This morning on CEP!

• How Apple and Facebook themselves fell for a scam!
• Whenever ANYONE puts an ad on Facebook, immediately scammers try to scare you into thinking you've violated a copyright, and lure you into a trap
• How cell phone manufacturers are FINALLY designing phones to be a little more repairable - and what it took to get them there.
• If you want to save $ and care about the environment, repair your phone instead of replacing it!
• Fan mail from clients who were told they needed overkill Internet connections
• One day, all of a sudden Twitter users noticed their numbers of followers went dramatically up or down for no reason. They were atwitter!
• Facebook has sucked SO much of our information, they admit they don't even know how to manage it! Ever notice how you meet someone and put their number in your phone, and all of a sudden they come up as a FB friend suggestion?
• Apple makes all of its employees return to the office after the pandemic, and they come up with any excuse to stay home.

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This morning on CEP!

• Nepalese youth, sick of starving while their rulers flaunted their wealth, used social media to overthrow and rebuild their government.
• Chromebooks (those cheapie laptops your school district blew millions on) come with an expiration date. Surprise! If you keep using this past the date, you miiiight get viruses, or websites won't work anymore! At that point, they want you to throw them away, but I have found a solution that could save millions of dollars, computers, and kids.
• They knocked down the 3G cell towers so we all had to buy new smartphones. But wait - what about all those connected cars? Those were just giant rolling smartphones with cellular antennae in them! You guessed it - they're hoping you put those cars in the garbage and buy new ones. Luckily, people aren't that stupid.
• In good news, companies are now allowed to produce and sell older-style cars. You know, those ones that were actually repairable and enjoyable.
• AI data centers are sucking up so much energy, that they're now having to find ways to shift their tasks to nighttime so they don't overload our power plants.
• In the 1960s, cars were actually improved instead of anti-improved, and back then they actually cared about your loyalty, so they actually encouraged you to repair your old one instead of throwing it away. Imagine what a utopia that must've been!

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This morning on CEP! I start going through articles, and then a surprise special guest stops by. We catch up on some articles:

• Not only are VPNs unnecessary for normal consumers, but they introduce tons of side effects
• Hundreds of HP printer models feature a critical-severity vulnerability... on top of the sanctioned malice from HP itself.
• Senior communities add local tech support as one of their perks, and people need it
• The third generation of iPhone SE - the perfectly fine $399 alternative to the thousand-dollar iPhones that cell phone store jokers try to push on seniors
• Apple's plot to RENT you the iPhone so they can make even more money off of you. Did it succeed?
• Apple gets $200m in public incentives from Des Moines, IA, in exchange for how many jobs?
• Russia threatens to nationalize some Microsoft locations there. My response to them.
• Hackers breach Samsung servers, exposing how useless "trusted" software is, and the article's very damaging recommendation to users.

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