They stopped that ad campaign about 15 years ago, and they started it closer to 20 years ago.

Especially children who grew up without it.

very smart much secure

Forgive me, but to me not experiencing sexual attraction reads the same as “not being interested” because you don’t experience sexual attraction. (Why would you be interested in something you have no attraction to?) Cheers.

Montgomery Scott of the Starship Enterprise has entered the chat.

Not being interested in sex is different than not being interested in a game? That’s how I read it, anyway. Apologies if it came off otherwise.

I don’t play Kart or Smash because I don’t own Nintendo consoles anymore and haven’t in a hot decade.

I guess that just makes me old ha. An old fogey not in the streets or in the sheets.

Welp, you don’t get a choice, you’re asexual now whether you like it or not. Meme says it, so it’s true.

Be, uh, careful with that barrel roll.

Kirby for smash

😏

route everything through a VPN

I can see it now:

“SOS I need help, I’m stuck in an underwater cave just outside Tulum, Mexico and I’m running out of air!”

“Finding your geolocation, we have determined your cave is in New Zealand. Dispatching rescue team to the Mines of Moria.”

EDIT: Don’t ask me how someone got satellite phone signal in an underwater cave lol.

Does the satellite stuff work in the UK and could it be bad for privacy?

I’m not sure if it works in the UK, (see below) but it’s really only meant for emergencies. Like if you’re lost in the wilderness with no cell phone signal and you’ve broken your leg. It really can only be activated when you dial 911 and don’t have signal, so I don’t expect that that’s something you’d want a lot of privacy for if you wanted you be, you know, rescued and alive. I think I’d be willing to sacrifice info like my name, location, and the nature of my emergency to stay alive but that’s just me. 😆

• This feature is currently available in the US only (except Hawaii and Alaska).

To contact emergency services when you don’t have a network coverage on your Pixel phone:

1. Dial 911 immediately.

• If you don’t have a mobile or Wi-Fi network, you’ll find an option to use Satellite SOS in the dialer.

2. Tap Satellite SOS android satellite and then Use Satellite SOS and then Start.
3. To describe your emergency, fill out the emergency questionnaire.
4. To share your emergency with your emergency contacts, answer the on-screen questions.

• To notify your emergency contacts, tap Notify.
• If you don’t want your emergency contacts to receive your location and emergency information, tap Don’t notify.

5. To connect to the satellite, follow the on-screen prompts to correctly position your phone.

• Connection and response times vary based on location, site conditions, and other factors.

6. Once you’re connected, the emergency service provider should reply via text within a few minutes.

• To receive replies, stay outside with a clear view of the sky.
• When you would like to end the satellite text conversation, press the End button and follow the prompts.

Anyway I doubt it would be sending data to satellites without you knowing simply because that’s costly and you have to align your phone properly to get signal for it to begin with.

Amended, thank you, that’s nice to hear.

Relevant:

Tom Leher was and is so fucking badass.

The Onion kills so much it might be an honorary LEO.

For instant messengers, I would also add Wire and Matrix/Element (Matrix is the protocol, Element is the messenger that uses the protocol).

https://wire.com/en

https://matrix.org/ - https://element.io/

Both good open source secure messengers. Matrix is made by a type of non-profit foundation made to guide the development of the core protocol, and Wire is a Swiss company staking their future on how secure their messenger is for Enterprise applications. They both have different philosophies on how their operations are ran, but they’re both open source and secure.

They’re not as privacy respecting as Briar or SimpleX, but they’re also more aimed at organizations and groups that plan on self-hosting and potentially not federating with the rest of the network to help silo their organizational data. Wire obviously aims towards Enterprise customers, but Matrix does as well, despite a different approach. Matrix has had growth with both German and French governments for various secure communications systems within their government bodies based on the matrix protocol. So good messengers, just aimed at a different group of people as Briar/SimpleX.

So maybe they could have their own “Enterprise Chat” section? I dunno, just my thoughts.

For LineageOS at the very least, you might be able to find an unofficial ROM for your device over at XDA developers forums. There are often ones built for less popular phones, but they don’t have as much frontline support as the supported devices listed on the LineageOS site.

https://xdaforums.com/f/lineageos-questions-answers.6082/

…but it’s exactly as I said earlier. There are technical walls to scale, including whether or not you even have access to the right hardware to start the process to begin with. It sounds like you learned a bunch today, which is good, and hopefully you can either find an unofficial ROM that works for you, or you can eventually invest in a phone that fits one of the ecosystems that you would like to pursue.

Good luck!

He’s got that look because the loaded gun with the safety off that he just threw on the ground triggered and shot his dad.