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the-future-now:

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life. 

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year.
I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple. 

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years. 

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all. 

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple. 

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

This is called “planned obsolescence” – many companies do it, but Apple has made it into an art. Basically, companies – tech companies in particular – have realized that if their products are manufactured too well, they won’t be able to sell you a new one in three years. So, in order to keep consumers coming back for more, they design your gadgets to “expire” in all manner of ways; Apple is infamous for pushing software updates that render older model phones and computers useless right before releasing a new product so that consumers will be forced to purchase the newest version of a gadget they already have.

The best way to fight back against this kind of wasteful, predatory, capitalistic schlock is to learn more about how your gadgets work so that you can repair them instead of replacing them. This man is doing the Lord’s work.

I get asked a lot in stream about maintaining my 10 year old mac as my main comp and why I won’t be getting a new one when I can’t maintain it anymore. This bullshit is why. I want this here so I can point to it as I divolve into unintelligible on screen ramblings about my adventures in apple upkeep. Get fucked so hard, Apple.

Source: youtube.com

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Cooking and Baking Hacks

That last one is DANGEROUS. I do not need this much power.

^This

Ok, sorry, but I have to reblog this! Definitely trying out the cake mix one!

I’ve been doing the cake mix one for a while ( this post opened my eyes) they taste home made ! My husband is amazed ! I haven’t told him anything, just take the praise 😂

… I can make red velvet chocolate chip cookies?

Saving this list out.

Source: listsoflifehacks

awesome-august:

ioweyouasoul:

LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKERS

SEE THIS WEBSITE? 

ITS CALLED WOLFRAM ALPHA

THIS IS THE BEST GODDAMN WEBSITE FOR ACADEMIC SHIT. FUCK GOOGLE. 

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL LET YOU SEARCH “HOSPITAL BEDS IN CHAD VS. IRAN” 

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AND IT GIVES YOU A STRAIGHT GODDAMN ANSWER 

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED IN DOCTORNESS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES COOL SHIT 

HAVING TROUBLE WITH MATH?

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HOLY SHIT

OR MAYBE YOU WANNA DICK AROUND

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WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

Reblogging to save a life and a gpa

jinwoowoohoo:

chocolate-covered-trash:

if any of y’all stan astro can u reblog this and like recommend music and videos so i can get into them more. mj has already snatched me but i want to love them all tyyyy

Ok I’m back with a bunch of links! You can also find plenty of other awesome Astro crash course posts around here ^^

Original Music:

Astro has 6 albums out, 5 minis and one special (with another special on the way this month!) ((fixed bc i cant count;;;))

The tracks with videos are: Hide & Seek, Breathless, Confession, Baby, and Crazy Sexy Cool 

The title for the special album never got a video, so there’s only the dance practice (all other songs except Confession have practices as well!)

There’s also a special video for a song the boys wrote specifically for Aroha, called You & Me (and it’s the best 💕 )

There’s also an mv for a song from their predebut drama, called Cat’s Eye/Puss in Boots

Their company does a monthly song project called FM 201.8 (similar to SM Station), and 3 members have participated!

Sanha & Billie Acoustie – Because I’m a Fool (no mv)

Moonbin & Weki Meki Suyeon – Language Test (no mv)

Jinjin – Like a King

Covers:

Astro are kings of covers. Here are some~

Shinee – Replay | La Bamba | 2ne1 – Lonely 

They’ve been on Immortal Songs 2 (one | two | three) times and on Sugarman 2 once

Also, before they were Astro they participated in a competition called iTeen Rising Star, where they had to create and perform a new choreo almost every day. You can see a lot of their performances in this playlist

They’ve also done a couple collab cover stages:

KNK/Astro/Snuper – Growl

SBS Gayo Daejun boy groups

Vlogs & Lives:

The official youtube channel as well as the VLive are both treasure troves of good content – if you’ve got the time I would honestly recommend watching all of it haha

You’ll specifically want to look for Ddoca, our boys’ self-filmed series, and Astro Play which is similar but not self-filmed

Also check out the iTeen channel for things filmed as trainees (especially Trainee Funk)

Shows & Appearances:

Astro did 2 predebut shows that really help you get to know the members: a drama called To Be Continued (it’s on netflix too!) as well as a reality show called OK! Ready

In Confession era they did a second reality show called Astro Project (that will hit you in the honey nut feelios)

Earlier this year they did a US fanmeet tour! And the promoter made a short series of their adventures called Astro: Where Have You Been?

They’ve done 2 collaborations shows with the store GS25:

The first details the production of the self-produced drama Boyfriend Milk

The second details the journey of Astro running their own food truck

During Breathless era they appeared on The Immigration (if you like MJ you’ll looove this one haha)

They’ve been on Weekly Idol and After School Club a number of times! 

MJ went to Weekly Idol solo once and it was great

Others of Note:

They participated and won the ISAC aerobics competition two years in a row! First | Second

They’ve done several Mwave Meet & Greets, as well as The Show #FanPD fanmeet (that one’s a must watch)

They went to Kcon LA twice, Kcon Japan & Kcon Mexico once, and they got to do special stages at both LA ones! (first | second)

The Kstyletv video series

KBS World Interview

ASMR challenge

Rocky on Hit the Stage

VCookie specials: Happiness Train | Rooftop Live | Suit Knights

Eunwoo & Moonbin on Liev

This mess

And that’s all I’ll bombard you with haha All of these vids will lead to other good ones in the suggestions, so don’t be afraid to explore! And we’re all here if you have questions or just wanna scream  💕

Tips to learn a new language

darasteine:

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences
The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences
The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences
The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences
The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences
The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences
The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences
The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Source: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that Derek Roger suggested! 🙂

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
     

  • ‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
       
  • Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
       
  • Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
       
  • Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
       
  • Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
       

NOUNS (about 120 words)

  • Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday,
    Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn,
    winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month,
    year.
       
  • People: family, relative, mother, father, son,
    daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend,
    girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman,
    boy, girl, child.
       
  • Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key,
    letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil,
    picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
       
  • Places: place, world, country, town, street, road,
    school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the
    foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
       
  • Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color,
    damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the
    foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page,
    pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather,
    work.
       
  • Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the
    left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread,
    food, paper, noise.
       

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
   

  • General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
       
  • Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
       
  • Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from,
    behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below,
    under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
       
  • Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
       

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
 

  • Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
       
  • Demonstrative: this, that.
       
  • Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
       
  • Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
       
  • Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
       

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
   

  • Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
       
  • Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
       
  • General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot,
    cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful,
    funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty,
    wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new,
    old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not
    dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
       
  • Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful,
    dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid,
    surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
       

VERBS (about 100 words)
   

  • arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow,
    bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop,
    eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to,
    hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know,
    laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live
    (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may
    (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open,
    ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should,
    show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk,
    teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk,
    want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
       

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

  • Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
       
  • Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
       
  • Demonstrative: this, that.
       
  • Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
  • Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
       
  • Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
       

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

  • Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind,
    nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left,
    somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
       
  • Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally,
    again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always,
    often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then
    (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
       
  • Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
       
  • Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course,
    only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too
    (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
       

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

  • Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
       
  • Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
       
  • Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.