Fuck me, you’re a strong person, well done surviving friend.

This is so unrealistic as to be bordering on Ukrainian propaganda. Neither side is having it easy, but Ukraine is paying in blood, sweat and tears to get the invaders out. No way they can force the Russians into chaotic retreat and especially not by January.

Good, arrogant and slimy and powerful. He had a lot of support, but I’m glad it wasn’t enough. I’m still shocked how long he was able to drag this all out.

What do you mean?

I think at this point the defensiveness has eclipsed the original infraction. I think 4 years in prison is too much for kissing someone without their permission, but at this point throw the fucking book at this arsehole. If I grabbed and kissed a coworker, the bare minimum is I would be fired. I definitely wouldn’t be allowed to defend my sleaze in front of a bunch of applauding weirdos. This has been such a strange affair. I think the kiss is a relatively minor offence, but he’s shown that he thinks he has the right to grab and kiss his coworkers without any retribution, and he’s sort of being proven right so far, which is incredibly frustrating.

It probably felt nice writing this, but it’s useless in the real world for the vast, VAST majority of people. People need computers, they need phones and cars and they will get their data stolen and sold unless legislation steps in.

No car salesperson will waste their time standing over you as you read their bullshit legalese, come on, although I’m sure a lawyer will happily bill you to read it with you. Refuse to buy the car? Ok, no worries, cars are hot property right now, there’s a dozen other suckers lining up who don:t care about Nissan’s rummaging around in their business.

Are the NATO soldiers that definitely kicked off the war by invading Russia in the room with us now?

Oh commenting and crossing my fingers! Thanks!

So… six steps instead of set up an automatic background sync once. You see how that is my cause for complaint, right? Right?

Your snark is misplaced. My complaint was never a complete lack of functionality, it was that it is not automatable, it has to be done manually, as the commenter above you so tersely but pointlessly, explained step by step.

Nope, that is why i finished with:

“I think it’s still worth it to not have facebook all up in my business, but the end user experience is shit.”

I appreciate deeply what signal offers, bit that does not blind me to its shortcomings. It could allow flexibility in the area of media handling and that would be a big plus, imho. Or perhaps there is something in the codebase that genuinely makes that a huge pain to implement.

I use disappearing messages a lot more now, and my partner and i have a shared syncthing folder to share photos. And as you hint, there’s always going to be a tradeoff of security against convenience.

I bought the 6 as the 7 came out, and the battery was shit from the beginning. I out it down to being end of stock, it had probably sat on a shelf for a few months before i bought it, but perhaps i was being too generous :/

13 on a pixel 6. Yes, unrestricted. Hey, maybe it’s for the better not to pick the phone up at every bing or bong. I can receive a phonecall if there is an emergemcy.

Yes, signal is unrestricted. I get your point about bulk deletion, but i have syncthing running that backs my photos up to my NAS every hour or so, and deletes them from my phone at the end of the month, so i keep space free. I cannot do that with signal. I wish there were an option to store images (from certain chats or groups would be ideal) in the clear. The videos are a real pain, yes. And i love videos of my nephews, but they blow through my phone’s storage like there’s no tomorrow.

It’s literally only banking apps that keep me from going there.

I use signal as my main chat app. I think it sucks. I often don’t get notifications in a timely manner (very widespread glitch on android) and because it stores images inside its own encrypted box, the app size balloons incredibly quickly. I cannot just empty out photos automatically, as with whatsapp, i have to export them and then delete them - manually.

I think it’s still worth it to not have facebook all up in my business, but the end user experience is shit.