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today I get a unique opportunity to check out a product from a company that

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Marquez brownley killed that's right we're going to be having a look at the

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rabbit R1 a product that realistically you already know kind of sucks but what

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you don't know is how it will uniquely suck for me I've been curious about this

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thing ever since I heard about it back at CES of this year an AI assistant that

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I carry around with me but perhaps more useful than the Humane pin and also at a

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more reasonable price price it's just $200 and the stick is pretty

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straightforward it's supposed to be a chat GPT AI enabled device that acts as

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an intermediary between your voice and your phone allowing you to use voice

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control even with applications that don't inherently support them the design

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is delightfully teenage engineering looking which makes sense because

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teenage engineering designed it maybe should have left it for the adults uh B

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based on the perception this thing has gotten but hey that's a whole other conversation it charges via USBC it has

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a 1,000 mAh battery in it that's good for a few hours and takes about 45

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minutes to charge although they do claim to be working on this it's got an array

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microphone up here one button one dial

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one 360° camera and I guess that rotates and

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a touchcreen let's go ahead and fire it up shall we really nothing else in the

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Box no charging cable no Wallmart no nothing huh I mean it does come with

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what it appears is this like a water resistant box or is it just a fancy

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looking box it's just fancy looking okay

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um neat props to the rabbit team by the way forgetting out ah head of the

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nickname rabbit hole for anyone who carries one of these things around uh

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the rabbit hole instead is their portal where you manage your relationship with

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rabbit OS and with the companion device itself rabbit OS by the way it turns out

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is basically Android and the rabbit it turns out is basically an app that runs

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on Android as for why it couldn't have just been an app on your phone have they

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offered up a statement about that ah system security which kind of makes

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sense for something that you are giving basically unfettered access to your apps

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to allow it to do things like book uh

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travel engagement for you with Uber or order food for you or tweet for you uh

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it can't tweet for you yet can it I know that's one of the things that they had

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kind of talked about it being able to do at some point but I guess that was hard

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all right let's play with it shall we huh wait so this is a touchcreen but

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you can't just

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really and you're running Android so you

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went out of your way to make it so I couldn't interact

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with this thing with touch well you can sometimes

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huh all right we're off to a good start

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brightness hold ah oh well that's

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ergonomic neat I was legitimately kind of excited

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about this thing when I heard about it I knew it would suck but I was excited

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about the idea of just being able to sort of Yap at something and essentially

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have uh you know a standalone Auto

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hotkey thing that was piped into chat GPT was kind of how I imagined it and I

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think that's still kind of the vision that they're selling for it for the future right if only it could connect to

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the network failed do I have options other than try

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again I do not try again then I

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shall ah rabbit OS I don't know how I

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got to the settings I was I was cleaning it on my shirt oh do you shake it to get

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to settings that's hilarious it's

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cute failed why don't we try Ye Old restart

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you shouldn't have a glossy surface for a scroll wheel you kind of slip on it a

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little bit but like that's the least stupid thing about the user interface is

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it ambidextrous can you like flip it and use it this way if not that would kind

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of suck oh well sucks to be left-handed I guess wow we've used up like 5% % of

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battery just trying to connect to the network oh right I shake

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it okay let's oh God how do I turn it

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off

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now oh man oh no all right Network how

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do I reconfigure it

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okay Serenity Now

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I know why they called it rabbit every time you're using it you're like

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rabbit I've encountered teenage engineering stuff I've never been

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compelled to buy any of it because it all just seems really expensive for very

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limited utility no offense like I want things to do something like this very

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teenage engineering looks really cool why though you know it's like oh cuz

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it's cool oh all right okay well let's

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try

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connecting oh my god well this is better

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than not having a keyboard at all are you going to keep you're going to keep showing me how to do okay there it goes

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wow that took a minute oh wow it doesn't

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obscure what you're typing at all there isn't even an option to hide passwords

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as you enter them fascinating hey we're

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connected wow Bluetooth what what do you connect to like do you connect to like

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your earphones or what I mean is it does

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it connect to your phone via Bluetooth oh yeah do is there an app it just does

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stuff oh I assumed it would connect to your phone and it would kind of Auto

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hotkey your phone it just does stuff oh

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that's

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terrifying oh my god

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really that's the maximum speed at which

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you can cycle through these numbers

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do not come into my life purporting to be a device that saves me time and then

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proceed to waste it speaking of things not entirely

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welcome in my life this is brought to you by dbrand dbrand actually partnered

