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payeco said:

I've got a 16GB 6th gen that was left over from a project at work that I keep in an old speaker. I only have a couple apps on it. I mostly just use it for Apple Music and occasionally I'll use Safari to look something up if I'm near it and don't have my phone on me.

I just went to use it the other day and noticed the battery has expanded causing the screen to split away from the body. I looked up how to replace it myself but it involves soldering unlike battery swaps on the iPhone. Apple charges $80 to replace an iPod battery. I'm going to check a few local shops and see what they would charge but if they're going to charge more than $20-30 bucks it might be, sadly, time to decommission my last iPod.

Even $80 sounds like very little to get your IPT working again.  However, the repair will probably involve more than just replacing the battery!

Keep your eye for iPhone SEs... discounted they can run as little as $100 and you don't have to activate cell service.  Voila!  Instant, modern IPT, with better camera, better battery life (the IPT is horrible is you go on line), and better speed.

“Back when the environment really was a disaster, and the bulk of the third world was living in abject poverty.“

The planet's on fire and most of the “third world” still live in abject poverty!

Glad to see Nader still active, challenging corporate power, and making cogent critiques.  The status quo still supports capitalist inequalities and greed over responsibility and community.

Note to author:  the word is “fare” not “fair”!

”Current 2017 model year versions fair a bit better, though the model has not been available for a full year.”

As to the keyboard, bring back something like the iBook G4 approach —not only a good keyboard, but with two easy tabs, slide back, pop off the keyboard.  While some people I know had a couple of their key cap letters wear off, Apple would promptly send replacements out, which the user could replace in less than a minute.

I read now where other companies have liquid resistant and liquid barrier keyboards, too, so that if you spill something on the laptop, it doesn’t short circuit the computer!

Much rather have both of those features (easy user replacement and liquid barrier) than butterfly and ultra thin!

It's pretty clear that merely going to that webpage to check on your account commits you to nothing!

The Terms of Usage quoted above clearly states that one is permitted to "register for and purchase any product from this site":

"YOU MUST ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT CONTAINED IN SECTION 4 BELOW, BEFORE YOU WILL BE PERMITTED TO REGISTER FOR AND PURCHASE ANY PRODUCT FROM THIS SITE."

It continues

BY REGISTERING ON THIS SITE AND SUBMITTING YOUR ORDER..."

If someone checks their status, they have NOT registered for or purchased any product from the Equifax site, they have not submitted any order, etc.

In fact, anyone who goes to that website never receives any terms to agree to, so that nothing can be construed as a contract.  

The more serious issue is that even that website is insecure!

Has anyone seen the terms of the 1-year monitoring?  That's the scarier, more outrageous "solution" if, indeed, it includes waiving your right to sue!

Freeze, baby, freeze!   Of course, even freezing an account can require agreeing to waive your right to sue.  If so, lawyers and Congress should get involved and put an end to it-- let's hope they do!