Re: !

Lane W wrote:
> jojo wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> That's also the reason they make it so difficult to change, in 
> case of fraud. But that's not my problem, is it? I don't commit 
> fraud, other people are more pleased and cheerful to take up that 
> opportunity. When I want to legitimately change my phone number I 
> get operators matter of fact like you barring me from every 
> access to the internet and its treasures.
> 

just get a new number, what's the damn problem? i can get a new 
number just like that.