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Not for me, I've had an increase 🥲

Has some Lovecraft vibes 🥳

Haha, yeah time travel strays in to deus ex machina territory pretty easily. It can make for an interesting story if done well, but usually ends up feeling cheap and lowering the emotional stakes.

Interesting, I'm working my way through Voyager now, I'll keep this in mind when I run in to those episodes. It makes me think of Stargate Universe too, lots of time travel in that show. They seem to always give you the perspective of the successive version of the group and the "originals" get sloughed off pretty regularly.

I don't know man, those are some strange behaviors. Can't say I've experienced any of them. There does seem to be a common theme of slow and delayed responses, that is almost certainly a hardware issue from my experience, but that doesn't line up with the specs you mention.

Regarding the privilege issues, running a general user without superuser privileges is a standard practice for Linux. You can change your user to a superuser though, there are plenty of walkthroughs available to accomplish that. That will keep you from having to run sudo, doas or enter your password as often. Some things will always require a passcode though, as that's just what the best practices of the tech landscape indicate.

+1 for that Jeff Geerling video. Excellent tutorial.

This was posted three days later:

Samsung's Google messages rival isn't dead after all in fact it's just been upgraded

There may be a few others that handle RCS besides those two, but their ties may be just as unsavory as the first two.

That's pretty awesome that there are at least some laws about telecom provider privacy where you are! Here in the states they can basically do whatever they want with whatever you give them 😓

If you want RCS, you have to go with one of the corporate apps like Google Messages or Samsung Messages. It's sad and I hope the situation changes eventually because RCS is much better than SMS and more ubiquitous than signal.

Supported and justified by the stockholders isn't surprising. It's the fact that this column writer is so unabashed in their reasoning that surprised me. It's not often that you see regular, bottom level consumers enthusiastically using the same reasoning as a stock holder. Usually they come at it from more of a "they produce great products, they care about providing a great service" standpoint. However, someone who writes articles for a platform called "Apple Insider" is likely to have some level of stock in the company.

I've never stumbled across Apple Insider before, it's quite the apologist for the company. Here's some tone deaf quotes from the article that made me laugh:

"It's true that the buck stops at the CEO, but without Tim Cook, Apple would not have so many bucks."

I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?

"If billions and trillions are hard numbers to imagine, here's another one. Apple could, if its valuation could be converted to cash without loss, give every person living in the continental USA a free iPhone 16e — and then 13 spare ones. Each."

I love how they chose to illustrate Apple's obscene level of wealth with how much it could benefit people if they ever distributed that wealth through altruistic giving 😂