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“You know what I am talking about colloquially”

I must not, because I see zero difference between Steam and GoG in this regard other than the fact that Steam provides a bunch of side services that GoG does not. Otherwise they’re both just selling you a revokable license to play a game.

While you may be correct I think you’re still missing the point. CLI is for super nerds. While you and I may know how to use it, the average person doesn’t, and is unlikely to put in the effort to learn. That is the innovation that Apple made in bringing computing to the mainstream. It was precisely because people didn’t have to learn how to navigate the CLI environment and instead got an easy point-and-click interface that computers caught on with the public at large, and that gained Apple an absolute ton of cash money and noteriety.

It is clearly criminal already.

I’m reading a lot of “this can’t be true because I feel that it isn’t” in this reply. But I can’t go individually track down all the sources at the moment so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt for now.

Would you rather trust information from Forbes, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, MassMutual Financial Group, or the Consumer Electronics Association?

Good, because that’s where nearly all their sources are from. Click the links. Leads right to the primary source.

At least read the article before dismissing it out of hand.

I didn’t figure out that particular trick until pretty late, unfortunately, but it did serve me VERY well during high school.

I was in middle school in 2005 and had basically no friends largely because I had no phone to text with.

Your phone has to be informed somehow, from the internet, that it has data to present as a notification. The fact that you got a notification at 3:32 and then again at 3:35 is trackable data, pretty much no matter what anyone does with it, encrypted or not. Doubly so if someone has MITM attacked your data stream. They may not know what the notification contains or even what app it was sent to, but the act of transmitting and then receiving this data packet over cell network or internet is a trackable event. And I don’t really know what Apple could even do about that beyond attempting to build Internet 2 solely for the purposes of keeping the cops out of it, which is unlikely at best.

Be quiet, the adults are talking.

The answer is really just that Q does what he fuckin wants and everyone else is left to suffer the consequences

Because, historically, prohibition of [x] has been a highly effective strategy with no downsides whatsoever.

Now every skiddie can do it.

And this is the real, serious problem. Most people are pretty unlikely to stop a state sponsored spy operation no matter how careful they are. It’s barely worth worrying about unless you know for a fact you’re being tapped and that you will be killed about it, and even if you do know this the state can pull some space age bullshit out of their asses that doesn’t yet have a counter. Top secret military industrial research goes into maintaining that exact advantage every year, if they really want to get you, you will get got. But if Joey Dickbeater and his school friends can just point a mic at your window and then upload it to the Pass-o-Gram to decode it, you have a real problem. It’s like when TikTok kids figured out they can steal Kias with usb keys - if every teenager in America knows how to steal your car, its lifetime is going to be measured in minutes. Same with passwords.

Sounds like it’s time to buy a bunch of random cherry switches and randomize them across my keyboard…

Odd that they would mail you a survival package when their goal is explicitly to kill everyone on earth.

The abortion issue in particular doesn’t center around racists, it centers around evangelicals. Zealots believe that an abortion is Against God and really, truly, honestly believe they are saving your immortal soul and that of your baby by forcing you to carry to term. People like that can’t be reasoned with because they honestly believe they are acting in the best interests of folks that require saving. “This is for your own good” kind of attitude.

Got any other info on that? You’ve got my attention, but also my doubt.

Texas can’t even provide proper climate control to their regular unincarcerated citizens. The prisons never had a chance.