed equally. Right now the Republican party, held hostage by their more conservative wing, blocks anything resembling good government from passing, even if it was their idea to…

The Republican party I know would never disenfranchise the poor...

Same here. In my first post-college job, I barely knew what a 401(k) was other than something you used to help save for retirement. My parents advised me to sign up immediately and contribute enough to get the match, then wait to contribute more until my I got a few paychecks under my belt and had a better handle on…

It really helps when the company offers a plan and matching. I was reading something recently that pointed out how much more people have saved in general because their employers had automatic contributions set up as a default. (Not to discount your wise decision to participate and get the match, of course)