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40 sats \ 20 replies \ @Coinsreporter 22 Apr \ on: Most comments wins 👀 meta

I cracked the screen if my phone yesterday. I got it repaired for 7k Sats at a repair shop.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 22 Apr

I’m sure you will make it back within a week lol

Fun fact:

Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons before his teacher advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 23 Apr

This is the way. Sing your voice!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 23 Apr

Think Tom Waits

There's no one like it. You know it when you hear it

11 sats \ 13 replies \ @grayruby 22 Apr

Wow that's a great deal. My wife got quoted $120 to fix the screen on her old phone. She didn't bother. Just waited until the contract was up and got a new phone.

20 sats \ 11 replies \ @Coinsreporter 22 Apr

Maybe the service cost is way too much there?

How many repair shops do you see around you?

We have at least a 1000 mobile repair shops all around us. They all are doing great because 200k people in the town and at least 800k living in villages around the town I liv in.

The numbers are approximate. We didn't have census after 2011.

11 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 22 Apr

Only one in my area.

40 sats \ 7 replies \ @Coinsreporter 22 Apr

You're the victim of monopoly.

11 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby 22 Apr

Even in the city where there are a lot of places it was still pretty expensive. Maybe not $120 but you definitely pay 60-80.

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 22 Apr

The service costs + rents are much higher from here I guess. The screens are imported from China for $1 to $10 based on type.

Mine is IPS LCD which is not high end, it costs less than a dollar when you bulk buy from china. Till it reaches the retailer here, I assume $1 in additional costs and $ 1 profit to intermediaries. And I paid around $7 which is still more than the double amount at which the retailer buys it.

The real reason of being it so cheap here and having so many mobile repair shops lies in the culture as well. We keep on getting things repaired until they are completely useless.

The shop where I got the repair employs 7 boys including him and while I was getting my phone repaired there were at least 10 more people waiting for theirs.

Having more population is definitely a boon.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 27 Apr

You’re likely familiar with the concept of fingerprints, but people also have a “noseprint,” a set of distinct and unique impressions on the inside of your nose.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 27 Apr

While there are many celebrity tequila brands from public figures like George Clooney (Casamigos) to Kendall Jenner (818 Tequila) currently on the market, Vinepair reports that Cabo Wabo Tequila by former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar was the original celebrity tequila, launched in 1996

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 27 Apr

The book 3 SHADES OF BLUE: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan notes that when Miles Davis moved to New York City at 18, he spent his first few weeks attending classes at Julliard and going to Harlem to see performances at Minton’s Playhouse and the Savoy Ballroom, as well as clubs on 52nd Street.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 27 Apr

The notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (a.k.a. “Bonnie and Clyde”) stayed at The Stockyards Hotel in 1933, per Texas Highways. Now, you can stay in the room they occupied, which currently goes by the Bonnie and Clyde Junior Suite and features memorabilia about the duo, including a poem Bonnie wrote Clyde.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 27 Apr

You can visit or stay in the “Scandal Room” (originally room 214) at The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., where E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy communicated with burglars via radio during the 1972 Watergate break-in.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 23 Apr

i changed the screen, but now the tactil screen generated weird things (blocked by itself, screenshot ...)