What difference does it make? Even if the Huawei phone is doing surveillance on its own (and no one credible has ever come up with evidence that this is the case, even though it would be easy to discover), it's got WeChat on it which we know scans every possible Android location and network API all the time and is in constant encrypted communication with the mothership.
Maybe he can save a little time at the border by buying the phone that already reports back to the Communist Party, avoiding the hassle of having the border agents install the spyware while you wait.
If throwing a burrito is an act of violence then throwing a milkshake is too - yet the left openly advocates for this and has yet to face any consequences. A journalist, Andy Ngo, was suffered a brain hemorrhage because antifa terrorists in Portland are mixing quick dry cement into their "milkshakes". How far are we going to let this go before we return to civility?
To be fair what PC company does not have horror stories when it comes to customer service? The only exception I've personally experienced is Dell enterprise support, but that's a far reach from what any consumer will have.
In college, I worked at my school's IT helpdesk, and have bought Latitude and Vostro models ever since. Next Business Day support, no questions asked. You don't have to be part of a corporation to get that level of service. I had a busted heat sink on my cheap $500 vostro, and they sent a technician over to fix it.
That's true.
If I had an SV engineer salary I probably wouldn't think it too much.
But the cheapest MacBook Pro is a quarter of my yearly earnings, so right now I will choose what is cheaper to maintain.
Strictly when it comes to customer service? Maybe Razer?
Their prices are definitely horror inducing for some of their peripherals, otoh...but that’s probably applicable to a large part of the “gaming peripherals” market.
YMMV? I have the last generation blade laptop, and granted Ive only had two tickets opened with support but they were (at least in my experience) surprisingly fast and on the money with both experiences.
I didn’t want to speak for everyone so that’s why I posited the italicized “Maybe” because PC support is like throwing darts at a dart board.
If you go to the Razer subreddit, there's reasonable consensus that buying from the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, etc. is highly recommended for the extended warranty, which you will have a high chance of using if you regularly game on it.
Interesting. Both of my problems were hardware related (usb port and a power adapter), but I wouldn’t consider myself a “hardcore” gamer, I bought my Razer Blade to play a specific game (The Dishonored trilogy) at the time because I travelled quite often for work and had the disposable funds for it.
Maybe I got extremely lucky with my build, who knows.
Sucks to hear other people are having such a frustrating go at things. Price aside I’ve had a pleasant experience with Razer.
In my experience Razer is both good and bad - good because literally any issue you have with your laptop they will just offer to replace it, bad because the replacement can take 4+ weeks. I'm also slightly worried that it's literally impossible to buy any replacement parts from them, if the need ever arises. From companies like Dell or HP you can order literally any part, down to individual switches, if you know the part number.
It does seem like Macbook Pros have been on the decline. But this new Mac Pro feels like Apple turning back to the workstation use case anymore, especially with a quad-GPU option. I'm hoping the departure of Jony Ive will turn the Macbook Pros back in the right direction.
Even if that's true, people on the right seem to be more likely to actually follow threats with physical violence. At least this is the case in Germany where the deaths caused by right-wing extremism since the beginning of the 90s number more than a hundred, while there have been only two deaths since 2001 caused by left-wing radicals. Unfortunately the article I read on this didn't have numbers for left-wing violence in the 90s, but I doubt they would make up for this significant difference.
All these salty comments remind me how many bitter people in this industry take every opportunity they can to dump on other people who are actually making meaningful progress towards something.
Whatever you wanna say about Trump, in the end silencing dissent all over the world is not something good. It's good that someone stands up to this before we can't do that anymore.
I was thinking something similar. Trump might not be the brightest person, but he sure can't keep his mouth shut... Which is exactly what we need in this instance.
Maybe there's a gap for some kind of doctor-patient communication application? The idea is a new drug like this comes out and a doctor can go into their system and send some notification to their patients
