987654321 / 123456789 ≃ 8

Just power it down and send it back. The tiny snapshot of data it got when you powered it up is of little concern.

Honestly no one will likely look at it, IT is just going to reimage it and ship it again.

Right? This was for simple stuff.

In line with your submission, I kept a Bic pen from brand new to absolutely gone. It took years, but I’m not exactly jotting down notes all day.

Now I carry a nub of a carpenter’s pencil with me and I’m much happier.

Someone has to loot the booty

despite substantial harm

laugh at what now?

Whatever. Disagree with the dictionary:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addiction

well, addiction is dependence with harm. Every time I’ve been prescribed a narcotic I’ve felt withdrawal pains and gabapentin does not do that to me.

Night and day though. I can smoke weed and still get stuff done, it’s almost like spinach for Popeye to grind out a menial task.

Dope though? Fuuuuuuuck it, lets just sit here and watch TV. I don’t normally watch much TV but on any narcotic it’s perfect.

If gabapentin is addictive it must be psychological because I’ve been on and off of it for years now and there isn’t any withdrawal I can discern.

The doc put me on gabapentin for my nerve pain (ulnar and carpel tunnel) and I thought it was hitting the right receptors to help me stay off of alcohol, or dulled my desire for it. Turns out I was just self medicating the nerve pain and with the GABA I didn’t need the booze so much.

delete facebook, lawyer up, hit the gym.

palm trees and golf courses. Seems to have worked for Palm Springs.

(I’m kidding but the only time I’ve ever personally experienced 124F (51C) was there)

I’m close. I only fly to see family and drive everywhere else. If I can’t complete the vacation without driving I’m just not doing it.

It’s weird because flights are cheaper but then I don’t have a vehicle where I land and most of the places I want to go I need a vehicle. I’m not much of a city boy.

Hey! This is a family friendly establishment!

Please use the polite term: grundle

Couldn’t help myself.

“Yes, I’d like to return this camera because it’s an invasive piece of shit”

If you’re just worried about the law, steal it from somewhere in Austria. That dumbass did prison time in Vienna for his holocost denial, so maybe they seized all proceeds and profits and all that shit.

Oh don’t worry about little old me. I just run my browser allowing it. I did notice I had to go back in private mode to replicate it so they probably just set a cookie that I didn’t want to be bothered by that shit. It will come back every time I restart the browser but it’s not a big deal. I found it ironic that a subscription based service was complaining about other subscription based services.

Use linux, End of 10, right?

“Subscription Economy Sucks”

*immediate popup to subscribe

I mean… c’mon, that’s just way too easy.

Print media subscriptions were a drop in the bucket for revenue, everything was paid for by creating community and bringing eyeballs to ads. Ads that didn’t track you or pop up over the newspaper or lead the reader to a malicious underground card room. Internet publications dropped the ball hard on these points and now? We have to subscribe and pay, at the least, our privacy.

Thanks for copying the article OP (and this article does appear “free”) but: fuckyou Medium, Inc.