Can you tell me more about that save menu?

Thank you for the heads-up! I admit I relied on hearsay on how RCS works, I just assumed it had E2EE. Actually, I did almost send personally identifiable information over RCS, but decided not to, I’ll take that as divine intervention protecting me (lol). Thanks again.

RPG ahh battery

Addendum: Today was also my first ever message received via RCS. I know the person through WhatsApp, but he messaged me via, just, phone number. I have an Android, but what does he have? I dunno, but it works, and it’s awesome. I sent text, image, audio, video, read receipts with a device whose corporation is probably competing with the one of my phone.

Ahh, this is what the engineers had imagined 50+ years ago, and we’re living it.

That’s, in my opinion, a way better attidude. Let’s not scream whatabaoutism, but gracefully point out the issues in (y)our own country too.

L’esprit de l’escalier, should’ve said 1.21 jiggawatt flux capacitor

The US isn’t some homogenous entity where all decisions are unanimous and everybody agreed to child labour. The government has little say in what people who are allowed in to freely travel decide to do, and sometimes those people decide to do bad things.

I’m not defending the entirety of the US here, I’m just agreeing with @OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world that in this case, it is whataboutism because you are attacking the US instead of defending China.

Whataboutism or whataboutery is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.

According to wikipedia

USA is trying to rid itself of corruption and slavery, China is actively promoting it. Context matters.

I wanted to exaggerate for comedic purposes, I had 500MW written initially 😄

I’ve used Office 2003, 2007, 2010 etc. all the way up to 365 not for work purposes, but just happened to have interacted with all of the versions.

I have to say, I seriously don’t know what happened, but Office 2003-2007 feels the most stable and least clunky versions of Office (at least Word) in terms of basic word processing.

I learned how to properly edit and format text in Word in university in a way that I could, without fail, reproduce almost any text design you could think of. When I was learning it on Office 2007 I believe, everything was so stable and predictable. Now when somebody asks me to format some text with 365, the styles functionality continually keeps bugging out and doing stupid shit that I basically can’t recover from unless I create a blank file.

In conclusion, Office 2007 > 365

/rant

I wonder if would you get your electricity cut off if you plugged in a 750kW industrial oil drill in your backyard

Iunno, divine inspiration? /j

I thought that only happened in GTA 5 😕

That sounds subjective, in that case just down vote and move on, no point in trying to find the right answer here.

Chinese brands are wild and they make the craziest shit

There’s a 240W charging prototype by Otto IIRC

It’s really tough to get your attention span back, especially if you have an attention disorder. I know that for me it’s so easy to fall back into old habits (like I’m doing now) if life is not going exactly perfectly, cause I just get tired and doing anything else is just too much effort that I already exhaust at work and chores.

I wish you luck in trying to move away from screens, or if you stay on screens, that the time is spent on more memorable activities - movies, TV shows, educational content, documentaries etc.

Yeah but he was being pedantic over the word “impossibly”. If we can make 1 atom thin sheets, then it’s not impossible, right?

On the surface it is true, but in reality all of those things came at the expense of people’s liberty and the people themselves - they jailed or killed anyone that didn’t agree with or was seen as an enemy of the state, resources were actually incredibly scarce and there was a lot of famine (just in the less important parts of the empire), nobody trusted anyone and people kept stealing things for themselves anyway. Oh also child labor and many many more things like that.

Like I understand the good part of communism, but oh God is the USSR the worst possible example of that, they didn’t even have real communism anyway.

Is the recent XZ backdoor (and something that had to do with SSH too) anything to worry about in terms of the probability of there being a backdoor even in open source router software?

Not trying to dissuade anyone here, I love open source software, I’m just wondering how much effort is reasonable to be put into securing your local network (i.e. buying your own router, also installing open source software, or writing your own router software if you don’t trust existing solutions) given that not everyone is tech savvy and you get diminishing returns for every additional security measure. And when is the usual point at which you would say “okay, this is secure enough”?

My router is not from an ISP, but it does get frequent firmware updates and I don’t use any cloud management features, only local configuration.