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with rabbit ahead of the launch to design cute little screen protectors

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just for the rabbit R1 and in fact at their launch event they even gave out

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debrand screen protectors with the units that they gave out at the launch dbrand

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also has protectors for all kinds of useful devices like Nintendo game

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consoles controllers laptops iPads

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iPhones other pads other phones you can find them at short.com not even that

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short I mean my trip to Japan I seemed pretty normal height just saying enough

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fooling around though Bill apparently configured it with all of his personal

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accounts so uh where should we send him

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book an Uber to LT Labs

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the ride share status is currently unavailable apologies for the

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inconvenience please try again later were you expecting that to work I never

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tried it never tried it okay well it didn't work uh who are tricks

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for the trick Cal is typically marketed towards children as a fun and colorful

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breakfast option can you do an image search I can assist with an internet

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search what would you like me to search for I'd like you to take a picture and

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then tell me what something is I'm unable to take pictures or provide

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visual information as the camera function is not currently enabled how

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else may I assist you today what do you mean the camera function's not enabled

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oh my God the camera function's not

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enabled don't let me once again do not come into my life

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telling me that you are going to provide natural interaction shortcuts to

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get things done and you can't even turn on your camera when I ask you to turn on

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your camera like this is a thing everyone's noticed about this right

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probably probably yeah I don't know I haven't watched any videos about it I've

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intentionally cloistered myself on this one where can I buy this mouse pad let

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me take a look this appears to be a decorative

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wall hanging or art piece not a mouse pad given the the nature of the item I

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don't believe you would be able to purchase this as a mouse pad where can I

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buy this mouse pad I apologize but I do not see a mouse or a bed in the image

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provided the thing in the center of this image is a mouse pad this is not a mouse

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pad but rather a glass or transparent tabletop with a colorful abstract design

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on it the design geometric shape many

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manufacturers offer a range of sizes features and designs to suit different

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creative applications you can't tell it to shut

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up it just talks until it's done who

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does this thing think it is me on the land show okay fine let's try something

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wow this camera is not very good um

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okay who are you looking at right now let me

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see the image shows a person a man

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looking straight at the camera he has short light colored hair and is wearing

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a black T-shirt the background includes some geometric shapes and lighting

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elements suggesting this may be a home or Studio setting so it can't search for

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people good Lord what can it do we're

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down to 82% battery wow play some super cool music

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on my Spotify make the ladies think I'm super cool for the music I'm listening

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to getting the music going now

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nice is it going to is it going to play

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music did it just crash double click does not open the camera

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anymore like I can open

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oh here maybe it's just quiet maybe it's quiet media let's

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go no man that's not quiet how much

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funding did these guys raise what is even happening right now

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is it just is it broken okay well here let's reboot it let's reboot it no let's

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power it off and then wait for it

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nonsense and then power it back on network connection lost

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jeez play music that will make the ladies think I am cool okay starting the

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music player

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now oh it's just broken this did two

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updates today and it both of them took a long time well that's something it did

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today you know what the reality of it is I'm sure that there are plenty of

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talented designers and Engineers who worked on this product and uh

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realistically they have got to know that it's not ready yet and so the only

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reason that I can think of that I'm holding this right now is that the money

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that's involved is expecting some kind of return and if money wasn't so

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impatient it would have known that the better thing to do would be to hold on

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to this for a little bit longer until they've had time to let her cook cuz I

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do see the potential but I don't see any

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of the execution in the version that I'm holding in my hand right now I also see

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some sort of just generally terrible terrible ideas where they need to get

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out from inside their own buttholes and

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understand that you know clicking and sliding and clicking on things with the

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touchcreen is just common sense and needs to be a thing that you can do but

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you know overall there's nothing inherently terrible about the idea it's

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just obviously a complete piece of right now let's just hope that it doesn't

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multiply like uh real rabbits just kidding it will man the amount of AI

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shovelware that's going to be hitting this desk over the next year or two it's

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going to be a sight to behold it has like three jobs order me an Uber order

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me door Dash and play music those are

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the only validated use cases with the bloody thing and it it couldn't do two

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of them mid journey is the fourth yeah I

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saw that mid Journey what even would I do what would I do with mid Journey on

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this thing like look at it on my tiny little screen I have a phone in my

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pocket like are you kidding me right now this is my this is my ancient crappy

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phone and it's that much bigger like you got to be kidding me see

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people are going to be watching this going like oh that line is what an but like if I told you anything other than

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what a piece of crap this thing is I would be scamming you I'd be complicit

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