Maybe it’d help if they released it on Steam. I went to buy it the other day and noticed it’s only on the Epic Games store. I already made that mistake with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and I won’t be doing it again.

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I’m not familiar with Lunduke. Could you elaborate?

This doesn’t seem surprising at all. Isn’t that what Google Play Services is for? If you don’t want it, custom ROMs are easily installed.

I wish Telegram would just enable default E2EE. Oh well, time to switch to Signal!

I believe they were bought by someone and eventually implemented some questionable practices. I don’t remember the exact details, maybe someone else does.

Here’s a link to the chatbot. It’s pretty good at explaining things and has a lot of patience for the hopeless drivel conspiracy theories contain. I like how it doesn’t just refute them with specific evidence, but tears apart the very logic of the conspiracy theories.

https://survey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a63Ctm1v22DNlie

Does this really work? Wouldn’t rm remove itself in /bin early in the process?

This is the second story I read today about the terrible things people are using Telegram for. Here’s the second one and beware, it’s very disturbing. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/08/thanks-internet-its-now-shockingly-easy-to-become-an-international-monkey-torturer/

It doesn’t seem so. I looked on YouTube and someone cut together a lot of gameplay footage from different sources. It’s enough to get a sense for the game. It looks really cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhH_ocfqZw&t=957s

That’s how my partner does it with our cat. I, on the other hand, have to hold her down before she lets me brush her teeth.

I think you’re giving companies too much credit. Freakonomics did a series called “Does Advertising Actually Work?” and the tl;dr was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-1-tv-ep-440/

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-2-digital-ep-441/