@ManOMorphos
@lemmy.worldMany have caught onto the "boring name" thing and will click on any folder with a mundane name even slightly out of place. Encrypted ZIP files still work though, lol.
I bet we'll see a small town like this one eventually introduce an ordinance to ban "Satanism" within city limits. And they will see nothing wrong reconciling that with the Constitution.
I've had connection issues and app instability a bit often, especially with the iOS version. Part of it might be our email server but I'm finding issues I never have with Google or even Yahoo clients. It's not awful, but there are better and cheaper options at enterprise level.
Is paid ProtonVPN good for this? It's got port forwarding and is apparently private, but I can't tell how willing they would be to provide details to others in a bad scenario.
You are right in that stabbings feel much more personal psychologically, but I would imagine a murderer would pick the most sure weapon if it was entirely premeditated. It seems as though the guy had no intention of hiding the killing.
I'm sure many of these extremists were either charged with a felony before or involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. Both mean that they are federally banned from guns for life. I think many of these murders are out of strong rage rather than calculated killings, but they'd still probably prefer to use a gun if they had easy access.
Not to mention, in the US contractors are on the hook for all income taxes. The tax payment has to be planned for in advance, whether it's saving for it or paying quarterly estimate payments.
Contracting works well for people with a valuable skill set, but many get screwed by it.
Stock price charts account for all splits/reverse splits, so it wouldn't be a factor when comparing price over time.
I agree with the first point though. Even just performing slightly below the market with such a massive company would make Kotick very desireable as a new CEO, unfortunately. Maybe some corps would not be fine with his reputation, but I doubt he will struggle to find a position in a new board room.
I can't speak for the others, but I'm just curious as to why iMessage's quirks are heavily put up with. With the options of messaging apps nowadays, the "green bubble" stuff seems like an arbitrary problem.
Sure, it's stock software, but plenty are willing to switch off Edge/Safari for Chromium browsers. I understand that there's strong social pressure to conform to using the same messaging service. I think it's something that can be worked around with any proficiency with tech, along with a good argument to the social circle. I managed to get off Messenger this way and it worked great.
Personally I'd rather find the best message service than use what everyone else uses, but that's just me. It's not a big problem at the end of the day, really. People value different things with their tech, and that's fine.
If you're that concerned with security, shouldn't you be using Signal and try to convince others to do so? iMessage is E2E encrypted but Signal is platform-agnostic and has better security/privacy.