Re: !

jojo wrote:
> 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.
> 
You are a bobblehead.

You said, and I quote: "P".

Then right here, next you said, "Not P".