Re: !

Lane W wrote:
> 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".
> 

NOOO! i said people dont have as many numbers as emails, because 
getting a number costs money and getting another email costs zero.

you understand? zero versus not zero??