Yes it matters. Loads of manufacturers are doing soldered wifi on some of their models. Delll, HP, they are all at it.

And even if your wifi wasn’t soldered, wouldn’t it be better to know you were buying a machine where it would just work out the box rather than needing replacement?

There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.

WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support

I’m gonna flip this around and answer “what’s the longest I ever slept?” - which was about 21 hours

I was living with my parents then and crashed out super early at 9PM. My dad came home from work the next day at 6PM to find I was still asleep and woke me. No idea how much longer I’d have kept on sleeping if he hadn’t.

The evening hours are the best because it’s the time of day where the world doesn’t want anything from you.

I may not have realised I was using a British English specific term :)

“High Street” does etymologically derive from the main shopping street(s) in a town where most shops would have premises, as you suggest.

In a contemporary usage it means physical retail (versus online) and also connotes city centre, versus places that have enormous out of town “big box” stores.

So economists might say “The high street saw the best Christmas profits in five years” and they mean all retail in that sector of business.

So when I said CVS were a “high-street pharmacy” what I really meant to imply by that was “they are a brick-and-mortar chain with physical stores on streets in towns and cities all over the place”

CVS is a high street pharmacy chain.

So the “CVS guy” is the cashier on checkout at the store.

A lot of the reviews that are for the “wrong item” are there because of the seller repurposing the listing.

The seller will list some item that is easy to get good reviews on, like a hammer or something. Then after they rack up several hundred 5* reviews saying “Works great, seems high quality!” they edit the listing to change the item title, description, everything to a new product but keep the reviews.

Then the new product gets a big boost from the high review count and star rating of the previous product.

Very scummy.

I’m trying to swear less. Or rather, to swear only where a swear is warranted.

My Dad has a habit of interjecting constant cuss words into everything he says, like “I was at the fucking supermarket right and then I’m just trying to find a fucking tin of beans…” and it’s just so unnecessary, to the point where the swears mean nothing because they are just peppered everywhere. I have to keep reminding him, “Dad, please tone it down a little”

And that’s an easy habit to get into but its exactly what I don’t want to be doing - swearing just as punctuation.

If a situation calls for a swear then I will swear quite happily, “Ouch, my fucking toe!!” and I’ll use the proper word. There’s no need to find childish swear-alternatives.

But I don’t want to sound like I can’t even stop it.

Is the answer. Cheating is a mechanism to both have their cake, and eat it.