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Would you like some toast? Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast.

I have had few phones over the years, few of them I damaged by using them in bad conditions, mainly on construction sites.

As far I can remember I have never cracked the screen. Phones are and always were fragile, its a piece of condensed technology, with large glass screen. What do people expect from glass dropped from 1m? Just take care of your shit.

It always amazes me how can people cary their phones in back pocket or just throw it in the bag with keys or other sharp objects.

I have stopped watching regular TV about 6 years ago. We now have internet TV, occasionally I watch something if I want to, but only if I can skip ads.

My SO sometimes watches on commercial channel and leaves the ads unskipped, so I counted: 10 minutes content, 10 minutes ads, that on repeat for hour and a half. I get it, those channels live from advertisements, but does it realy have to be 1/1?

Great people. The best people.