Re: !

Lane W wrote:
> jojo wrote:
>> Lane W wrote:
>>> Tom Mix wrote:
>>>> In article <1s09ndq.1tua01n9j9h6iN%[email protected]>, 
>>>> [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tom Mix <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> I've been exclusively Mac since I bought my first 
>>>>>>>> PowerBook G4 20
>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>> ago. If I want Linux (sometimes) or M$ Windows (very 
>>>>>>>> rarely) I can run
>>>>>>>> them in a VM.  I've bought into the whole Apple ecosystem 
>>>>>>>> now, it just
>>>>>>>> works and everything talks to everything else.  Mrs S 
>>>>>>>> uses a Mac too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, I love them. No need for Windows or their Microsloth 
>>>>>> apps. I still
>>>>>> prefer my Sun Workstation with StarOffice though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There was a time when I loved building 'puters.  I made a 
>>>>> hobby of it,
>>>>> multi-tool and screwdriver in hand, knitting together odd 
>>>>> bits of kit
>>>>> and software and wrestling with settings.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm older now and wiser, I've put aside childish things and 
>>>>> recognised
>>>>> that a 'puter is a tool, a means to an end, not an end in 
>>>>> itself.  Macs
>>>>> might seem expensive but they're beautifully made, last a 
>>>>> long time,
>>>>> are reliable and have good long-term support.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best of all, they just work.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> IAWTP. Though I wish I didn't let my daughter talk me into an 
>>>> iPhone
>>>>
>>>> What a piece of shit. I am going to get a nice used phone and 
>>>> install
>>>> linux on it. Fuck this phone. My android was better.
>>>>
>>> That's ridiculous. The Apple iPhone is such that every feature 
>>> is better than that of an Android phone. Although I haven't 
>>> had a chance to use a Google phone yet, so I can't clarify 
>>> those details for you.
>>>
>>
>> oh you have an iphone? really?
>>
> Yes, I was lucky in a way. I had put it off for a time. My 
> ex-roommate stole my postage stamps and my iPhone 12. It was a 
> Wednesday when I went to the store and got an iPhone 16. Then 
> Thursday or Friday, my mom wrote me and said, "You should 
> consider a phone option other than an iPhone." What I remember 
> most though was that I changed the phone number because he stole 
> mine. For safety and maybe also he wasn't the first to get one of 
> those with that number. But what a fucking hassle in today's 
> economy where your phone number has become more identification 
> than a Driver's License. For example, paypal was shelling out 
> from my bank account on McAfee and Doordash annual subscriptions. 
> No way to stop it because paypal had my old phone number and old 
> Facebook account as security options to access the account. And 
> get this: I was able to pass one security option, but then, like 
> real total assholes, paypal kept popping up a request for a 
> second security option I guess because they didn't think much of 
> my first option, because it was low on their list of access 
> points in commanding power.
> 

usually phone number is the only way to verify identity since it 
is unique. people can have 50 million email accounts, but not 
that many phone numbers.