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I'm not saying they're the same. Wouldn't you think the reviews reflect anything of the quality? If I look at other products else where, a 4.6 rating would tell me a lot about the quality of the product.

I think maybe there's a conflation of ratings and usability of some people.

Not sure what this would accomplish anything positive or these brands would find ways to dodge. And some brands seem to be ok to use.

What about Amazon own brand products? I find it unbelievable with their own reviews and ratings. For example, a Fire HD 8 tablet have almost 120k reviews with 4.6/5 stars. It doesn't make any sense. These tablets are junk quality with crappy software.

I find Costco product reviews are way more trustworthy. Even though they're 3-star, I still buy them sometimes.

I have a 2015 Macbook Pro 15. I had a swelling battery issue twice. My Macbook wasn't part of the battery recall but it had the exact same issue detailed in the recall. The first time I had to call the customer service and in the end they let me be part of the program and replaced it for the 1st time.

The replacement also included a screen replacement that cost $400+. The total cost was ~$600.

However, after exactly 12 months, the battery was swelling again and it wasn't covered any longer because it has passed a few days when I called in.

Then I recently I have both of the Macbook speakers broke and made lots of static sound. It would cost ~$300 to replace them. I'm debating whether I should just buy a new M1 or wait for another M1X coming.

Having & maintaining a Macbook is costly over years. It does break just as often or even more often than my Dell Latitude. And the cost to fix is often in the 5x-10x range.

How about in the cases that they have personal info in sms messages or voicemail? Info got picked up from somewhere?

For the past year, I've been getting random calls and texts from a lot of unknown sources. Many times the callers even spoofed different numbers. And sometimes people call me because they said I called them. I suspect phone user information has been leaking probably in many different ways.

iOS is undeniably the one that would lead and determine how the future would be. In terms of money, iOS makes almost 5x more money than MacOS excluding all the services and wearables the iOS brings in as well. It makes lots of sense to continue invest heavily on iPadOS to attract more advanced users like devs.

iPad Pro M1 is the baby first step to start bringing in more MacOS compatible pieces to iPadOS. Eventually it would suck some or even most of the MacOS users into the iPadOS.

I have this book and I have never looked him up until seeing this post today. All of my three daughters love this book and I didn't quite understand why as I grew up in a different culture. RIP Eric. You've done great work for this world!

The reasons I bought my SE were:

1. being small 2. powerful as the iPhone 6s.

I'm quite disappointed with this. I wish they could have kept the same size and increases the dpi with a big larger screen.

We should be applying a much hefty fine for stock investors or other kinds of investors if this $5k price-gouging is reasonable.

Those are delicious recipes, I might want to try in the future. Thank you.

I have done all of the above except the classical music. I find spending time to do meditation is more useful.

All of the above, I find cooking is an incredible skill that many people underestimate greatly.

Here are the things that I do for my cooking for every week or every two weeks.

+ 30-45 minutes grocery shopping including driving.

+ 30-60 minutes per day to cook daily dinner and prepare breakfast.

+ 10-15 minutes to clean up.

And what I think it solves/helps/improve our family daily life:

+ Food quality is definitely way better than outside. We have good amount of vegetable, fruits, fresh meat/fish/poultry and other dairy products.

+ Lots of time saving for not going out, spending time waiting, driving, moving the whole family around.

+ The cost is very low, probably around 1/3 of eating out.

We do spend a day or two to eat out or eat carry-out food.

While this takes time (months/years) to get a good skill at cooking and minimizing the time, this is so far one of the best skills I have had and I do think people should invest in it.

It's not the hospital alone. I went to my Kaiser optometry for my wife's glasses yesterday, and they said it would cost $375 for her pair. Her insurance would cover $175 + $100 discount, and the rest she has to pay. She has a Platinum coverage with Kaiser.

We went home and she ordered 5 pairs online for $50. The anti-reflective coating cost $90 at Kaiser, but only $6 online.

Fortunately, I don't wear glasses.

I owned the SE for ~3 years and I always loved how capable the phone is. It worked well almost like any new iPhone and it has surprisingly good camera too. I recently switched to the Pixel 3A when it came out because the camera was the main reason. After a few months, I see that Pixel 3A camera doesn't look as truthful as my old SE. Even though the video has optical stabilizer, it doesn't feel as smooth as my SE, and the quality is actually disappointingly worse than my SE. I miss my SE. I do wish Apple update the SE with a new version and I would definitely buy it.

I think you should categorize them into: 1. Most important 2. Important 3. Not important It's a long list, they're mostly meaningful. I feel some are subjective to personal opinions.