Sow doubt. As in spreading it like seeds to take root and grow. 100% in agreement with you, just being a grammar Nazi. Carry on.

Hotspots work well. They are hotspots though, so you have trade offs. For instance, you probably don't want to leave it on all day (because it won't last all day, probably 8 hours). You can set it to turn off if there's no connected devices for x minutes to save battery. When you turn it on you need to wait for it to actually turn on and connect, then have your phone connect. It takes a while, relatively speaking (not long but longer than turning on your phone).

The Mifi X Pro also has an Ethernet port which is convenient for hard wiring a laptop.

The service is solid. Overall there's no issues. I've had issues in hotels, but it's a T-Mobile network so I'd presume a standard sim card would equally have issues.

Privacy is an interesting take. I'll go ahead and trust them to not share my data (which you can sign up anonymously if you wish). The number is still trackable though, and I'd suspect stands out more because it's in a specific spectrum range. But the sim isn't in your phone, so it's not technically tracking your phone (and a side benefit is you can't get sim jacked) and I use a VPN to connect to it as well. I don't think the sim card tracks the same way because there's no GPS in the hotspot, but of course it still calls out to cell towers. I don't know if it does this when off like a phone does (I've always presumed it does).

Overall my experience has been a positive one. Choosing a phone service has been a harder issue for me. But that's another story.

Absolutely. And particularly it was is "batches" especially as you get to Shadow.

Collecting stuff as you go along playing is fine (I mean, I'd argue not because it's lazy game making but its normal). But going along and hitting a village that has 50 side quests in it just interrupts flow.

Plus, they made nested fetch quests so I felt trapped in a loop. OK I'll just do this one quest..."hey, now that I see that you are good at fetching arbitrary items, I want you to go get this for me too"

Don't forget signing the guest list.

These are valid points. There are many password managers, most of which it wouldn't take much to poke holes in, especially if open source is a main criteria.

What are some that you would consider with Bitwarden now being off the table?

Privacy is important because it gives you control over your life; details, info, thoughts, emotions...

I recently met a guy out of town at a trade show. We were both in the same show, grabbing some snacks, and I complimented his hat. We started talking, a little this, a little that. Eventually we parted ways. On the outro we introduced ourselves by first name only, more as a BTW side note because we might run into each other again. Why am I telling this story?

Because I forgot his name almost instantly and really only remember his hat. I know nothing about the guy. He knows nothing about me. But wouldn't it be weird if I didn't just remember his first name, but I knew his last name too? Where he lived, worked, shopped for groceries, sexual orientation, he last time he ordered pizza and what toppings were on it, how he voted last election, etc... If I knew all that about him, I could have a much more in depth conversation with him. And even if I had no mal intent and simply wanted to give him better experiences in life...that's not my decision to make. He didn't ask for that. And it's freaking weird.

But that's what has been made normal in our lives. Privacy helps keep your life...well, private.

Then the rabbit hole goes deep on nefarious uses. And it's not "its possible" to do this, but rather "it's being done" (with absolutely no doubt or argument).

That's a legitimate point. So the question is, is she changing her opinion because of massive personal growth in a mere 4 years or is she changing her opinion because it's what she thinks voters want to hear? (Hint: she's a politician)

You can, if you can. I think most people can't do that though.

The better lesson would be to teach compound interest. Somebody that invests $2k every year for 10 years and then stops will have more money than somebody who starts in year 11 and does so for the rest of their life.

Great point. I forgot about that. And compatibility mode was practically worthless. I think I've seen it help maybe once or twice.

That's where your comment about initial reputation kicks in. I'm in agreement with that. I'm just not in agreement the bad impression was unwarranted.

The talks about 7 at the time still pressed why an XP user would switch, since XP was a great OS and worked well without any glaring missing features. This is a reverse proof. The reputation of XP was so strong that it was still hard to get people to switch 2 OS versions later.

A valid reason to hand over my unlocked phone? No thanks.

I agree with reputation, but just made up their minds to hate it? That's a tough take. Design wise it looked cool and introduced the search bar. But there weren't enough benefits to switch. While on the cons side, it was a very heavy OS. In an age of 128 and 256mb of ram, vista needed 512 to function normally. That was a huge performance hit out of the gate. It didn't feel like an upgrade.

Historically, every other edition of Windows is good. The logic is that they release a version, then fix it and make it good. In your examples, vista became 7 and ME became XP.

The presumption is that the brick and mortar store is not bad. Yes, they are bad too. Maybe just as bad, maybe not as bad, but they are no saints.

Options are limited for shopping, so we don't have much choice. The reason I buy from Amazon is that essentially I didn't want to shop at any local store any longer, they have bad polices AND they treat me like crap - not a valued customer.

Along came Amazon and I started buying from them. Then there was a big boo-hoo that ecommerce was killing their brick and mortar store sales. No sir, you were killing the sales but now I have somewhere else to go.

Amazon is horrible for many reasons, but pricing and customer service is not one of them. There's a silver lining to that storm cloud.

Flossing! I floss frequently. I floss more than I brush my teeth (yuck) but it works. Logic behind the lack of brushing is that in the morning I'm drinking coffee and running out the door. At night, sometimes I fall asleep before I brush. But I have floss on my desk at work and in my coffee table at home (as well as obviously in the bathroom with my toothbrush). My dentist can't even tell I miss brushing at times. But can definitely tell I floss regularly.

You don't have to floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.

Correct. And the same is true for the mobile phones, carriers, and a slew of apps that all look at contacts. They know who you are and who your friends and family are.

The description of the Matrix users is hysterically accurate.

First time I went there, I had an obscure problem with an app. A very friendly and helpful person jumped in and said they have that app but don't use it often. Then proceeded to run multiple tests on their end to validate my experience. I was blown away. Super solid dude.

Every other time I've been mostly ignored. Which is fine if people can't help. But as I check in all I see is forum fighting about what is right and best, as if there's only 1 answer.

Additionally, running GrapheneOS you can set up a duress pin to wipe the phone profiles if things were to escalate.

Being smart, set up the main profile a bit to look real, but have no actual information. That way it's not obvious tha its been wiped.

Being cheeky, set the duress pin to be something simple like your birthday. So if you are detained/arrested and they try to get into your phone they are the ones to wipe it for you.

Flood it with AI copies of official Mario content. Train the copyright software to associate the context of the official art to get the official art taken down.

This sounds like a great movie.

AI sends police after him because of things he wrote. Writer is on the run, trying to clear his name the entire time. Somehow gets to broadcast the source of the articles to the world to clear his name. Plot twist ending is that he was indeed the perpetrator behind all the crimes.