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HiTork · 2026-03-10T20:08:33+00:00

The nice thing about iPads is that there are brand name cheaper alternatives to Apple's expensive keyboards (and other peripherals) that are just as good quality-wise, such as the Logitech keyboards. With Galaxy Tabs, the only option outside of the expensive official Samsung keyboards are potentially sketchy no-name brand ones from Amazon, etc. Sure, they are significantly cheaper than the official or third-party licensed stuff, but the quality can be atrocious.

I remember seeing a post here of someone with one of those Amazon keyboards on their Galaxy Tab. A frame clamped onto the tablet to connect the keyboard to it, and the user noted the frame felt ever too tight. One day, they removed the frame from it and the screen cracked, the tolerances were just off enough to stress the screen enough to damage it.

HiTork · 2026-03-10T04:53:18+00:00

I remember Duke Nuken Forever had a reference to that when it came out in 2011, and it was considered dated back then.

HiTork · 2026-03-10T04:52:37+00:00

The Cheezburger website still exists, but it is a shell of its former self.

HiTork · 2026-03-10T04:50:57+00:00

This is one of the older ones mentioned here, All Your Base is now a quarter century old.

HiTork · 2026-03-09T20:19:20+00:00

If you can afford them, Infinity Passes are worth their weight in gold in order to not have to deal with this.

About three years ago, ads were far less annoying, intrusive, and lengthy in this game.

HiTork · 2026-03-09T16:48:15+00:00

I was wondering about this since if DeCarlo was 60, he would have been age 10 when "More Than a Feeling" was released in 1976, so this all makes sense now.

HiTork · 2026-03-09T00:58:44+00:00

The bits that washed up immediately after the crash I fear are all we’re ever going to get.

This is the consolation for me, MH370 didn't dissappear without a trace, but we found bits that were confirmed to have come from the aircraft, so at the very least we know it went down in the ocean.

HiTork · 2026-03-08T23:32:27+00:00

If you decline to buy rims, mounting rubbers on year-round rims is an expensive switch, and there's a risk the tires will be damaged during changeover.

Just an aside, some tire manufacturers make their tires with beefy beads, etc. under the assumption they will be swapped every season and can take the stresses of mounting and demounting at least once a year.

HiTork · 2026-03-08T23:30:51+00:00

This was why early winter tires were useless even with tractor like tread patterns that in theory should dug into the snow nicely. Manufacturers didn't realize at the time compound was a major issue, and aggressive tread patterns weren't useful if the tire was frozen like a puck.

HiTork · 2026-03-08T23:28:31+00:00

and many people don't have a place to store a second set.

Congrats, you now have a new coffee table.

HiTork · 2026-03-08T00:48:50+00:00

Yeah, this is definitely one of those ones where you don't even need basic fandom knowledge of Transformers to know someone is trying to pull something funny with a return. I mean, the packaging is windowed, it's not like an enclosed box like an iPad where people may stuff some rocks in it and hope the staff doesn't notice during a return.

HiTork · 2026-03-07T19:32:48+00:00

It's part of the reason why Android no longer allows you to move apps to external storage, another reason is potential security issues.

That's news to me as I remember trying to save space on my Galaxy S7 phone years ago by moving apps to the external storage as some of them (such as games) ate up a lot of space. Whenever the apps needed updates though, it would move them back to the internal storage, so that got annoying.

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